A Bad Habit to Break--Spin Cycle

Jen has given us bad habits for this weeks Spin Cycle.
Habit:

1. An acquired behavior or pattern regularly followed until it has become almost involuntary:  the habit of looking both ways before crossing the street.
2. Customary practice or use:  Daily bathing is an American habit.
3. A particular practice, custom, or usage: the habit of shaking hands.
4. A dominant or regular disposition or tendency; prevailing character or quality: She has a habit of looking at the bright side of things.
5. Addiction, especially to narcotics (often preceded by the).

Habits in and of themselves are usually either good or bad, some better than others..  A bad habit is usually only self destructive to varying degrees.  Drugs, tobacco(in any form) and alcohol are obviously very bad, but there are those that are less detrimental to a person--nail biting, scab picking, hair twirling...

Yeah, hair twirling. Hair twisting, tying knots in my hair.  That's one of my most identifiable bad habits.  It's something I have done since I had hair to twist around my fingers.  Something about the feel of the hair--smooth or sharp, depending on the knot I am twisting--satisfies something in me.  I do it when I'm bored, tired, nervous (especially nervous), reading, really whenever I am doing something that does not require both hands to do.  Hair twisting is one of the reasons I nibble on sunflower seeds when I read (then I could go into my whole salt habit and how that's not good for me either.)  I can occupy both hands by nibbling and not twist my hair off.   I can tie knots so bad that I end up just breaking off the knot.
Yes, my hair dresser notices.  It was so bad in high school that there was an obvious spot that was shorter than the rest of my hair.  I have since tried to spread out the places I tie knots/twist my hair, but it is still a bit shorter on the left than the right.  It's hard to find ways to occupy my hands all the time.

Bruiser has the habit of playing with his hair.  When he is tired he will twist a strand around his finger and feel the hair that is pulled tight.  He has done this since he could reliably reach his hair.  Strange the things you see reflected in your kids.  They get good habits, but also the bad ones.  Just goes to show that sometimes the bad habit is not really learned, but is just there from day one.
Go see Jen for more spins on bad habits.  It's a good habit to have.