Promises?

LORD APOCALYPSE · 11 Feb 2006 at 11:38

Do you take promises lightly? Make them lightly?

Do you try and avoid making promises in case you break them and consider any promise you made a binding contract?

I'm curious, discuss, haven't been active much and i'm itching for discussion.

kitten_caboodle · 11 Feb 2006 at 11:40

Generally I don't make promises unless I know I can keep them.

Raymond Lin · 11 Feb 2006 at 11:42

depends on the situation, a solicitor making a undertaking (promise) is a legal undertaking and there will be reprecussions if they don't comply with it).As from friends, it depends what they promised, if they promise to get me a pint when we got the pint and then don't then i honesly dont give a crap. But if its something more serious...I don't know, like picking me up from the airport then i might give him a word when i get home with all my suitcases through the london underground !

LORD APOCALYPSE · 11 Feb 2006 at 11:48

Maybe i shoulda mentioned it as more to do with friends and people in general, nothing legal or things like that.

I agree with Kitten_Caboodle, i try not to make promises unless i know i can keep them.

Kell_ee001 · 11 Feb 2006 at 11:53

kitten_caboodle said:
Generally I don't make promises unless I know I can keep them.

Same here. If I do make a promise then I do everything I can to keep it (otherwise it's not worth much) and I expect the same of others.

William · 11 Feb 2006 at 11:54

Yeah I try my hardest to keep them since I usually make them when others rely on them being fullfilled to make them easier.

semi-pro waster · 11 Feb 2006 at 12:09

For a promise I'll always do my best to keep it, something along the Scarface lines "I've got two things in this world...." but obviously things can happen outside your control to prevent that. I figure it is just courtesy on my part that if I say I will do something to make sure I do it, so if I say I will be at a certain place by 8pm I'll do my utmost to be there or collect someone from the train station etc.

Nix · 11 Feb 2006 at 12:16

kitten_caboodle said:
Generally I don't make promises unless I know I can keep them.

Same here. Ofcourse this can't always be the case, but I do try.

Nitefly · 11 Feb 2006 at 13:21

I have been known to break promises, but one thing I have never broken 'my word', which I truely give to the most sincere of situations.

Its one thing I offer which I'm proud of. I consider it a contract.

Greenlizard0 · 11 Feb 2006 at 14:16

If I say it, then I usually try to follow through (haha if you know what I mean). If you can't do the promise don't make one that's my philosophy