# Odd little habits you have **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 9, 2000, 7:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-little-habits-you-have/36239 "2000-10-09T07:41:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 18
**Author:** ![mallocks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f4b2a3/32.png) [@mallocks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mallocks)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2003, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-little-habits-you-have/36239/341 "2003-06-24T13:34:27Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by bwk \* > \*\*OH boy… let’s see… > > I believe if I imagine in a positive light the way an upcoming event will happen, it will never happen that way. So I try not to think about it at all. > > I hate soggy cereal – I get my bowl of milk, and only put in a few flakes. I eat those, and then add a few more, and on and on, until the milk is gone. > > I have gone through periods where I have a constant narrative going on in my head about what I am doing and saying and feeling. > > When I hear the ding-ding of a car-door-open signal or a turn signal, I use it as a metronome and sing a song around it. ‘The tide is high’ and ‘I’ve been working on the railroad’ are popular. > > I have to stop myself from correcting people who use incorrect grammar when they are speaking. Double negatives and subject-verb agreement errors are the worst. Also when people use words that don’t exist, such as ‘theirselves’. > > I wonder if there are any therapists on the SDMB that would care to comment on all of us and all of this? \*\* Ok, for 5 minutes I thought I was normal. yeh, check check check and check. Only I do it with clocks ticking as well 🙂 And hum rather than sing ---
**Author:** ![mallocks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f4b2a3/32.png) [@mallocks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mallocks)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2003, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-little-habits-you-have/36239/342 "2003-06-24T13:38:46Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Stupendous man \* > \*\* > If the alarm is to be set for 6:00 A.M, and I accidentally make it go to 6:01, I will do a complete loop back to 6:00 again, no matter how long it takes. > \*\* Argh, that reminds me of another. I do that AND I turn off my alarm in my sleep. Which is both odd and annoying. ---
**Author:** ![mallocks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f4b2a3/32.png) [@mallocks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mallocks)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2003, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-little-habits-you-have/36239/343 "2003-06-24T13:55:06Z")
hmm, it suddenly occured to me that this thread is over 2 and a half years old… Now it seems to be a check list for odd habits, at least to me 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Yersinia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/6bbea6/32.png) [@Yersinia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yersinia)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2003, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-little-habits-you-have/36239/344 "2003-06-24T15:09:05Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Skribbler \* > \*\*I’m single, and unless I have a Special Lady over for the night, I sleep fully dressed, minus shoes and sox. I got into that habit when I worked two jobs some time back. In the morning, I shower and change. I also sleep with my glasses on because I hate waking up in an emergency, having to fumble for them, get them on and go take care of whatever woke me. I used to live in a crappy neighborhood and had to get up in a hurry several times because someone tried to break in, so fumbling for glasses wasted time. \*\* This peculiarity of yours relates to an opposite peculiarity of mine that fits in with this thread. Namely, if anyone was to DARE getting into my bed wearing his street clothes (even minus shoes and socks) he would DIE, slowly and unpleasantly. Nothing gets worn in my bed by me or anyone else other than pajamas or “birthday suits” (I’m divorced and live by myself, but my boyfriend and I spend most weekends at my place or his). While the only time my bed gets properly made is when I strip it down and change the sheets, I do straighten it every morning, i.e., pull the topsheet and covers back in place so it LOOKS more or less made and so that if I or anyone else were to sit down on it, we’d be ON the bed, not IN it. This is the only time I’ll sit down on the bed in street clothes or let anyone else. I’m just really, really fussy to the point of being neurotic about my bed being “clean on the inside.” Maybe this is because I take my showers at night instead of in the morning. Perhaps my nightly showers are another one of those really odd things abut me? It’s FAR easier for me to stay up a half hour later to shower than to get up half an hour earlier to do it in the morning. I am NOT a morning person and the LAST thing I want to do is take a shower then. But in any event, I’m really insistently odd about this. What’s especially bizarre about this bed peculiarity of mine is the fact that otherwise I’m not much of a housekeeper. In fact, other than regularly attending to matters of personal hygiene (shower, hairbrushing, toothbrushing, wearing clean attire), I qualify as an outright slob. I do only the barest minimum of housework. For instance, the dishes get done regularly, but “time to do the dishes” comes only when they fill the sink to the point where I can’t rinse out the coffee pot to make more coffee. I take out the garbage, but only when all three of my indoor containments are full, and though I do the laundry every week, it’s only because if I wait longer, my laundry basket is too heavy for me to carry to the basement laundry room. Virtually all of the other housework (washing kitchen floor, cleaning bathroom, vacuuming, dusting) goes straight to hell for months on end before I even notice it, then it finally grosses me out and I give in and do it – and I couldn’t give a horse’s posterior. And I have messy piles of stuff all over the apartment too. Think I’m bad? You should see my boyfriend’s house. By comparison, I’m Martha Stewart. ---
**Author:** ![ecugrad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ac8455/32.png) [@ecugrad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ecugrad)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2003, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-little-habits-you-have/36239/345 "2003-06-24T21:32:02Z")
I’m very much like **Maastricht** when it comes to eating without the husband. Last week it was liverwurst, hebrew national (had to be that brand) hotdogs, and salmon cream cheese. I don’t crave these foods and don’t feel deprived not eating them. In fact, the mere thought of them is making me sick, but there’s some demented satisfaction I get while I’m eating weird food combinations without the husband around… 😕 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-little-habits-you-have/36239.md?page=17)