What are your WORST qualities?

feywon said:
My Navy son was like that from early childhood. i told him it was fine as long as he didn't get mad at his brother and i for talking to each other. It got marginally better once he was old enough to drink coffee, than we just had to wait for him to have a cup in him before trying to have any conversation.
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LOL..maybe that's my problem.. maybe I should take up drinking coffee ... :D
 

DebraMae said:
Doing the same thing over and over and still expecting that somehow, somewhere, there's just got to be a different outcome this time. Uggggg..........
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I only did that in terms of romantic relationships. After 3rd marriage i was determined to figure it out. By the time i was confident i wouldn't repeat the poor choices, i didn't really have a need or desire for that kind of relationship
 
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hollydolly said:
LOL..maybe that's my problem.. maybe I should take up drinking coffee ... :D
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It doesn't work for everyone. My only remaining sister can't have caffiene in amy form, including chocolate, after 4pm and fall asleep well when she goes to bed hours later. Me, i can drink coffee all day and it won't keep me awake. Only time that's a bad thing is when on long road trip.

However, a good stong ginger beer/ale and crystalized ginger do tend to re-energize me.
 

feywon said:
It doesn't work for everyone. My only remaining sister can't have caffiene in amy form, including chocolate, after 4pm and fall asleep well when she goes to bed hours later. Me, i can drink coffee all day and it won't keep me awake. Only time that's a bad thing is when on long road trip.

However, a good stong ginger beer/ale and crystalized ginger do tend to re-energize me.
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I'm the same as your sister. I can't have any caffeine including my beloved Dark chocolate after 7pm or I'm awake all night... I drink tea, but I have very weak tea.. so that's ok
 
Packerjohn said:
I wish more people thought for themselves. Too many mindless people are told what to do, what to think and how to act and they just follow the crowd. Seems to be a terrible need to "fit in." I think it's an urban plague. I was born and raised in the country where everybody was an individual and everybody was different. It made life a lot more interesting.
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One of my many worst qualities is that I have to learn everything the hard way, which for me is by making mistakes. I can't just learn something by reading about it or watching a how-to video and then do it correctly. I have to screw up first before I get it. But eventually I do get it.

Some people never get it and their only hope is to get into management where they can just pretend to get it.

And I usually learn by making small mistakes. Some people make big mistakes and don't live to tell about it. I was just reading about an air collision involving two private planes that killed everyone on both planes. Somebody f-ed up.
 
hollydolly said:
another thing I've just thought of is that I'm a Bear in the morning.. well for the first hour. I can;t be spoken to.. unless you don't want an answer.. I need an hour to just replace the brain cells I clearly lost during the night which make me irritable if anyone speaks to me.. 😀
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seems that a few of us here realize that talking to others just shouldn’t happen first thing in the morning.
 
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My biggest fault is trying to create perfection in my domain, and losing my temper when I fail. I want to be June Cleaver and no one ever lets me.

We just had company for two days. My husband's brother and his wife came and talked about their granddaughter, their house, their granddaughter, their church and their granddaughter. Non stop. They would lecture us about all sort of things we already knew. For example they had light cases of Covid and told me how it felt without ever asking if I had had it (I was in the hospital with it.) All this lecturing really bothers my husband because he's the older brother by ten years. They assume our politics are the same as theirs and rant about the other side (us.)

I let all this wash over me and continued to smile and nod for two days, but the last evening, after I was completely exhausted from our fair-going activities and listening for 20 hours, we suggested going out to eat and they enthusiastically told me. "No, lets just eat sandwiches here!"

So, I got up to go prepare a nice spread of cold cuts and cheeses and I always like to make a pretty veggie tray and add some fruit... oh no! They jumped up and followed me to the kitchen, "helping" by getting out packs of meat and slapping them on the bare table, and spreading themselves over the table before I could put down placemats and dishes.

I started to panic a little bit. I finally got everything on the table and they were eating when brother-in-law asked for some water and handed me his empty milk glass, I got a new glass and filled it with water for him. He said I should have used his milk glass. I said I didn't want him to have that half inch of milk in his water. He said he liked that. I grabbed his milk glass poured the water from the water glass into his milk and slammed it down in front of him!

Now they will go home and report to the entire extended family (12 brothers and sisters and about 8000 children and grandchildren) that I'm a cranky bad tempered person. And I am.
 
Worst qualities
interrupt my wife when she is talking
too much time on the computer
lack of exercise and movement
watch too much tv
wish I could help more, heath prevents
 
feywon said:
I only did that in terms of romantic relationships. After 3rd marriage i was determined to figure it out. By the time i was confident i wouldn't repeat the poor choices, i didn't really have a need or desire for tat kind of relationship
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Yea, that 3rd divorce is a wake-up call. It set me on an introspective, self evaluation and determination to not repeat past mistakes.
 
Jules said:
seems that a few of us here realize that talking to others just shouldn’t happen first thing in the morning.
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Yes even we're wide awake we recognize our loved ones may not be. The joke in my house, is if i have something important i need to tell my DD first thing in morning--i ask her to let me know when her brain has 'booted up'.

To be fair, she works what is basically 2nd shift hrs, and the nature of her work gets her adrenaline pumping because, like me, she has a little patience with stupidity but has put on a kindly face to the 'guests' (She manages a motel) displaying how stupid they are. It is stressful. So she's up till 1 or 2 a.m. and i wake her at 9 most days so she has 5 hrs before having to go to work.
So i do her wake up call as briefly as possibly...just saying 'Good Morning.' most days.
 
hollydolly said:
another thing I've just thought of is that I'm a Bear in the morning.. well for the first hour. I can;t be spoken to.. unless you don't want an answer.. I need an hour to just replace the brain cells I clearly lost during the night which make me irritable if anyone speaks to me.. 😀
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Several people in this thread mentioned having "morning" issues, with coffee being mentioned as a fix. It seems as the years pass that being all "bright eyed & bushy tailed" is harder to attain.

bright eyed & bushy tailed:

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Like some other SF members, I'm not a morning person. When I take the dog out in the morning for a walk around the neighborhood, I'll often cross the street to avoid having to say "good morning" to someone. Some people are totally clueless and greet me from across the street. There's one street that I don't go down anymore because one guy is always out working in his yard and there's no avoiding him and another who's always sitting on his porch a bit further down the road.

I don't like being rude, but I just don't feel like talking in the morning. We're just out for a walk so my dog can poop -- not to socialize.
 
Packerjohn said:
I wish more people thought for themselves. Too many mindless people are told what to do, what to think and how to act and they just follow the crowd. Seems to be a terrible need to "fit in." I think it's an urban plague. I was born and raised in the country where everybody was an individual and everybody was different. It made life a lot more interesting.
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You can put this in your signature line so that you don't have to retype it every x numbers of posts. :LOL:
 
Nathan said:
Several people in this thread mentioned having "morning" issues, with coffee being mentioned as a fix. It seems as the years pass that being all "bright eyed & bushy tailed" is harder to attain.

bright eyed & bushy tailed:

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I've always been the same in the mornings... even as a child, I would get a stomach ache in the morning.. ( I don't get that now ) and I've never drunk coffee in the mornings ...
 
SeniorBen said:
Like some other SF members, I'm not a morning person. When I take the dog out in the morning for a walk around the neighborhood, I'll often cross the street to avoid having to say "good morning" to someone. Some people are totally clueless and greet me from across the street. There's one street that I don't go down anymore because one guy is always out working in his yard and there's no avoiding him and another who's always sitting on his porch a bit further down the road.

I don't like being rude, but I just don't feel like talking in the morning. We're just out for a walk so my dog can poop -- not to socialize.
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If you just act like you don't hear them and don't look at them and just do your thing they'll quit. :ROFLMAO:
 
I'm a morning person as long as I've slept until 10am! ;) When I was working and getting up earlier I refused to talk on the phone before that time. My team always knew they could reach me by email.
 

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