So I have two papers due by 10:30 today(social psychology and the psychology of religion)
and every time I find my self stopping to breathe a whistle finds its way into my hands…
This is not good.
I need to move my whistles away from arms reach of my bed. 
Whilst doing my Masters I started the whistle, bodhran, a fountain pen collection, learned to shave with a straight razor and accumulated some associated razors and hones. Lots of ‘indoor’ hobbies that can be done sitting in front of a computer (okay maybe not the str8 shaving bit - ouch). Just think of it as wider learning… otherwise start looking seriously at behavioral intention and the need for cognitive effort - Fishbein and Ajzen. 
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Does anyone else get anxious if there isn’t a whistle to hand?
When I’m driving I think, “Maybe I’ll have to wait for the kids’ club to finish (fingers begin to twitch on the steering wheel)… is the Susato in the glove compartment or did I leave it in the other car? (Mentally rummaging through the sweetie wrappers) Gaaa, I think there may be two whistles in the other car and none at all in this one. OH my god, oh, my god, oh my god, how am I going to fill those 5 mins?” car swerves into the bank and the doors fall off.
Also, has your partner ever told you off for silently fingering your whistle in bed at night because your fingers make just a little bit on noise on the holes?
I have been told off in class by the professor for playing the merry blacksmith on the desk in front of me. He finds the twitching of my fingers utterly distracting. haha.
so I stopped playing “desk” tin whistle and started playing “desk” GHB. Oh God, I got kicked outta class for that!
I now behave myself, at least, as much as a chiff and fippler can…
So, update.
Social psychology paper on self-esteem and society done.
Now to the psychology of religion paper on meditation, mysticism, altered states of consciousness, tinwhistling, and two interviews about God(transcendent being, Unio Mystica, and the Absolute Unitary Being).
some one please kill me.
I have regularly carried whistles with me in the car when I’m going out on my own… drive with my knee, toot on the whistle. Perfectly safe!!! …
I’ve also just ordered a break-apart whistle with a pocket case so I can make sure I’ve always got a whistle with me… It’s a disease. Communicable disease, at that.
If you toot while driving (I’ve done it, too), just make sure that you point the whistle to the side in case the air bag goes off! Having a whistle embedded in your brain wouldn’t be the worst way to die, but think about the embarrassing obituary and how it would affect your relatives…
Pat
that’s priceless.
admit it… how many of us read protean’s post and thought… “dang! i can do that.”
should we be concerned that none of us see this as aberant behavior?
be well (relatively speaking),
jim
I have done it.
yeah… I completely agree about the aberrant behavior part too..
I’m going to start a thread about the most unintelligent places one has whistled.
Hopefully it will be a good one.
Sean