# What is your personal slippery slope? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 1, 2018, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-personal-slippery-slope/820606 "2018-09-01T13:43:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2018, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-personal-slippery-slope/820606/21 "2018-09-01T22:57:49Z")
Peppermint bark. I had to tell my wife not to buy any more of that; I like it _way_ too much. I finally had to quit the game Township cold turkey. It was eating up too much of my life. ---
**Author:** ![ExTank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/35a633/32.png) [@ExTank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ExTank)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2018, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-personal-slippery-slope/820606/22 "2018-09-01T23:29:08Z")
Most nuts, but pistachios are the reigning champs for making me lose any semblance of self control. Sushi does a nice job on me, too. ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2018, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-personal-slippery-slope/820606/23 "2018-09-01T23:34:11Z")
Tomatoes and cheese. Pizza, lasagna, caprese, any food with that combination is a danger zone. Add garlic and I am utterly helpless. ---
**Author:** ![Newtosite](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/newtosite/32/8623_2.png) [@Newtosite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Newtosite)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2018, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-personal-slippery-slope/820606/24 "2018-09-02T01:22:47Z")
Chewing gum. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2018, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-personal-slippery-slope/820606/25 "2018-09-02T01:32:51Z")
Speeding. I like to ride fast but with the way even safe roads are today and the fact that I don’t heal like I used to and since speeding over that bridge brings about speeding off the bridge and speeding from the bridge for me ----- I strictly force myself to 10mph over the legal limit at the most. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2018, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-personal-slippery-slope/820606/26 "2018-09-02T01:48:38Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > That’s a good one. I’ve been known to spend quite a bit on a new hobby before I’ve even started. Then I do it for a while, then I’ll really push myself for a while longer, but eventually it’s all just sitting there. Don’t get me wrong, I’m very happy to have know the basics of a lot of the stuff I dove into, but some of those things got expensive, fast. > The worst part is, for some of them, I could probably go find small class and get a few hours of training from a pro and find that actually doing it right (instead of teaching myself) would spark my interest in it again. > Someday. The thing is, I like that stage of learning something new, self learning in particular, usually more than I like doing it once I develop some expertise. Life does get in the way often but I do get back to most things eventually. Unfortunately I am losing the war against time now and there’s a growing list of things I’ll never get done or get back to. I do like this sentiment I ran across recently though: “God put me on this earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I’m so far behind that I will never die.” ---
**Author:** ![TRC4941](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trc4941/32/6792_2.png) [@TRC4941](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TRC4941)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2018, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-personal-slippery-slope/820606/27 "2018-09-02T02:01:41Z")
Potato chips would be my food slippery slope but I understand what Thelma Lou is saying. My dogs and I meet my friend and her dogs Mon - Fri at 6am for a two mile hike no matter what the weather. We’ve missed only for 20 below zero weather, blizzard conditions and lightening. Thank goodness I have someone that’s waiting for me cuz it would be so easy to stay in bed for an extra hour especially come January. I could come up with all sorts of excused not to go and pretty soon I wouldn’t be going at all. ---
**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:** [September 2, 2018, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-personal-slippery-slope/820606/28 "2018-09-02T02:02:36Z")
Brach’s Jelly Bird Eggs…I can eat a whole bag in one sitting if I’m not careful. Brach’s Candy Corn…same as above. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2018, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-personal-slippery-slope/820606/29 "2018-09-02T03:48:29Z")
Cars and motorcycles. I’d buy every one I wanted if I didn’t “just say no”. Funny I should type this, because I bought one today. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2018, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-personal-slippery-slope/820606/30 "2018-09-02T04:16:14Z")
Donuts. Any and all. ---
**Author:** ![elbows](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b3f665/32.png) [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2018, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-personal-slippery-slope/820606/31 "2018-09-02T04:28:09Z")
I rise early, if I break the habit of walking my dog BEFORE beginning the daily activities that fill my morning, he gets walked later and later. More importantly I need to be deep into the habit before the onset of winter, or there will be a million good reasons not to pop right out and do it. I’m not the biggest fan of winter, bit of a hibernator, it would be too easy to wait for it to warm up a titch, etc, etc. Then it hangs over me all day and it seems a huge chore! So at this time of the year, I am especially hardcore about sticking to the program. ---
**Author:** ![KatTP](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9dc877/32.png) [@KatTP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KatTP)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2018, 7:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-personal-slippery-slope/820606/32 "2018-09-02T07:46:46Z")
> [@Poysyn](#): > > Baking. I do NOT bake often, for a very good reason. I could easily eat myself into a cake-coma. Yup, same. I don’t have a problem with NOT buying baked goods. That’s fine. And if its not in the house I don’t think about it or want it. However, if I have a few bananas going bad and my husband suggests I make banana bread, I will then eat all of the banana bread. He will buy chocolate and little cakes and things like that for his lunches. I will to ask him to take them all to work so I don’t eat them. He claims(in a joking manner) that it’s a lack of self control. Which I agree with, but if I know I can’t stop myself, and I know that if its not in the house I won’t have to stop myself, then there’s no problem. Right? ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2018, 8:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-personal-slippery-slope/820606/33 "2018-09-02T08:35:14Z")
I’ve known many for whom it is skiing. ---
**Author:** ![Filbert](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/filbert/32/3433_2.png) [@Filbert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Filbert)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2018, 8:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-personal-slippery-slope/820606/34 "2018-09-02T08:49:23Z")
Lie-ins. I only have to get up early two days a week for work at the moment, the rest of the week I’m not working til later, or I’m off. So if I had a poor night’s sleep (or worked late, which also sometimes happens), I can just stay in bed for an extra hour… or two. Or til 10… 11… So of course my days when I have to get up early come round and my sleep patterns are all screwy, I can’t get to sleep the night before, so I’m exhausted. Lucky I can lie in a bit the day after eh? ---
**Author:** ![pullin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c57346/32.png) [@pullin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pullin)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2018, 11:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-personal-slippery-slope/820606/35 "2018-09-02T11:29:34Z")
> [@TriPolar](#): > > If I do anything more than once I need to get a reading from an obsessometer. Me too. I can’t seem to “do” any hobby moderately. Hunting? First a rifle, then a single shot, then black powder, then a bow, then deer are boring so it’s javelina, elk, antelope, mountain lion… Flying? Oooh, a private license would be neat! But then it’s Instrument, Multi-engine, Commercial, then Instructor, then Instrument instructor and eventually Part 135 qualified, then of course we need our own plane then… Maybe water skiing, an old boat and some wal mart skis, right? But then it’s slaloming, then custom fitted skis, then the course, then we need an AWSA-certified tournament tow boat, then a private lake, then barefooting, and wake-boarding then wake-surfing and on and on… I recently took up fishing. As I began eyeing specialized boats my wife put her foot down, stating: “Fish don’t know anything about boats.” 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2018, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-personal-slippery-slope/820606/36 "2018-09-02T13:42:32Z")
> [@Ulfreida](#): > > baby animals. Mmmmm, I hear ya. I love lamb and veal. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2018, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-personal-slippery-slope/820606/37 "2018-09-02T14:30:37Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > Cars and motorcycles. I’d buy every one I wanted if I didn’t “just say no”. > > Funny I should type this, because I bought one today. :smack: Funny you should mention this. I own three good bicycles, one of them \*very \*good. But I don’t ride them. My parents would never let me have a bike when I was growing up. I bought my first bike with my own money when I was a senior in **COLLEGE** and rode it all the time. (I graduated in 1970, so that bike is long gone.) Think that might have something to do with it? ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2018, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-personal-slippery-slope/820606/38 "2018-09-02T17:12:04Z")
Anything with chocolate and peanut butter. ---
**Author:** ![LH75](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lh75/32/4438_2.png) [@LH75](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LH75)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2018, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-personal-slippery-slope/820606/39 "2018-09-02T19:18:27Z")
Nicotine. I haven’t smoked in 20 years but I know that if I would cave in and smoke just one cigar, I would be back as a full time smoker in less than a week. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2018, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-personal-slippery-slope/820606/40 "2018-09-02T19:34:44Z")
> [@LH75](#): > > Nicotine. I haven’t smoked in 20 years but I know that if I would cave in and smoke just one cigar, I would be back as a full time smoker in less than a week. That happened to me. I was in Mexico, buying beer. The shopkeeper was so helpful and such a nice guy that I told him to keep the change (might have been a buck). He wouldn’t do it but I insisted, so he threw a couple of cigars in the bag. Took me another 10 years to break the habit. Again. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-personal-slippery-slope/820606.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-personal-slippery-slope/820606.md?page=3)