Pushing the Limits

[Irwin]

I sometimes push my limits when it comes to napping.

 

[Fyrefox]

My mother, an extremely controlling person, tried to control my dating life and access to the people that I saw or even communicated with. By so doing, she made those forbidden people even more attractive to me. So in a time long before cell phones and personal computers, I tapped into my inner slyness, learned the location of every pay phone, and found ways to get to them. Kids today do not understand or appreciate the phenomenal amount of freedom that they have. What is their normal would have been my paradise...

 

[squatting dog]

I think sometimes my sarcasm has a tendency to push the limits.
Some people take everything I say seriously. (it's worse on the net where facial expressions can't be seen).

 

[JonDouglas]

Limits are/were always something to be reckoned and dealt with. Limits beget questions - Are these limits useful and/or purposeful? How far can they be pushed? What are the consequences of pushing too far? Can and should the limits be changed? How much effort? Etc. These and other questions would depend on the nature of the limits. Are we talking parental rules, stall speed on an airplane, lean angle on a motorcycle, tread depth on a tire, remaining distance till empty (fuel), speed limits on the road, etc.? IMHO, there's really no pat answer other than "It depends."

Limits on the stall speed of a plane should be religiously followed unless your just messing around at a safe altitude for recovery. Highway speed limits have some variability until you encounter a speed trap. How far you lean through a corner on the motorcycle depends on air temperature, condition of your tires, speed, condition of the road, body positioning in the seat and some other factors. How much variance you might have had for getting home after dark depended on parental tolerance and consequence. Anyway, you get the point. It depends.

 

[Lewkat]

I don't know if I push limits or simply rebel.

 

[Lara]

Me pushing the limits?
Absolutely...we all have our moments

 

[Glowworm]

I also have a problem with signs that say, "Don't go beyond this sign." Why not? What are they hiding from me?

The edge of the Grand Canyon?

 

[squatting dog]

I suppose there are times when I might heed a sign.

 

[Glowworm]

Saw this sign on a beach in Australia.



I pushed the limit and look what happened.

 

[Pepper]

Reminds me of a song............

 

[Judycat]

I push limits when I visit the doctor. She has been trying for years to trick me into agreeing to a colonoscopy. She really should give up.

 

[Gaer]

I think I push limits in my art and my writing. When people are shocked and angered at something I create, either through my words or my art, I don't change it, but I find it extremely interesting!
Why would something they don't have to read or look at, incite them so? Maybe it's a sculpture of a nude. They are shocked and I look at it and see nothing wrong with portraying the human body. Most curious!

 

[Remy]

No. From too young of an age I knew to keep my mouth shut and just take it. I don't push anything.

 

[jujube]

The edge of the Grand Canyon?

Yep, that was one of them.....

 

[SetWave]

No. From too young of an age I knew to keep my mouth shut and just take it. I don't push anything.

That was my life growing up in an ultra strict military family.

 

[Remy]

That was my life growing up in an ultra strict military family.

So sorry.

 

[SetWave]

So sorry.

Asi es la vida.