Do it right the first time!

Every time I think to take the shortcut, I always go back to one of my teenage experiences.  Something so simple as washing my car made me learn so much about life.  Here is the story.  I wanted to wash my car, my first car, and I did't want to bother getting the long garden hose from the back of the home and pull it up to the front where my car was, so I decided to park my car in the grass next to the short garden hose.  Well, I spent hours washing the outside and cleaning the inside of this car, it was white, by the way, and it was so clean, shiny and dry.  I got in the car to move it back to the driveway and all of sudden the car wasn't going anywhere.  The tires were just spinning and spinning.  After washing the car for hours, I managed to turn my lawn into mud.  I ended up getting the car completely muddy.  I had to get help to get the car out and I left tire holes (yes, literally holes) in the grass and ruined the lawn.  If only I had not been so lazy and just had gotten the long hose from out back.  Not to mention, I had to rewash the entire car.  This time I got the long hose and washed the car on the driveway.    Eventually, I had to make the effort to get the long hose anyway and if I would have done it right the first time, I would have saved myself a whole lot of trouble and a lawn.  I have taken this experience and truly thought of it every time I think of skipping a step, because I know that eventually I will probably have to redo all the work the right way anyway.  Basically, doing the work twice.  So now I do the one extra step every time and I end up saving myself many extra steps.  Do it right the first time!