I let people offend me too easily, when all they want to do is help me.

Gad! Too many to chronicle here...I am three-dimensionally annoying. Yep. That might top the list right now. (According to those closest to me.)

great list, fabulous bad habits. and i'm totally stealing "eye bludgeoned."

I've been known to refrain from shooting people who really deserved to be shot. I regret this, but it saves lots of paperwork.

Sometimes I don't tell people when their driving sucks. No one ever says my driving sucks. They are too busy screaming for their lives and hanging on for dear life. I don't know what the fuss is about.

Sometimes, I go out and buy a pizza late at night, just so I have something to eat in the morning.

I spend way too much time reading Open Salon, watching CNN while I read Open Salon, bemoaning the state of the nation, and ignoring the consequences of inaction.

I have an annoying habit of writing very long, really complex, annoying, and often convoluted, sentences that, while grammatically correct, would have made my editors crazy with anger they could not express because my aunt owned the paper for which we worked, often creating migraines for the copy editors and consternation among the lineotype operators who, being deaf, would usually express their distaste with gestures that required no interpretation.

I keep deciding that I can always go to the gym tomorrow instead of today.

I buy books. I have more unread books than I could ever read, even if I read a book a day for the rest of my life because I keep buying more books. Sometimes, I think it's more important to buy books than it is to read them because, if we all stop buying books, no one will be able to make a living as a writer and that will leave me with no one left to envy.

I don't clean out the cat boxes often enough. With four cats, none of whom wants to go out into the Florida heat just to take a shit, this can be a social problem.

I often hijack other people's posts with really long and largely unappreciated scholarly summaries on a subject only tangentially related to the subject of the post, without apologies.

I never finish any....

I'm heating up last night's Chinese take-out right now. _r

I keep library books over their due date. it's inconsiderate but I don't care. call me book reading bitch.

plus I like cold spaghetti in the morning, particularly with meat sauce all congealed on the sides.

and I cook and taste and then use the same spoon/whatever. I don't care. if I'm feeding you, you're going to have to live with my germs.

Mmmm I'm totally with you one #1. lemme go see what's in the fridge...=P

Fun post!_r

thats a really nice pizza.

(stupid me didn't rate but I did now)

and while I'm here I write REALLY long comments, which I've recently read is considered bad form and undesirable.

TOO BAD IF YOU DON"T LIKE MY LONG DETAILED CRAZY COMMENTS.

(thats all I have to say on this subject)

(for now)

(I may be back)

None of your beeswax, Caroline. But thanks for sharing yours, many of which I reluctantly call my own. But I'm not saying which ones!

I am feeling much too much at home here!

Irania: ditto

Linnn: three-dimensionally annoying. I like that. I could have just written that and saved myself ten reasons:)

femme: please do!

sagemerlin: ha, I think I'm in love.

Jeff: maybe a little. Of course. because these are just the ones I chose to reveal, which immediately tells you that 1) they're probably not my worst 2) I think people will want to read about them in some small way--whereas the darker or grosser ones might terrify and 3) I probably think they're somewhat endearing

Joan: I'll be right over!

Foolish Monkey: so you're a little bit wonderful. who can blame you?

Leah: I hope you find what you're looking for leftover-wise

Kateasley: glad to hear it

Matt: ooh, being mysterious are we?

anna1liese: good!

I have a bad habit of rambling, stream-of-consciousness style.

I asked my wife what are my bad habits: "You talk sometimes with your hand over your mouth, you twiddle your eyebrows when you're nervous, you absent-mindedly drum your fingers and mutter to yourself, you get so focused on your writing that you wouldn't notice if the house was on fire, you ..."

OK, thanks, dear.

I shave with a dull razor.

I didn't know dinner-breakfasting WAS a bad habit, Caroline--I think it's way higher on the morality scale than throwing out leftovers. I had to laugh at FMonkey's comments here about tasting/cooking with the same spoon. I do that and am probably the only mother in the universe who drinks straight out of the carton (much to my family's horror). They'll do a study some day proving maternal germs actually promote enhanced immune response in offspring and then we'll both be vindicated. Good post.

Loved it, but I am not telling. They are on full display, usually.

Loved it, but I am not telling. They are on full display, usually.

I do that pirate thing sometimes....these are wonderful hrmmm. must think of more habits & return.

I'm guilty of # 3, 7, and 8 and a lot of other things that I'm completely in denial about and therefore do not wish to discuss.

Bad Habits? Just ask my kids!
Love this one Caroline:
"falling in love with the chair I sit on syndrome"

I quit smoking two weeks ago, or almost anyway. I'm smoking two or three cigs a day. Still too many, but I swear I'm trying and I'm going to quit, period!

Bad habit: I skydive without a parachute.
R

What I loved about this post was how the self-references turned it from an expected old top ten list into a monologue with a red thread from 1 to 10. :D Nice!

Gumballs. Yes, you heard that right. With their perfectly spherical shape and bright colors, they deceive one into thinking that they are merely conceptual, imaginative, frivolities. What they really are is a means of mainlining sugar, for addicts.

Is that a Papa Johns chicken bbq hawaiian pizza in the picture? Because it looks like it and now I want one. This simple fact illustrates my bad habits of being easily distracted, disregarding the food in the fridge that needs to be eaten tonight in favor of paying for more food, not finishing what I started, spending time on OS when I should be working/cleaning/sleeping/leaving for somewhere important, minimal impulse control and ooh- look over there, something else I want to go read (wanders off and forgets what she was typing)

I snarl and gesticulate in traffic.

My habits? My BAD habits?
Caught unawares, I began a moment of self-reflection, and have thus stopped myself.
I'm sure I have s o m e bad habits, but so far they ain't bothering me!

I am nothing more than a collection of diverse bad habits held together with a decent suit, a ready supply of pomposity, and garlic pesto sauce. (Last week it was burgundy peppercorn sauce.)

One I'm aware of at the moment, having received my American Express bill, is good for others, but not for me. It seems I'm involved in a long-term in-kind wealth transfer program, from my finite coffers to the wardrobes and feet of the charming ladies I date. This has got to stop.

I have a problem with the Elvis sneer too (mostly when I'm blissing out to my favorite punk songs on the subway)

Whats wrong with pizza for breakfast?

Night time eating

Gossiping

Yelling at my wife (much better!)

Compulsive worry

Panic when i lose something

pizza is good for breakfast. so are fried clams, french fries and hot dogs!
r

Re/your #2: I have put the kids on notice that there will be no more cookies (or candy or ice cream) in the apartment. I buy them, the kids have one or two, then they go back to their mom, and guess what happens next. I'll find a way to make it up to them.

Owl: I wouldn't know anything about that. haha.

Cranky: good to know, my friend, good to know. Just read your "What I've Learned" and it was terrific

John: ouch

Fetlock: I heard that mama germs are healthy for the kids

Gwool: Listening to MSNBC while you're supposed to be working:)

dolores: sometimes it's necessary to do the pirate thing

Anna: denial. I forgot to add that to my list!

trilogy: I'll bet you're one of those people who thinks they have bad habits, but is really perfect

scanner: I used to smoke too. You'll kick it one day

littlewillie: sounds kind of fun…for a few seconds

Ersatz: what a kind, thoughtful thing to say

Monsieur Chariot: I love those things, but I love your description of your love for them even more

Terry: actually, it's one I picked up at my local shop that may be masquerading as a Papa John's…wait, what were we talking about again?

Katy: snarling is never bad

Betsy: if they're not bothering you, you're all set

Man Talk Now: put an end to the madness:)

Chiller Pop: it's the most beautiful problem to have

Oculanervosa: the whole list is kind of things I know other might frown on, but I love

Patrick: I do everything but the yelling--yes, I'm more of the charmingly passive aggressive type who knows it's not charming at all

Elisa: good. wanna have a pizza overeating party? great, see you soon

Poppi: ooh, must try fried clams for breakfast

Divorce Bard: sounds delicious to me

There is nothing wrong with pizzaesque (or any "esque") food for breakfast as far as I'm concerned. However, "an onlooker whom I have inadvertently eye-bludgeoned)" is an instant classic line that like femme, I am so stealing. Very funny!

a good list. i might have too many to list. i'm definitely #8...which can be really bad when writing here some days. i can't really criticize any breakfast choices when mine usually consists of pop tarts...

All of these strike very close to home. Thank for this entertaining and honest contribution.

Cartouche: you have my blessing to use it

lemonpulp: hey, never be ashamed of the pop tarts

Adrian: not gonna lie, it was fun to write

dances furiously, overly enthusiastic, eats inappropriate things for breakfast.
Well duh why I like you.

Amanda: I could picture you doing all of those things and that's why I like you:)