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
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"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! (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!

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.

[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.