A New Drinking Game

Women, at least the ones I know, have a habit of saying “I’m sorry” in response to just about anything. It doesn’t matter if it has anything to do with us or not. It’s as if we take responsibility for all the annoying/bad/disastrous things happening to other people.

A male co-worker has mentioned this habit to me on several  occasions.  On my most recent writing retreat, on the last day, all four of us noticed we said the phrase a lot. Too much. I quipped, “Maybe we should all include deleting that phrase from our vocabularies on next year’s goals.” Another friend said, “No, let’s make it a drinking game!”

A drinking game! We’ll all be shnockered within an hour.

Do you have something you say out of habit so much that it’s lost all meaning?