# More Personal Peculiarities **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 14, 2014, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-personal-peculiarities/695534 "2014-08-14T18:23:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**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:** [August 20, 2014, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-personal-peculiarities/695534/81 "2014-08-20T18:22:01Z")
> [@PorchePine](#): > > Were they staring or glaring? Staring. It was back when many people had never used a cellphone, shortly after the transition from huge bag phones to handheld cells. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2014, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-personal-peculiarities/695534/82 "2014-08-20T18:52:06Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > Whenever I trigger an automatic door, I do a little semicircular wave with my hand and pretend I’m opening it with the Force. I do this too. Also in elevators, to get the door to open. Sometimes when I’m waiting at a light, I’ll point my finger at it and make a Mork-style “laser” noise to get it to change. Sometimes it even works. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Poysyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Poysyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Poysyn)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2014, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-personal-peculiarities/695534/83 "2014-08-20T18:55:36Z")
I agree with “once a dish is in the sink, that is DIRTY”. My own: I will re-use glasses for other beverages during the day, unless they have had milk in them, then they must be washed. When I am eating pie, if I can get away with it, I like to eat the filling seperate from the crust. The crust is actually my favourite part. I am the same with pizza pops (but I rarely eat those anymore). No one is allowed to use my pillow. If someone does (yes, even my hubby) then I need to change the pillowcase. The only exception is my daughter is allowed to use it when I am out of town. ---
**Author:** ![Imaginary\_Muffins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/71e660/32.png) [@Imaginary\_Muffins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Imaginary_Muffins)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2014, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-personal-peculiarities/695534/84 "2014-08-20T19:47:18Z")
I love these forums. You people make me feel almost normal. Now and then, in the hot summer, I get a Wendy’s medium Frosty. It’s best if they’ve included a napkin (otherwise I just use one from home) which I fold in half length-wise, wrap it around the cup and put a small piece of tape to hold it in place. I MUST have the Frosty spoon - using another spoon just isn’t right. For a while my local Wendy’s was USING THE WRONG CUP - the ice cream cup as opposed to the regular medium. I could barely eat it. But I managed.🙂 ---
**Author:** ![tapu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/49beb7/32.png) [@tapu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tapu)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2014, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-personal-peculiarities/695534/85 "2014-08-20T19:57:59Z")
> [@Soylent\_Juicy](#): > > Every time I leave the house I say to my pets “I’ll be home later, I love all of you”. Been doing it ever since my first apartment when I was 20. I’ve always said, “You be good; I’ll be back.” But in the last decade or so, it’s become, “You be good; I’ll be bad.” They don’t seem to notice. ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2014, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-personal-peculiarities/695534/86 "2014-08-20T20:04:25Z")
I eat cottage cheese with cheez-its. ---
**Author:** ![TheFaerie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c57346/32.png) [@TheFaerie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheFaerie)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2014, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-personal-peculiarities/695534/87 "2014-08-20T20:11:15Z")
I just mentioned this peculiarity to my therapist last night: If I don’t get home from work at the same time every day, I feel like I’m late. There is no reason to feel this way, I don’t have kids or pets that need attention, my husband isn’t wierd about it, I just feel like I’m late for something. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2014, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-personal-peculiarities/695534/88 "2014-08-20T21:50:03Z")
> [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](#): > > Don’t take this the wrong way, but I don’t think I could be in a room with you. How could I possibly take that the wrong way? 😛 No, but I try to keep the weirdness to a minimum when in others’ company. My eating tends to be in private because I have a lot to be guilty about. > [@kayaker](#): > > ETA: also remember rushing to complete a cell phone call because of the expense! I was reminded recently of something I had totally forgotten – waiting till after 5:00 or after 11:00 to get increasingly cheaper rates on long distance. /aside ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2014, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-personal-peculiarities/695534/89 "2014-08-20T21:51:08Z")
> [@Imaginary\_Muffins](#): > > I love these forums. You people make me feel almost normal. > > Now and then, in the hot summer, I get a Wendy’s medium Frosty. It’s best if they’ve included a napkin (otherwise I just use one from home) which I fold in half length-wise, wrap it around the cup and put a small piece of tape to hold it in place. > > I MUST have the Frosty spoon - using another spoon just isn’t right. For a while my local Wendy’s was USING THE WRONG CUP - the ice cream cup as opposed to the regular medium. I could barely eat it. But I managed.🙂 But do you dip your fries in your Frosty before eating them?? ---
**Author:** ![Tremblay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e56c9b/32.png) [@Tremblay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tremblay)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2014, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-personal-peculiarities/695534/90 "2014-08-20T22:00:39Z")
> [@gigi](#): > > But do you dip your fries in your Frosty before eating them?? The only way to do it…or McD french fries in the tartar sauce or honey. YUM. One other peculiarity from me: I like to eat my food on separate dishes. I’ll eat meat on one plate (a side is okay near the meat) and veggies in a bowl. I don’t like all on one plate. ---
**Author:** ![xizor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xizor/32/102_2.png) [@xizor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xizor)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2014, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-personal-peculiarities/695534/91 "2014-08-20T22:17:12Z")
> [@gigi](#): > > - the volume of anything has to be set to a even number or a multiple of five. We would totally clash, since I will only enter an odd number of seconds on the microwave to heat my food. ---
**Author:** ![buddy431](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6a8cbe/32.png) [@buddy431](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddy431)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2014, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-personal-peculiarities/695534/92 "2014-08-20T22:27:09Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > Whenever I trigger an automatic door, I do a little semicircular wave with my hand and pretend I’m opening it with the Force. My father always used to say “open sesame”. I didn’t understand the reference for a very long time, but I started using it myself (years before I ever read _Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves_. When I turn on lights (even with a switch), I often say “let there be light”. It’s nice to be God. ---
**Author:** ![Onomatopoeia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/onomatopoeia/32/4145_2.png) [@Onomatopoeia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Onomatopoeia)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2014, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-personal-peculiarities/695534/93 "2014-08-21T03:26:03Z")
> [@RivkahChaya](#): > > Are you old enough to remember when some people regarded their cell as their “secret” phone, and gave the number only to two or three people who might need to get hold of them in an emergency? You didn’t even want it generally known that you had a cell phone, because you didn’t want everyone to know that you were always available? You could turn off your landline at night, because you knew that the two people who genuinely might need to get hold of you had your cell number? This is my mom, precisely. ---
**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:** [August 21, 2014, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-personal-peculiarities/695534/94 "2014-08-21T14:36:20Z")
> [@gigi](#): > > But do you dip your fries in your Frosty before eating them?? I’ll grant a pass on this since the world is not perfect, but the reality is that fries should only be dipped in a vanilla milk shake. No flavorings, no “non-dairy” desserts. Vanilla shake. ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2014, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-personal-peculiarities/695534/95 "2014-08-21T14:45:12Z")
I always leave a building or house by the same door I entered. Using different doors was seriously bad ju-ju according to my grandmother and it stuck. It’s one of those automatic things I just do. ---
**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:** [August 21, 2014, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-personal-peculiarities/695534/96 "2014-08-21T14:54:04Z")
I cannot stand eating with little wooden paddles, like the ones people sometimes get with ice cream. If I see someone else using one, I have to stop what I am doing and leave. It grosses me out. I eat everything separately, least-liked to best-liked. And take sandwiches apart. I eat very, very slowly, savoring each bite and putting my utensil down between bites. Drives my sweetie nuts. He’s finished everything and I’m about a 1/3 done. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2014, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-personal-peculiarities/695534/97 "2014-08-21T14:54:56Z")
> [@Tremblay](#): > > One other peculiarity from me: I like to eat my food on separate dishes. I’ll eat meat on one plate (a side is okay near the meat) and veggies in a bowl. I don’t like all on one plate. For most foods, I am of the keep-them-separate camp. Veggies go in a bowl on the main plate so that any juice won’t contaminate the other food. Our Thanksgiving wasn’t complete without dried corn, but its juice goes everywhere! I don’t know why I never thought to use a separate bowl. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2014, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-personal-peculiarities/695534/98 "2014-08-21T16:32:07Z")
> [@kopek](#): > > I always leave a building or house by the same door I entered. Using different doors was seriously bad ju-ju according to my grandmother and it stuck. It’s one of those automatic things I just do. According to MY grandmother–NO MIRRORS on doors (captures your soul?). :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![PorchePine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/94ad74/32.png) [@PorchePine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PorchePine)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2014, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-personal-peculiarities/695534/99 "2014-08-21T17:18:21Z")
> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#): > > According to MY grandmother–NO MIRRORS on doors (captures your soul?). :rolleyes: It’s for safety. If you’re not looking where you’re going, you can’t see that the door is closed if there’s a mirror there. ---
**Author:** ![Amberlei](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e56c9b/32.png) [@Amberlei](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amberlei)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2014, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-personal-peculiarities/695534/100 "2014-08-21T17:29:03Z")
> [@Sattua](#): > > I’m the opposite. I always eat my favorite thing first (and, like an earlier poster, I finish one thing entirely before I move to the next). > > This behavior was justified when I met my husband, who repeated his grandfather’s wisdom: “If you eat the best first, then you’re always eating the best thing there is.” I like this, but I do the opposite, eating my least favorite first and working my way up to my favorite, finishing entirely before moving on. My real oddity lies with housework. I absolutely cannot clean house if someone else is home. I can do dishes or laundry, and little cleanups, but any significant cleaning has to be done in solitude. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-personal-peculiarities/695534.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-personal-peculiarities/695534.md?page=6)