The Best Advice You’ve Ever Received

I got alot of advice when I was maturing. The greatest thing I learned was a bitter pill to swallow. I passed it along to folks over the age of 50 who usually have it already figured out but can't quite come to terms with it. We all have dreams of great relationships.....In Every Great Challenge In Life, You Are In It By Yourself.
The sooner you make this out in life the better you will be at making your own decisions. BB
 
pigpen said:
When i was fairly young my dad sat me down and told me that I wasnt special and no one cared about me and when a person dies only 5-10 people will be truly devastated by it.

It sounds like crappy advice but as he went on to explain the world doesnt revolve around you and no one owes you anything so suck it up and make your own way.
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Good Advice^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 
This has been an interesting thread and I have enjoyed reading it.

Not sure why but the thing I always remember my grandpa saying was “you don’t eat because you’re hungry, you eat to keep from getting hungry”.
 
Never underestimate anyone.

If you catch the crabs, don’t fart, they’ll think it’s the dinner bell and really eat you up.
 
My dad taught me a lot of things by example, though likely not the way he intended. When I find myself in a situation I don't know how to handle, I ask myself what the old man would do, then do the opposite. It won't always be the right thing, but it definitely won't be the shit show he would've conjured.
 
It’s a bit dated in the medium used but ...

“Never write down anything you would not want printed on the front page of the newspaper.”
 
Crazy Carl said:
My dad taught me a lot of things by example, though likely not the way he intended. When I find myself in a situation I don't know how to handle, I ask myself what the old man would do, then do the opposite. It won't always be the right thing, but it definitely won't be the shit show he would've conjured.
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I told my two nieces as they were growing up: If you think you want to do something, think about your Aunt Weezie....if you think I would do it, then you do the opposite, and you will be fine!
They had heard a lot of things I did, and I wanted them to learn from my many mistakes. Mostly, it seems to have worked ok.
 
My dad had all kinds of one liners. I’ll have to reply to this thread a few times. No matter how good looking she is if she has an Adam’s apple you don’t want to go out with her.
 
Leadchunker said:
My dad had all kinds of one liners. I’ll have to reply to this thread a few times. No matter how good looking she is if she has an Adam’s apple you don’t want to go out with her.
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Reminds me of when I was headed to my first training school in Monterrey. Called the old man from a pay phone in the airport on a layover and asked “you got any advice for me on my first duty station?” He said “Where are you calling from”. “The San Francisco airport” I answered.

“Yeah, don’t fall asleep in the airport with your mouth open.” He said and hung up the phone.
 
Sadly, by the age of 5 or 6, I knew that everything going on in my life was wrong. I had no idea what "right" was, but I knew there had to be a better way. I still managed to make a gazillion poor decisions all on my lonesome, but I never repeated my parents' & grandparents' mistakes.
 
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Chdamn said:
Reminds me of when I was headed to my first training school in Monterrey. Called the old man from a pay phone in the airport on a layover and asked “you got any advice for me on my first duty station?” He said “Where are you calling from”. “The San Francisco airport” I answered.

“Yeah, don’t fall asleep in the airport with your mouth open.” He said and hung up the phone.
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Hahaha!!!
 
The morning I left for my first tour in Germany, I was saying my goodbyes to my grandparents. Gramps, a WW2 Navy & Korean War Army vet, lays this nugget on me- tells me to make sure I get out & travel, 'cos in his 6 or 7 years in Asia, he never saw anything but the inside of a bar or cathouse.

Grandma 'bout had a stroke :D
 
My dad once said to me, “When folks die, and people walk past their grave, they’re usually going to say one of two things. Boy, I sure miss that guy. Or, boy I sure am glad that guy is gone. Which one are you going to be?"
 
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How we got on the subject I can’t recall. My dad was telling me How expensive his new prescription was for the blue pills. He kept them in his front shirt pocket along with his nitroglycerin. I asked why he needed them.
He told me “you can’t shoot pool with a rope”.
 
Son your sister is all right for plowin, but that ain't where you sew your seed.

Hazel-Come on boy get in the dam truck.
Me- where we going Daddy?
Hazel- up a chickens ass to get an egg salad sammich, now git in the dam truck shithook!
Hazel was full of these wonderful words of wisdom.
 
One of the guys at work told me I’d given him the best words of wisdom he’d ever heard. He and I were working on a truck when my business partner came out and decided he could do it faster or better and did his “get out the way” move.

I dropped my tools and got out the way. I looked at him and said “I’ll argue about a lot of things, but I’ll never argue over who gets to do the work”.
 
My Uncle told me before I got married. "Remember that most of your happiness and ALL of your sorrow will come from the person you choose to marry...... so choose wisely."

Dad used to say: "don't trouble trouble until trouble troubles you". I always like that one and think of it often.

My grandma used to always tell me when I would go out when I was in high school: "Keep your pants zipped up!" I still tell my son that.
 
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