# Impulses you've resisted (or not) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 28, 1999, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/impulses-youve-resisted-or-not/7305 "1999-08-28T23:33:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 1999, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/impulses-youve-resisted-or-not/7305/1 "1999-08-28T23:33:00Z")
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? ---
**Author:** ![Persephone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecc23a/32.png) [@Persephone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Persephone)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 1999, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/impulses-youve-resisted-or-not/7305/2 "1999-08-29T00:42:00Z")
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. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Beefy\_Lover](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f6c823/32.png) [@Beefy\_Lover](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beefy_Lover)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 1999, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/impulses-youve-resisted-or-not/7305/3 "1999-08-29T00:54:00Z")
## 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… Its a good thing these chairs come with fart vents. ---
**Author:** ![Sylence](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b19c9b/32.png) [@Sylence](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sylence)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 1999, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/impulses-youve-resisted-or-not/7305/4 "1999-08-29T02:49:00Z")
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 * * * “The problem with reality is the lack of background music.” – Anon ---
**Author:** ![Satan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Satan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Satan)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 1999, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/impulses-youve-resisted-or-not/7305/5 "1999-08-29T03:41:00Z")
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… * * * Brian O’Neill CMC International Records [rockuniverse.com/cmc/cmc.html](http://rockuniverse.com/cmc/cmc.html) ICQ 35294890 AIM Scrabble1 Yahoo Messenger Brian\_ONeill ---
**Author:** ![Sue\_Duhnym](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/91b2a8/32.png) [@Sue\_Duhnym](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sue_Duhnym)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 1999, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/impulses-youve-resisted-or-not/7305/6 "1999-08-29T03:59:00Z")
I resis ---
**Author:** ![Sue\_Duhnym](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/91b2a8/32.png) [@Sue\_Duhnym](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sue_Duhnym)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 1999, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/impulses-youve-resisted-or-not/7305/7 "1999-08-29T03:59:00Z")
Damn. ---
**Author:** ![voguevixen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5ac83/32.png) [@voguevixen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voguevixen)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 1999, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/impulses-youve-resisted-or-not/7305/8 "1999-08-29T05:14:00Z")
Good one! Me? I resist smacking other people’s children about a dozen times a day. And their parents sometimes, for that matter. ---
**Author:** ![Wicked\_Blue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/2acd7d/32.png) [@Wicked\_Blue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wicked_Blue)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 1999, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/impulses-youve-resisted-or-not/7305/9 "1999-08-29T05:48:00Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![Omniscient](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omniscient/32/3290_2.png) [@Omniscient](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omniscient)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 1999, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/impulses-youve-resisted-or-not/7305/10 "1999-08-30T05:27:00Z")
At least it was only his finger…(cringe) ---
**Author:** ![Byzantine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/dfb087/32.png) [@Byzantine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Byzantine)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 1999, 8:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/impulses-youve-resisted-or-not/7305/11 "1999-08-30T08:20:00Z")
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. * * * The moon looks on many flowers, the flowers on but one moon. ---
**Author:** ![Omniscient](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omniscient/32/3290_2.png) [@Omniscient](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omniscient)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 1999, 8:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/impulses-youve-resisted-or-not/7305/12 "1999-08-30T08:26:00Z")
That’ll just make your throat hurt. I suggest a stern look, and harsh thoughts, possibly a strongly worded letter. ---
**Author:** ![Byzantine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/dfb087/32.png) [@Byzantine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Byzantine)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 1999, 9:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/impulses-youve-resisted-or-not/7305/13 "1999-08-30T09:39:00Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Babar714](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/779978/32.png) [@Babar714](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Babar714)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 1999, 9:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/impulses-youve-resisted-or-not/7305/14 "1999-08-30T09:43:00Z")
There’s a lot of things I have to resist fixing when I do anything, because I am a compulsive perfectionis ---
**Author:** ![Babar714](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/779978/32.png) [@Babar714](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Babar714)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 1999, 9:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/impulses-youve-resisted-or-not/7305/15 "1999-08-30T09:43:00Z")
t. ---
**Author:** ![BunnyGirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@BunnyGirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BunnyGirl)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 1999, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/impulses-youve-resisted-or-not/7305/16 "1999-08-30T14:27:00Z")
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! ---
**Author:** ![BurnMeUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@BurnMeUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BurnMeUp)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 1999, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/impulses-youve-resisted-or-not/7305/17 "1999-08-30T15:58:00Z")
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. * * * To deal with men by force is as impractical as to deal with nature by persuasion. ---
**Author:** ![BurnMeUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@BurnMeUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BurnMeUp)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 1999, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/impulses-youve-resisted-or-not/7305/18 "1999-08-30T15:59:00Z")
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. * * * To deal with men by force is as impractical as to deal with nature by persuasion. ---
**Author:** ![Rodd\_Hill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/3ab097/32.png) [@Rodd\_Hill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rodd_Hill)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 1999, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/impulses-youve-resisted-or-not/7305/19 "1999-08-30T16:08:00Z")
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.” ---
**Author:** ![UncleBeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/977dab/32.png) [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 1999, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/impulses-youve-resisted-or-not/7305/20 "1999-08-30T16:31:00Z")
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. * * * **Abstainer:** _a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure._ **- Ambrose Bierce** [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/impulses-youve-resisted-or-not/7305.md?page=2)