bad habits?

[MeLikey]

I'm the biggest procrastinator in the world-- not like I'm proud but I did write a 20 page paper the night before going to Acapulco for Spring Break and between power naps and packing in the morning, I finished it and ended up with an A, beating my friends who started theirs in advance.

I always need to have perfect ponytails when I'm going out somewhere... I could care less when I'm walking around the house, but if I'm going somewhere they need to be smooth and perfect on the top, on each sides, and in the back. This takes a very long time and everyone teases me about them, but they do say I have perfect ponytails... and yet everyone always tugs at my ponytail.

I tweeze my eyebrows a few times everyday. I get them waxed when I want a cleaner shape and if for some reason I didn't get around to tweezing them. It's just to keep them clean underneath-- I hate the little dots that start forming so I tweeze them before they grow.

I only do this with my parents and sister, but if we're in a store and I lose them, I just yell out "Mom!" or "Dad!" or my sister's name-- not really loud but louder than a speaking volume. It's not so much bad as just funny... because I'll just do it even though I don't see them in sight anywhere but just out of habit it comes out.

Originally posted by bucutie02
I have a bad habit of saying "what?" even though i heard the person and answer them before they are finished asking me the question again

I used to do it, but I don't do it anymore, my mom's the worst though, she does it all the time... she'll say "WHAT?!" and no more than 5 seconds later she'll answer the question. I'm like why bother asking what then if you obviously heard me!

[MeLikey]

Oh yeah, forgot to add that I change the radio stations way too much... drives some people crazy.

[nucutiepie]

I procrastinate
I am literally addicted to diet coke
I interrupt
I oversleep all the time

[GeekyPenguin]

I procrastinate and I pick scabs.

[Jadey28]

I stopped biting my nails!!!! Yeah! I know it sounds silly, but it's really a big deal to nail biters. I thought I had tried everything to make myself stop....and then my friend got me this stuff to put ontop of my nails. It's called No Bite by Orly. If you've tried other topical treatments and they didn't work, I highly recommend trying this stuff. Usually, I could adjust to the awful taste, but this crap pretty mush numbed your tongue and the taste lasted for a few minutes. It is mentioned in this month's Allure magazine.

If I can stop biting, you can too!

[AXiD Sweetie]

That's awesome! I can't stop biting my nails. This sounds odd.. I pull out random strands of hair, usually when I'm bored. My hair is SO thick though...

[Peaches-n-Cream]

Originally posted by AXiD Sweetie
That's awesome! I can't stop biting my nails. This sounds odd.. I pull out random strands of hair, usually when I'm bored. My hair is SO thick though...

My friend pulled out her hair and gave herself a bald spot. It turned out that she had a form of OCD called trichotillomania. She went to the doctor when someone told her about this condition. The doctor gave her medicine and her problem went away and her hair grew back.

[emleepc]

I have a habit of interrupting too, unfortunately. I'm working on that though.

[Susan_Renee]

Originally posted by James
Procrastination . . that has to be my VERY worst self destructive habit.


Everything else so pales in comparison, I'll write about them later

i am so with you on that one james. i'm starting to believe that i'm the world's worst when it comes to procrastination.

[norcalchick]

I play with my hair too much. I'll twirl it around my finger. Brush my hands through it. The worst is:

I'm ALWAYS looking at my hair for split ends! I will sit there with little cuticle scissors and cut my split ends. Or when I'm bored, even for a second, I'll look at my hair tosee if I have a split end and pull it off. It's not just the ends that have split ends, but the hair shaft will be messed up and broken, so I have to cut that. I've done it since my junior year of high school. I would bring a pair of little scissors and cut my hair during class. My teachers always asked what the hell I was doing.

[RioLambdaAlum]

i crack my knuckles....actually i crack any joint that will crack when i am really bored.

[DrPhil]

Major thread bump.

Do any of you know people with GROSS habits that they display in public?

This is barf worthy but I know 2 people who obsessively and MAJORLY pick their noses in public. One person will sit there during a meeting or event and pick his nose---and will stay in one nasal-spot when he's found a booger and pick it out---and then EAT the booger in front of everyone. Sometimes he will put the boogers on a coat or something.

I am not lying.

This reminds me of a former friend from college. He would visit me in my room and tell me about the newest guys he is dating. Then if we were looking at my laptop he would wipe snot off of his (not the guy he's dating's) nose and put the snot on my bed sheets. I guess he assumed I wouldn't notice. Gross.

I remember when I had a terrible cold and I was in the drive-thru at McDonald's getting a salad. I had a tissue and was in the rear view mirror attacking my nostrils with the tissue. It was crucial. LOL. I turned around and the woman who brought the salad to the window was staring at me like "okay, bitch, damn...your nose gets the point" She rolled her eyes and dropped the salad by the drive-thru window.

Okay...end rant...LOL

[AOIILisa]

Originally Posted by DrPhil

I remember when I had a terrible cold and I was in the drive-thru at McDonald's getting a salad. I had a tissue and was in the rear view mirror attacking my nostrils with the tissue. It was crucial. LOL. I turned around and the woman who brought the salad to the window was staring at me like "okay, bitch, damn...your nose gets the point" She rolled her eyes and dropped the salad by the drive-thru window.

Okay...end rant...LOL

I can't stop laughing at this.. the woman in the office next to mine just came to see what was so funny. I commute into Philly every day on the train and happened to be sitting in one of the end four seats (most seats face the same way, but at the end they have two sets of seats facing each other.) A blind man got on and sat in the seat facing me and proceeded to MAJORLY pick his nose, like total nasal spelunking, all the way into the city with me there right in front of him AND he was in the seat that faced the whole car. I wanted to tell him "You're blind...not invisible!" I've never been so happy to get off the train.

I'm always baffled by people who hawk huge loogies onto the sidewalk, sometimes right in front of me - like really, you had to do that as you were approaching me? That completely makes me retch. And it's always a guy doing the hawking, too! I actually need to watch where I'm stepping while walking down the street because I would probably cry if I stepped into a big puddle of snot, and it is so prevalent down here.

[tld221]

Originally Posted by AOIILisa

A blind man got on and sat in the seat facing me and proceeded to MAJORLY pick his nose, like total nasal spelunking, all the way into the city with me there right in front of him AND he was in the seat that faced the whole car. I wanted to tell him "You're blind...not invisible!" I've never been so happy to get off the train.

My ASL professor mentioned that d/Deaf people are typically audible about things that is considered socially unacceptable, particularly burping and farting. They can't hear either, and while they (eventually) realize both actions make noises, that many don't get that people consider it rude. I wonder if it's the same for blind people - they figure, I can't see you so I can't be seen, or that (for example) it doesnt matter if their clothes don't match because they can't see it to even know.

Originally Posted by AOIILisa

I'm always baffled by people who hawk huge loogies onto the sidewalk, sometimes right in front of me - like really, you had to do that as you were approaching me? That completely makes me retch. And it's always a guy doing the hawking, too! I actually need to watch where I'm stepping while walking down the street because I would probably cry if I stepped into a big puddle of snot, and it is so prevalent down here.

LISTEN. Don't come to NYC. This has always been my peeve but lately it's been driving me nuts. Stepping in loogies is one of the big reasons why I try to take my shoes off as SOON as I get home.

[AOIILisa]

Originally Posted by tld221

LISTEN. Don't come to NYC. This has always been my peeve but lately it's been driving me nuts. Stepping in loogies is one of the big reasons why I try to take my shoes off as SOON as I get home.

Me too.... there is NO WAY I'm tracking whatever filth I've stepped in into the house. Husband doesn't get it, but then, he works in the suburbs and just walks from his car into his building!

(Don't get me started on people who put their handbags on the floor of the train...)