Common Sense / myLot

United States

December 2, 2017 10:18am CST

There's a commercial that comes on the radio and it goes something like this Ring...Ring...Ring... Hello? Yes this is common sense calling Oh common sense I was hoping you'd call.... The commercial is for some car dealership and how wise it would be to use common sense and buy at their place. It got me thinking how nice it would be if common sense really could call when we are in a quandary or heading down the wrong path. Of course that's not realistic and we probably wouldn't be where we are today if we didn't have our past mistakes to learn from. I happened to be married to someone (many years ago) who had no common sense. He was very book smart but when it came to common sense he came up short. Do you have common sense?

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37 responses

Marlina

@marlina (154166)

• Canada

2 Dec 17

Actually, common sense is the first quality that my husband noticed in me.

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The Horse

@TheHorse (205796)

• Walnut Creek, California

2 Dec 17

I think it's a good attribute to possess.

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Oshy

@TiarasOceanView (70035)

• United States

2 Dec 17

Oh yes tons of common sense as I see it..I have to or I would never have survived haha

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vanny

@vandana7 (98834)

• India

3 Dec 17

Shhhh....somebody will steal it.

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Oshy

@TiarasOceanView (70035)

• United States

3 Dec 17

@vandana7 Never

rebelann1949

@rebelann (111190)

• El Paso, Texas

2 Dec 17

I think that's probably normal, Albert Einstein is reputed as having no common sense whatsoever .... of course I do not know that first hand but I recall a TV interview they did of him where he refused to kill the ant that was biting him, in fact he wouldn't even remove it from his person ...... yeah, I draw the line there, if an insect is biten me I'm killin it if I can

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Alfredo Rossi

@amadeo (111948)

• United States

2 Dec 17

No I do not.If I did.I would be very boring

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Angie

@andriaperry (116860)

• Anniston, Alabama

2 Dec 17

I think I do, or am I just an idiot and think I have this sense?

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Marsha

@MarshaMusselman (38659)

• Midland, Michigan

3 Dec 17

@Platespinner As I told Marilyn in my response, I believe that our common sense is related to our experiences in life. That is why we see people and think they have none whereas they just are missing it related to what we see at that time, but possibly have it in other circumstances.

Kandase

@Kandae11 (53679)

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2 Dec 17

Sometimes I do, sometimes I don't - but I have survived thus far.

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vanny

@vandana7 (98834)

• India

3 Dec 17

Mine too.....the common sense is very much there, but sometimes the need to just get the situation out of way VERY FAST, defeats it.

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Four Walls

@FourWalls (62161)

• United States

2 Dec 17

I think we all would like to think we have common sense. I see vast gaps in the “common sense” landscape, though, as if people changed their phone numbers and didn’t let common sense know about the update.

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The Horse

@TheHorse (205796)

• Walnut Creek, California

2 Dec 17

For some reason, that example made me chuckle.

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Anna

@LadyDuck (458230)

• Switzerland

2 Dec 17

I hope to have common sense, according to my friends and family this is the case.

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RasmaSandra

@RasmaSandra (73473)

• Daytona Beach, Florida

2 Dec 17

I would like to thing that I have common sense. I always can take very good care of myself.

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M.-L.

@MALUSE (69413)

• Germany

3 Dec 17

That's funny. I've recently written a post on the topic common sense and its lack on myLot - at least in many cases.

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Lenore Plassman

@sallypup (57914)

• Centralia, Washington

2 Dec 17

I sure aim for common sense. There are times when I fall short but I give it a go.

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The Horse

@TheHorse (205796)

• Walnut Creek, California

2 Dec 17

I do have common sense. When something needs to be done, I get it done. When something is too "iffy" for me to handle by myself (like gluing down the binding that's coming up on my Martin D-18 guitar), I call an expert.

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vanny

@vandana7 (98834)

• India

3 Dec 17

Now I know who stole mine...sigh.

Judy Evans

@JudyEv (325815)

• Rockingham, Australia

2 Dec 17

I think we have it in spades (but perhaps I'm mistaken). There was a lot of it around when we were growing up.

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vanny

@vandana7 (98834)

• India

3 Dec 17

That certainly was not yours ...when you were growing up I mean...

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Susan Humphries

@catsholiday (460)

• Derby, England

2 Dec 17

I think I have and get very frustrated when people seem to lack that basic quality .. lacking that are bad manners are my bugbear

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ChoukseyMK

@ChoukseyMK (1045)

• India

2 Dec 17

Common sense is the ability to judge things, take right decisions at right time. But no idea how much common sense do I have? There is no scale to measure sense.

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