Joseph O'Brien

Like father like son

We all have em, even if some people don’t realise. Little things that we just always do or feel silly if we don’t (even if we don’t need to do them). They are called “habits”. Alot we get by copying our parents and loads we just develop ourselves.

Wikipedia defines it as  “an acquired pattern of behavior that often occurs automatically” … Yeh

Lots of these are really common or stereotypical and could even be called bad, such as

• smoking and
• reading in the dark.

But there is lots that are alot stranger and maybe even bordering on OCD like

• The way Rafael Nadal has to arrange his water-bottles during matches, and the way he tugs at his boxers before he serves.
• The way girls play with their hair when they are bored or are reading something.
• People that touch the corners of tables, books or other things.
• When people eat all the chocolate off a Magnum first or of a club bar, then eat the rest.
• Drinking beer or smoking because our parents did it.

I found out recently that I have a few too

• After washing my hands i flick the water off my hands before I dry them.
• When playing Virtua Tennis I look out the window after each point.
• I make a squinting facial expression at badminton when I think/know a shot was in when it was called out.
• I bite my nails till they cant be bitten anymore.

I bet theres loads that realllllly piss you off.

What ones do you have?!?! :p