# List Your Quirks Here **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 25, 2018, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-your-quirks-here/818572 "2018-07-25T18:38:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2018, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-your-quirks-here/818572/21 "2018-07-26T02:45:17Z")
About a year ago, on my daily freeway commute, I started counting the number of Jeeps I see. The rules (this ain’t 'Nam): 1. Any model, body style or age is allowed, but it has to say ‘Jeep’ somewhere on it. Non-Jeep SUVs and 4 x 4s don’t count. 2. I only count Jeeps seen on the freeway (main lanes and on-off ramps), going the same direction as I am. 3. Jeeps spotted on surface streets and frontage roads don’t count. Jeeps spotted going the opposite direction on the freeway don’t count. Average per individual commute is 8-10. Personal best is 23. Thanks for asking. ---
**Author:** ![Defensive\_Indifference](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/defensive_indifference/32/6502_2.png) [@Defensive\_Indifference](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Defensive_Indifference)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2018, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-your-quirks-here/818572/22 "2018-07-26T02:59:53Z")
> [@snowthx](#): > > When I drain pasta in the sink, I always run cold water next to the colander to protect the pipes from boiling water. It probably makes little difference, but my wife thinks this is stupid. Hey! I do that too. And every time I do it, I think, “This is pointless. Why am I doing it?” ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2018, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-your-quirks-here/818572/23 "2018-07-26T03:40:11Z")
> [@Defensive\_Indifference](#): > > Hey! I do that too. And every time I do it, I think, “This is pointless. Why am I doing it?” If you have a stainless steel sink, there may be a point to it after all. At least a couple of times, I’ve triggered a loud bang from rapid expansion of the metal sink when pouring hot pasta water into it. Seems like there could be enough of a shift to potentially result in a leak at the drain. Maybe not high potential, I’ll grant you, but I run cold water like some other posters, as a precaution. ---
**Author:** ![Marine\_One](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/marine_one/32/3461_2.png) [@Marine\_One](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marine_One)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2018, 12:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-your-quirks-here/818572/24 "2018-07-26T12:11:38Z")
When I take anything off the shelve at the grocery store, I always move the same item that was behind it up to the front so people can see it. Milk, corn, ice cream … makes no difference what it us. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2018, 12:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-your-quirks-here/818572/25 "2018-07-26T12:24:12Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > Blue Smurf cereal? I wouldn’t even be in the room while someone else was eating it! ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2018, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-your-quirks-here/818572/26 "2018-07-26T12:47:09Z")
I have no quirks. It’s all y’all who do things differently that have the quirks. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2018, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-your-quirks-here/818572/27 "2018-07-26T13:36:36Z")
I take walks. Just leave the house and walk around, no destination in mind, don’t go into any buildings, and walk home when I feel like it. I sometimes get off the bus three or four stops away and walk or walk back. I’m the only person I know who takes walks. ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Torque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2018, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-your-quirks-here/818572/28 "2018-07-26T13:54:56Z")
I can’t just walk away from a TV. Even if I’m turning it off, I find something that I would actually want to watch, and then I walk away or turn it off or whatever. It makes no sense, but there you go. ---
**Author:** ![TRC4941](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trc4941/32/6792_2.png) [@TRC4941](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TRC4941)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2018, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-your-quirks-here/818572/29 "2018-07-26T15:27:35Z")
I too put clean towels, sheets, plates, underwear, socks on the bottom or in the back. Sandwiches taste better when they’re cut in triangles. I love potato chips but won’t eat them if all that’s left are small, broken pieces of chips. Doritos must be eaten while holding the top tip of the triangle. I too remember leaving the last little bit of milk in the carton at school! I have to read the newspaper while I’m eating breakfast or my day seems off. I have to walk every morning before work or my day seems off. During the Christmas season, I have to listen to Christmas music in the car even if I’m sick of it! ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2018, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-your-quirks-here/818572/30 "2018-07-26T17:19:04Z")
I don’t like lights left on in an empty room and am constantly turning them off after my wife. ---
**Author:** ![EmilyG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emilyg/32/364_2.png) [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2018, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-your-quirks-here/818572/31 "2018-07-26T18:23:32Z")
I actually like the small, broken chip pieces at the bottom of the bag. As well as popcorn kernels that are only popped partway. ---
**Author:** ![ZonexandScout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zonexandscout/32/544_2.png) [@ZonexandScout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZonexandScout)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2018, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-your-quirks-here/818572/32 "2018-07-26T18:59:55Z")
I won’t eat a dessert (or other empty calories) unless it’s something I really, really like. For example, my wife brought home a piece of pineapple cake for me early this week. I haven’t touched it. She said, “Well, I know you eat pineapple.” I told her that I do, but I’m not crazy about it and the few hundred calories in the cake aren’t worth the enjoyment. The same applies to ice cream…I’ll only eat chocolate chip or chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream. It just seems silly to consume the calories if you don’t think the taste will offset the burden of working them off. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2018, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-your-quirks-here/818572/33 "2018-07-26T19:45:58Z")
> [@Dung\_Beetle](#): > > I will not hear the song “Free Bird” if I can prevent it. This is just good sense. ---
**Author:** ![Philster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/13edae/32.png) [@Philster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Philster)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2018, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-your-quirks-here/818572/34 "2018-07-26T20:09:14Z")
I refuse to let my shoelaces touch the floor, whether on or off my feet. Never pour myself a full glass of anything – always a half glass – except for beer. I love watches, but when dining at home or with close family, I remove my watch. After the meal, it goes back on. Also, all watches must be in sync . ---
**Author:** ![Filbert](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/filbert/32/3433_2.png) [@Filbert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Filbert)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2018, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-your-quirks-here/818572/35 "2018-07-26T20:15:18Z")
> [@FairyChatMom](#): > > When I put plates, bowls, and towels away, I put the freshly cleaned ones on the bottom of the stack. It makes more sense with towels, since theoretically, you don’t use the same one over and over and over. It probably doesn’t matter with plates and bowls - I’m pretty sure the dishwasher won’t fade the Corelle glaze, but it’s my quirk and I stand by it. Well, yeah, otherwise the ones at the bottom never get used. I bought x plates and I’m going to use x plates. Otherwise I bought plates that never get used, which would never get to fulfil the role they were created for and would probably feel left out and break out of spite when the big special event came round and they did get used. I don’t do it consistently though, I like to keep my crockery guessing. Oh yeah and I shamelessly anthropomorphise everything. That counts as a quirk, right? ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2018, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-your-quirks-here/818572/36 "2018-07-26T20:36:36Z")
> [@snowthx](#): > > When I park the car, I always leave the front wheels straight, and manually turn-off every thing that was just on (audio, AC, lights) before turning off the engine. This is not a quirk. This is the correct thing to do. The spaghetti thing is weird, however. ---
**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2018, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-your-quirks-here/818572/37 "2018-07-26T20:44:40Z")
> [@Marine\_One](#): > > When I take anything off the shelve at the grocery store, I always move the same item that was behind it up to the front so people can see it. > Milk, corn, ice cream … makes no difference what it us. [https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/newreply.php?do=newreply&p=21109336](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/newreply.php?do=newreply&p=21109336) Weird! Don’t you know for perishables you should remove the front items, then grab a rear item and them put back the front items–so you get the fresher one which was at the rear? Milk and bread especially. ---
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctor_jackson/32/32_2.png) [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2018, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-your-quirks-here/818572/38 "2018-07-26T20:51:46Z")
> [@PastTense](#): > > I talk to myself sometimes. As do I, only I call it “Posting on the Dope”. ---
**Author:** ![elbows](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b3f665/32.png) [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2018, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-your-quirks-here/818572/39 "2018-07-26T20:59:27Z")
I say a little Buddhist prayer whenever I hear the Medivac helicopter, which is pretty often. Same for sirens. Ambulances, fire trucks, cops. I figure _someone’s_ having a really bad day. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2018, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-your-quirks-here/818572/40 "2018-07-26T21:02:27Z")
After the local evening news I rush to switch the channel lest I hear the Music to 'Wheel of Fortune". I really hate that show. It tickles Mr.Wrekker to see me jump up really fast grabbing for the remote. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-your-quirks-here/818572.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-your-quirks-here/818572.md?page=3)