Adjusting to ‘the real world’ after spending time in prison is not as simple as it sounds. These ex-cons from Ask Reddit share the habits they had trouble breaking.
1. I didn’t use a fork for a few weeks. Ate everything with a spoon without thinking.
2. Trading food. When I got out, I asked my girlfriend to trade me her chicken wings for my macaroni. Pure habit. I really could’ve just went to the kitchen and got more chicken.
3. When my dad got out of prison (10+ years) we nicknamed him Martha Stewart because he was such a clean freak. His home looks like an Ikea catalog, he has glass containers for his shoes, he wakes up early to iron/wash/scrub everything. When I lived with him for a year, I was grounded so many times over leaving water drops in the sink.
