# Am I the Only One? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 23, 2004, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one/235980 "2004-03-23T20:41:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![cowgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8c91f0/32.png) [@cowgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cowgirl)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2004, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one/235980/81 "2004-03-24T19:35:57Z")
> [@Sassafras](#): > > sometimes I will spend an entire weekend in my house without getting dressed or going outside , except to get the mail and the paper. I’m the _exact_ opposite ! I can’t really think (beyond coffee, smoothie, newspaper) until I’ve been out of the house. If I have nowhere to go I walk around the block. I do this several times if I’m home all day. This is why bad weather makes me so angry. I may be the only non-retired person who does this. ---
**Author:** ![Winnie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e480ec/32.png) [@Winnie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Winnie)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2004, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one/235980/82 "2004-03-24T21:12:47Z")
> [@MissTake](#): > > I look at license plate tabs, just to see if they’re expired or not. When I see someone with expired tabs, I usually become frustrated knowing that person would probably not get pulled over, but were I to swerve just a bit, I probably would. I haven’t been pulled over for any driving infraction in 12 years, but I still get paranoid… I am a compulsive license plate expiration checker. Mainly because I was pulled over last year for my plates being 6 months expired, when I SWORE I had renewed them and obviously had not. I would have driven on them for another year had I not gotten pulled over. Now when I see someone with their tags expired I silently hope they get pulled over so they have to learn the same lesson I did. ---
**Author:** ![flamingbananas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f4b2a3/32.png) [@flamingbananas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flamingbananas)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2004, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one/235980/83 "2004-03-24T22:02:45Z")
> [@FilmGeek](#): > > **saramamalana** Am I the only one who compulsively reads even if I’ve read it a hundred times before? (for example, in my parent’s guest bathroom there is a pack of Aveeno bath oats that I’ve read approximately 29038298789990 times. It’s there, so it must be read). You aren’t the only one. I have read books over and over, things in my bathroom, my room…if it is there, so it MUST BE READ. Am I the only one here who has an obbsession over the band Weezer? I’ve got posters, t-shirts, stickers… It bothers me SO MUCH when people are wearing loose, untied shoes. I also have to correct everyones grammer when I am talking. I spose it annoys them, but it annoys me more ---
**Author:** ![Francesca](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/9fc348/32.png) [@Francesca](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Francesca)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2004, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one/235980/84 "2004-03-24T22:48:07Z")
> [@](#): > > 1. Liked the movie Newsies I LOVE CHRISTIAN BALE MORE THAN YOU. ---
**Author:** ![Achren](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/898d66/32.png) [@Achren](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Achren)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2004, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one/235980/85 "2004-03-24T23:05:33Z")
I’m not the only one! However, what about this? I once figured out that if you took two consecutive whole numbers…actually, it’s easier to write as math. Looking to prove: a^2 + (a + b) = b^2 iff b = a + 1 so: a b = a + 1 a + b = a + (a + 1) a^2 + (2a + 1) = a^2 + 2a +1 b^2 = (a + 1)^2 (a + 1)^2 = a^2 + 2a + 1 therefore, a^2 + (a + b) = b^2 ---
**Author:** ![Achren](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/898d66/32.png) [@Achren](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Achren)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2004, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one/235980/86 "2004-03-24T23:21:38Z")
iff b = a + 1, a \> 0, b \> 0 that is ---
**Author:** ![tiny\_ham](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a183cd/32.png) [@tiny\_ham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tiny_ham)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2004, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one/235980/87 "2004-03-25T01:48:46Z")
> [@Francesca](#): > > I LOVE CHRISTIAN BALE MORE THAN YOU. You are very silly to think that. Christian Bale is my boyfriend. ---
**Author:** ![Sami41](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c57346/32.png) [@Sami41](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sami41)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2004, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one/235980/88 "2004-03-25T02:10:44Z")
> [@cowgirl](#): > > I’m the _exact_ opposite ! I can’t really think (beyond coffee, smoothie, newspaper) until I’ve been out of the house. If I have nowhere to go I walk around the block. I do this several times if I’m home all day. This is why bad weather makes me so angry. > > I may be the only non-retired person who does this. I CANNOT stand to stay home all day. I have to do something. That’s goes for workdays, too. If the ONLY place I go on any given day is to work, I feel I’ve wasted the entire day. So, everyday I go to the closest Village Inn or Denny’s and read the paper with my morning coffee. I’ve been doing this for 13 years now, and I’m now useless if I don’t “go to coffee” as my friends and family call it. $4 bucks a day for 13 years =not quite 19 grand 😕 . Maybe it’s time to break that habit. ~S ---
**Author:** ![Sami41](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c57346/32.png) [@Sami41](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sami41)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2004, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one/235980/89 "2004-03-25T02:25:46Z")
Anonther thing, When I wash my pillow cases I must put each pillow case back on the pillow it came off of EVERY time. I haven’t bought new pillows or pillowcases in years, because I can’t figure out how. Just me, I’d imagine. ~S ---
**Author:** ![TVeblen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4bbf92/32.png) [@TVeblen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TVeblen)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2004, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one/235980/90 "2004-03-25T03:36:00Z")
I always thought that was one of those cryptic folk sayings that meant something different, like “butter wouldn’t melt in her mouth”. I _never_ put on trousers one leg at a time, mainly because I’m a hopeless klutz and would fall over if I tried. It’s so weird that (seemingly) everybody else on the planet manages. 1. Sit on chair or side of bed. 2. Hold trousers in both hands in front 3. Curl up legs and shimmy them both into leg holes 4. Straighten out legs 5. Gently scooch trousers up to knees 6. Lower feet to floor 7. Hop up 8. Pull trousers the rest of the way up Minimal wrinkling and dog fur residue from unwonted cloth flopping! ---
**Author:** ![Kyla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/eada6e/32.png) [@Kyla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyla)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2004, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one/235980/91 "2004-03-25T03:37:44Z")
> [@Craneop2](#): > > Am I the only crackpot that thinks that our solar system is but one atom (with the sun being the neucleus and the planets being protons and neutrons ) in a much grander scheme than anyone ever fathomed? > > I don’t know why, I just think that way sometimes… If you think about it, you’ll realize why this is impossible. If the solar system is an atom, what are _we_ made of? Mini-atoms? Baby atoms? ---
**Author:** ![Craneop2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6bbea6/32.png) [@Craneop2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Craneop2)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2004, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one/235980/92 "2004-03-25T04:36:07Z")
**KYLA** I never said it was logical. I just think kinda strangely sometimes. ---
**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2004, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one/235980/93 "2004-03-25T04:54:58Z")
I eat the cake part of Hostess cupcakes first and save the icing to eat all at once at the end. On a long commute I used to check my car’s odometer to see how far I’d have to drive until a “straight” showed up. That’s a reading that includes 6 consecutive digits (in any order), including “around the corner”, such as 42375.6 or 89230.1. > [@Craneop2](#): > > Am I the only crackpot that thinks that our solar system is but one atom (with the sun being the neucleus and the planets being protons and neutrons ) in a much grander scheme than anyone ever fathomed? > > I don’t know why, I just think that way sometimes… I used to think this when I was a kid. So did the young Isaac Asimov, of all people. > [@Kyla](#): > > If you think about it, you’ll realize why this is impossible. If the solar system is an atom, what are we made of? Mini-atoms? Baby atoms? Virtual particles, of course. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Odinoneeye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/97f17d/32.png) [@Odinoneeye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odinoneeye)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2004, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one/235980/94 "2004-03-25T04:57:11Z")
> [@](#): > > Am I the only crackpot that thinks that our solar system is but one atom (with the sun being the neucleus and the planets being protons and neutrons ) in a much grander scheme than anyone ever fathomed? Actually, if the solar system were an atom, the sun would be the neucleus and contain the protons and neutrons. The planets would be electrons. anyway, I also look for geometric patterns in bathroom tiles. I got really upset when I realized that the tiles in our work bathroom are random. They don’t repeat! anyone else type in their head? I originally started doing this as a way to practice typing when I was first learning (20 years ago) and every once in a while it creeps back into my head. Anybody else like runny fried eggs on their hamburgers? ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2004, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one/235980/95 "2004-03-25T05:01:09Z")
I know I’m not the only one, ( **Polycarp** is bright enough to recognize this, too), but sometimes I feel like I’m the only one who realizes how and why James Branch Cabell was one of the most brilliant writers of the 20th century. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2004, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one/235980/96 "2004-03-25T05:39:19Z")
> [@winterhawk11](#): > > I suspect that I’m probably the only person who puts M&M’s in a cup, covers them over with water about two inches above the top layer, waits for the candy coating to dissolve, stirs it up, and eats the whole thing with a spoon. M&M soup! > > If anybody else does this, I will be truly amazed. 🙂 > > (I’m also somewhat obsessive about _how_ this concoction is eaten: three M&M’s and a spoonful of liquid at a time. Makes it last longer. 🙂 ) I think my brother might be your missing soul mate. He perfers putting them in soda, though. ---
**Author:** ![Odinoneeye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/97f17d/32.png) [@Odinoneeye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odinoneeye)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2004, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one/235980/97 "2004-03-25T05:47:25Z")
Also, I seem to be the only person who hates the flavor of salt. I don’ t mind a little salt on my food, but if I hate when I can actually taste it. ---
**Author:** ![Freiheit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e8c25b/32.png) [@Freiheit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freiheit)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2004, 6:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one/235980/98 "2004-03-25T06:55:32Z")
> [@flamingbananas](#): > > Am I the only one here who has an obbsession over the band Weezer? Hey. ---
**Author:** ![Hunter\_Hawk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/50afbb/32.png) [@Hunter\_Hawk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hunter_Hawk)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2004, 7:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one/235980/99 "2004-03-25T07:00:21Z")
> [@tomndebb](#): > > I know I’m not the only one, ( **Polycarp** is bright enough to recognize this, too), but sometimes I feel like I’m the only one who realizes how and why James Branch Cabell was one of the most brilliant writers of the 20th century. Really? I always thought that Cabell’s superiority was intuitively obvious to even the most casual observer. Of course, I was one of only two people I knew who’d ever read Cabell, so the most casual observer was already a Cabell fanboy. ---
**Author:** ![metrochic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e480ec/32.png) [@metrochic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/metrochic)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2004, 8:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one/235980/100 "2004-03-25T08:16:05Z")
> [@jarbabyj](#): > > 1. Liked the movie Newsies > > I have a book of Calvin and Hobbes cartoons and Bloom County Cartoons in my bathroom and I read them EVERY SINGLE TIME I SIT DOWN ON THAT TOILET. They are memorized, but i read them anyway. Um, my husband said he loves you. > [@SSgtBaloo](#): > > I like 1950’s-1960’s movies that claim to be about sex but are really about courtship. “That Touch of Mink” and “Pillow Talk” (both with Doris Day) are prime examples. > > I collect 1960’s beach movies, specifically the American International ones featuring Annette Funicello and Frankie Avalon. I have all of them on DVD and VHS except for “How to Stuff a Wild Bikini”. Once I get that one I’ll have to go DVD with the remaining tapes. (I even have two not-quite BP movies: “Ski Party” and “Pajama Party”.) I adore Doris Day movies…and have both of those. I’m a big fan of the Annette Funicello/Frankie Avalon movies, but had never seen “Pajama Party” until two nights ago on iControl. Aliens! HAH! > [@elfkin477](#): > > - Am I the only one who gets a new cd and, and if I like it play it…over and over for about three days, to the exclusion of most other music? Sometimes I pull out old cds and give them the same treatment. I’d like to say that I do this to memorize the track order, but I’m not. There are MP3s I’ve listened to on a loop for hours at a time too, just that one MP3. Most recently “Still in Love” by The Stills. Nope. I do this, too. Especially if I’ve just seen the person in concert or if it’s a soundtrack to a movie I just saw. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one/235980.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-one/235980.md?page=6)