Habits - Common English Phrases
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How to Stop a Fridge Door Breaking
A child proof fridge came with a mechanism that required you to pinch the lock. It took a while to work out how to do it, but we became a dab hand at it after a while. We formed a new habit and were able to do it without thinking once we got used to it. Then after a while, this thing broke. The strap that was acting as the, as the lock, as the restraint, the strap snapped into. So it didn't matter if it was locked or not, the strap wasn't there in place. But because I'd been so used to going to the fridge door, pinching the mechanism, releasing the strap and then opening the door, it
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