This is not really an eccentricity at all, in spite of what my friends, family members and neighbors say! But I read 4 or 5 books at a time. I have one on the bedside table upstairs, one in the main part of the house downstairs, one in the sun room, one in my bag that goes to the pool, one in my car (no, I don’t read while I’m driving) and one in my purse.
I try to read books that I won’t jumble up in my mind – right now I have Rbt. Jastrow, P.D. James, Iris Murdoch, Bill Bryson and Karen Bodine books around – but it happens sometimes. If I happen to be reading P. D. James at the pool, and the murderer is about to be revealed, but I have to go into the house, I won’t keep reading James until I’m back at the pool. I’ll read whatever I have in the house instead.
And I buy a new toothbrush every payday (twice a month).
Ahhh… you need the secret technique! You twist off one side (easy) and then using that cookie you put it parallel to the other one, with the edge right against the filling… and push the filling off by sliding the one cookie against the other one. Usually the icing comes off in one piece, sometimes two.
OpalCat! Shame on you! By revealing the secret technique you have spoiled the fun those of us in the know have while watching the clueless get icing up their noses!
The random flopping about of long laces while I jog drives me nuts. For this same reason, I can’t have my keys in my pocket or a pouch when I’m jogging (I have to carry them).
On a track bike, long laces are just really dangerous.
For my jogging and biking shoes, I double knot the laces, and then tuck the remainder back down the front lacing. Perhaps not the epitome of fashion, but nobody has called me on it yet. Fortunately, my dress shoes have short laces.
I once got a letter from someone covered with 1 cent stamps. He had alot of them to use up.
I separate m&m’s, reeses pieces, skittles, etc., by color also. Also eat the chocolate and then the filling for peanut butter cups, and other candy bars. Similarly, when eating dinner, I eat all of one thing before I start on the next.
I count stairs, count steps, and recite (mentally) which amino acids are coded for by which codons when I’m trying not to think about something.