Nice
I find that people like to run things by me. Why, I don’t know. In these situations, I really try not to use the words “you should,” and try to express opinions in the form of “I would do this, but I am not you.” I try to tell people that their decisions are their own, and that they should make the decisions that make them happy, and everyone else’s opinion and $4.75 will rent them a movie.

And people seem to take to this. In my opinion, I haven’t really said anything. I haven’t really offered an opinion, yet it seems to the asker that I’ve offered a great one. Maybe it’s because most people will tell you what you should or must do, as if the decision that they have made for you is not only the correct one, but is the decision that they would make for themselves if they were in your shoes.

I try not to say anything. Nothing. In my mind, when someone is looking for advice, they are just looking to confirm an opinion that they already hold. So, why fight them on it? All I try to tell them is that I am not them, their decisions are their own, and whatever they choose is for the best.

And people come back…

Not Nice
Co-worker: How you doin’, Jon?
Jon: Good. How you doin?
Co-worker: You don’t really want the answer do you?
Jon: Nope. You didn’t really want that answer did you?

Desires vs. Reality
I went to see a house today that I thought was underpriced, and I was dying to get into. After sitting and waiting for the realtor for a few minutes we called to find out that the house that was really for sale was the crap hole down the street.

Honest mistake. They were both brick and I am a detail oriented something or other.

Walk
On a walk with my GF, I was confronted with a girl whose boobs were so disproportionate to her body, that I became literally confused by the sight of them. I didn’t realize the confusion until said confusion was hitherto pointed out by said GF whereto-for. She argued that I was flustered by chesty women. I argued that if the woman were disproportionately tall (or short), had a disproportionately large ass, or disproportionately large eyes, etc. I would’ve done the same.

As I don’t consider myself a breast man, I think this argument is valid, but the things were in the higher alphabetical letters on a 3 lb. woman with amazing posture, so I can’t be held responsible in any case.

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