The Best Things You've Learned From Your Parents

I, like other posters to this thread, didn't learn what to do or how to live from my parents. I learned what NOT to do. Don't be an abusive drunk. Don't lie to my kids constantly. Don't do cocaine or marijuana. Don't accidentaly shoot guns in the apartment and blow holes in the concrete walls. Don't take so many sleeping pills that you fall over and break two VCR's. Don't run off and have kids with other people, then deny it, then move in with that other person and stop calling your first (well, technically, second) child. Don't promise you'll be home then not come...on Christmas. Don't support a man who steps on your throat when he's angry. Don't beat your kid so bad on the boardwalk that people threaten to call the cops. And many other great lessons on what NOT to do as an adult.

Jam it back in, in the dark.