I started nail biting from early childhood and continued this nasty habit into adulthood. My fingers bled from being chewed to the bone, the pain was excruciating, it was like I was sated and calm after I tore my fingers to shreds with my teeth, but still this truth was not enough to make me quit.
One day last year in 2011, I visited Tim Hortons where I sat and drank coffee with a friend. I was gnawing at my fingernails when my eyes caught a lady staring right at me. I immediately felt embarrassed through her vibes and stopped chewing, and have never bitten my fingernails since!
It was between this stranger and my brother Ron who influenced me to stop biting my fingernails.
My brother Ron caught me with my fingers in my mouth and he said to me, "Donna, if you only knew how much bacteria you were putting in your mouth, you'd stop chewing your nails," he proceeded by demonstrating with a microscope. But, still knowing this information, didn't stop me from digesting bacteria into my body, my nailbiting habit was difficult to overcome.
It was this stranger lady in Tim Horton's penetrating glare which prompt me to act in quitting my nail biting habit for good!
That was over a year ago, now I sport around and show-off my handful of nails to anyone who'll look, because I'm really proud of myself for allowing myself to be influenced by this stranger's glare, because it was her glare that straightened me out.
This story is proof that strangers do influence people for the good sometimes, they are angels in disquise!
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