What is the strangest advice your parents ever gave you and that proved to be correct?

[knowmeyourself]

It's all up there in the title!

What is the strangest advice your parents ever gave you and that proved to be correct?

[Anonymous]

"You can pick your nose, your butt, your clothes, and your friends... but you can't pick your family"
- Grandma

"Really you don't want to sleep around. After so many men your just spent. I don't even enjoy sex anymore. Its disgusting."
- Mom (I haven't slept around and I don't want to know how true that is, but its true for her. Eewww.)

[jstfaxlumbrjax]

'Never do anything you don't want to explain to the paramedics'. mom

'Babydoll, don't kill anybody, just because you can'... dad