Sensible....

3.  What’s the most sensible thing you’ve ever heard someone say?

Say, out loud?  One thing that comes to mind is something my Dad said to me:  "I'm not going to tell you not to do it, because then you'll do it anyway.  I just better not ever get a phone call from jail, because I won't accept the collect call."

Yeah, that pretty much kept me out of some sticky situations growing up, and probably, subconsciously, is still keeping me on the somewhat right path.

It's easy to decide NOT to do something that may or may not result in being handcuffed and hauled off to the big house when you know that you may just have to stay awhile.

This also applied to stupid decisions I made that forced me to call my Dad for help.  He was basically telling me he was not ever going to grant me a bailout.  Once, when I was younger, I needed money to pay my cell phone bill.  I called him up, begged for money, and was abruptly diconnected by way of him slamming down the receiver.  The conversation, in a nutshell was pretty much I was an adult, with a job (navy), so I should be able to pay my own bills.  If I wasn't able, then I was doing something wrong.  That's when I learned that he meant the entire set of definitions for the phrase bailout.

This has taught me that it's MY responsibility, and mine alone to make sure that I can take care of what needs to be taken care of.  Noah and I are a great team in that we discuss big ticket items with each other (I don't just go out and buy a $50 game or $100s in clothes).  This keeps us from the fights that many people have over money.