Valuable Lessons

1.       Be careful with who you trust:

a.       Your friends are not always who you think they are they can be more of an enemy than a friend.

2.       Always drive behind the car speeding ahead of you:

a.       If you are in a hurry and you’re speeding down the road always drive be hind the car that is speeding as well because that car will be the first one on the police radar and that car will get pulled over and you get to drive on without a ticket.

3.       Always use Google maps for your GPS on your phone.

a.       I took a three hour drive to go to Iola Kansas for the first time by myself and never being out that way before I used my GPS on my phone. Well turns out that GPS wasn’t accurate so I missed my exit 3 times on the way up there and twice on my way back. I did so many illegal U-turns it on the highway it wasn’t even funny. Always, always have a good GPS system.

4.       Don’t be the “middle-man”:

a.       My parents have been divorced since I was six and I was always the “middle-man” for all my step siblings and that caused me a lot of stress keeping up with everyones secrets.

5.       Don’t pick sides, stick with your own opinion.

a.       Having a split family was hard because  my parents always wanted me to pick sides between them and they both had their own good points they were also wrong with some of their other opinions so I just learned to stick with my own and do what I thought was right and through the years now, I’ve realized that neither side was the right way to go.

6.       Not all advice is the best advice.

a.       Referring back to dumber 4 and always being the “middle-man” I was always asked for advice from my older and younger siblings. I would always try to give them my most honest and heartfelt advice to help them out but when the shoe was on the other foot I would usually end up getting into a lot of trouble.

7.       Always watch the side roads while driving:

a.       Even though you might be driving in the city or through town Mother Nature will always find a way to surprise you. Drive through Joplin from work a deer ran out of nowhere and just about hit my car. Now I always make sure I pay attention to ALL sides of the road.

8.       Don’t wait until the last minute:

a.       I have found that when I wait until the last minute to do things they usually get done really good but it is always such a huge amount of stress on me and that’s why I always try to get things done in a timely matter that way it gets done completely right and I don’t have to stress over it.

9.       Check the weather before you was your car:

a.       I live on two dirt roads so it’s hard to keep my white car clean from mud, dirt, and bugs but when I do end up cleaning my car I put a lot of time and effort into it. We’re talking the whole nine yards with hand washing it and polishing the wheels and waxing it down, everything. And then with just my luck, it always seems to rain the next day.

10.   Drive partially slow on back roads:

a.       I love driving down back roads because it gets out of traffic but it never fails that you seem to find the biggest pothole there is and blow a tire out..