What are your "Rules for Life?"

[Slacker]

 

[qtlaw]

Which reminds me of another unofficial rule. Act like you belong somewhere and people often won't question it.

Early on in my career, I noticed that if I was driving and needed a bathroom, while in suit and tie, I could skip the gas station and go to any office building and use the facilities with no questions asked.

 

[Slacker]

Early in my publishing career, I noticed that if I had a workday that wasn't busy, I could walk around with a clipboard full of production schedules and just shoot the shirt with people all over the company.

 

[Baron Scicluna]

Especially if you're wearing a lanyard, a suit and have a scowl on your face. People don't question anyone who looks busy or stressed out and is walking fast.

A clipboard and a confident wave will get you in any place.

 

[Sea Bass]

Don't fake the funk on a nasty dunk.

Buy low, sell high.

Don't turn it over at either blue line.

 

[Hermes]

Don't pick a fight with a person, no matter how small, with cauliflower ears.

 

[Cosmo]

If you're going to ride your bike on the road ...

* Assume every car is going to hit you. Ride ultra defensively at every intersection. Distracted driving is a bench and people simply don't see you sometimes.
* Wait at red lights for a beat after they turn green. At least in Richmond, red-light running is a sport.
* Learn how to properly use hand turn signals. Anything that gives a driver indication of your intent can only help you and them.
* And for the love of God, wear a damn helmet. Even a low-speed collision can kill you otherwise.

 

[ChrisLong]

Do the best you can. Then come back tomorrow and do it again.

 

[qtlaw]

I learned this one painfully late (somewhat):

be nice to all the women/girls, not just the cute/attractive ones, you never know who will be friends with who.​

In college I was a bit dismissive with the less than cute ones and unfortunately discovered they may be friends with others and they will tell the others how you treated them.

 

[goalmouth]

I learned this one painfully late (somewhat):

be nice to all the women/girls, not just the cute/attractive ones, you never know who will be friends with who.​

In college I was a bit dismissive with the less than cute ones and unfortunately discovered they may be friends with others and they will tell the others how you treated them.

In college a friend (and, it turned out, compulsive liar) said that he and his buddy had double-teamed a well-known campus blonde bombshell they called a slug -- on a dorm balcony, he added. I repeated this vile gossip to at least one person.

Months later, I'm passing a dorm kitchen where some women are baking.

"Wow, smells good," I said.

"Cookies, do you want some?" a blonde said.

"Sure, thanks. My name is Alfred E. Goalmouth."

"I'm Pam Bombshell. Aren't you the guy who called me a slug?"

I haven't eaten a chocolate chip cookie since.

 

[dixiehack]

Never eat seafood from a chain based in a landlocked state.

 

[heyabbott]

You don't tug on superman's cape
You don't spit into the wind
You don't pull the mask off that old lone ranger
And you don't mess around with Jim