Have you ever given some advice to someone that turned out bad for them?
 
I can think of some examples off hand...
 
My neice was about to be married, but got a bad cold sore just a few days before the ceremony.
 
She came to me and asked me what to do.  I told her to get some of that liquid crap and rub it onto the sore over and over, until the dead skin flaked off....
 
She did, but on her wedding day, she looked even worse than she did to start with.
 
Another time, a guy friend at work came up to me and asked me what to do because he had really bad indigestion.
 
I told him I usually used Alka-Seltzer, and I actually happened to have a twin packet with me that day.
 
He was so grateful.  He took it from me and wandered off toward the fountain...
 
About 20 minutes later he came back, told me he felt worse--and was blaming me. He went home and came back about two days later--looking at me like I was the devil.
 
(It had taken me a minute to figure out that he ATE the Alka-Seltzer, then took a drink of water...but that is another story...)
 
I also once told my ex to take a flying leap in a rolling doughnut and kiss my a---.
 
As far as I know, the doughnut is still rolling... But when he finally hits that wall, he can kiss my a---.
 
But then,again,  I also told myself I shouldn't keep believing in stupid dreams.
 
It's about time I got something right.


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  • crybabylu said on Dec 28, 2007....
    Oh wombie, I just loved this post.  Good .
  • wombat said on Dec 28, 2007....
    crybabylu:  Thanks.  Hope it didn't give you idigestion.....
  • pickersplock said on Dec 28, 2007....
    That reminds me of the time I told a very pregnant co-worker, that she should eat something bland in the morning to help curb the morning sickness.  She came to me the next day and said, "Well, that didn't help at all, in fact it made everyting worse!  Thanks a lot, Pickers!"
    I asked, of course, what she ate.
    The answer- a cherry danish!
  • wombat said on Dec 28, 2007....
    pickersplock"  Sounds like the guy who ate the Alka Seltzer--duh!  I didn't mean that....
  • silverwhisper said on Dec 28, 2007....
    heh...this sorta thing is why IRL i don't often give advice!

    ed
  • MissMimi said on Dec 28, 2007....
    Anybody who chews Alka Seltzer, for God's sake, deserves to have to stay home sick for two days.  Plop, plop, fizz fizz...  Heehee
  • Twylarants said on Dec 29, 2007....
    Which is why I charge .25 for advice.  If ya don't like the advice, ya getchya money back, no questions asked, and I'm off the hook... hey, ya get wutchya pay for... : )
  • wombat said on Dec 29, 2007....
    silverwhisper:  Come to think of it, not alot of people ask me for it!  But you are an intelligent soul, and your advice is always welcome.
     
    MissMimi:  I kind of thought so, too, but I felt so sorry for him for being so strangely ignorant of what Alka-Seltzer was.
     
    Twylarants:  That's a good way of doing it!  Reminds me of Charlie Brown cartoons....ha....
     
     
  • GracefullyGrowing said on Dec 29, 2007....
    He ATE the Alka Seltzer?  Holy cow!  No wonder they have to put "Caution! HOT!" on the sides of coffee cups these days.
     
    ~Grace~
  • Twylarants said on Dec 29, 2007....
    How about "Do not put children in plastic bag"?  I actually saw that one on a baby toy.
  • travelr712 said on Dec 29, 2007....
    no wombie, i NEVER give bad advice, but what the person does with that advice usually turns out very badly! it's not my fault i tells ya! if they woulda just done what i said, they wouldn't have ended up in that ditch staring at an amazed cow!
     
    but really, i try to make sure that the people i'm talking to know it's just my perspective, and that i don't know their situation, and not telling them what to do, just giving them a view from the outside.
     
    besides, it's not your fault that your co-worker can't read the directions! :-)
  • Eilan said on Dec 29, 2007....
    I don't often give advice IRL.  A lot of people who ask for advice are really seeking validation, though that doesn't seem to be the case in the scenarios you describe.
  • gingersoul said on Dec 29, 2007....

    Wombie.....dont worry....if that person has the brain the size of  sweet pea is not your fault...your advice was good...

    I am usually good in giving people advices......at least thats what they  keep telling me...

    Now, if only i were as good in following my own advices....:-)

  • destinydiva said on Dec 29, 2007....
    lmao!!  this was a funny post!! especially the bit about your ex still rolling and kissing your ass!!  lol :-)
    the guy who ate the alka seltzer..that is totally not your fault!! :-)
    and colesore...  pure alcohol does the trick of you ever meet another bride to be with one :-) but hey...it might not work!!  :-) xx
  • wombat said on Dec 29, 2007....
    GracefullyGrowing:  He thought it was a large antacid tablet, I guess. 
     
    Twylarants:  That's just too funny....although I have no room to talk...I do silly things like this on a daily basis--not put babies in plastic bags---but other stuff I mean!  Ha....
     
    travelr712:  I don't like to dole out advice namby-pamby either, which is why I try to say things like, If it were me, or maybe people should, etc...I hope I don't come off sounding like a know-it-all, anyway.  Because I sure don't!
     
    Eilan:  I know what you mean.  People may ask, but what they really want usually is for you to say what they want to hear.  They still do what they want!
     
    gingersoul:  You have a point there--I don't follow my own instincts, or follow the advice I do give others sometimes!
     
    destinydiva:  Almost anything I write about my ex is most likely going to be funny....ha..  And I have since learned to use alcohol or whatever on a cold sore.  Keeping it dry is the key.  As for the guy with the Alka Seltzer--I never dreamed in million years that he had never plop plop, fizzed fizzed before.  I mean, really!
  • quietone said on Dec 29, 2007....

    I can't even imagine chewing on an alka seltzer!  talk about foaming at the mouth!  LOL

  • wombat said on Dec 29, 2007....
    quietone:  I really should PM you, or call you on the phone.. Maybe I will do that.
  • queenparanoia said on Dec 30, 2007....
    very funny wombie! so sorry i can't think of any bad advice ive given before. although there's lots of them!!! =)
  • Fallyn said on Jan 01, 2008....
    i do that....all the time.

    and i can't remember what else i was going to say.
  • wombat said on Jan 02, 2008....
    Whoops..I didn't see you guys before now.  Thanks for stopping in Queen and Fallyn! 
  • tbs230 said on Jan 03, 2008....
    I always get asked for advice...the problem is...no one ever takes it...

    But I still get blamed for the results! I tell ya, it's like that commercial about the T-mobile phone. I say one thing, they choose the other...I'll give false advice next time. Maybe then some things will work out alright.

    I hope anyway...
  • wombat said on Jan 03, 2008....
    tbs230:  I've seen that commercial!  It cracks me up!  I first said, it reminded me of the way I dealt with my hubby, then I deleted it.  So---you didn't see that....lol...

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