Alcohol. I f****d around and found out the really f*****g hard way! The anxiety, depression, weight gain, apathy..horrendous cycle of living hell. Sober 69 days today (: woo.

Not wearing hearing-protection when necessary. Tinnitus sucks.

REPLENISH!! Chilled drinks- if you take the last of a drink category from the fridge (soda, beer, snapple, sparking water), you must add more. Demonstrate courtesy for those who come after you.

If an item in the kitchen has not been opened, YOU MAY NOT OPEN THAT ITEM. Only the person who purchase the milk, Oreos, pasta, cheese, &c may open the item. So ingrained to us as adults I am immediately alarmed seeing someone open things they did not purchase, and born out of years of my folks carefully crafting grocery lists and planning meals only to find the chips for nachos night have long since gone stale, the cream for potato soup is gone, and our lasagna will be mozzerellaless courtesy of the no-mercy children snacks.

Edit to add: once an item has been opened, it is now deemed to have served its purpose and is fair game to all.

Back about thirty years ago I worked in the IT department for a famous 'brandname' aerospace firm. (Name withheld to protect the innocent engineers) Specializing in the construction and testing of Satellites. My main responsibilities were maintaining some very old computers systems ( lot of stories about that) and some ground equipment but sometime I would have to put on a bunnysuit and fix something at engineering work stations in the highbays.

One day a strange wooden box about size of a large shoebox, was shipped to my desk by the internal mail people. I sometime got shipments of things like memory modules or hard disks. But this box has paper stickers on it clearly labeled "Flight Hardware" something that should never have been shipped to me.

Out of curiosity I opened it and found in the box a device called a flight sequencer... Basically one of the key devices that controls a space craft in flight.

What was stranger the spacecraft that this sequencer belonged to was a high profile deep space probe for a Mars mission. One of the first missions to Mars in a long time.

More confusing was that Mars craft has been launched about three months earlier.

So I found myself holding the "flight hardware" sequencer for a space probe that was already several million miles away and there would be no chance to install it now.

Of course there is a nearly 100% chance a spare had be used for the launch but they was a certain "oh sh*t" moment when I realized what it was.

Of course a few months later that space probe was lost when it tried to enter Mars orbit. I'm sure that is completely unrelated chance.... right?

I had a friend come out to me in high school.

My first question was, of course, do you think I’M hot?

He assured me that, while I AM objectively hot, he only saw me as a brother.

Lived off that compliment for months.

That we are ready to bang anytime. First of all, I can't get aroused about a woman I don't respect. Don't care how bouncy your figure is if you talk down to the help.

Women don’t know what men find attractive. A lot of women I know personally think men love playing mind games. Think playing hot or cold because “men love mystery”. One of the dumbest things I’ve heard in a long time.

That not all of us are misogynistic, domestic violence prone , controlling , anger issues having a******s . There are many of us who just want to be heard , asked about our interests, accompany you and die fighting for you .
Oh yeah and we just wanna be held sometimes.

Y'all won't like this, but religion. As a Christian, it is sickening to see so many of my fellow "Christ Followers" treat others like s**t.

Even if you disagree with the way someone is living, keep your opinion to yourself and love on them like you would anyone. We're all broken and nobody is perfect, so unless you're attempting to help someone in good faith, your judgement only serves to harm others.

Their words, they have weight. A lot of people act like they’re invisible so they go hurt others for attention without knowing it has impact.

As Robin Williams once said:

I think the saddest people always try their hardest to make people happy because they know what it’s like to feel absolutely worthless and they don’t want anyone else to feel like that.