Useless things I keep doing

As you may know, I love to pick up a takeaway from the Marqt natural grocery store. They are yummy, kind of healthy and super easy. Perfect. In Marqt you can only pay with your debit or credit card, and it has always been like that. Yet, every time I’m at the checkout I say “can I use my card?” The cashier girl looks at me as if to say “DUH” and I mutter something about “ha-ha let’s call it force of habit ha -ha” and every time I feel like a dork. But I still do it. And there’s more.

Cookie binging

If you eat something unhealthy and it is already too much, you eat anyway because then “it’s just gone.” There is no throwing it away, no saving for later, nope, just eating it. In your mouth. That’s really the best idea.

Looking in the window

If I’m riding to work with my cycle buddy, we always go past particular office block where you can see yourself in the windows. Just before arriving to work we pass more panes and each time we can’t help but look again. It’s as though for some strange reason we expect to look so completely different within those 10 meters. Vain, strange, cycle sisters.

Ashing

The smokers will understand this fixation. But why do I ash my cigarette after every puff, even if it’s totally unnecessary? But why?!

Feeling the faucet

If I turn the tap on and I know very well that it is on cold, I still feel anyway. Even crazier; at home the tap in the kitchen is broken and only gives cold water, but I still have to feel it every once in awhile.

Burning my tongue

With every little appetizer which is brought steaming to my table, I take a bite and then ruthlessly burn my tongue. Because, well, I will just never ever learn.

Setting the alarm

I set my alarm so I can deliberately keep tapping snooze, but I also set it for every 10 minutes. So it’s going off at 07:10, 07:20, 07:30, and so on. Between all the alarm settings and snoozes the sound of everything going off makes an infernal racket for half an hour long, and I do this every morning and I wonder why the hell I put myself through this. Nobody knows.