by Catriona Mills

Breaking Yourself of Bad Habits

Posted 17 May 2008 in by Catriona

I have a bad habit of hitting myself on the forehead with whatever I happen to be holding—usually books or papers—if I become irritated with myself or with the task at hand.

I probably don’t need to describe this as a “bad habit”; I think its ill-advised nature speaks for itself.

The problem with habits, though, is that they become habitual.

Unthinkingly pursuing my habitual behaviour, then, I have just smacked myself in the head with a hardback copy of The Concise Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary (second edition.)

I don’t think I’ll be doing that again.

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heretic wrote at May 19, 02:24 am

Sure hope you don’t do that in the kitchen.

“Well I was using the cast iron griddle when I burnt the food… and that’s when things really went bad.”

[For the full effect, imagine the cartoony “clang”.]

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Catriona wrote at May 19, 07:08 am

Frankly, I’m not sure that a cast-iron griddle could be more painful than a hardback dictionary.

I was lying on the bed at the time, too, so gravity played a role.

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