EVERYDAY URGES YOU SHOULD SUPPRESS (Men’s Health)

• Buying all the equipment after two lessons: Holster that credit card until you’re certain the novelty of fly-fishing, snowboarding, or competitive bird-watching won’t wear off.
• Being overpolite: Social pleasantries should be dispensed with grace. Saying “bless you” after each of nine successive sneezes makes you an automaton, not a gentleman.
• Writing a love poem in the first 3 weeks of dating… and not keeping it to yourself: Her hair might indeed remind you of the first new morning rays of sun. But those rays may fade, and there’s no reason to leave a paper trail.
• Finding exact change: Picking through your pocket lint for 11 cents isn’t helping the barista churn through the morning rush any faster. Do everyone a favor and stockpile your coinage at home. Trade it for cash once a year, then treat your girl to a dinner you otherwise couldn’t afford.
• Marking an e-mail “high priority”: Just because Bill Gates dreamed up a button doesn’t mean you should press it. Pick up the phone.
• Yelling out a song request: Sorry, but the lead singer is only paying attention to the braless blonde in the front row. Channel all that energy into clapping, Casey Kasem.
• Talking between bathroom stalls: No matter is so pressing that it needs to be discussed with your pants down.
• Screaming at the customer-service rep: Actually, check that: Go ahead and scream. Just make sure there’s a method to your madness. You’re mad at the company, and you’re this close to taking your business elsewhere.
• Overpronouncing foreign words: Granted, you spent a magical week in Baja, but that doesn’t give you license to pronounce “ Guadalajara” like you’re clearing hair from your throat. There’s a middle ground between butchering a word and being the pompous protector of its linguistic sanctity. Find it. (We’re talking to you, Giada De Laurentiis.)
• Sending an angry e-mail: Along with drunk-dialing your ex and drinking appletinis, this one fits in the category of things you will always, without fail, regret. Here’s a rule of thumb: The more bridges you’ll burn, the longer you should let that e-mail smolder in your drafts folder.
• Performing the chest bump: Sporting celebration should be proportional to the peril faced in the pursuit of victory. If your game involves an underhand toss, midgame brews, or Velcro-backed flags, dial it down, champ.
• Oversanitizing: Washing your hands carefully after going to the bathroom: normal. Reaching for the bottle of Purell each time you exit a taxi: compulsive.
• Obsessing over your fantasy team: If you’re really that into a sport, play coach in a way that actually matters: Teach a kid to love the nuances of the game as much as you do.