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What I Learned Yesterday

by Bryan Comer

If the gas light on your Suzuki blinks, and you are not at a gas station, you’re in trouble.

You should get your ex-wife off your car title well before you try to refinance or trade it…even if your divorce decree explicitly spells out who it belongs to.

Fix-a-flat works.

Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is a neurobehavioral developmental disorder affecting about 3-5% of the world’s population depending on the diagnostic criteria used.

You can’t get a title loan if your ex-wife is still on the title.

“How to eat Fried Worms” is a 4th grade level book, and my son is a third grader who’s reading it.

It will cost you $18.00 to have your ex removed from your title.

Sarah Palin is an idiot.

My oldest son can’t draw a zebra.

ADHD Medicine is speed and will mess up a 200 something pound man in his 50’s but only slightly effect a 78 pound girl with ADHD .

If you take out a title loan on your car for $700.00, you will owe $172.00 per month until you pay it off.

I can’t draw a zebra.

I have no idea where all the pieces for the jack on my Pathfinder are.

White crayon will not show up on black crayon.

Getting a title loan to help pay off debt by producing more debt is way too convenient.

We don’t have the money to get my youngest son’s orthotic.

I’m not ready to admit that my oldest son may have ADHD, nor do I think he does.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


One Response to “What I Learned Yesterday”

  1. Sota Says:

    I actually just started on some ADD meds yesterday for the 1st time since I was in middle school.

    Back then I hated them, they made me feel… different, which is one thing I did not want to be in middle school. Further more I just don’t think that, because a kid is bored in school is a symptom of ANY sickness mental or otherwise, but it’s more likely a failure of the teacher. All that being said I was told that I became a better student, I was more “managable” and paid more attention in class.

    I decided to start taking them again not because I think I have ADD (I don’t think I do and at times question if there really is such thing) but because with a full time job and full time school I sometimes have a hard time getting everything taken care of on time.

    what I don’t think is ok for children, is more acceptable for adults. I realize the hypocrisy of this statement, but when I was little they put me in this sort of “fog” where in my head I was still the same person, but my body felt sluggish. As an adult, I’ve had a very different experience. This is a strange analogy, but I feel sort of like Hero Nakamoto from the show Heroe’s I my body feels tightly wound, and but everything around me feels like its moving in slow motion, and I am able to block out distractions and hyper focus on what ever it is I’m trying to do.

    I’m not trying to tell you what to do, but rather offer a perspective and if nothing else I hope you enjoyed my analogy

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