Riddle me this

[David Mary]

I'm never present when you say my name, but when all is still, I'm there again.

 

[WValtakis]

 

[David Mary]

I'm tall when I'm young and short when I'm old.

 

[Drop bear]

I'm never present when you say my name, but when all is still, I'm there again.

 

[tinfoil hat timmy]

A chair

 

[BlindMouse2of3]

 

[David Mary]

If you haven't gotten me, you don't want me, but once you do, you never want to lose me.

 

[AntDog]

Coke habit.

 

[BlindMouse2of3]

Coke habit.

I was going to go with.... Just one more knife

 

[David Mary]

Coke habit.

I guess you're not wrong. Not the one I was looking for though.

 

[David Mary]

I was going to go with.... Just one more knife

I think everyone wants just one mo knaf. They'd have to be crazy not to?

 

[David Mary]

I'll give you a hint, it's a compound word that often contradicts the spirit of the first part of its name, and you'd think from the letter of the second part that you can wear it but you can't.

 

[BlindMouse2of3]

Antidisestablishmentarianism?

 

[David Mary]

No but it has certainly been the cause of some of these.

 

[Psycho]

Lawsuit…

 

[tinfoil hat timmy]

A chair

 

[jlauffer]

Change

 

[David Mary]

Change

Brilliant answer! Double meaning. We resist change (of circumstances, etc), but we don't want to lose change (out of our pockets)! Didn't see that one coming at all. Mind expanded!

But yeah, Psycho got the one I was originally thinking of.

 

[David Mary]

Four strong legs, and a strong back, but I cannot flee when I'm under attack.

I wrote this one just for you tinfoil hat timmy

 

[jlauffer]

Brilliant answer! Double meaning. We resist change (of circumstances, etc), but we don't want to lose change (out of our pockets)! Didn't see that one coming at all. Mind expanded!

But yeah, Psycho got the one I was originally thinking of.

I was thinking more along the lines that we are usually scared of change, but most of the time change ends up being good, so you don't want to "lose" it by going back.