Choices and Advice

I remember once, long ago, the Honey Badgers three of the four top members of the church had decided to grab food at Perkin's after a night of heavy drinking. It was winter in the great state of Montana and we had difficulty navigating from three miles away to our destination as it was a blizzard.

Once we got to Perkins we were joined a couple of members of the church and one new initiate, through the course of our meal we were conversing quite a bit and found out that the new member of the church was contemplating driving to someplace, I d not recollect off hand where it was, but it was about a three hour drive under normal circumstances.

Everyone at the table warned her against making this trip, as we had been in the restaurant for thirty minutes and gained at least a half foot of huge wet packing snow outside. She assured us that the plow would be taking care of it, we assured her it was three in the morning and even if the plow was running it was no doing enough.

After some time we all looked at each other and it was said "If you are coming to the Honey Badgers for advice you have made some mistakes in your life. If they all agree, then follow their advice."

The reason I tell that story is this:  have found that the people that give the best advice make the worst choices. Sometimes they are aware, sometimes they are not, but if you listen to what they have to say there is an earned wisdom to it. I am not saying that you should follow all of the advice a person who routinely makes poor choices gives, I am saying listen, they have lived through the consequences of many actions and some learn and some don't but you will be able to determine what course you should take by looking at where they failed..

I personally am terrible at making good choices, the bad ones always seem funnier, but when I sit down and serious-face give advice it has gotten many friends out of trouble. Out of a bad situation, just out of the way. I have given advice to people in the same boat I am in that is opposite of what I am doing. I get called out for it and have to give a lengthy explanation of why I am making the dumb choice when I know the right one.

But this is just some advice from a person who makes terrible choices, it is now your choice as to what to do with it. Remember question everything, or you deserve everything you get.

The King.

Also, she did, in the end, decide not to drive to wherever she was going that night. As far as I am aware she is still alive and kicking.