Sensible parental advice..

[annedonnelly]

Always clean cycling shorts, as I've proven that theory right a few times and 'arrived' in hospital. Wouldn't let them cut off a £140 jacket though ! The merino top, yes, not the jacket.

Only if you're awake to stop them. I didn't find out that my stuff had been cut up until a few days later.

 

[Toshiba Boy]

Mum told me to always wash my winkle... Embarrassing, especially in front your of mates when you're 15 years old

Blimey PeteXXX, I bet they didn't know where to look .....

 

[Rocky]

My parents told me never to exchange messages with @Mad Doug Biker ……. If only I had listened.

 

[Dave7]

Don't marry "that" girl - I did and paid the price

Opposite for us. My parents advised my now wife against marrying me.
54 years later and still going strong.

 

[PeteXXX]

Blimey PeteXXX, I bet they didn't know where to look .....

Piddling themselves laughing, more like 🤣

 

[Cycleops]

Mum told me to always wash my winkle... Embarrassing, especially in front your of mates when you're 15 years old

Never washed winkles before eating them.

 

[Cycleops]

'Never mix the grain and the grape' my father always advised me before going to a party in my teens.

 

[biggs682]

My mum, in the 1960's told me I had to wear clean underpants "just in case I got knocked down" 😂

I hope you have changed them between now and then 😂

 

[PK99]

Stop pulling that face, if the wind changes it will stick.

You didn't listen, did you?

 

[Alex321]

Opposite for us. My parents advised my now wife against marrying me.
54 years later and still going strong.

My parents and her parents each said to the prospective son/daughter in-law "Do you know what you are getting into with them?".

At this point, neither of us had met the prospective parent's in law, and nor had they met each other (We'd phoned to tell them we were engaged only 6 weeks after we met).

Not quite as long as you, but we are still married 42 years later.

 

[simongt]

Don't marry "that" girl - I did and paid the price

So did I, but got it right the second time - !

 

[simongt]

Advice from my dad, who was in the RE during WW2; always carry a pocket knife. At 69, still follow his sage advice. What amuses me is if I loan it to someone, it's invariably returned with the comment 'Cor, that's sharp - !'
Er, yes, it's a knife.

 

[Drago]

Advice from my dad, who was in the RE during WW2; always carry a pocket knife. At 69, still follow his sage advice. What amuses me is if I loan it to someone, it's invariably returned with the comment 'Cor, that's sharp - !'
Er, yes, it's a knife.

The great General 'Mad Dog' Mattis is quoted as saying while he was the US SecDef...

"I always carry a knife in case there's cheesecake. Or in case I need to stab someone in the throat."

I wonder what advice his Dad gave him?

 

[presta]

Father:
The only people who get conned are those who think they're getting something for nothing.
Never sign anything you haven't read.
Mother:
Don't pull the stalks out of the apples, it'll make them go off.

My mum, in the 1960's told me I had to wear clean underpants "just in case I got knocked down" 😂

I've never been knocked down. If I'd known, it would have saved an awful lot of laundry.

My parents advised my now wife against marrying me.

I think my mum was warning one of my girlfriends off. Might have been something to do with her being an unmarried mum, and my mum being the one who helped her in and out of the bath on the maternity ward.

 

[Big John]

Don't swallow chewing gum because it'll wrap round your heart.