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[redbird]

"It seemed like a good idea at the time" covers a multitude of things.

What's disconcerting is when I realize at the time that something isn't a good idea, and go ahead anyway. Not that it will have mixed results, but that it's just not a good idea: like eating that one more cookie that I really don't have room for.

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[pyrzqxgl.livejournal.com]

"These things happen" covers a multitude of things too.

I raise my (yet another) cookie to you.

[sraun]

Irene has a short story that uses "It seemed like a good idea at the time." for the first sentence. Things go rapidly downhill. :-)

[marykaykare.livejournal.com]

It's the Imp of the Perverse that does that you know. (Poe story) I used to have a button that said, "I am the Imp of the Perverse. Knowing this won't help you."

MKK

[akirlu.livejournal.com]

Well, doing things that you know aren't a good idea can be useful, too. Sometimes it serves to remind you in a more visceral, memorable way that, yes, that still really is a bad idea. And then again, sometimes you know somthing isn't a good idea, and it turns out that you're wrong. And that can be rilly, rilly cool.

[akirlu.livejournal.com]

Oooooh. Wants that button, yes I does.

[redbird]

You can get one from nancylebov at www.nancybuttons.com.

[rysmiel.livejournal.com]

I tend to do that with food. Also with picking up books with appealing premises even when I have good reason to believe the author cannot write.