Know The Rules

Everyone has things they will or won't do. Things they like to do a certain way. (I'm not talking about anything dirty, get your mind out of the gutter!) For example, I live thirty-five minutes away from my grocery store. Also, I don't like milk that has been warm and then cooled again. So, if we put those two things together, it makes sense that, in warmer months, I won't buy milk unless I'm going directly home after grocery shopping. If I have to make a stop, my milk is going to get warm and I won't drink it even after it's been chilled in the refrigerator.

(*Do not bother to explain to me the process of homogenized milk. I know.)

I know I am like this; I acknowledge it and work around it, making sure to do all of my errands before I go to the grocery store. If it's really hot outside, I won't even buy milk at the grocery store, but stop on the way home at the little convenience store at the gas station and pay twice as much for the milk, just so it won't get warm before I get home.

It's a little thing, I know, but you get the idea. I have certain things I will do and will not do, and certain ways of doing things. That's part of who I am. When it comes to milk, those are the rules.

One thing that drives me crazy is people who don't acknowledge their own rules.  They say they'll drink the milk even if it gets warm, but then they don't, meaning that I have a gallon of milk that no one will drink, but I feel like I can't go buy more milk because I already have a gallon of milk in the fridge!

Most of the rules people have are much bigger than my milk example. I don't mind if you have rules, I have them too. But don't tell me you don't have any rules and then time after time after time, when it comes time to drink the milk, you won't do it. You're lying to yourself and more importantly, you're lying to me.

And lying to me is one rule you won't like the consequences of.