"I don't know how you manage the risk," Mr. Stroz said.
"I don't know how you manage," an old friend told me.
I am always surprised when people say "you're so brave" or "I don't know how you manage it".
Let me know how you manage to stay forever young.
I don't know how you manage to be a bed hog when you're so tiny.
I know you always tell me the same thing about being a mother -- "I don't know how you manage it these days" -- but really, Mom, you had a virtual baseball team on your hands, with three times the load I'm carrying.
I don't know how you've managed to do this, but everyone hates you.'" There's not hedging your bets, and then there's walking in with an actual hedge and setting fire to it.
In other words, they need to know how you've managed certain situations in the past, because in all likelihood you will rely on those same sorts of behaviors in the future.
You know when you don't know how you'll manage bedtime by yourself, or you've never traveled alone with your kids?
I am often asked what I do, and when I reply with a great deal of satisfaction that I'm a teacher, the most common remark is "I don't know how you can manage; when I was at school I used to cause all sorts of trouble".
