RE: It's Back! Fortune Cookie Fortune
I think that is funny your grandpa was speeding to make up time for his shortcut. Shortcuts hardly ever workout unless there is serious traffic and know another route. May not be shorter but will be quicker.
Shortcuts in life will always bite you somewhere. I have learnt you do a job properly otherwise you have to re do it. On one occasion my father in law was asked to get something from a storage unit for his wife. She knew exactly where it was and how long it would take to get. We opened up the unit and basically dragged the item out from underneath a few other items. When we arrived back she knew we had made a mess and went back with him to sort it. Moral of the story is either we should have done it properly or she should have gone herself.
Your mother-in-law sounds like my wife. :) But it's true, if the job doesn't get done right the first time, there's clean up/backlash/fallout from the first attempt that will always need to be dealt with, and then comes actually doing the job right, and probably with more precision and time than it might have taken the first go had it been done right, because the second time there's going to be added scrutiny.
Lol. You sound as though you speak from experience. It is true what you are saying though and we have to learn the hard way. i have had to do things over again because I didn't take my time and do it right first time. There is that saying measure twice and cut once.
Oh, I'm sure I am speaking from experience (thought nothing specific comes to mind), just as you are. We all fall into that trap either accidentally or purposefully. It's tough to maintain discipline in light of whatever else it is we're trying to speed up the process for. We want to go home early. We don't like what we're doing and want to get it over with. Whatever it is, discipline has to take precedence.
And it's nothing new, which is why we have the adage you quote. Someone's messed up before us and is trying to save us the pain of making the same mistake. If we'll only heed the warning. :)