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A Few Things I Learned from Firstborn


1. Always hide your cocaine in a cutout portion of the closet floor. Make sure to not conceal the cut portion of the carpet and leave a box of tools nearby to pry the floor open. The police serving a search warrant would never guess that anything was concealed there.

2. Never try to outrun a 1980's era SUV with foglights mounted on the top.

3. Never doubt Peter Weller (Sam) when he says that he plans to open a restaurant.

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4. Be sure when you drink a soda (i.e., Pepsi) or a beer (i.e., Budweiser) that you position the cans in such a way that the product placement is really obvious.

5. Divorced moms often long for their ex-husbands to take them back.

6. High school teachers are allowed to berate their overweight students by telling them to stop eating so much.

7. Single moms get tired of needing to "be someone for everyone" except themselves.

8. Spitting into the juice carton is a favorite pastime of quibbling brothers.

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Don't forget, "hip isn't hip anymore".

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Never trash talk your moms boyfriend and cocaine supplier, she might narc on you..and tell him exactly what you said..

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11. The next time you want to go in Jake's room, knock.
12. The pizza always tastes better when you eat it at the pizza parlor. It takes like the box if you eat it at home.
13. The next time you pass judgement on Sam, don't go crying to your mom like some chicken sh-t wimp. Have the balls to say it to his face.

"I am free of all prejudices. I hate every one equally."
W. C. Fields



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14. Clothing store dressing rooms don't lock, so feel free to confront your girlfriend in one. Just be careful that she won't walk out sans pants.

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Actually, they didn't back in 84.

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Oh wow, I guess the crappy neighborhood I grew up in was actually upscale, since we had locks on the dressing rooms at Miller's Outpost and everywhere else back then. Even before 1984.

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Well, at JC Penney, Sears, Belks, etc, there were no locks and no one watching the dressing/changing rooms either.

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Like I said, I was privileged. Every place I tried something on had a lock on the door. Not the auto locks of today, but a lock nonetheless.

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