Welcome to 1Liners - Articles by Robert D. Dangoor

YOU WOULDN'T BE NORMAL IF YOU DON'T REACT IN AN ABNORMAL WAY

• Your life is in your hands but sometimes obstacles get in your way and your hands then become tied.
• If I was expecting a friend to help me out in a difficult situation, I would feel very disappointed if he let me down at the last minute and would think twice before asking someone again.
• If I ask a friend to do a DIY job in my flat and I pay him and then he asks me to lend him money which he never returns, I would feel let down.
• If you know someone who is also known to your family, you have to tread carefully so that you do not upset your friend, who may report back to your family.
• When a group of friends get together to enjoy themselves, there is usually one who upsets the apple cart.
• In a pub when a group is making a lot of noise and being a nuisance, the publican tends to pick on the one with least resistance.
• One is wary of people who react to what you look like rather than what you do.
• Giving advice is hazardous as it could be seen as interfering, but it is simply passing on the benefit of experience.
• If you give too much appreciation to someone, he might test your support next time.
• When someone crosses the road and his feet are run over by the wheels of a car, then he would be wary of crossing the road again, without taking care that it didn’t happen again.
• Passengers in an aeroplane which has to force land would find it a traumatic experience and next time they would check which airline had a safer record.
• If I ask directions and he sends me the wrong way, I will tend to try to read a map rather than depend on someone else.
• A shopkeeper who is repeatedly given forged notes, has to check that the notes he now gets are genuine.
• If I confide a secret to a shopkeeper, and he tells other people that I know, I would be less likely to tell anyone else a secret.
• You usually can only go into a shop once or twice in a short space of time because familiarity breeds contempt.

• One can be wary of giving too big a tip in a restaurant because the waiter might think that you are after something else.
• You have to be careful of adverts, which do not always live up to their promises.
• I went on a long and stressful journey by car and hyperventilated, developing such a phobia of escalators and heights that I haven’t travelled by tube for over ten years.
• A soldier who has suffered post traumatic stress disorder from a war, may well have a traumatic reaction to a loud noise long after he is out of the war zone.
• A person who is abused as a child might find it difficult to lead a normal adult life.
• If the bus is full and you cannot get on with a wheelchair, you must wait until a bus comes along which has enough room to accommodate the wheelchair.
• If you are involved in a punch-up in a queue because it is thought that you queue-jumped, you will feel vulnerable in a queue.
• Instead of thanking you for trying to make someone give up a bad habit, the addicted person blames you for causing him to take up the habit.
• A drinker who sometimes cannot hold his alcohol might be wary of having one drink too many.
• Someone who wants to save money and get fit at the same time might think twice about riding a bicycle if he has been hit by a car.
• In a penalty shoot-out, the penalty taker is fast and accurate with his shot, but the keeper saving the goal and also the match, is a genius.
• Be careful if a friend turns against you when he is with another person,
• If you are usually wrong about things, it is difficult to convince people when you are actually right.
• If you are charged £5 for something twice, and you are charged £4 the third time, should you be grateful for the discount or complain of being overcharged on the first two occasions?
• A comedian practising a joke for a long time will be disappointed if the joke falls flat on its face.
• If a car is stationary at a green traffic light, do you cross the road or wait until the car has gone?
• On a park bench, do you ask a well-built man not to smoke because the smoke is getting into your eyes?

• Sometimes, the one who puts somebody else on a pedestal falls flat on his face.
• Standing behind a difficult and awkward person in a queue, I would wonder how I would be treated as the next customer.
• If an athlete sacrifices all his spare time training for the marathon he will be disappointed if he does not complete it.
• When renting a flat you will be very upset if you are charged by the agent as well as the landlord.
• With fruit machines you learn the hard way that it is not what you get out, but what you put in.
• How do you feel after queuing up for a long time to obtain a certain item to be told when you reach the counter that the item is sold out?
• Or you rush across town to catch the last train… to be told it has already gone?
• And are you not very annoyed with the policeman who stops you to check your car and your driving licence when you are late and rushing to get somewhere?

© Robert Dangoor 2009

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