A Good Habit

(Proverbs 23:2 KJV)  And put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man given to appetite.

I have wanted to develop this habit.  There are certain people that are always trying to con me into something.  One way involves food.  That works for me because I am at best a borderline glutton.  I keep thinking that because someone has baked a cake or ordered something lavish at a restaurant I am on their good side.  It is not to be.

My goal is to identify those people and find some symbolic way to remind myself that I am not to be at ease.  At a meal it might be to literally pick up a knife and casually tap myself on the throat.  At a party maybe I could find a door and tap it with my head. 

So?  Just as all that glitters is not gold, neither is all that smiles a friend.