What's your cautionary tale?

[BrightInMyNorthernSky]

Having just got through the most stressful week ever due to a nightmare situation of my own making, I thought I would share a previous and current cautionary tale.

1. Always remember to change the address on your V5 and not just your license. I didn't. DH got caught speeding twice on the same day on the same stretch of road (33 in a 30) in my car. Both fines went to old address. Didn't answer them, obvs. The whole sorry mess played out without me being aware and by the time it all caught up with me it was had been banned from driving for six months and fined £2k - five months earlier! So had been driving while banned for five months!!!

If you do multiple symptom checkers for your symptoms and they come back with "brain tumour", get yourself checked before saying "yeah right ha ha they always say that" and carrying on as normal for six months 😏

If the symptom checkers were worrying about nothing in the end, laugh at them by all means, but learn from my cautionary tale and get it checked first 🫠

Wait, but can’t you just withdraw it?!

Could someone elaborate on this?

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Don't buy a two door car assuming you will never have children .........

As a HCP dont eat an entire packed of anything with artificial sweeteners in one go 💩😱

1 Check there is sufficient toilet paper before sitting down.

2 Before mixing cake ingredients together make sure you have enough of everything to complete the mix.

3 Poundland phone charging leads aren’t very durable - but no worse than many others. Keep a spare in the car.

I was really itchy for years and scratched until I bled, eventually diagnosed with Inverse Psoriasis.

Or a Porsche 911 hoping a buggy will fit in the front boot.

Once watched a realisation unfolding outside Mother Care with, I assume, a soon to be Dad trying out buggies with a shop assistant.

None fitted.

Just that really, I had a UTI, thought I'd drink lots of water, cranberry and squash to flush it through at the same time as taking the sachets and couldn't work out why the burning was getting worse, not better... It turns out lemon squash is really acidic!

Awwwww that's lovely! We used to give our dog a 'cup of tea' in his bowl (no sugar), he was part of the family after all!

I'm not sure what this refers to, but I think it makes a really good motto for life generally 😁⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Sorry but dogs should not be given tea

https://www.purina.co.uk/articles/dogs/feeding/what-dogs-eat/can-dogs-drink-tea#:~:text=Dogs%20can't%20drink%20tea,the%20best%20and%20safest%20option.

Dance as if no one’s watching, write emails as if they will one day be read out in court

This. In spades.

When you first go into an hotel room, switch on the lights. I once had to change rooms around 11:00 pm because the electrics didn’t work. I went out in daylight, having unpacked my bag and came back late, no lights!

When staying at an airbnb/rental apartment . Take 5 minutes when you arrive to do a quick video of the place and one when you leave, If there's any issues/broken items, make sure you get a video of it.
Doesnt happen often, but if an owner tries to claim you broke something or left the place in a mess you have proof. Saves a lot of hassle and doesn't take long.

Don't spend an absolute fortune on various treatments and supplements for your soft splitty nails before trying adding Boron to your diet.

Get a pack of 20 mule train borax which is the 'as mined' powder straight out of the ground and an element missing in our modern diets as the soil is depleted. You need only a tiny bit each day. Say you lick the end of a biro and dip it in and then put that amount in your coffee. Literally about 200 grains a day.

Within four months you will be able to use your nails to cut steel pipe !

Yes it is advertised for washing clothes but that is because it is so alkaline. It works. It's cheap. One pack will last you a million lifetimes so share it around all your splitty nailed friends.

The only really silly question is often the one you didn't 'bother' to ask. Perhaps because it must have been asked and sorted already.
Mine was in relation to a house my Mother was buying. If they had explained that a soak-away for us and next door was under our driveway life would have been simpler.

Don't think having a c-section will be less traumatic or less embarrassing!

Embarrasing?!

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The thing about the emails (and texts) is so important. My friend suddenly went non contact with me because I am so "horrible" and "nasty". She has told a lot of lies about me, but has kept sending me texts that are really nice, saying she loves me and all this. I am pretty sure she is doing this so that she can lie in the future and say that she never went non contact with me, look at the history of lovely texts she's sent me. Absolutely abhorrent. It's impossible to know how to respond, so I haven't, but am paranoid that she will try to make out in the future that my non response proves that it was me who went non contact with her. Before all this I thought we were the closest of friends. So my cautionary tale is to confirm what others have said about how you never really know anyone, sadly.

However, before you go down to reception and complain that your electrics don't work, check that you don't need to put the door key card in a slot on the wall in order to activate the said electrics. Ah, these modern hotels........

@Newyearoldhair

As a HCP don't eat an entire packed of anything with artificial sweeteners in one go 💩😱

This is so true. I am more or less addicted to sugar-free polo mints. I could crunch through a tube easily in one afternoon. But there would indeed be a 💩situation