# Pick one character flaw to be magically free of
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-one-character-flaw-to-be-magically-free-of/366663
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [July 31, 2006, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-one-character-flaw-to-be-magically-free-of/366663 "2006-07-31T04:33:17Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)
#### Post date: [July 31, 2006, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-one-character-flaw-to-be-magically-free-of/366663/1 "2006-07-31T04:33:17Z")
Let’s say you’re cleaning out your attic one day and you come across an old lamp. Picking it up, you give it a rub and a genie pops out.
\*“It’s your lucky day!” the genie exclaims. “Not as lucky as it could be, but still pretty lucky. I’m going to give you one wish!”
“Great!” you reply. “Deposit ten billion dollars in my checking account, please.”
“Sorry,” the genie replies. “It’s Tuesday, and the only wishes I’m granting today are for personal improvement. I will instaneously free you of any one character flaw you personally possess: impatience, compulsive lying, alcoholism, whatever.”
“When will you be granting monetary wishes?” you ask.
“Ten thousand years from now.”
“Crap. How about sex with Alyson Hannigan?”
“TWENTY thousand years from now.”
“Double crap. Er…immortality?”
“Look,” the genie says, “either pick a character flaw to be free of, or I’m outta here.”\*
What do you choose?
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### Author:  [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)
#### Post date: [July 31, 2006, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-one-character-flaw-to-be-magically-free-of/366663/2 "2006-07-31T04:36:23Z")
Lack of willpower. It’s the very root of a good number of flaws that could be fixed if I just quit moping and did something about them.
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### Author:  [@AwSnappity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AwSnappity)
#### Post date: [July 31, 2006, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-one-character-flaw-to-be-magically-free-of/366663/3 "2006-07-31T04:37:39Z")
For me, it would be my fear of confrontation. I can be such a doormat sometimes.
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### Author:  [@BrattiAtti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrattiAtti)
#### Post date: [July 31, 2006, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-one-character-flaw-to-be-magically-free-of/366663/4 "2006-07-31T04:47:44Z")
I’d like to be less introverted.
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### Author:  [@ParentalAdvisory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParentalAdvisory)
#### Post date: [July 31, 2006, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-one-character-flaw-to-be-magically-free-of/366663/5 "2006-07-31T04:54:46Z")
Shyness.
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### Author:  [@Arien](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arien)
#### Post date: [July 31, 2006, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-one-character-flaw-to-be-magically-free-of/366663/6 "2006-07-31T04:55:03Z")
I’d like to be more confident please.
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### Author:  [@sandra\_nz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sandra_nz)
#### Post date: [July 31, 2006, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-one-character-flaw-to-be-magically-free-of/366663/7 "2006-07-31T04:56:35Z")
I’d like to be less analytical, learn to take things at face value, y’know?
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### Author:  [@Anastasaeon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anastasaeon)
#### Post date: [July 31, 2006, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-one-character-flaw-to-be-magically-free-of/366663/8 "2006-07-31T04:58:29Z")
> [@AwSnappity](#):
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> For me, it would be my fear of confrontation. I can be such a doormat sometimes.
Same. I’m having some work problems that could be solved if I didn’t dissolve in tears in the face of confrontation/conflict. My husband is angry enough (not at me) right now that he’s about to step in and kick some ass, but I want to open my churchmouse mouth and handle it. But damnit, it’s _hard_!
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### Author:  [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)
#### Post date: [July 31, 2006, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-one-character-flaw-to-be-magically-free-of/366663/9 "2006-07-31T05:10:10Z")
Procrastination.
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### Author:  [@InternetLegend](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/InternetLegend)
#### Post date: [July 31, 2006, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-one-character-flaw-to-be-magically-free-of/366663/10 "2006-07-31T05:43:57Z")
> [@panache45](#):
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> Procrastination.
That’s mine, too.
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### Author:  [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)
#### Post date: [July 31, 2006, 6:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-one-character-flaw-to-be-magically-free-of/366663/11 "2006-07-31T06:24:55Z")
I’m not sure what the trait/flaw is, but I just can’t seem to focus on office busy work and the like. When there isn’t really a project or a goal out there, I kind of wander off in the internet or whatever. I wish I didn’t do that.
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### Author:  [@Black\_Train\_Song](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Black_Train_Song)
#### Post date: [July 31, 2006, 6:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-one-character-flaw-to-be-magically-free-of/366663/12 "2006-07-31T06:34:04Z")
I’m sometimes too loyal to the wrong people and not loyal enough to the right ones.
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### Author:  [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)
#### Post date: [July 31, 2006, 7:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-one-character-flaw-to-be-magically-free-of/366663/13 "2006-07-31T07:34:25Z")
Fear of locking Genies back in their damned bottle, sealing them up in a 600 ton block of lead and dropping it at the bottom of the ocean.
Now, let’s talk about that bank account option one more time…
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### Author:  [@Monkey\_Chews](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monkey_Chews)
#### Post date: [July 31, 2006, 7:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-one-character-flaw-to-be-magically-free-of/366663/14 "2006-07-31T07:43:19Z")
Indecisiveness.
I think. Or maybe my inability to work out what I truly want.
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### Author:  [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)
#### Post date: [July 31, 2006, 7:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-one-character-flaw-to-be-magically-free-of/366663/15 "2006-07-31T07:49:38Z")
Procrastination.
But if I got another shot, I’d make myself a better character judge.
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### Author:  [@Dervorin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dervorin)
#### Post date: [July 31, 2006, 8:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-one-character-flaw-to-be-magically-free-of/366663/16 "2006-07-31T08:16:34Z")
Laziness. Not all the time, but enough to be irritating to me and others.
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### Author:  [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)
#### Post date: [July 31, 2006, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-one-character-flaw-to-be-magically-free-of/366663/17 "2006-07-31T13:27:02Z")
Being a doormat, if that’s okay with the genie. 🙂
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### Author:  [@vertizontal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vertizontal)
#### Post date: [July 31, 2006, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-one-character-flaw-to-be-magically-free-of/366663/18 "2006-07-31T13:33:51Z")
Please get rid of the loop that runs in my head where I dwell on negative events all the time.
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### Author:  [@Jayn\_Newell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jayn_Newell)
#### Post date: [July 31, 2006, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-one-character-flaw-to-be-magically-free-of/366663/19 "2006-07-31T13:48:40Z")
Procrastination. Failing that, shyness.
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### Author:  [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)
#### Post date: [July 31, 2006, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-one-character-flaw-to-be-magically-free-of/366663/20 "2006-07-31T13:54:11Z")
Indecision I guess.
No, not that, procrastination, probably.
No, I was right, indecision.
Maybe ignorance.
Oh fuck it. I don’t know , make it apathy.
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