Dave Berry - Fourteen Things That It Took Me Over 50 Years To Learn

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1. Never, under any circumstances, take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night.

2. If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be "meetings."

3. There is a very fine line between "hobby" and "mental illness."

4. People who want to share their religious views with you almost never want you to share yours with them.

5. You should not confuse your career with your life.

6. Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance.

7. Never lick a steak knife.

8. The most destructive force in the universe is gossip.

9. You will never find anybody who can give you a clear and compelling reason why we observe daylight savings time.

10. You should never say anything to a woman that even remotely suggests that you think she's pregnant unless you can see an actual baby emerging from her at that moment.

11. There comes a time when you should stop expecting other people to make a big deal about your birthday. That time is age eleven.

12. The one thing that unites all human beings, regardless of age, gender, religion, economic status or ethnic background, is that, deep down inside, we ALL believe that we are above-average drivers.

13. A person who is nice to you, but rude to the waiter, is not a nice person. (This is very important. Pay attention. It never fails.)

14. Your friends love you anyway.


Thought for the day: Never be afraid to try something new. Remember that a lone amateur built the Ark. A large group of professionals built the Titanic.
 
13. A person who is nice to you, but rude to the waiter, is not a nice person. (This is very important. Pay attention. It never fails.)

TRUTH! Actually happened to me a couple of weeks ago.
 
Johnno said:
13. A person who is nice to you, but rude to the waiter, is not a nice person. (This is very important. Pay attention. It never fails.)

TRUTH! Actually happened to me a couple of weeks ago.
Well, my boss is a nice guy, joking with people and seems to have good social qualities but can also defend the problems we have in our department to the upper levels. Recently we had a meeting and he was lecturing in front of 200 people in the big meeting room. Half through the meeting someone entered the room through the door in front of all people and mumbled something I don't remember. My boss then in a loud and harsh voice I never expected hear from him said to the person: "Don't you see that we have here a important meeting. So go away." and as the person didn't react fast enough: "Piss off".

Of course the explanation for this can be that it isn't easy to talk in front of 200 people and then somebody enters the room without a clear message. From what I thought of my boss I expected him to say with a firm but friendly voice: "Sorry, not now!". But his voice was different, I don't know how to say. It had a mean sound, really down putting flavour. Something I never felt or heard from him until then.

Anyway my alarms went off and I'll keep this in mind in my interactions with my boss.

Laura said:
8. The most destructive force in the universe is gossip.
Here I find that leaving the word "gossip" without explanation is dangerous. I'm sure there are people who would say that we are gossiping about other peoples. I agree that it is destructive if it is about the spreading of rumours especially if they are not true. About the qualifier "most", if the people were educated about ponerology this wouldn't be so dangerous I think.
 
About Item 2 : Napoleon has said that, ''If you don't want a problem to be solved, then form a committee.''
Item 5 : I agree but could not apply in the two professional jobs I had. They wanted me to work like a slave.
Item 8 : I had arrived at the same conclusion years ago.
Item 9. I agree completely, I had asked the same question over and over again: Why do we have save daylight by this?
 
Laura said:
7. Never lick a steak knife.
Yikes. Do people do this? It's not something I would consider doing. I guess different people like different things and sometimes a person may see something on a steak knife they really just can't resist licking. :)
 
Laura said:
3. There is a very fine line between "hobby" and "mental illness."


12. The one thing that unites all human beings, regardless of age, gender, religion, economic status or ethnic background, is that, deep down inside, we ALL believe that we are above-average drivers.
Funny stuff (because it's true), I have an automotive hobby.
 
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