"Careful Josh, there's syrup on this one."

Says Brandy as she hands Josh a plate to put in the dishwasher. Sounds nice, sounds considerate, right? Until you see that she is holding the plate VERTICAL! Yes, vertical, as in up and down, as in gravity and syrup are working together to get to the floor, and in a hurry! 9.81 meters per second per second... are you sure that is all it is doing? Seems faster to me. Josh takes the plate from her and continues to hold the plate vertical. All the while I'm hollering "Put that plate level! Level the plate! LEVEL!" Too late, there goes the icky, sticky syrup to the floor. "Guys, what were you thinking? You knew there was syrup on the plate, you said it." Josh's quick as lightning response "Brandy handed it to me that way." Yes, yes she did. But see, two wrongs really do not make a right. And you have a brain and can think for yourself. Not just can, but should really. I mean are you going to let the plane you are co-piloting go down just because it was in a dive when the pilot handed you the controls or are you going to pull the nose up? Throw the rock Mitch! (If you haven't seen this clip, it is really funny!)

Book smarts they have, I guess we need to work on UNcommon sense more than I realized. They can start with the natural consequence of cleaning the icky, sticky floor.

The plane analogy came from my dear hubby - gotta give credit where credit is due. :) While we are at it, incase the link isn't clear, the Mitch skit was an SNL skit.