# 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:** 16\ **Page:** 9
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2014, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-personal-peculiarities/695534/161 "2014-09-12T02:59:06Z")
> [@MsKaren](#): > > What a relief to read about so many totally normal people! One quirk I have is eating my sandwich into the shape of Ohio. I’ve always loved maps and was, as a child, very pleased the more accurate the border was to Lake Erie and the Ohio River. You know when you absent-mindedly draw shapes with your fingers repeatedly as a fidget? No one? Well, since I was little, the shape has been the profile of a Hershey Kiss. ---
**Author:** ![the\_ark\_in\_sparkle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a698b9/32.png) [@the\_ark\_in\_sparkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/the_ark_in_sparkle)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2014, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-personal-peculiarities/695534/162 "2014-09-12T16:06:34Z")
There’s a particular bridge in town which goes under the railroad. The bridge goes over a fairly busy street and ever since I first got my driver’s license I’ve been compelled to honk when driving underneath. I think an old friend used to do this while I drove with her. I don’t know why I still do this nearly 20 years later…but I do. Also, I need to pick my feet up whenever I drive OVER railroad tracks. Not when going under, however (see above). ---
**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:** [September 12, 2014, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-personal-peculiarities/695534/163 "2014-09-12T16:10:10Z")
> [@the\_ark\_in\_sparkle](#): > > There’s a particular bridge in town which goes under the railroad. The bridge goes over a fairly busy street and ever since I first got my driver’s license I’ve been compelled to honk when driving underneath. I think an old friend used to do this while I drove with her. I don’t know why I still do this nearly 20 years later…but I do. I’m often compelled to honk when going through tunnels. My dad used to do it all the time when I was a kid, and I just sort of picked it up. However, I don’t do it when there are other cars near me in the tunnel–I don’t want to startle anybody. And since the nearest tunnel I drive through is over a hundred miles away, I don’t get the chance to do it very often these days. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![the\_ark\_in\_sparkle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a698b9/32.png) [@the\_ark\_in\_sparkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/the_ark_in_sparkle)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2014, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-personal-peculiarities/695534/164 "2014-09-12T16:55:53Z")
I think the idea behind honking under this bridge was that there were ALWAYS other cars/pedestrians underneath. We were young and (purposefully) annoying. Still so, apparently. ---
**Author:** ![Sattua](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sattua/32/11906_2.png) [@Sattua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sattua)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2014, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-personal-peculiarities/695534/165 "2014-09-12T17:53:06Z")
I flip frying bacon with my bare fingers. The secret is to do it reeeeeeal fast. ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2014, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-personal-peculiarities/695534/166 "2014-09-12T18:05:01Z")
> [@gnoitall](#): > > Whereas I go for the absolute opposite: assess a handful of M&Ms and eat them individually by color until I have the same number of every color represented in the hand. And then eat them in one-of-each-color sets, maintaining color parity until I have zero M&Ms. I do it that way sometiems. Other times I do the one color at a time approach. But lately I’ve started doing it differently. I lay down a piece of clean paper and empty the little bag of M&Ms on it. Then, _without moving any of the pieces_, I selectively eat individual pieces in a way that results in separated clusters of individual colors. It’s a nice little game. Now I’m off to get some M&Ms. ---
**Author:** ![Highboy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/96bed5/32.png) [@Highboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Highboy)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2014, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-personal-peculiarities/695534/167 "2014-09-13T03:02:14Z")
If I am the passenger in a car, the windows have to be all the way up or all the way down. If I am driving, it doesn’t matter. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2014, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-personal-peculiarities/695534/168 "2014-09-13T03:51:24Z")
> [@Sarabellum1976](#): > > Because you’re not indoors? > > 😃 No, because he prefers to walk on his hands. ---
**Author:** ![MacCat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maccat/32/216_2.png) [@MacCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacCat)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2014, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-personal-peculiarities/695534/169 "2014-09-14T17:05:01Z")
Hard ice cream, sugar cone. Nibbled down to be finished as a perfect and complete tiny ice cream cone. ---
**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:** [September 14, 2014, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-personal-peculiarities/695534/170 "2014-09-14T18:00:20Z")
I often like to eat chocolate slightly melted. When eating Mini Eggs (candy eggs consisting of chocolate in a candy shell,) I’ll keep them in my hand for a while before eating them so that they get slightly melted. ---
**Author:** ![Dunkelheit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dunkelheit/32/248_2.png) [@Dunkelheit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dunkelheit)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2014, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-personal-peculiarities/695534/171 "2014-09-14T21:00:31Z")
> [@EmilyG](#): > > I often like to eat chocolate slightly melted. When eating Mini Eggs (candy eggs consisting of chocolate in a candy shell,) I’ll keep them in my hand for a while before eating them so that they get slightly melted. I do that with M&Ms, and when they’re liquid inside I smoosh them with my fingertips before eating them. ---
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2014, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-personal-peculiarities/695534/172 "2014-09-14T21:20:46Z")
> [@YogSosoth](#): > > Do you ever fear that one night, a voice will call out from the darkness in response? " We know. " :eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek: ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2014, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-personal-peculiarities/695534/173 "2014-09-18T20:25:09Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > When I’m walking out on the sidewalk, I always try to take no more than one step per sidewalk segment. Cracks across the segments are tremendously helpful, as it makes two segments which each allow a step. I usually walk right next to the curb, because the curb provides another segment which can be used as needed. I do this too as part of a game while walking the dog. If I can get to ten segments, once per segment, _without any cars passing me_, I win the first round. Then we enter the bonus round, where the points double every “win”. Then Final Jeopardy, where they are multiplied by ten on every win. I get up into the decillions on quiet afternoons. I can spend the points on whatever I want - winning the world judo championship, scholarships to Hogwart’s, the Nobel Prize in physics for my discovery of practical, table-top fusion, things like that - but they cannot be banked. I start fresh every walk. The dog likes it because I walk fast, both for momentum to carry me to the next segment without a second step and to be sure no cars pass me. Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![BaldDudePeekskill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b5e925/32.png) [@BaldDudePeekskill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BaldDudePeekskill)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2014, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-personal-peculiarities/695534/174 "2014-09-19T00:23:35Z")
I count things. Have to count different types of people on my 18 block walk to the train. Tonight was blond girls, tomorrow could Be red cars, guys in shirts, whatever it may be. I also won’t leave my car until the song on the radio is over. ---
**Author:** ![Ms\_Boods](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5e9695/32.png) [@Ms\_Boods](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ms_Boods)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2014, 11:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-personal-peculiarities/695534/175 "2014-09-20T11:28:45Z")
Whenever Mr Boods has to feed a ticket into a car park gate, he usually shoves it in with some iimpatience, saying affably, ‘Choke on that, you bitch.’ ---
**Author:** ![Ms\_Boods](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5e9695/32.png) [@Ms\_Boods](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ms_Boods)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2014, 11:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-personal-peculiarities/695534/176 "2014-09-20T11:30:53Z")
> [@Corner\_Case](#): > > I must usually “correct” the toilet paper to top over “dispensation” versus bottom under. If the guest bathroom is very nice, I may fold a little triangle just for giggles. Sorry for the double post, but I always exclaim, ‘The sacred point!’ whenever I stay at a guest house or B & B where the bog roll’s been folded into the little triangle. 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-personal-peculiarities/695534.md?page=8)