"For Sale: Baby Shoes, Never Worn."

I have no idea if this is the literary equivalent of the urban legend, but the story is that Ernest Hemingway was once challenged to write a story in 6 words, and he wrote "for sale: baby shoes, never worn."

Last year Smith Magazine had a contest where they challenged readers to write a 6 word memoir, and they compiled them into the book "Not Quite What I Was Planning." I haven't read this yet, but yesterday someone was telling me about this. Of course I had to immediately start writing my 6 word memoir. After much deliberation, here it is:

"Don't always have great impulse control."