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Triste

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Operating Instructions
« on: June 26, 2006, 07:50:40 PM »
Has anybody else ever wished there was a book of operating instructions to life?  I often have.  I just don't have a clue sometimes.

For example, I wish I'd known when I met that cute guy when I was 19 that the fact that he passed out every night was not because he was tired, but because he was drunk, and that marrying him when I was 21 would screw up my life for so many years.
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Re: Operating Instructions
« Reply #1 on: June 26, 2006, 10:26:24 PM »
YES!  I do too.  Much of what I know I have learned from experience because there is no book for us.

Even if there were such a book, life would probably be different from the book, just like those books that tell you how to take care of babies.
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Re: Operating Instructions
« Reply #2 on: June 26, 2006, 10:45:28 PM »
i keep telling my wife that those books for babiy care is sheer hokkum.

people have been raising little brats for thousands of years without the aid of 'so called' experts.

i am on my second drink, now.
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Re: Operating Instructions
« Reply #3 on: June 26, 2006, 11:03:23 PM »
Quote from: Callaway on June 26, 2006, 10:26:24 PM
YES!  I do too.  Much of what I know I have learned from experience because there is no book for us.
School of life.  Sigh. It seems like learning that way sucks because if you screw up you don't get another chance. Life is just so complicated, I don't get why it's so hard for me.  Is it AS?  Some of you seem to have it together, what are your suggestions?

I'm on my second glass of wine, as well, to deal with the complexity.
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Re: Operating Instructions
« Reply #4 on: June 26, 2006, 11:08:48 PM »
third jack and diet.

wanna get a declining conversation started in chat?

imagine my boldifricity when i am drunk.

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« Reply #5 on: June 26, 2006, 11:15:39 PM »
Oh yeah, the two of us getting drunk and chatting on the internet.  Sounds divine.  Sorry, but I have to...finish making dinner (tuna hotdish for my Minnesotan stud).

I agree with you about the baby books, BTW.  You're on your third, you can write the book yourselves.  I won't even look at books about teenagers cuz I know they'll be wrong or make me feel like I should have done something different 5 years ago and then I'll just feel more guilty and incompetent than I already do.

 Don't you HATE it when people who don't have kids give you parenting advice???  Add that to my annoyance list.
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Re: Operating Instructions
« Reply #6 on: June 26, 2006, 11:18:19 PM »
triste, you should post a pic of your stud because i agree with you that he is a stud.

show off alittle.
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Re: Operating Instructions
« Reply #7 on: June 26, 2006, 11:20:10 PM »
I'd love to, but he'd be embarassed, and Peter would be jealous.  Or turned on.
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Re: Operating Instructions
« Reply #8 on: June 26, 2006, 11:26:00 PM »
dont tell him
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Re: Operating Instructions
« Reply #9 on: June 26, 2006, 11:59:16 PM »
there IS such a book.  it's the Bible.   :angel:

or the Qu'ran.

or the Torah, Book of the Dead, Tain, Mabinogion, Rig Veda, etc., etc., i'm sure you get the picture.

of course, a far better one is h2g2, but then i would say that wouldn't i?  ;)

best idea of all - write your own.

(i know what you mean, though - it's a bastard, ain't it?)
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Re: Operating Instructions
« Reply #10 on: June 27, 2006, 12:00:22 AM »
lucifer, i am drunk now, and i love you.
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Re: Operating Instructions
« Reply #11 on: June 27, 2006, 12:03:33 AM »
that's, erm... nice?

can't actually do anything about that right now, mcj, cos i'm off to work after a quick whizz round the board.

how's that for a stereotypical gender role swap?   ;)
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Re: Operating Instructions
« Reply #12 on: June 27, 2006, 12:05:30 AM »
your da man! :o
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Re: Operating Instructions
« Reply #13 on: June 27, 2006, 12:08:27 AM »
/checks genitals...

only if i have a very, VERY small penis.
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Re: Operating Instructions
« Reply #14 on: June 27, 2006, 12:10:27 AM »
compelling image... ;)
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