The Six "Mine-is-Better" Habits Essay

Everybody has habits which range from bad, to worse. I don’t believe that there’s a such thing as a “good habit”, and if there’s somebody that has a “good habit”, it’s actually a tediously enforced routine (TER). Yeah, it’s made up, but it’s also my own little bad habit of making assumptions of people. But back to the main thing here, there are six habits that can hinder effective thinking, and everybody has done one of them, or at least seen someone that has.
First of the six is the “Mine-is-Better” habit. Back when I was eleven years old, my dad had bought me a mountain bike, which was awesome. There were really……elegant designs painted on it and it had theses tough looking tires on it. I felt like a king riding that thing around. There must’ve been a buy-my-kid-a-bike disease going around with the parents at the time, because my friends had gotten a bike also, and it wasn’t Christmas time either. Anyways, hanging around them, I was like “Blarrrrghhh!! Do you SEE how mine bike looks!! It’s the best-est of all of yous!!” Even though theirs shifted gears better than mines, which did make their bikes better, but I based it off how it looked and boasted about mine being better. I got into a lot of arguments with them about it, which was silly.
The next habit is the “Face Saving” habit, which focus’ on the blame instead of the problem. This one time when I used to work at Cracker Barrel, I had to clean off the tables when customers got up. Things were going fine, but somebody left their sunglasses behind, so I sat down my bus-tub on the chair at that table to chase the people down to return their shades back. As I was walking back to the table, a server walked by that table, and the tub fell off the chair…..it had a full set of dishes inside of it. Of course it was loud and they all broke on the floor. When the manager was helping me clean up that mess I was like, “Grr! That server was the one that did it. She brushed up against the side of the tub and it fall...