Annoying Habits

As a human I have a lot of annoying habits. Some I am completely aware of. For example, I notice errors in everyone's grammar, except my own. Did you see Grey's Anatomy last week? The file drawer in the Chief's office said "Resident's files." As if he only had one resident! Sigh. It's annoying. But I don't say things out loud to people. I don't edit blogs or correct people when they say, "I feel badly" rather than "I feel bad." (Seriously, look it up if you don't believe me.) It's my own private, dirty problem -- so I keep it to myself.

But today at dinner with 3/4 of the Freak family, I noticed a really annoying habit that I was completely unaware of. FF would be parenting her children, asking them to sit still or eat a piece of chicken and I would repeat it as if I was Sigourney Weaver's character on Galaxy Quest (if you haven't seen it, the running gag is that her whole job on the space ship is to repeat what the computer says to the captain). 

It's not like I thought they'd listen to me or that I was helping. I wasn't really thinking when I was doing it. I think it was some sort of automatic pilot to back up the other mother at the table, which clearly isn't needed.

I'm pretty sure that you could put a blindfold on FF and tie her hands behind her back and she could completely bend her children to her will by using some kind of magical Jedi-like Force. Seriously, I have that much confidence in her as a woman and as a mother. But I'm going to try to jumpstart my brain and put an end to the annoying habit.