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"If you stop to listen to a musician or street performer for more than a minute, you owe them a dollar"

How is this advice that you wished you had known? I honestly stopped reading after this one.

What made you post such a negative comment? You could have just closed the window and resumed with your day, but what propelled you to be so angry about this particular advice that you had to write about it here?

The list is obviously not for you, but this reflex where one needs to be so angry and vocal about something so benign (and useful) is what makes me question what have we done to ourselves as a society.

Are you asking “how could you not have known this before?”, or “how could you think that this is good advice?”

Either way, it seems you’ve taken rather strong offense to such a small, and rather kind point.

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