Habits y'all

 *Habits change into character.* **- Pūblius Ovidius Nāsō (Ovid) -** *** *** Over the last ninety weeks I've engaged in the habit of posting a topic, or set of topics for people in the community to get engaged with. This week the ***(WE90) Weekend-Engagement POSTING TOPICS*** is about habits and, considering I *don't usually make a habit of responding to my own posting topics*, I thought I would this week. *** - I don't like hot food touching cold food on my plate. This began as a practical thing so the cold food (salads) wouldn't get warmed up by the hot. Oddly, I'm ok with hot and cold touching in a burger or wrap and desserts, like hot apple pie and ice cream. I'm weird. - I wear a surgical glove when filling my vehicle with diesel. This started because diesel fuel sticks to everything including the bowser nozzle and if it gets on my hand it gets on everything I touch, and it stinks. I have a pile of gloves in the console of my vehicles and use one every time. I get a few strange looks but I ~~administer a death stare~~ smile and nod back because I don't give a fuck what people think. - I chew ice cream; it just feels right. This habit only happens when I'm eating ice cream from a spoon, if licking it from a cone, then I lick not chew. (Ok, I chew a little bit.) - When I really concentrate on something my tongue pokes out a little to one side of my mouth. This is a family thing. My grandfather did it as do others in my family like my niece and nephew. Don't ask me why this happens, some things are unexplainable. - I'd like to acquire the habit of waking up earlier, taking an hour-long walk and enjoying a healthy bacon and eggs on toast breakfast every morning before work. It would mean getting out of bed at 05:00, something I did for many years back in my past (and hated), however it was a magnificent thing as I managed to get so much done! The problem is that I don't go to sleep until about 23:30 or so and a few days of only five hours of sleep would probably result in someone getting ~~murdered~~ on my nerves very quickly, so I sleep in until 06:30 to ~~save lives~~ save relationships. - In the topic announcement post linked above I said I don't like loud eaters. You know, when people chew like cows and all sorts of noise results? I can't stand it. Also, I hate seeing someone eat with their mouth open. I have no desire to see someone's half masticated food still rolling around in their gaping maw. - I hate it when I'm on the phone the person I'm talking to gets an incoming call and puts me on hold to answer it. Hang on, aren't I important enough to make you want to leave the other call? I fucken hang up. - I like people showing courtesy and respect to others. I saw this only today when a young girl, maybe twenty, held the door for an older lady and waited whilst she placed her coffee order despite being in the line for a few minutes before the older lady arrived. Courtesy, respect and kindness are excellent, *and attractive,* habits to display. - The person I would cast this spell upon is my former business partner who decided all of my company's money (my money) would look better in his own bank account. The result was I lost my company and about a million dollars and it put me back twenty five years financially. I'm going to bestow three habits on this person. - Excessive and compulsive bum crack itching. I mean, like *ass itching all the time,* digging right in there like the guy is fucken mining for ass-gold. - Excessive and compulsive nose picking. I'm talking about *index finger all the way to the second knuckle,* even if there's no boogers to pick. - Excessive and compulsive ball scratching. I don't mean the standard *shift* that men simply have to do (trust me girls, it's essential). I mean going deep, like mining for bitcoin, *or should I say ballcoin*, deep. - Further to these three habits I'm going to magic up a time frame and combine all three habits into the one moment, consecutively. So, every five minutes, *for the rest of his life*, he's going to mine for ass-gold, second-finger-knuckle-it up his schnoz for boogers, then immediately dig for *ballcoin* as he scratches at his groin with abandon. - My reason for this is so that no one takes him seriously ever again. No one falls for his lies, egotistical, hubris-loaded, corrupt and greedy nature. I'd say a person that does those three thigs above every five minutes of the day would be someone others would avoid. - I used to be the kid who did stupid things which usually resulted in pain and humiliation. Often my coconuts took the brunt of it. Someone would say, *I bet you can't do that*, or would challenge me in some way and I'd be like, *fuck you, stand back and watch.* Fortunately I managed to get rid of the habit although, that, *never quit, never shy away from difficult things* ethos stayed with me and later in life served me well. I'm proud of my ability to apply persistence, consistency and effort to difficult things. But...back as a kid I was just dumb. - Here's some links to posts I've done about some stupid things I did: ***Fire Boy***, ***Ugly Tree***, ***Roller Skate***, ***Pegasus Bike***, ***Ball Sports*** and ***The Pool*** *** So, there you have it, responses to my own topic prompts for the ***(WE90) Weekend-Engagement POSTING TOPICS***. Follow the link to the topics post and guidelines if you would like to enter.