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"You shouldn't do that" is a challenge. Is "Watch me" your response?

Boyfriend Bill: "In that boot, you shouldn't stand on a chair. I can reach the upper cupboard." (He doesn't know what I do.)

Hiking partner Karen said I shouldn't put a dust ruffle on my bed in this boot. Watch me.

So, I bought a new down comforter and dust ruffle for my bed. After washing, ironing and starching the dust ruffle (a pain), I tackled putting it on.

Balancing the mattress on my head, I laboriously scooted on the dust ruffle. Sweating heavily.

Stepped back to look at it. It was upside down. (bad word)

Furious, I yanked it off and repeated the process. This time, doing it right.

Photos:

  1. I made the yellow pillow. Love the trim.

  2. My mother painted this magnolia blossom in her yard in Florida. She was going through her Georgia O'Keeffe period.

LiterateHiker 9 June 17
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1

The Magnolia is great. I like Georgia O'Keeffe

@scout123456

My mother painted the magnolia. Thank you!

1

I can admit I'm a very stubborn person.

If it's a personal choice then I am more likely to do it if someone says not to do it. I hate being told what to do and not do. If someone tells me not to do something, it's a good way to have me to do it to spite them, but spiting them isn't mostly why I would still do it. I could have already wanted to do it and it's just a bonus to defy them lol.

I can usually also tell when someone is trying to use reverse psychology though, in which case if someone tells me TO DO something that I already wanted to do and I think they're just saying it to get me not to do it, I will say yeah I will do it.

If it's something that is common sense to not do something then I am likely to agree with someone who says it. I'm not going to slide down a hill with ice going into a busy traffic intersection, or jump off my roof into a bush. Those are just dumb.

Still nobodies business but my own. I only tell people what to do if they ask my opinion or if they are an imminent threat to other people or property.

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Having had 2 surgeries on my ankles I am cautious about things like that. Unless I am in dire need I stay off the step stools when I have a boot on.

I'm more conscious of even stepping off of a curb after breaking my ankle a couple of years ago lol

2

The last words of a lot of rednecks. 🙂

Or "man up". Hardly anything good ever comes from manning up in a certain context.

2

I'm stubborn as all hell, too, so I'm basically right there with you. That said, get yourself a good step stool for around the house, as suggested by 1of5. It will often come in handy. Safety first and a speedy recovery! 😁

@DesertInfindel

Thanks.

My heavy step stool is so difficult to unfold, I don't use it.

@LiterateHiker Time to unload that one on Craigslist or something and find an upgrade!

@DesertInfidel

I wouldn't wish it on anyone. Will buy a new one.

@LiterateHiker That is very kind of you! 😅

1

You go, girl! 🙂

1

I can fully understand your sassy stubbornness. It’s amazing what a person can do if they just try. Sure, there’s danger, but there’s danger in existence. It’s all in what you’re comfortable with.

I had some younger guys order me not to climb my own ladder because they thought I was too old. As they were driving away I was climbing. I recently pressure washed my entire A-frame roof off a 32’ ladder.

@WilliamFleming

Love your reply. Thank you for your support.

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You have nothing to prove. Standing on a chair with a medical boot on is foolish and dangerous. Falls kill and it doesn’t take much of a fall.

@ADKSparky

After 44 years of hiking, I am very careful stepping up on a chair and down.

Keep three limbs attached, just like rock climbing.

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Hey good for you! I'm sure your friends were just concerned about you moving around with that clunky boot on your foot. I sure wouldn't adivise using a ladder though (smile). I know the feeling of feeling not up to par and the need to prove your aren't a gimp. Just be careful!

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That's something left to the situation at hand, in your case good call. 😉

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My answer is "You shouldn't do that" is often not meant as a challenge, so I don't take it as one at all most of the time. I assume that most of the time it is meant well as a warning to me with my safety in mind. I don't care much about proving things to people, esp. as far as my physical capabilities. We do seem to have very different mindsets and personalities.

@LiterateHiker I think your caution about hiking is wise. Not smart to risk being part of the herd that is thinned thru risky behavior. Same reason I am not interested in riding motorcycles and never have been, even tho I am told that getting a motorcycle would greatly help me find women to date. Maybe so, but I also know that I will be on blood thinners the rest of my life and one accident would cause me to bleed out before I even made it to a hospital.

@TomMcGiverin

As a hiker, I am more cautious than my women hiking partners. "How do I get down?" is uppermost in my mind. If the pitch is too steep and dangerous, I stop.

"I'm not comfortable going any higher," I say.

Unlike Karen, my goal is not to bag the peak. Let them go up that crumbly, winding apex with extreme drop-offs on all sides.

Karen and Xuilan atop Labyrinth Mountain. Relaxing on a ridge just below the summit, I took these photos. August 2016.

@TomMcGiverin

To me, motorcycles are too dangerous. I'm not interested in motorcycle enthusiasts who don't exercise.

Basically, they are sitting on their ass.

@LiterateHiker That is true of them. Male and female, they are usually overweight and flabby.

@TomMcGiverin

Exactly. "My arms are strong from riding my Harley," a man bragged.

When he took off his shirt, it looked like his chest was melting.

Wobbly, slack flesh. Flabby and overweight. Ugh.

4

Nope. I worked construction, as an electrician, and operated commercial buildings. When someone says " You shouldn't do that" to me I take it to heart - way to many bad things have happened just after those words were uttered in my experience.

BTW, boot or not you should never stand on a chair. Get a step stool, it actually works better than a chair.

1of5 Level 8 June 17, 2019
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Reading this did not surprise me, you're one of those people who does not have the word "can't" in her vocabulary. 😉

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I generally ignore the challenges of others, preferring to generate them internally. I don't need to "show" anybody anything. Their reaction to what I do, or don't do, is theirs. The meaning I choose to assign to it is up to me. It's a Stoic thing......

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