Advice from Old PeopleSometimes, just sometimes, old people say something worth listening to. Ok, so it's like picking the needle out of a whole haystack of mis-remembered war stories, but those gems should be celebrated.
Tell us something worthwhile an old-type person has told you.
Note, we're leaving the definition of old up to you, you smooth-skinned youngsters.
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chthonic, Thu 19 Jun 2008, 16:16)
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Not comedy gold but it stayed with me.Shauny, the old man of the village was "helping" me fit an new outboard motor to a boat. I was marking up the transom when he stood up and, holding his fore-arm vertically in-front of him, pumping his arm in time with the syllables he said
"It's crit-i-cal that the motor is ab-so-lutly hori-zon-tal"
20 years later and he's long dead, but every time I've a plumb line or spirit level in my hand marking up a vertical line I hear his voice demanding I make sure it's "ab-so-lutly hori-zon-tal"
(, Mon 23 Jun 2008, 12:38, closed)
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