Lurkers' week: what's the WORST piece of advice you've ever been given?

"It is what it is"!!! Hate that expression - No, it does not have to be.

This is rather a sad one. The week my 35 year old sister lay dying in hospital-she had cf - and she was visited by a nun. "She's suffering for all the poor children in Africa," I was told, within the hearing of my sister. The anger I felt inside me has never left.

@SueLindsey ...give it time, you may still find it useful..lol..

He's no good for you he'll leave you in six months!
30 years later we are still together and are still in love ?

Time heals ...not always.

My mother bless her, urging me not to have a hysterectomy (“Wait for it to pass”)as she had one in her late thirties (I was older) and she had a nervous breakdown. She also had a hospital phobia. I ended up in a bad way, having blood transfusions etc., before having the op.

"Calm down" from someone who didn't have to live with the results.

I have never been given any bad advice! I have been given advice...some I have taken on board and some I have ignored.
As Erica Jong said "Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.”

I wanted to be a hotel receptionist got offered the job and my dad said it wasn’t for me. I’ve never really settled with my job and always wondered what if?

Holly steers I sympathise with you. I too left it very late and wished I’d had it earlier same results.

I listened to my sister who said I should take my state pension as soon as I could-instead of, if I’d waited a year (I was still working) I’d be getting 10% more. All right for her she has state pension and a good NHS pension too!

Mine was "No, don't leave him, stay and try and work things out". for the sake of your children. Yes, I listened, and Yes, they were wrong.

The worst piece of advice was when going for a job interview
In London, in a high building, somebody telling me to take the stairs because the lift was always ages in arriving.
True, it wasn’t coming down and seemed to be stuck on the fifth floor, but I really should have waited.
Arriving on the seventh floor sweating like stoker really wasn’t a good look.

Lemongrove - I'm in stitches at the image you've painted. Did you get the job?

To stay at school when I wanted to go to college.

Sometimes two faces are necessary. No, never.

"Northern Rock or Ice Bank are offering excellent interest rates for savers; you can't go wrong putting your savings there....." WRONG!

Years ago at a hairdressers I fancied a change the hairdresser persuaded me to go shorter in length, by the time she had finished I had short hair! I absolutely hated it