Odd little habits you have

The hair on my head is mostly black. But a few white ones pop up when I search beneath layers of hair. I tweeze those out.

My husband asks me to do this for him: Tweeze any super-long eyebrow hairs he has that grow downward and itch his eye, or start curling upward and look funny. I don’t mind doing that for him.

I’ll also tweeze any super-long hairs I spot growing out of his ears. He has about 3 in one ear and 2 in the other ear that grow really long.

I stopped using a razor many years ago to shave my underarms. I just tweeze them instead. Don’t have to buy razors anymore. And, no, it doesn’t hurt. Not a bit.

I talk or yell at the characters on tv. Like when they’re about to go into the haunted house or walk into some dangerous situation, I yell at them to not do that. Of course they don’t take my advice, and so when they end up in major trouble, I yell, ‘TOLD YOU SO!’

My husband laughs at me from the other room.

At least I keep my mouth shut in the movie theatre. I have enough self-control for that.

I’ve had two former supervisors (librarians) who had a major cow when they saw the word ‘superseded’ spelled like this:

‘superceded’

They are just two different ways of spelling it, according to the unabridged dictionary. I think the one with a ‘c’ is an acceptable form in the UK.

“But you’re here in the United States, so you shouldn’t spell it like that!” was the answer we got when we pointed out that bit of info.

My co-worker cannot resist popping bubble-wrap. She got me hooked on it, too, last year, darn it.

I read during everything so now I can do just about everything one-handed.
I chew on those little plastic rings left on the necks of pop bottles.
Everything MUST be symetrical.
I used to lay imaginary cable behind myself as I walked which meant I always had to go back the way I came wherever I went.

mega the roo will you marry me? you are just the kind of neurotic I need

anyhoo…

some of mine

I have to, simply have to, look in someone’s medicine cabinet. If someone leaves me alone in their house i snoop. what i find stays in the vault but i have to…

i have to know where my wallet is 24-7 or else i get like Rain Man

i have to flush the toilet twice, have to read something while going and i am very paranoid about people - ahem - hearing me go. Some couples i know stand there and talk to each other while dumping…unimaginable…bathrooms should be a confessional sort of place

i will go to the verge of crapping my pants before i use a public washroom…and i will crap my pants before i use a bathroom at a bar

i sniff my fingers. i have no idea why. this is gross

maybe grossest of all. i have an odd interest in popping zits on other people. this is revolting but true

i have no real anal eating habits…i use only teaspoons, salad cannot be near warm food if it gets warm it is gross…also, any sauces, dips etc cannot get on salad.

eggs must be steaming hot…not lukewarm or cool

same with coffee/tea

fruit does not go in fridge

i hate cologne and have to wear something girly-smelling or else i feel like some 70s suave guy with a bad stache and chest hair

before i got badly depressed i would brush my teeth six or seven times a day

rearview mirror has to allow me to see perfectly behind me…people who dont use it or have it all askew drive me bats

i cannot read or study unless I am in absoulte silence. as in the silence of the dark recesses of space.

since i have a foot fetish i have a bad habit of staring at a women’s feet. this is bad in summer during sandal season. Ladies, is that as offensive as staring at your boobs while you’re talking to me?

more to come

when at a urinal I have to stand and spray my jet of pee across the porcelain to get all across it, like i was painting with a jetspray gun. if i miss a spot or run out of pee i feel oddly disappointed.

I too always pee on the urinal cake.

when im doing something completely physical ie playing sports, drumming, sex, my mind begins to vomit out odd bits of phrases and speech that I have recently heard. this could be lines from a movie, songs, something a friend said. i believe this is called “word salad” and is a common symptom of schizophrenia. cheers.

i have to sleep nude, starkers, with at least four pillows, a body pillow and since my apartment is a like an oven 365 no blanket. also, i cannot be touched while sleeping or else i will wake up psycho. i never use Snooze, have a bad habit of mixing up AM/PM on my alarm, and wake up before the first ring is finished.

i always make a game of exiting popups before they load but always fall pray to the bastards who force their windows over your main one so u exit your main one and are stuck with HOT TEEN SNATCH!!! that more and more seems to mazimize itself so the three size buttons are out of sight. i need to vent that.

the people who put underscores after every word in mp3 titles should be beaten with a mallet. i am uberanal when it comes to organizing my music on my comp–full band name, album, song number, title.

when i move to a new place i will open any mail, save government or banking stuff, that is adressed to the previous tenant

i doddle my name like i was signing an autograph when bored, especially in class when the prof is just wooden.

i know i am the first to admit this and it will take brass balls for others to say it, but i am fascinated by the smell of my own farts.

i will check to make sure my door’s locked at least three times before i step out, then will agonize for a few minutes knowing that i know its locked but still not %100 sure

i used to do graphic design and when i was in the zone with headphones on i would listen to the same song for hours. one night in school i listened to Tool’s 'Stinkfist" for seven hours staright.

I also have cds playing in my head at all times, and not only can i skip and replay but i also do remixes.

when something bugs me on tv i throw something at it or curse like a sailor. news inspires this alot.

when i crave something i will not stop obsessing over it until i get it, usually food. if i am broke, or unable to get it, i will lie there and think about it, writing odes, dreaming of all the times i had it.

apropos of this i am a masochist and watch the Food Network when hungry and broke.

if i am with one other person and we order pizza, and they get ham and pineapple, i get angry and feel that they have scorned me. h&p is not a rational topping choice and choosing it is a sign of selfishness and Darwinian struggle because no one else could possibly eat it so the getter knows he has it all to him/herself.

same with menthol cigarettes

after i recap a 2-litre bottle of pepsi you will need equipment from NASA to open it. flat pepsi is a sin in my home.

i never ever completely finish a cup of coffee, thats where all the sugar rests like sediment and drinking it is like having a mugfull of corn syrup. i am a heavy-sugar person.

butter/margarine is outlawed on any bread besides toast. mustard, preferably dijon, on any sandwhich with meat. even peanut butter must go solo.

i have to have at least two full trays of ice cubes at any given time. not refilling tray is grounds for breakup.

im sure more will come

I have to eat my meals in a certain order, first all the vegetable, one type at a time, then the meat and potatoes. If it’s a esp. nice sort of meat I will save that till very last. My sister thinks I have OCD. I also dislike eating cold food, apart from icecream.
I can’t keep my feet still.
I suck my thumb and stroke my eyebrow and nose with my free finger.

Well, lately (now that there are more volunteers floating around our office), I’ve noticed that when I’m on the SDMB, I have a habit of singing thread titles aloud (the tune varies–usually it’s made up on the spot). Not so bad if you’re hanging out in Cafe Society, but when you find yourself happily crooning “Why global warming can lick my balls” or some such title from the BBQ Pit, it can get embarrassing.

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*Originally posted by matt_mcl *
I find myself using words from all of the languages I know when in conversation. (French, Spanish, Esperanto, and a sprinkling of German, Italian, and ASL.)

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That sounds more pretensious than compulsive.

Yep. . . I do that one too. It used to be really bad. In fact, at one point when I was a kid it was so bad that I used to do it while I was talking!

I have fear of knives cutting me so whenever I see or think of someone cutting something, I shudder a bit actually seeing the knife cut one of my fingers. I avoid cutting things!

When I use the restroom, I pull the toilet paper off the exact same way every time, three small pulls and wrapping one end around the hand, removing my hand and then proceeding… I don’t even think about it. And if there are decorative tiles on the floor, I will stare at them and trace their pattern or make different patterns out of the tiles. I especially like to follow the tiles in to a pattern of squares going around getting bgger and bigger every time until my eyes blur or I lose my place, or I run out of room. I never use #2 if another person is in the public restroom with me and if they come in during, I am very still and quiet. I guess I have a lot of funny toilet habits! I cannot ever take a shower without first rinsing out the entire thing msking sure there is no debris or hair on the floor before I step in and If it is stopped up, forget it! I get it unstopped right away!

I’ll be damned if I can pick up a piece of toast from a plate and butter the top side. I have to flip it over and butter the side which was down. (Can’t butter it directly from the toaster until I have first placed it on a plate or surface to define a top and bottom side) I keep “trying” to butter the top side just for variety but it seems not to be an option.

Many years ago I had a friend who could not walk beside you without doing a little hop / skip thing to syncronize his step to yours. He seemed to think no one noticed. I used to frustrate the hell out of him by taking different size steps as I walked.

Whenever I eat squid strips they always spring back and snap me in the eye. As a consequence whenever I eat anything that even remotely resembles squid strips (such as fish fingers) I always squint my eyes, screw up my face and brace myself to be smacked in the eye. And I look stupid.

When I’m at the gas station, I will not start the engine again until the transaction is totally completed and I’ve got my receipt. I know it’s safe to do it once he puts the cap back on the tank, but I just won’t start the car again until I’m ready to pull away.

I always take my jewelry off in the same order before going to bed. If for whatever reason I took my rings (or watch, etc) off earlier in the day, I’ll still make the motions of taking them off out of habit.

I don’t know if this counts as a habit, but one summer that I was a bus counselor, the driver would always light up a cigarette after we’d dropped off the last kid and I’d eat a bagel with cream cheese. So, for a while after that summer, I’d associate cigarette smoke with bagels and cream cheese. That sense memory faded after a while, but every couple of years since then smoke occasionally makes me hungry for that bagel.

Me too!!! If I don’t spit, I can’t pee. We must be long lost brothers or something.

I mentally arrange the numbers 1,2,3,4 in all of thier possible combinations as fast as I can about 20 times a day. I often do this when people are talking to me, I hope that is not too rude. I started doing this when I was about 12, and haven’t stopped since.

In the office I drink my soft drinks from a measuring device (drinking glass shaped) because the super market near the office doesn’t have “normal” glasses which are big enough (0.5L). There is even a cake recipe printed on it.

People seem to be amused about it, so I kept it.

hmm, I thought I was odd before reading this thread :slight_smile:

Lesse, first I think is guessing the number of steps from any part of my walk home from the bus stop to my front door exactly, without ever counting it.

I also ridiculously anal-retentively organise my mp3s. They are all c:/mp3s/Artist Name/Album Name/Track Number - Artist Name - Track Name.mp3 and they all have the same tag configuration :slight_smile:

I’ll get back to you if I think of any more while going through the last 4 pages of the thread :slight_smile:

ooh, the panache45 and Susu thing, of eating the thing that tastes the best last. Although I don’t think that’s so odd, surely it makes sense to have a nice taste in your mouth? :slight_smile: