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Greenfinch Mon 04-Apr-16 19:05:23

I always stay longer than two hours in Waitrose car park.

mollie Mon 04-Apr-16 18:47:34

That's it! I want to be a rebel!! Not sure how but I'll give it some thought... Always on time, parked within the box, things neat and tidy, bins out on time, Windows cleaned etc. All daft stuff, I want to throw caution to the wind and do something outrageous or dramatic or exciting or...???

Ignore me, I'm having one of those days...

JackyB Mon 04-Apr-16 18:22:46

If I broke rules but impinged on someone else's wellbeing, or freedom, I don't think I'd feel very happy about it.

Sometimes I do wonder why we have rules for some things, though. For example, one of my boys had been serving at Midnight Mass and got dressed in his outdoor clothes, and came back in Church to find something, and didn't take his hat off. He got told off, but I thought - why do men have to take their hats off when they go indoors? Women don't! That is a centuries-old rule that it wouldn't kill anyone to break. There are loads more examples.

And they vary from country to country and region to region. So one man's meat is another man's poison.

When I was little, a man was considered effeminate if he kept his change in a purse. I bet loads of women were continually mending their men's pockets. That rule (or perhaps I should call it an attitude) seems to have changed now. And look - no harm done!

tiggypiro Mon 04-Apr-16 18:09:59

I am a firm believer that rules made by somebody else either have to be worked to my advantage or b******d up. Obviously there are many which just have to be obeyed but many are petty. I have done it today at the Toyota garage which have at long last got 2 recalls fixed. I wanted a courtesy car which they said I could have but would have to pay £10 insurance for. I refused (after all it was for a recall not something I had instigated) and so they said they would take me home. So that £10 which I wouldn't pay cost the garage: man + car + petrol for 12 miles to take me home and then 2 men + car + petrol for 12 miles to return the car. Each journey took about 1/2 hour. Their rules but worked to my advantage as I had a day at home and didn't have to go back into town to collect the car.
Give being a bit of a rebel a go mollie !

BBbevan Mon 04-Apr-16 18:09:56

I would like a small flower tattoo on my bum

Greyduster Mon 04-Apr-16 17:58:34

Sorry, mollie, I'm afraid I'm exactly like you, and my DD is even worse than me! No chance of either of us jumping up and down on the rule book sad. Hope you manage it!

mollie Mon 04-Apr-16 17:23:31

I'd really like to be one of those people who doesn't give a gnat's f*rt about rules (but in a modest way, no murder for example) but I can't even go against my local supermarket traffic signs (many do and it annoys the heck out of me). So, any suggestions on how to be a bit of a devil and cross the line now and again? Or is there anything you'd like to do if only you had the nerve???