# Pick one character flaw to be magically free of **URL:** \ **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\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Captain\_Carrot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f0a364/32.png) [@Captain\_Carrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Carrot)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2006, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-one-character-flaw-to-be-magically-free-of/366663/41 "2006-07-31T18:18:36Z")
Either lack of willpower/procrastination or hydrophobia. I’m honestly not sure which would benefit me more in the long run. ---
**Author:** ![Fretful\_Porpentine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fretful_porpentine/32/2873_2.png) [@Fretful\_Porpentine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fretful_Porpentine)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2006, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-one-character-flaw-to-be-magically-free-of/366663/42 "2006-07-31T18:21:44Z")
Fear of rejection. ---
**Author:** ![Antigen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/848f3c/32.png) [@Antigen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antigen)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2006, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-one-character-flaw-to-be-magically-free-of/366663/43 "2006-07-31T18:21:54Z")
I’d like to stop overthinking everything to death. It’s exhausting. Replaying things in my head over and over wondering if I said the wrong thing, wondering what he really meant by that comment, thinking how I could have handled it better… That and the what-ifs. Sometimes I really wish I could turn off that part of my brain, especially because it likes to start up at night when I want to sleep. ---
**Author:** ![davenportavenger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/5f8ce5/32.png) [@davenportavenger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davenportavenger)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2006, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-one-character-flaw-to-be-magically-free-of/366663/44 "2006-07-31T18:37:22Z")
[QUOTE=Captain Carrot] Either lack of willpower/procrastination or hydrophobia. I’m honestly not sure which would benefit me more in the long run. [/QUOTE] Considering that [death should arrive in less than a week](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabies), I’d go with the hydrophobia. I’ll have what **Antigen** ’s having. ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2006, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-one-character-flaw-to-be-magically-free-of/366663/45 "2006-07-31T18:39:36Z")
[QUOTE=Maastricht] I’ll take willpower and focus and sheer stamina. After that genie was done with me, I’d love to work hard, I’d love to work out, and I’d _looove_\*\* to eat nothing but lettuce.\*\* [/QUOTE] So you’d love to die of malnutrition? :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![Gala\_Matrix\_Fire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/4da419/32.png) [@Gala\_Matrix\_Fire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gala_Matrix_Fire)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2006, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-one-character-flaw-to-be-magically-free-of/366663/46 "2006-07-31T21:28:22Z")
Compulsive eating, the last character flaw, the one I just can’t rid myself of. If the genie would let me, I’d like to go so far as to be able to eat only when hungry and then only appropriately nutritious food. If I could treat food as fuel, that would be awesome. ---
**Author:** ![Diamonds02](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b5a626/32.png) [@Diamonds02](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diamonds02)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2006, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-one-character-flaw-to-be-magically-free-of/366663/47 "2006-07-31T21:33:31Z")
Guilt/remorse. Don’t you hate it when you’re going to do something bad and you don’t follow through because you don’t want to harm someone? ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2006, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-one-character-flaw-to-be-magically-free-of/366663/48 "2006-07-31T21:45:15Z")
[QUOTE=Diamonds02] Guilt/remorse. Don’t you hate it when you’re going to do something bad and you don’t follow through because you don’t want to harm someone? [/QUOTE] “Don’t you hate it when you panic and kill the hooker?” You think remorse & conscience are character flaws? Note to self: recruit \*\*Diamonds02 \*\* for evil army. ---
**Author:** ![Maastricht](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e57/32.png) [@Maastricht](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maastricht)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2006, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-one-character-flaw-to-be-magically-free-of/366663/49 "2006-07-31T21:48:12Z")
[QUOTE=Skald the Rhymer] So you’d love to die of malnutrition? :dubious: [/QUOTE] Nah. It 'd be _organic_ lettuce. ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2006, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-one-character-flaw-to-be-magically-free-of/366663/50 "2006-07-31T21:54:49Z")
[QUOTE=Maastricht] Nah. It 'd be _organic_ lettuce. [/QUOTE] Oh, yeah. Lettuce has tons of protein, carbohydrates, and ascorbic acid in nature; it’s all just bleached out by pesticides. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![SurrenderDorothy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/surrenderdorothy/32/1221_2.png) [@SurrenderDorothy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SurrenderDorothy)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2006, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-one-character-flaw-to-be-magically-free-of/366663/51 "2006-07-31T22:14:48Z")
self-absorbedness (absorption?) / selfishness. ---
**Author:** ![Ghanima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Ghanima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ghanima)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2006, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-one-character-flaw-to-be-magically-free-of/366663/52 "2006-07-31T22:15:09Z")
PICKING. Zits, bumps on my arms, scabs, fingernails, lint, split ends, teeth…etc. Why can’t I just leave it alone??? ---
**Author:** ![Rhiannon8404](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rhiannon8404/32/17929_2.png) [@Rhiannon8404](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhiannon8404)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2006, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-one-character-flaw-to-be-magically-free-of/366663/53 "2006-07-31T22:17:49Z")
Anxiety, you know the kind that keeps me from going to the grocery store or the mall by myself. I’d like to get rid of that. ---
**Author:** ![Scribble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scribble/32/3317_2.png) [@Scribble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scribble)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2006, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-one-character-flaw-to-be-magically-free-of/366663/54 "2006-07-31T22:18:05Z")
Perfectionism–and all the anxiety, frustration, procrastination, negativity and self-doubt that comes with it. ---
**Author:** ![Yookeroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yookeroo/32/323_2.png) [@Yookeroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yookeroo)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2006, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-one-character-flaw-to-be-magically-free-of/366663/55 "2006-07-31T22:31:57Z")
Shyness. Would love to be more outgoing. ---
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2006, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-one-character-flaw-to-be-magically-free-of/366663/56 "2006-07-31T23:33:18Z")
> [@SurrenderDorothy](#): > > self-absorbedness (absorption?) / selfishness. Frankly, I think you could use _more_ selfishness. Your family puts a lot of guilt into you that isn’t rightfully yours. ---
**Author:** ![pbbth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f9ae1b/32.png) [@pbbth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pbbth)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2006, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-one-character-flaw-to-be-magically-free-of/366663/57 "2006-08-01T03:18:33Z")
Is being fat a character flaw? If being fat doesnt count, I would like willpower over sugary treats. Little Debbies might go out of business, but I would be thin and that would be worth it. ---
**Author:** ![Sevastopol](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cdc98d/32.png) [@Sevastopol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sevastopol)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2006, 7:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-one-character-flaw-to-be-magically-free-of/366663/58 "2006-08-01T07:48:54Z")
Remorse, conscience, compassion, fatigue. All that. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2006, 9:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-one-character-flaw-to-be-magically-free-of/366663/59 "2006-08-01T09:19:30Z")
How to explain it… For some reason, I’m much better at defending others than myself. I’d like to be more able to stand up for myself - and to be able to do it in ways that make people say “oh, ok”, not in ways that make them throw a bigger tantrum. ---
**Author:** ![Lionne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Lionne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lionne)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2006, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-one-character-flaw-to-be-magically-free-of/366663/60 "2006-08-02T02:40:18Z")
My lack of self-control. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-one-character-flaw-to-be-magically-free-of/366663.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-one-character-flaw-to-be-magically-free-of/366663.md?page=4)