Impulses you've resisted (or not)

[AuntiePam]

I have this urge, in the winter, when the snow is really deep and the roadside ditches start to fill up, to drive as fast as I can and veer off the road and see how long my car would be airborne.

Sometimes the urge surfaces in the summer -- to pick a spot and just drive the car off into a cornfield or a farmer's pond.

Must be the Smokey and the Bandit Syndrome.

I've resisted it successfully, so far.

What impulses have you resisted?

[Persephone]

I've successfully resisted the impulse to get a tattoo. But with each passing day, I feel my resolve weakening. I'm pregnant right now...I may get one after this kid is born, as a reward. :)

[Beefy Lover]

I tried to resist some brownies that my friends girl had fixed. I actually snuck in thier house after work with a coworker, cut myself a slice and ate it with a cup of his lemonade. I must say she makes very good brownies! Nice and fudgy...


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Its a good thing these chairs come with fart vents.

[Sylence]

I keep getting this impulse to wrap my hands around someone's neck and squeeze until their eyeballs pop out of their head and their tongue turns blue. But then I change channels and I'm all right.


-- Sylence

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"The problem with reality is the lack of background music." -- Anon

[Satan]

I resist the impulse to smoke once a day right now, but that is down from about 2,567 times a day that it was a few weeks ago...

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[Sue Duhnym]

I resis

[Sue Duhnym]

Damn.

[voguevixen]

Good one! Me? I resist smacking other people's children about a dozen times a day. And their parents sometimes, for that matter.

[Wicked Blue]

I was laying in bed with the ex one night, he was sleeping and his stupid hand was in my face. Suddenly, I had the urge to bite his finger as hard as I could. I knew if I did, he'd wake up, and a fight would ensue, but I just couldn't help myself. CHOMP! I bit him very hard. He woke up, and I pretended to be sleeping. I said I must have been dreaming, and he should calm down, because c'mon, how hard could I have bit him? I would have gotten away with it too, if I had been able to stop myself from laughing.
Blue
Blue

[Omniscient]

At least it was only his finger..(cringe)

[Byzantine]

Sometimes I have this urge to scream. I mean really let fly with a verbal belt. Does anyone here remember Primal Scream Therapy? I guess it's like that. Just this overwhelming want to rail out all my anger and pain in one gut wrenching scream. I have never done it because the urge comes upon me in places where it's not a good idea to act it out. Perhaps someday I'll hike into the middle of nowhere and let fly. So if you hear a howl in the night, relax, it's only me.

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The moon looks on many flowers, the flowers on but one moon.

[Omniscient]

That'll just make your throat hurt. I suggest a stern look, and harsh thoughts, possibly a strongly worded letter.

[Byzantine]

This feeling I have is not directed at anyone or anything. It is as if all the anger, rage, shame and pain I have ever felt want to blast away from my body. It is not attached to it is a pushing away from.

[Babar714]

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[Babar714]

There's a lot of things I have to resist fixing when I do anything, because I am a compulsive perfectionis

[BunnyGirl]

Didn't resist e-mailing my old boyfriend when I found his e-mail address on AOL (when I had it at work). Never heard back from him. I guess that says it all!

[BurnMeUp]

Sometimes when speaking to someone i have an almost uncontrollable urge to bite their nose REALLY hard.

Also any time i'm holding a cream pie (not that i walk around holding pies all day, but on the rare occation I am carrying one to or from the fridge) I have the urge to smoosh it into my or someone elses face.

Never have done either though.

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To deal with men by force is as impractical as to deal with nature by persuasion.

[BurnMeUp]

OO OO I thought of another one, that sometimes i resist and sometimes I don't. Once and a while, I will be kissing my wife and suddenly get the urge to blow into her open mouth with a lung full of air. After a few smacks I've resisted though.

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To deal with men by force is as impractical as to deal with nature by persuasion.

[Rodd Hill]

I can't resist spending money on neat old books. Spent my last $10 til payday on the weekend, for a beautiful book published in 1908 on Arts and Crafts furniture. I'm reduced to eating leftovers from Friday's staff party for lunch till paid this Wednesday. I don't regret it, though.

As Oscar Wilde said (or wrote): "I can resist anything except temptation."

[UncleBeer]

I always have a hard time resisting theological debates with catholic priests.

Me: "Why can't you marry?"
Them: "The church is my bride."
Me: "So, when you leave one church for
another, is that bigamy or do you get
a divorce?"

Yeah, I know, I going to hell, but I'm headed there for so many other reasons.

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Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.
- Ambrose Bierce

[cmkeller]

Every night, between 2 and 6 AM, there are about four times that I resist the urge to strangle my kids.

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Chaim Mattis Keller
ckeller@schicktech.com

"Sherlock Holmes once said that once you have eliminated the
impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be
the answer. I, however, do not like to eliminate the impossible.
The impossible often has a kind of integrity to it that the merely improbable lacks."
-- Douglas Adams's Dirk Gently, Holistic Detective

[Sylence]

Hey, Byzantine, I get the urge to scream too. In my case, it always comes about halfway through a calculus test when everyone is working and the room is real quiet. I want to jump up and SCREAM really loud, just to scare everyone.

It was worse when I took my ACT exam. A hundred people in a room together, sweating over word problems. . . luckily, I managed to resist.

-- Sylence

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"The problem with reality is the lack of background music." -- Anon

[dougie_monty]

As a paralegal I deal with all kinds of law books in libraries. I have to resist the impulse to tear flaws out of the pages! The books are quite expensive, but it's so hard to resist tearing or popping a tiny splinter or miniature pocket of carbon, that somehow survived the pulping process, out of the page.
I've had this compulsion for years but must resist it when handling someone else's books.

[AuntiePam]

Dougie -- I'd go ahead -- after all, you said you've never driven over 80, smoked, drank, ETC. -- why not allow yourself this one little pleasure?

I know, it might leave a little teeny hole in the book, but think of the possibilities? Hmmmmm, did this judge say "reversible" or "irreversible"? I can't tell -- there's a hole in the page!!!

[Shirley Ujest]

Whenever I ride on a ski lift, I never put the safety bar down ( if do-able) and when we are at the highest point we can be, I always get the urge to jump. This statement usually allows me to ride up alone the next time, which is always a bonus.

Also, whenever I drive my car next to the highway barrier wall ( seperating the direction of traffic) I have this strong urge to drive the side of my car into it for as long as I can, going as fast as I can. I want to see if I will create a rooster tail of sparks behind me. This, I am sure, is due to watching too many Hollywood car chase movies.

I resist the urge to tell ignoramuses to frick off at least twice a day.


And finally, whenever I see really skinny young women wearing half shirts and hip huggers,bearing their indecently flab-free stomachs, I really want to kneel on their chests and feed them pizza, chocolate and whole milk until they start looking like the rest of us. ("Come, be one of us, in the double digits for IQ and dress size.")

Fortunately, I am good a resisting these urges ( at least my car is happy)

[Doobieous]

Cristi: you too have resisted the tattoo impulse? Well i'm glad i have resisted the impulse to get my second one. The first design really wasn't reflective of me. When i found the second i knew this was it (i'm sticking to it....no turning back now). So far i have resisted the impulse to get the final design because, well, i have too much school right now :).

[gypsy]

I am not very good at keeping myself out of trouble. girlfriend was rather mad when I continued to talk to people on line....I said I would not....I lied....rest is history. AAhh what a sordid tale of deception....

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[BunnyGirl]

Thought of one I have resisted. Every time I'm on a high bridge or overlook or something, I always think, "I wonder what would happen if I jumped". Of course I know...a messy splattered death. Ah, but that few seconds of freedom (or would that be fear???)

[dougie_monty]

A matter more serious than a splinter in a book page:
In my senior year in high school I was attracted to a senior girl--I'll call her Evelyn. I was either too shy or forgetful--or timorous--to say what I felt to her, but for the entire first semester I was practically walking on air.
Came the second semester, however, I crashed to earth. :(
Shortly after the semester began I overheard Evelyn talking to another girl about the boy she was dating, who was in junior college at the time. I was devastated. I overheard the bad (for me) news in journalism class, 4th period. Evelyn was also in the same first period class as I was, Senior Government. In the journalism class I once snubbed her when she sat down to use the typewriter next to the one I was using--and I promptly picked mine up and, without a word to Evelyn, stomped across the typing room to use it at another table.
But the impulse I resisted was more serious. The weather was still cold at this time, and she came to class one day wearing a heavy corduroy overcoat. I was standing near the door when she came in, but of course I ignored her. Then I started back to my desk--at the other end of the room but at the opposite corner from hers. Anyway, I was halfway across the room at the time she got to her desk and took the overcoat off--and she had not buttoned her blouse! :o (She was wearing underwear beneath it, of course.) I saw what she hadn't done and stopped short--and turned away so as not to stare. Evelyn must have sensed why I reacted that way; a moment later, facing away from her, I got to my desk, and happened to glance back--just as she finished buttoning herself up. (A few students had come into the room by then; the teacher, who had unlocked the room and left for a few minutes, hadn't yet come back.)
No matter how angry I felt about Evelyn, goodness knows I had a limit--I like to think I did the proper (and discreet) thing here.

[Poysyn]

Even so often I get weird urges like
-driving home topless flashing everyone
-masturbating while a semi is beside me and can see in my sunroof
-Following my SO in to the can at a restaurant/club/whatever, pushing him in to a stall and gving him head.
I have other, not-so-exhibitionist ones, but I won't share them here.

Combine those with the other urges like throwing myself off a building/bridge, or driving in to the oncoming lane and I think we'd all have to agree I have issues.

Thanks for letting me share.
:)

[dougie_monty]

A more trivial matter: When I was a kid, and I watched a concrete mixer truck, with its drum rotating, I got into this habit: When the drum rotated so I could see the plate bolted onto the side (I don't know what this plate is called), I would say "Joe Palooka." I continued doing this until I reached the age of 20, when I finally broke the habit. In public places people would probably think I'm a lunatic if I did it today.

[AbbySthrnAccent]

I resisted the urge to yell, "Go, baby go!" while the kid was swimming his races. I know's he's grateful! :D

I also resisted to urge to push a rude parent into the pool for complaining about officiating. The officials are volunteers and invest a significant amount of time in a class, testing and watching other peoples kids swim. Often kneeling down to explain to a child the proper way to do a stroke, so they will understand why they were disqualified and know how to do it better next time.

Abby

[White Lightning]

dougie_monty, you seem to post to this thread once every 11 months. Is this just some sort of impulse that you can't resist?

[dougie_monty]

Originally posted by White Lightning
dougie_monty, you seem to post to this thread once every 11 months. Is this just some sort of impulse that you can't resist?
No, just coincidence. ;)

[Tequila Mockingbird]

When I was tending bar, everytime I poured a nice tall frosty mug of beer for someone, I would always get the urge to walk in front of the customer and drain the mug in front of them. I always resisted that urge, though it got stronger in the summer months. Hell, even just thinking about it now, I want a nice cold beer...

[hazel-rah]

The urge, when I'm in a relationship, to act as if I'm going to kiss them, and then at the last second cover their nose with my mouth and blow really hard.

To me it's the absolute pinnacle of human comedy, and it makes me fall on the floor and laugh like a loon when I get away with it, but usually the result is that I get banned from kissing for a day or longer (longer is usually when after 24 hours of probation, I immediately try and do it again on the first probationary kiss).

BurnMeUp, cheers.

-fh

[Silver Fire]

Everyday I resist the urge to strangle this bitch I work with.

I don't think I can hold back forever though.

[Verrain]

I resist following people around so I can read what their T-shirts and buttons say.

[Albert Rose]

I resist the impulse to post a response to this thr....

Damn!

[racinchikki]

I resist the urge to turn off the road and over a huge drop-off almost daily.

I resist the urge to turn off the road and take a shortcut through the cornfield every time I drive home.

I resist the urge to give other drivers a nudge with my bumper (what is known in racing as a "warning tap" or a "love tap") when they fail to signal properly or are basically driving like assholes at least five times per hour of driving.

I resisted the urge to pick up my metal folding chair and wing the principal right upside the back of his head, so that his aviator-style glasses would fly off his face and into the orchestra pit near the stage, shattering into sharp bits of glass, and then hit him again whilst kicking him squarely in the buttocks so that he would tip over the edge of the stage and land on top of his glasses in the orchestra pit, where shards of glass would stab him in the face and the earpiece would impale his abdomen, yesterday during graduation ceremony rehearsal. That was the toughest of all of them.

[Verrain]

racinchikki Perhaps you should switch to decaf. Ouch.

Sorry I couldn't resist that impulse. :D

[Rilchiam]

I resist the urge to buy junk food. Often, I pick it up in the store, weigh it in my hand, calculate the price per ounce, if it's not already listed on the handy shelf card, then remind myself how much healthy food I could get for the same price, and how much longer it would last.

It actually makes it easier for me to resist Ben & Jerry's, Frito-Lay, or whatever tempts me, if I go that far and then remind myself that the decision is mine, and I'm mature enough to make the right one.

"No food tastes as good as being healthy feels."

"If you can't control something as simple as the food you buy/eat, how can you control anything in your life?"

[lolagranola]

Everytime I see someone double or triple parked, I resist the urge to key their car. The nicer the car and the fewer parking spots left in the lot, the bigger the urge. I don't know how much longer I can hold back.

[night]

I resist the impulse to bite peoples fingers when they point at me. I'd have to say the hardest impulse to resist though is just leaving. Just walking/driving away from everything and not telling anyone where im going. This impulse gets real strong when im at work.

[Spatula]

I resist the urge to carry around Funnoodles at Publix and whack people with them.

[Rilchiam]

What the heck are Funnoodles?

Welcome, Spatula! Cool username.

[mikeymichaels]

To dougie_monty: What's interesting to me about your post regarding your secret crush on Evelyn is that you were angry with her for a long time about having a boyfriend...but she never rejected you. For all you know, Evelyn and her boyfriend could have broken up the next day. Because you never had the courage or confidence to take a risk and ask her out...you'll never know her answer. You are just assuming that she would reject you.

[bagkitty]

Working on the (perhaps mistaken) assumption that the OP was serious Bagkitty has two disturbing (possibly related) impulses which he has so far successfully resisted.

1) Leaning over the railings of balconies in high rise buildings. I have this perverse urge to put my hips tight to the railing, then lean forward, and keep leaning until my center of gravity shifts.

2) Throwing myself over pedestrian railings on bridges. The worst for this was the bridge where the Danforth crosses over the DVP and the Don Valley in Toronto (when I used to live there). You can hear the traffic on the DVP and the wind underneath the bridge. The perverse urge is to throw myself over the railing before the wind blows me over. Now this makes no sense, at 190lbs, bagkitty is no light-weight and it is going to have to be the storm of the century to actually blow me over the railing, but I perversely believe it is going to happen. The 10th Street bridge over the Bow River here in Calgary generates the same feeling.

Ick, even thinking about these impulses makes me uncomfortable.

[zeroth]

I resist the urge to burn things. I think I'm about two matches short of being a pyromaniac.

Though sometimes I just can't resist, and I burn a receipt that has my credit card number on it, telling myself that
if I don't burn it, someone could get my number and charge stuff on my card. I don't know how realistic that is, but
telling myself that makes me feel not so crazy about being so obsessed with fire.

[Dragwyr]

I cannot resist the urge to tickle my 2 yr old and 4 year old. They know when I'm going to do it and make a big deal out of me chasing them. Then when I won't do it, they beg me to do it and say, "Daddy, Tickle me!" ... and I just can't help myself.

There are other, darker, things I have urges for, but I won't go into them now... TMI... 'nuf said.

[thinksnow]

I did the primal scream thing, but I was 13 or so and at a camp ground in the Florida Keys. And it was about 10 PM. Freaked my parents right out.

I got one tattoo about 7 years ago and have been fighting the vague urge to get another one since.

I successfully fought the urge to take a massage to the next level this weekend, but then again, I always do. :sigh: Damn scruples and morals.

I fight the urge to just keep the gas to the floor and roll at top speed every time I get on the highway. I think I need to go to Speeders Anonymous.

I've got FU money now and I've been fighting the urge to use it.

There's more, but I'm resisting the urge to post then right now.

[Ethilrist]

I was working on the help desk for National Store Chain. I called one store to have them reboot a computer.

Me: "Hi, this is me, from Headquarters."
Store person: "Headquarters? What is it?"

I resisted the urge to say,

"It's a big brown building with a lot of windows, but that's not important right now."

[BunnyGirl]

Well, let's just say it wouldn't be only my reputation on the Board that would be messed up! Good thing DopeFests only last a day.

Resisting temptation builds character, right?

::Captain Kirk voice::
Feeling weak....must...do....something..

[Skerri]

Daily, I resist the urge to throttle people when they are ridiculously late, making me even later. (As of right now, my boss is 2 hours late for a meeting with me. I should have been out of here by now!)

I also resist the urge to get a bb gun and shoot out the windows of people rolling past my apartment with their bass turned up so loud....

I also resist the urge to smack people that say the word "dude" as if it were my name. I'm a girl, dammit! :(

I resist the urge to kick the sh*t out of a guy I work with that is always rude to me, regardless of the fact that I have never done anything to him.

I resist the urge to sit outside and smoke cigarettes all day, despite the fact that I have no work to do, and a pager if they need me.

I resist the urge to try skateboarding again. The last time I went, I got my board confiscated, and I broke all 9 bones in my ankle. (How's that for a sign?)

I also resist the urge to throw the extremely hot pizza that I have in my hands on people that have asked me if their food was ready every two minutes for the last twenty minutes.

[wring]

many, many at the dopefest.

I found the key to being able to resist temptation was to keep away, far, far away from the free flowing grape cordial and George.

[dougie_monty]

Originally posted by mikeymichaels
To dougie_monty: What's interesting to me about your post regarding your secret crush on Evelyn is that you were angry with her for a long time about having a boyfriend...but she never rejected you. For all you know, Evelyn and her boyfriend could have broken up the next day. Because you never had the courage or confidence to take a risk and ask her out...you'll never know her answer. You are just assuming that she would reject you.
As with most situations, Mikey, there is more to this than met the eye. I resisted the impulse to stare at Evelyn when her top was unbuttoned because, I like to think, I had some vestige of decency...
In fact, during the holidays after graduation, I visited Evelyn's family--and that of another girl, mentioned in other posts--and I gave her a Christmas present: A week earlier I called her home and her mother gave me Evelyn's sweater size.
The matter was wrapped up for me the holiday season a year later, when her younger brother told me Evelyn was married--and had just gone on her honeymoon. So far as I know she and her husband are still married; in December 1983 I sent them a card on their 15th anniversary.
I saw Evelyn maybe 3 or 4 times all told, after graduation in June 1967. Incidentally, her family and her husband's are Catholic; I am not nor, to my knowledge, is anyone else in my family. We are from central Indiana; her family was from the area of Gary-Hammond, near Chicago.

[dougie_monty]

In 1960, my older brother, younger sister, and I, were in a supermarket in Culver City. He was 12, I was 11, she was 9. We were in an aisle at one side of the store, where the condiments were displayed, when he said he'd like to take a small mustard jar off the shelf and pitch it over the shelves as far as he could throw--just to see if he could get away with it. :eek: So far as I know, he never tried.

[Lady Juliet]

Originally posted by UncleBeer
I always have a hard time resisting theological debates with catholic priests.

Me: "Why can't you marry?"
Them: "The church is my bride."
Me: "So, when you leave one church for
another, is that bigamy or do you get
a divorce?"


LMAO :D That reminds me of earlier this day when my recently-turned wiccan sister yelled out "Holy Jesus McPhearson!" when she almost hit a car on the way home from checkers. Dont ask me why, it just did ;)
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I had to resist slapping this annoying as hell girl who thought that sneak previews of movies werent actually the whole movie, and only a preview of the movie.
Sneak previews ARE the whole movie arent they...or is that just my own misconception? Haha, im pretty sure they are, if they're not....im gonna feel pretty damn stupid soon

[seawitch]

I was on a camping trip last year, and we had a big ol' tent for six of us. One girl was too restless to sleep - she kept getting up and stumbling around, which kept me from dozing off. So when she finally got near my sleeping bag, I bit her hard on the ankle. She screamed and shot about three feet straight up, everyone else sat bolt upright and started yammering, and I nearly wet myself laughing.

I always want to bite people. I bite Mr. Seawitch fairly often - of course, he holds me down and blows into my nose. Ours is an exuberant household.

[Lady Juliet]

yes, biting people is strangely tempting...my sister used to bite me all the time

[Searching For Truth]

Sometimes I want to send Tygr's SO some of his emails he's sent to me.


Sometimes I want to take Shogun Haircut and lock him in a small confined area til he comes to his senses.

Sometimes I think about making good on the joke to seduce Catalyst.

[Catalyst]

Urges I've resisted? Posting on the SDMB!

Oh, and encouraging the seduction of me by Searching For Truth :D

[Cleophus]

Originally posted by Lady Juliet
Haha, im pretty sure they are, if they're not....im gonna feel pretty damn stupid soon

Yep, you are. The sneak previews, like the name suggests, are a preview of coming movies. They are shown at the beginning of a movie, before the main feature.

Anyway, I sometimes have an urge to smack the summer enrichment kids who come in at a local college. They're from grades 6-9.
Especially this one kid. One of the summer programs is a MOO, a text-based virtual world, similar to Zork, but it's not a game. Anyway, this twit keeps going and taking other user's objects, from all over the MOO. Even after being told to stop repeatedly. We've gotten complaints from lots of people.

Moving on, I want to put a .22 slug into some of the computers I've had to fix.

Finally, I want to set off a thermite charge in the middle of the street. I could actually do this one.

[Cleophus]

I forgot: The MOO kids are horrible spellers. This is especially bad because commands are typed in. "@discrib" instead of "@describe" and stuff like that.

[hardygrrl]

I've wanted so bad just to start a thread all about how wonderful Stinky Paws is and finally reveal his identity.



But since I don't want to share him and I respect his privacy...




But I will add he is so incredibly hot I get weak in the knees just emailing him. You don't want to know what the sound of his voice does...

[DarkPrince]

Whenever I'm driving really late at night and another car is coming towards me I always get this impulse to swerve over the yellow line and crash head-on into it. It's the same irrational urge I get when looking over a really big drop to just fling myself over the edge. So far I've resisted these urges successfully(duh).

[tevya]

Originally posted by Cleophus
Originally posted by Lady Juliet
Haha, im pretty sure they are, if they're not....im gonna feel pretty damn stupid soon

Yep, you are. The sneak previews, like the name suggests, are a preview of coming movies. They are shown at the beginning of a movie, before the main feature.


Sorry, Cleophus (great name, btw) but Sneak Previews are indeed the whole movie. A Sneak Preview is a limited showing of a movie often attended by critics and people in the industry. I assume it is so that reviews can come out just before the movie is released. What you are referring to (clips before the main feature) are trailers.

[The Big Cheese]

I resisted telling my ex-girlfriend to stop emailing me.
I didn’t resist telling her to stop yammering about her new boyfriends(they only last a few weeks or so). Now she doesn’t email so often.
Sometimes I want to tell Kevin who I work with, that he is just too dumb to work here.
I always resist telling a waiter my meal sucked, the portions were miniscule, and was over-priced when they ask ‘How is everything?’.
I sometimes can’t resist a brat with Special Stadium sauce at the Brewers games, even though I’m a vegetarian…..sort of.
I have resisted the urge to tell my relatives that they are more often than not, big pains in the ass. I don’t think I’ll make it thru the year this time though.
I’ve never flipped off a driver in my life, but boy do I want to!

[Searching For Truth]

I'm resisting crying...I'm so proud, cuz Catalyst posted, and he's the biggest lurker...oh look, it's his 17th....*sobbing into a tissue* My little baby...

[Lady Juliet]

Originally posted by tevya

Sorry, Cleophus (great name, btw) but Sneak Previews are indeed the whole movie. A Sneak Preview is a limited showing of a movie often attended by critics and people in the industry. I assume it is so that reviews can come out just before the movie is released. What you are referring to (clips before the main feature) are trailers.


:) yup, thats what i mean when i mentioned the sneak previews. thanks.

[Muffin]

I don't breach solicitor-client confidentiality, but sometimes it's tempting. Quite a bit of what I come across belongs on News of the Wierd.

[beegirl13]

I resist the urge to talk to my (newly) ex-boyfriend every time I see that he is on AIM. However, I don't resist the urge to drink straight from the garden hose. [Homer Simpson]Mmmmmm.... hose water[/Homer Simpson]

[Fionn]

I just got back from a five-day vacation in Las Vegas with my parents and two of their friends. Since Caesar's Palace is liberally-supplied with shops, I successfully resisted the urge to scream every time my mom said,"Oh, look at these shoes!" Or purses or dresses or whatever.

[ladyfoxfyre]

When looking over tall buildings I resist the urge to jump.
When I go to the natural water slides with my boyfriend and our friends I resist the urge to pull him behind some rocks and give him head because I'm afraid everyone will catch us.
I resist the urge to sleep naked for fear that my father will walk into my room.

[flickerwolf]

I've resisted a terribly tempting urge.
It comes upon me when there is a party at my best friends house and all the people are in one room, concentrating on one thing(A video game or something).

I always feel the compusion to sneak away from them, go over to the fireplace, scoop up some ash and streak it onto my cheekbones and in artistic marks all over my body, tribal indian style, then run into the room containing all my friends and dance around yelling like I'm in Lord of the Flies.

I think I just want to see all their jaws go slack at once.
:D


I have not sucessfully resisted the urge to Herbal.

[Lyllyan]

In my neighborhood, people are always parking on the street when they have a perfectly empty driveway and garage. I resist the urge daily to just wham into all the street parked cars. I resist the urge to call the fire department when it's obvious that the firetruck would not be able to make it through, just so the fuckers would get a ticket.

I resist the urge to ram shoppers who leave their shopping carts in the middle of the aisle.

I resist the urge to tell people in line behind me to quit breathing down my neck and back off.

I resist telling some customers just how stupid they are. Example 1: A customer called in that his ice maker was not working and was, in fact, leaking all over the floor. We checked it out. He didn't even have an ice maker.
Example 2: I asked a customer, "do you have a basement or a crawl space so that we will have better access to your problem?" He didn't know! He says "I'll have to call the former owner and ask him." AARRGGHH! Dumbass!

I reisist the urge to tell SO that I am not required by law to be with him 24/7.

[Corrvin]

<<I resist telling some customers just how stupid they are.>>

I do that, too, but I DON'T resist writing down what I would have said. I'm saving them all up for my last day at work, and they're ALL getting used.

e.g.
1. OK, tell you what, you do what YOU think will fix it, and when that doesn't work, call a professional. Oh, wait, you reached that step already.
2. No, jerk, I will not go get a man tech for you to talk to. If it took external gonads to run a computer, you'd be an inch and a half from a fatal OE right now. Do you want my help fixing it, or will you hang up peacefully?
3. If you'd shut up for five seconds, I might be able to assist you.
4. You kiss your mother with that mouth? [or] You must be really stupid to think I'd help you after you called me that.

I feel better just typing those.

Corr

[pestie]

Originally posted by Rilchiam
"If you can't control something as simple as the food you buy/eat, how can you control anything in your life?"

I tried, I really did, but I was unable to resist the urge to call Rilchiam a prick and a snob for posting this statement. It's not so "simple" for all of us.

[pestie]

Originally posted by Skerri
I resist the urge to kick the sh*t out of a guy I work with that is always rude to me, regardless of the fact that I have never done anything to him.

Is your name Evelyn? Maybe you work with dougie_monty.

:)

[easy e]

I too get the urge to jump off high places. I don't consider myself suicidal, I just wonder what the plunge would feel like.

This sounds even worse, but I've also considered how easy it would be to take out a big group of people. Places like stadiums, or even high buildings. I also don't consider myself a homicidal maniac. I think it's more of a study in how much trust we place in random strangers.

Sometimes I get the urge to meet some guy at a bar and follow him to the bathroom. As for the rest--just use your imagination. And no, I don't consider myself a nympho.

[Muffin]

Originally posted by Lady Juliet
yes, biting people is strangely tempting...my sister used to bite me all the time

I just learned from the Paddlewise mailing list (sea kayaking) that New York City averages 1,500 human-againt-human bites per year. Any truth to this? (I wouldn't know. I'm a Canadian. We just rub noses.) If there is, perhaps you might ship your sister there.

[Pammipoo]

Sometimes when I'm at work, I have this urge to stick my hand into the fry oil, just to see how hot it really is. (Note:actual temp is 335) So far, I've resisted. But a couple months back, one of my crew people wasn't so lucky...he plunged his hand in for the hell of it, came out with 2nd degree burns. Yeah, that was a fun accident report to write up...

[Daniel Sugar]

Originally posted by Pammipoo
Sometimes when I'm at work, I have this urge to stick my hand into the fry oil, just to see how hot it really is. (Note:actual temp is 335)

That was an urge I couldn't resist at my first job. I've successfully resisted it since then.

I've resisted the urge to shave my head like Mr. Clean, mostly because I have big ears and a head shaped like Billy Corgan.

I usually can't resist the urge to catch a look when a girl bends over towards me and the top of her shirt falls open.

During a full moon, if on a small rural road and no one else around, I always drive with my lights off.

[dougie_monty]

Is your name Evelyn? Maybe you work with dougie_monty.
I must point out that "Evelyn" was a made-up name I used instead of the girl's real name. In fact it was similar to her middle name, and she regularly used her first name. For the purposes of this thread I resisted the impulse (infinitesmial anyway) to use Evelyn's real name. :)

[dentarthurdent]

Originally posted by Poysyn
Even so often I get weird urges like
-driving home topless flashing everyone
-masturbating while a semi is beside me and can see in my sunroof
-Following my SO in to the can at a restaurant/club/whatever, pushing him in to a stall and gving him head.
I have other, not-so-exhibitionist ones, but I won't share them here.
:)

really resisting the urge right now to ask where
poysyn lives

I regularly resist the urge to slap the hell out of anyone wearing pants 5 sizes too big for them.

I did however fail to resist the urge to run around naked at a hostel in shenandoah one time...

[Rilchiam]

Originally posted by pestie
Originally posted by Rilchiam
"If you can't control something as simple as the food you buy/eat, how can you control anything in your life?"

I tried, I really did, but I was unable to resist the urge to call Rilchiam a prick and a snob for posting this statement. It's not so "simple" for all of us.

It wasn't simple for me to get over my eating disorder. I had to remind myself constantly that everyone has to eat; that some do it sensibly while others don't, and that if I could learn to eat sensibly, that would inspire me to get back to normal in other areas.

Of course, I'm still not normal. People who've met me at CalDope gatherings can attest that when I'm in an unfamiliar environment, it's back to the old potatoes. And there are too many foods, and styles of foods, that I didn't get familiar with when I was young, so I'll probably never be an omnivore. But I'm not fasting or binging any more.

Sorry, pestie; I didn't think to disclaim my statement. I wasn't talking about vanity dieting, but about gaining power over a disorder.

And I'm female, so I would be a cunt, not a prick.

[Rilchiam]

Originally posted by Rilchiam
I resist the urge to buy junk food. Often, I pick it up in the store, weigh it in my hand, calculate the price per ounce, if it's not already listed on the handy shelf card, then remind myself how much healthy food I could get for the same price, and how much longer it would last.

Also, pestie, did you read that? This is true for everyone; it is cheaper to eat healthy. Well, the really cheapest things you can make yourself are all starch [pasta, for instance], but that's still more nutritious than the frozen entrees that come already loaded with fat and oil and sugar. Fruit is cheaper than ice cream. In the winter you don't want ice cream, so you bake your own cookies instead of dropping twice the amount of money on half the volume of Oreos. Again, I'm being practical, not snobbish.