# Annoying noisy noises and other habits **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 25, 2005, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/annoying-noisy-noises-and-other-habits/314074 "2005-07-25T16:32:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Nature\_s\_Call](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nature_s_call/32/19006_2.png) [@Nature\_s\_Call](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nature_s_Call)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2005, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/annoying-noisy-noises-and-other-habits/314074/1 "2005-07-25T16:32:34Z")
Remember the movie Ferris Bueller’s Day Off? Remember that part where they were at the Sears Tower (I think) just taking a break. Cameron is idly hitting his cheek with his finger, producing a “dwooop” sound? When I first heard that sound, my reaction was, “How’s he making that sound, what with his mouth?” So I started slapping my own face in various ways until I too can now do the dwoop. The problem is it has turned into a nervous habit. I do it when I’m thinking deeply about something at work, when I’m just wool-gathering, sometimes when I’m driving. It drives everyone nuts. On a road trip with several buddies in the van, my friends vowed to break me of the habit. For the entire trip every time I dwooped someone punched me in the arm. The result: a sore arm, no less dwoop. Enough about me: A cow-orker of mine cracks his knuckles, all the time. One I used to work with started almost every sentence with “Certainly.” What habits do you do that you _know_ annoy others but (knowingly or unknowingly) you do it anyways? What habits of those around you get on your nerves? ---
**Author:** ![EarthStone777](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7ab992/32.png) [@EarthStone777](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EarthStone777)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2005, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/annoying-noisy-noises-and-other-habits/314074/2 "2005-07-25T17:06:02Z")
I often crack my knuckles, usually without even thinking about it or being aware that I’m doing it. My former boss used to hate it with a passion and would forbid me from doing it in his office. Our usual routine when I was go to his office (an almost daily occurance to discuss business matters)… I would sit down waiting for him to finish whatever he was typing. I would start to crack my knuckles without knowing it. At the first _pop_ he would pipe up with “What are you doing?”. I would realise what I was doing and reply “Nothing, absolutly nothing.” and sit on my hands to keep from doing it again. His reply “Good, that’s what I thought.” Of course when he was in my office, I took delight in cracking them just to show that I could. … It was after all _my office_. \ (my boss and I were friends.) I had a co-worker who could whistle/chirp like a cricket. It really sounded like a cricket and he would do it during lulls in the conversation also without thinking about it. I’ve since learned to do it too, but I can’t match his mastery of getting it exactly right. (and I have to think about it.) ---
**Author:** ![Asimovian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asimovian/32/172_2.png) [@Asimovian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asimovian)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2005, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/annoying-noisy-noises-and-other-habits/314074/3 "2005-07-25T17:48:49Z")
Cracking gum. If I’m in a good mood and I’ve got a piece of gum in my mouth, I inadvertently seem to take to cracking it. Loudly. I don’t know why it makes my mouth happy, and I think it’s annoying as hell when I hear other people doing it. I have no excuse, and hereby hang my head in shame. :o ---
**Author:** ![Mirror\_Image\_egamI\_rorriM](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e56c9b/32.png) [@Mirror\_Image\_egamI\_rorriM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mirror_Image_egamI_rorriM)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2005, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/annoying-noisy-noises-and-other-habits/314074/4 "2005-07-25T18:03:23Z")
I have a permanent case of jimmy leg. I’m always bouncing my leg up and down. I’m doing it right now, in fact. I also crack my neck and my toes, but not my knuckles.