# 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:** 9\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![dogbutler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dogbutler/32/428_2.png) [@dogbutler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dogbutler)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2018, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-your-quirks-here/818572/61 "2018-07-30T01:48:29Z")
1. I alphabetize my spices 2. If a meal has fried potatoes, I always eat them first. 3. I have conversations with my pets, and I fill in there responses, based on their personalty. > [@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. No, it’s smart. Dishes gather dust and grease, so you rotate them so they are all clean. > [@Beckdawrek](#): > > I don’t like the first ice that comes out of the dispenser, maybe it’s contaminated. > > I also note I have several posts in this thread, I have a quirk where I like to talk about my weirdness, just noticed it. Go figure. 😃 ONE OF US! ONE OF US! ONE OF US! **elbows** , I say a _Hail Mary_ in those situations. ---
**Author:** ![snoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/43a26b/32.png) [@snoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snoe)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2018, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-your-quirks-here/818572/62 "2018-07-30T03:44:43Z")
I heard the boiling water thing from Martha Stewart’s show and have done it ever since. Seeing the controversy here, I googled a bit. It is controversial elsewhere, too: [plumbing - Should I run the tap while dumping boiling water? - Home Improvement Stack Exchange](https://diy.stackexchange.com/questions/88476/should-i-run-the-tap-while-dumping-boiling-water) PVC’s rating of 140F may be what inspired this practice? ---
**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 30, 2018, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-your-quirks-here/818572/63 "2018-07-30T14:27:23Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > I have not missed a day of _The Phantom_ comic strip since I was 20. This reminded me of another one of mine: Every year, on the day before my birthday, I stay up until midnight. At the stroke of midnight, I play, [“Happy Birthday” by Weird Al Yankovic](https://youtu.be/3nm37gzDnk0). I’ve been doing this since I was about 15. My wife just accepts it as one of those things I do for me. ---
**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 30, 2018, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-your-quirks-here/818572/64 "2018-07-30T15:40:13Z")
OK, since we have broached the subject of restaurant quirks… The first thing I do at a restaurant is check my fork to see if the tines are straight and aligned with each other. I hate the “snaggy” feeling in my mouth if they are crooked. If I can bend them and make them straight, I’ll do it by hand just below the edge of the table. If I need a tool to do it, I’ll pull out my little Leatherman tool that has pliers. If I still can’t straighten them, I will ask for another fork. I end up having to straighten at least 50% of the forks I get. My wife is so used to it that she’ll tell people we’re dining with, “Watch what he does next!” ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2018, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-your-quirks-here/818572/65 "2018-07-30T18:01:57Z")
> [@dogbutler](#): > > 1. I have conversations with my pets, and I fill in there responses, based on their personality. Chicken the rescue panther is a sweet fellow but he believes everything he reads on the internets. And he’s a bit of a right-winger. We usually have our discussions in the kitchen when I’m fixing dinner. ---
**Author:** ![sabernode](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/278dde/32.png) [@sabernode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sabernode)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2018, 6:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-your-quirks-here/818572/66 "2018-07-31T06:31:29Z")
Is having a shower playlist a quirk? Kidding aside, I have this quirk wherein if I get bumped on one side, I have to hit the other side to make it feel ‘even.’ So if someone bumps my right shoulder as I’m walking on the street, I kind of hit the left one so that I feel balanced ---
**Author:** ![zimaane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a3d4f5/32.png) [@zimaane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zimaane)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2018, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-your-quirks-here/818572/67 "2018-07-31T18:35:37Z")
I don’t put milk on my cereal. I just put the cereal in the bowl and eat it. ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2018, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-your-quirks-here/818572/68 "2018-07-31T19:13:21Z")
I like to finish things, and I like to collect complete sets of things. I am not one to abandon a book, no matter how bad, in the middle. I keep mostly done puzzle books around since not tossing them still lets me think I can finish the last few. I have thousands of sf magazines in order to have complete sets or almost complete. I’m not the only one. DAW books were numbered 1 - n for first editions, and when I got to show Elsie Wollheim around the MITSFS library she confirmed that this was intentional to hook collectors like me. ---
**Author:** ![Enola\_Gay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/3ab097/32.png) [@Enola\_Gay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enola_Gay)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2018, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-your-quirks-here/818572/69 "2018-07-31T19:50:12Z")
When I start a new book, I always read the last page first. I always mash up ice cream into a thick shake-like consistency. It tastes better that way. I eat peanut M&Ms by eating off the chocolate coating, then I eat the peanut independently. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-your-quirks-here/818572.md?page=3)