# Does this make me weird? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 21, 2013, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-this-make-me-weird/656330 "2013-04-21T20:18:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![kittenblue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ba8739/32.png) [@kittenblue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kittenblue)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2013, 12:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-this-make-me-weird/656330/21 "2013-04-22T12:06:18Z")
> [@FairyChatMom](#): > > OK, pay attention. The proper way to get dressed is unders, then socks, then pants, then shirt, finally shoes. Any other order is wrong. > > You’re welcome. > 😃 Exactly! I think the asymmetry part is the weirdest, or maybe the socks after pants thing…socks are so much easier to put on Before the pants! But I do feel the OP’s pain about the plantar fasciitis. I suffered from that for years, and while I read about the “no bare feet” thing, my doctor never told me that, and I refuse to NOT go barefoot. Mine went way, and while now I have a lot of pain from the arthritis and bone spurs, the plantar fasciitis has never recurred. Knock wood. I just hate having my feet encased in anything all the time. ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2013, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-this-make-me-weird/656330/22 "2013-04-22T12:55:13Z")
> [@Accidental\_Martyr](#): > > I used to do that. Now I use a small blanket. I call it my face blanket. Hmmm… I am intrigued by this so-called face blanket. I may have to look into that. (Literally.) ---
**Author:** ![Ms.Pumpkin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a87d85/32.png) [@Ms.Pumpkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ms.Pumpkin)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2013, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-this-make-me-weird/656330/23 "2013-04-22T13:02:33Z")
I have to put my socks on before anything else. And _everyone_’s weird. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2013, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-this-make-me-weird/656330/24 "2013-04-22T14:21:49Z")
> [@picunurse](#): > > My husband finds the way I get dressed strange. > > I don’t like to put my bare feet on the cold floor Same thing, but I just have either parquetry floors which never get really cold or “the bear”, a throw rug made from an old rabbit coat, for when I’m at Mom’s in a room with tile floors. The first time my mother exclaimed “you’re so strange!” when I claimed that I found it difficult to fall asleep with no weight on me (unless room temp is above body temp, I fall asleep with a blanket which may later get kicked out of bed), Dad stared at her and said “we’ve been married _how long?_” It happens to be both a trait I inherited from him and one of the reasons that having two beds worked well for them. On other occasions in which she looks at my blanketed bed and calls me strange I just remind her I didn’t marry my Dad, it was her who did 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Icarus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icarus/32/72_2.png) [@Icarus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icarus)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2013, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-this-make-me-weird/656330/25 "2013-04-22T14:37:56Z")
My weird - Growing up I always heard the phrase, “He puts his pants on just like everyone else, one leg at a time!” This was meant to indicate that the subject was just like everyone else - usually referring to a public figure or famous person - in an attempt to bring them down to size. Well, this always caused little me much consternation, because I in fact did not put my pants on one leg at a time. Instead I sit on the edge of the bed, push both of my feet into the leg wholes simultaneously, and stand up into my pants. I put on my pants both legs at once. I tried to learn how to put on my pants one leg at a time, but it just worked better the other way for me. It was my private shame and but one brick in the wall of me being “different” and “weird”. Eventually, I grew accustomed to being a mis-fit, although I work hard to suppress these tendencies in most public situations. But I do attribute my fear of success to the terror of someone someday saying of me, “Well, he puts his pants on just like everyone else, on leg at a time!” - knowing that it’s not true! ---
**Author:** ![Accidental\_Martyr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ce7236/32.png) [@Accidental\_Martyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Accidental_Martyr)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2013, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-this-make-me-weird/656330/26 "2013-04-22T15:08:11Z")
> [@Leaffan](#): > > Hmmm… I am intrigued by this so-called face blanket. I may have to look into that. (Literally.) I prefer the blanket because I can also wrap it around and cover my ears. ---
**Author:** ![Noodles\_Fellicini](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/e36b37/32.png) [@Noodles\_Fellicini](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Noodles_Fellicini)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2013, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-this-make-me-weird/656330/27 "2013-04-23T02:33:43Z")
> [@Fluffy\_PickleSniffer](#): > > The only weirdness problem I have getting dressed is that I have four cats all trying to roll on the wet towel under my feet - why they gotta do that, I don’t know, but they do. I know this one – you bleach your towels. Lots of cats have a thang for chlorine bleach. ---
**Author:** ![JpnDude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/838e76/32.png) [@JpnDude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JpnDude)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2013, 8:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-this-make-me-weird/656330/28 "2013-04-23T08:19:36Z")
I guess I’m kinda weird too. This is my usual order: Bottom, Top, Bottom, Top, Bottom, Top - Boxers - Undershirt - Socks - Dress shirt (+ necktie) - Slacks (+ belt) - Jacket ---
**Author:** ![6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/6/e19adc/32.png) [@6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2013, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-this-make-me-weird/656330/29 "2013-04-23T14:10:19Z")
I tried your way this morning, **picunurse** , and yes, you’re weird. The sock-shoe, sock-shoe part isn’t (I do that too) - but the one leg in the pants thing? That’s \*really \*weird. ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2013, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-this-make-me-weird/656330/30 "2013-04-23T16:18:46Z")
Weird, but not nearly as weird as you’d be if you didn’t have an actual practical reason for starting to do it. ---
**Author:** ![grude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47774/32.png) [@grude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grude)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2013, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-this-make-me-weird/656330/31 "2013-04-23T17:41:05Z")
My wife thinks it is weird to walk out of the shower and get dressed in the bedroom, I make efforts to use a towel at her urging after incidents. Who the hell lets someone in the house while you’re in the shower and then doesn’t tell you?! That is weird! ---
**Author:** ![Ranger\_Jeff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranger_jeff/32/2065_2.png) [@Ranger\_Jeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranger_Jeff)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2013, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-this-make-me-weird/656330/32 "2013-04-24T04:23:42Z")
I think the putting one’s pants on one or two legs at a time depends if you’re sitting or standing when your panting yourself. The nice thing about needed a CPAP mask is I can pull the blanket over my head and still breath. And the WEB\* can’t smother me in my sleep. \*Wee Evil Beastie = the feline I serve who has sworn to murder me. _“Good night Ranger. Sleep well. I’ll most likely kill you in your sleep.”_ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-this-make-me-weird/656330.md?page=1)