Breaking Yourself of Bad Habits
Posted 17 May 2008 in Life, the Universe, and Everything 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.