Lessons you really should be able to learn the first time (Page 3)

sign me up for that one too.

When/IF I have kids, they are going to think I'm the most over the top careful/prepared/cautious dad.  Use saucers under my tea/coffee, change to my work clothes even for small tasks, don't talk on my phone near the pool or toilet, "everything has it's place"...

Trust me kid, when you ruined enough clothes, dunked enough phones, stained enough furniture/clothes with coffee, lost keys, kicked over glasses of wine/soda/water I decided to rest by my feet on the floor...  You would be anal too about that stuff.

I ruined some pretty nice/new stuff thinking I could check the oil in my car, make that small bike adjustment with my new jacket on, add one little dab of paint on that ding/scratch...

One lesson the wife and I DID learn on one try?  Use oven mitts when using cast iron cookware.

Not fun grabbing that pan I just spend 20 minutes cooking bacon in to put it in the sink.

Yeah, most kids only touch the wood stove once too...but that darn electric fence keeps 'em comin' back for more.

wow, and y'all have never even met me in-person. You must be psychotic...psychic.

Actually I just might have learned that lesson. Finally. And just before turning 40, so I think I'm doing better than many others. 

I wish I could think of an original addition to this, but it seems we all do the same things.

Done that with many items. Worst was a certain item I use as a police office that should go in a holster. Thank God another cop from our task force was following me out for a surveillance detail. He saw this item fall off my roof and roll into the median. He stopped and picked it up for me. Knocked off the front site and scraped the magazine been still works to this day. So embarrassing.

Steam in a container out of the microwave is super hot.

Hair straightening irons will burn your ears, every time.