05 Feb, 2010
10 Steps To Better Living
Got this tips from an old magazine, 10 Steps to Better Living. Makes sense to me so I decided to share it with you. It’s not yet late, start living better.
1. Waste is bad. It’s okay to ask for a doggy bag, even in a fancy restaurant. Just don’t ask for a “bitch bag.”
2. Carrying a small vintage wine chart in your wallet is useful, but cheap beer with a freshness date is pretty much the same month to month.
3. Before trying tranquilizers and antidepressants, why not pick up a nice set of worry beads at your local Greek variety store?
4. Leave the dust jackets on your books. They’ll be worth a lot more in fifty years.
5. If you’re having trouble getting a restaurant reservations, call back and try prefacing your name with Congressman. “Table for six for Congressman O’Brien? Of course!”
6. English is the language of business today, but there are still some concepts that can only be expressed adequately in Yiddish. Putz!
7. If someone has the bad taste to bring up his actual IQ, bring up your bowling average or gold handicap.
8. To feel sorry for yourself stylishly, refuse to talk about it and listen to Sinatra’s No One Cares, which includes “Just Friends” and “I’ll Never Smile Again.”
9. Cellphones with earpieces not only reduce brain exposure to microwaves, but also make you look like you’re talking to yourself and hence, perhaps, less interesting to muggers.
10. Don’t blame yourself if someone doesn’t get your jokes. Sometimes you are, in the words of the great B.S. Pully, “too smart for the room.”