Things you'd advise people not to do

[Viccie]

Everyone must have done things which on looking back look, at the very least, a trifle unwise. Lets stop others making the same mistakes.

I'll kick off with:

Never, never when you've run out of dog food and the shops are shut give the dog a tin of baked beans for its dinner. Even the dog couldn't bear to stay in the same room as herself.

[Jen]

Never, never when you've run out of dog food and the shops are shut give the dog a tin of baked beans for its dinner. Even the dog couldn't bear to stay in the same room as herself.
:lmao:

[Royal Rother]

Never ever spray anti-perspirant anywhere near your nether regions. http://www.websmileys.com/sm/mad/617.gif

[David]

Moving a ladder with a large bowl of unibond on it even a tiny distance is a very bad idea indeed.

After ladder snagged on a wall light I stood incredulously for 10-20 seconds like a snowman in the microwave, wondering how to avoid making a grim situation any worse.

[Jen]

Never think that the bottom of a kitchen unit can support your weight.

[megustaleer]

Never use a wine glass as a pastry cutter - at least not while doing something else with your other hand.
Broken wineglass stem into palm of hand goes far too easily :eek:

[Minxminnie]

Moving a ladder with a large bowl of unibond on it even a tiny distance is a very bad idea indeed.


Likewise, a pot of white paint on said ladder is also not to be advised.

Just like David, I just stood and stared. Oh, well, I wanted a new carpet anyway ...

[David]

Just like David, I just stood and stared. Oh, well, I wanted a new carpet anyway ...
Fortunately, I had put down lots of plastic sheeting, but only over the area of carpet on which I was working. The dilemma was how to extricate myself from this situation without getting the unibond (like very watery glue) onto the carpet. I was dripping with white gunge which I could feel seeping through to the skin; it was dark outside and the lights were on; anyone in the street could see me and I needed to get these clothes off if I was to venture off the sheeting.

This, for me, is the very definition of 'conundrum'...

[Minxminnie]

Aaaah!
So, what did you do??

[Jen]

So, what did you do??
Good question!

[David]

So, what did you do??
Well, a process of dripping and self-squeegeeing gradually removed the worst of it. I removed my top (neighbours could probably deal with me topless...) and socks (moving close to edge of plastic where it was uncontaminated) and rolled up my trouser legs. A little more final squeegeeing made it safe to dash for the kitchen, which faced onto the back garden, where I could properly deal with the situation.

It was at the end of a long day of unibonding the ceiling of my living/dining room and I was exhausted. That's why I hadn't taken the bowl off the ladder, which I'd been doing assiduously all day. So this was final straw time.

Anyway, the next day my rugby shirt had set and could stand up by itself.

[Minxminnie]

Anyway, the next day my rugby shirt had set and could stand up by itself.

Heehee!
Impressive thinking on the spot all round!

[Jen]

Never serve glasses of red wine if there is a dog with a waggy tail in the room.

[Hazel]

When biting sellotape off the roll, and it sticks to your lip, don't ever yank it off without wetting it first.

[Radders]

Never close your front door without checking your newly cut key actually works.

[Momo]

Never close your front door without checking your newly cut key actually works.Ouch!

[brightphoebus]

Never let your car keys flip out of your hand and straight down the drain unless you have a spare set not too far away.

[Viccie]

Don't post a letter while holding your car keys in the same hand...

[Radders]

Ouch!Indeed - expensive mistake, locksmiths don't come cheap!

[woofwoof]

Never go down a "no through road" in a busy area on the off chance that there might be a parking space

[Minxminnie]

On the same theme as Radders' advice:

Never leave your newly bought home with all the spare keys inside.

I wasn't used to a yale lock and forgot to lift the keys before I closed it - and no-one had a spare yet!

[Boris the Cat]

Never drive a Nissan Micra...it's not that anything bad will happen, I just don't like them.

[Jen]

F1 fans... Don't bother getting up early in the hope of seeing Lewis Hamilton clinch the Formula 1 title

[MarkC]

F1 fans... Don't bother getting up early in the hope of seeing Lewis Hamilton clinch the Formula 1 title

As another person that got up early, can I add

Don't park your racing car on gravel :rolleyes:

and from later on yesterday:

1. Don't hit your thumb with a lump hammer. Ow!

[My Friend Jack]

1. Don't sleep in the subway. Not sure why, but Petula Clark was quite insistent about this.

2. Don't use a 24" saw to cut a twig from a branch. 35 years later, I still have the scar...

3. Don't put unleaded petrol in the tank of your diesel car. I was the fourth person that evening to be towed to the garage that drained my tank...

[Minxminnie]

Don't listen to any garage who tells you that you need new shock absorbers when you only went in for a tyre.

[lucyb]

Never try and hang wallpaper wearing loose trousers standing on a ladder in front of a window. Yes the lights were on. Yes the neighbours were interested (you got off lightly David, believe me!) and no, my Dad has never been allowed to forget it. :)

[MarkC]

Don't listen to any garage who tells you that you need new shock absorbers when you only went in for a tyre.

You should always get independent verification that work is required if the information comes from a source you do not trust, but equally you shouldn't drive a car around with a failed shock absorber any more than you would a car with failed brakes.

Really, really dangerous. Passing the MOT does not mean the shockabsorbers work!

Apologies fror rant, the MOT test for shock absorbers is in the inflatable dart board category of usefulness and a personal hobby horse of mine

[Elfstar]

Never shred your new credit/debit card instead of the old one.

[lipstick_librarian]

Never use your boyfriend's "best chisel" ( :geek: )to open a tin of paint.

[Opal]

Never lean against a wall while wearing rollerskates. :o

[annajane]

Never ever ever sign up to Talk Talk broadband - however pursuasive the sales person is. No good will come of it, trust me!

[Tess]

NEVER wrap your passports in a coat, before putting them in your bag, only to forget you did so when you remove the coat on top of the highest building in Paris and so watch as they blow under the safety fence and creep towards the building edge.…DO hang your head in shame whilst the fire chief opens the fence to reclaim your precious documents, and a gaggle of tourists watch transfixed!

:o

[Minxminnie]

You should always get independent verification that work is required if the information comes from a source you do not trust, but equally you shouldn't drive a car around with a failed shock absorber any more than you would a car with failed brakes.



Yes, point taken. Maybe I should be clearer: don't assume that a garage is telling you the truth when it's your first car, you've only had it for 6 weeks and they saw you coming ... :o

[Radders]

Never, post operation, get so surprised by a spider on your bed that you leap out of it.

[mac]

Never try to remove the hoses from the back of a washing machine without turning the water off.

[Hazel]

Throw the only visiting midwife in the area out of your home without thinking ahead to baby number 2.

[David]

Throw the only visiting midwife in the area out of your home without thinking ahead to baby number 2.
Things get lively in Glasgow, don't they...?!

[lucyb]

Never, post operation, get so surprised by a spider on your bed that you leap out of it.

Just reminded me ....Never buy your boyfriend a really funny book when his stomach is held together by lots of new stitches. :o

[lucyb]

...and when you're driving him home a few days later, never pick the road with the speedbumps. oops.

[Radders]

...and when you're driving him home a few days later, never pick the road with the speedbumps. oops.I agree with this one 100%!

[LesleyMP]

Never drive around a roundabout on a hot summery day with both your door windows wide open (for the cooling comfort of passenger and self) when you have put your shiny new, designer frame reading glasses on the dash board.

If you do do the above. Then never pull up further down the road to see if you can rescue glasses. You can't, it is too dangerous - no matter what the cost of said glasses - and they are squished.

Never, ever justify a the cost of a pair of designer framed glasses to yourself. Buy cheap reading glasses and lots of lovely new books instead :geek: .

[Boris the Cat]

Never read the instructions on a tin of corned beef, when you've been opening them quite safely for years and scoff at the idea that you should wrap it in a tea towel - you will only be inviting a swift and bloody retribution for your smugness!

[MisterHobgoblin]

Never park with two wheels on a pavement in a line of similarly parked cars in Canterbury and then tell the hick magistrate that the Department for Transport website saying that pavement parking is not an offence outside London.

[lipstick_librarian]

Never wear your fluffy slippers while painting skirting boards.