"Mama, can we go to McDonalds?", the little boy with nappy black hair, plastic figurines of television superheroes in each hand, and eyes filled with optimistic wonder called to the front of the car. The mother operating the steering wheel of her 2001 Dodge intrepid rolled her eyes.

"No, I'm cooking today", she kept her ears open for the child's protest, but was satisfied when the child just lowered his head in defeat and went back to role-playing with the figurines.

Before I took my stance on living the healthy life style I had no problems whatsoever eating take out fried foods, from multi-chain fast food restaurants. From the dialogue above, the reader can infer that " The Golden Arches" did happen to be on the top of my list as a child.

The habit of overconfidence: My father always believes without a doubt that he is correct 99.9 % of the time and the other 1% he just misunderstood the directions of the question. He is over confidently proud and sure that things will and should always go according to his way. When things do not, it is automatically another person's fault. It annoys my mother and I, but everyone else just laughs and shrugs it off. I hope moving out of the house in a year or two will help him see that he needs to change his ways and for the better.