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I have the habit of always noticing when somebody says some social nicety that they obviously don't mean.
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I have a habit of noticing every misspelled word and typo in everything. It's especially irritating on internet forums...
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I have a habit of saying, "Have a nice night" whenever I see someone off. The downside of working nights at a desk, I suppose.
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Every single woman I've ever dated has said, "I love you" before I felt the same way. Except one. When I said "I love you" first, she gave me the same deer-in-the-headlights expression I've always had when presented with the same situation.
I promise to never react that way again. Man, that was a harsh feeling.
Or at least never say it first.
(And I have the same habit as ketchupqueen.)
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My son is a high school freshman. Whenever some girl says "I Love You" he replies "I Love Me, too" Posts: 295 | Registered: Jul 2004
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The habit of a hobbit is to pop it in a pan While the ranger is a danger and a stranger to all man And the Wizard fights a lizard while the company just ran Theres no wagons for the Baggins but he travels with his Sam
Sorry, I'm bored. Carry on.
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I work at a toy store and have habitual things I say to customers. When I think about them, they're really rather inane. Imagine if people actually answered them. For instance:
"Did you find everything you needed?" "No, actually, I never did find a well-balanced meal."
"That'll be all for you then?" "No! I've got three surprise items in my pocket that I didn't put on the counter yet!"
"You'll be paying with credit card, then?" "Nope. I just gave that to you to throw you off."
And then, every once in awhile, I get enough guts to respond to the customers' most common mistake with what I think is pretty darn funny:
"Thanks for coming in!" "You too! (doh!)" "Oh, not a problem. They pay me to come in."
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Well, On Friday's I always say "I'll see you tomorrow." Even when I won't see someone until Monday. That drives me nuts. And I always get directions wrong. For instance, talking to my cousins from GA, WITHOUT FAIL, I always say "When are you guys coming down here." And, I hate pencil-tappers. Is that a habit? I hate it, anyway.
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I have an unfortunate habit of responding to "Hey, how're you" with "I'm dead, thanks, and you?" which I started to test Mr. Barber's theory that no one really pays attention to what you say (they don't, it's amazing!), and just got into the habit of. Luckily, no one ever notices unless I point it out.
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When my baby brother was a kid (he's now um ... 43, I think) he said cimmanum for cinnamon and Vietmanese for Vietnamese and we sort of thought that was cool so we said it that way all the time ourselves and now I've almost forgotten which is the real way and which is the playful way and so I am apt to use the wrong one at any given time and embarrass myself.
Luckily cimmanum and Vietmanese don't come up in most business presentations or in project meetings.
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It might be a problem when you have to go to Vietnam someday and address the Vietnamese people about their over usage of cinnamon. Hope they don't laugh you offstage Posts: 925 | Registered: Nov 2004
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