Advice from the voice of EXPERIENCE !!

[DrRod]

Rule # 1: Never have your spouse guide you while backing a trailer. Nothing damages a relationship like yelling "left" no, "the other left" the "truck's left not the trailer left" no "the back left of the truck not the front" and so on. Just spend a moment at any boat ramp, RV campground, or horse event and you can see it play out like clock work.

#2: Never reach into a rural mailbox without looking first -- let's see, bees, ants, snakes, venomous spiders, hornets . . . the list goes on and on.

One day in high school gym class, our teacher said "don't suit up today, just sit on the bleachers, we're going to do something different." And without further adieu, he just started sharing life lessons we wouldn't get anywhere else.
a. Never loan your wallet, your watch, or your wife -- they won't come back the same.
b. Never get in a broken bottle fight or try to fight a trained karate expert -- you can't win and no one will ever call you chicken for walking away.
c. If you get trapped in a well or a mine, when the drill bit enters the space, hit it 3 times with a hammer, pause, and then one more time for each person left alive.

I can't remember any others but it was the sort of educational moment not commonly available in school.

 

[DaveNJ]

I had the same issue potty training our German Shepherd when she was a pup. Didn't get her wet though. But it could see me laughing and telling her she's holding a pup covered in pee

I'll add to that one. If your full grown German Shepherd loves chasing and attacking water spray from a garden hose. Make sure she is put up first before watering your wifes flower beds. Gives a new meaning to "bull in a China shop" I think it was a couple months before I got out of the dog house

Yeah. What is it with that? I have three of them. Watering the garden can be counterproductive.

 

[mapper]

Never confuse Coleman fuel, aka, white gasoline, for coffee water. BOOM. I know.

Never put white gas in a canteen. It may get mistaken for the identical canteen that is used for water and when this happens and you are 3 days into a wilderness back packing trip it gets very serious really fast.

 

[crash325]

Many years ago, I had an uncle that was too lazy to use paper or kindling to light the cook stove in the morning.
He ran out of kerosene & grabbed a can of white gas.

When he lit the stove it blew every lid off. Maybe my aunt was a little up set.

Some one that I know very well lit a fire in a burn barrel. Used just a little gasoline. Lost his eyebrows & eyelashes.

 

[RSKY]

Never use a weedeater, even your wife's puny cheap battery powered one, with flip flops on.

RSKY

 

[GAFarmer2]

Never use a weedeater, even your wife's puny cheap battery powered one, with flip flops on.

RSKY

Owww...my toes hurt just thinking about that!

 

[Wakey]

Never piss into the wind

Reminded me of this song..

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

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Someone gave that earlier i believe..

 

[RSKY]

Don't give an eight year anything and tell her it is unbreakable. First clue should have been when she asked where my orange hammer was, that's my dead blow hammer.

She wants to be a scientist. So she proved me wrong.

We did have a discussion on wearing eye safety glasses afterward. And it was a bit of scrap laying around.

RSKY

 

[mpham]

Always remember to remove the pto shaft when you disconnect your mower. It could catch on a rock when you are trying to back up and connect to the rake. This could bend the shaft so bad you need a new one.