I just realized that I do that one too, except that I don’t eat them one at a time. Instead they have to go down in twos or threes. That way they won’t be lonely, I suppose.
I always remove the “duds” from a batch of photos.
Sounds logical to me, but…
Everyone else on my trips just leaves them in the pile, and then Mr.Thumbonthelens will hear from Mrs.Thumbonthelens
how it was supposed to be the Eiffel Tower from now on every time they show them around.
I separate them into colour groups, too, but I eat them in rainbow order. In smarties this is because rainbow order happens to put them in the order of flavors I like, from the ones I least like to my favourites, but in M & M’s this is just a Rainbow Brite habit. Brown – Red – Orange – Yellow – Green – Blue for M&Ms, Purple – Red – Orange – Yellow – Green – White for Smarties.
I used to eat paper.
I’m a total pyro. My ex bought me an aromatherapy candle and it’s like candy. I dip my fingers in the wax, break the wax off, and watch it melt. I love fire, melting wax… anything like that.
I try to step exactly twice (left-right or right-left) or exactly once in every square on the sidewalk. Sometimes I have to jolt in order to get back in synch.
Or I’ll be looking down as I walk along, with my finger pointed out like a little phaser, and try to vaporize each square on the sidewalk before I get to it, while walking normally.I can’t vaporize a square I’m standing on or the rapid nadion reaction will get me too.
I sing along to my walkman out loud in metro stations (but never on the train itself) and while walking along. When this is for some reason unsafe or impossible, I’ll mouth the words, or I’ll fingerspell the initial letter of each word in the song.
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.)
I invent languages.
I push doors open by the frame, avoiding the handle. If I must use the handle, I go for the tippy-edge.
I put bills in my wallet in order with $20s on the outside, even though cashiers more often hand them to me the opposite way.
I glance at everyone’s ass, nice or not. Maybe it’s like a face - I subconsiously try to memorize it to identify them.
When alone, I eat like a barbarian/carnivorous dinosaur.
When going past signs on the road, I like to spell out the signs out loud, only using letters of the Spanish alphabet (ex. “Stop” sign: essay, tay, oh, pay!")
I can’t stand to have anything stuck between my front teeth, so I suck spit through my teeth. Often. If this doesn’t work I’ll finally go floss or grab a toothpick.
Let’s see, I didn’t realise I had so many odd little habits until I read this thread.
I do the static electricity pre-touch.
I have to have a sound machine set to ‘white noise’ to sleep. If I don’t have my sound machine, I’ll use a fan, or turn on the tv to a ‘snowy’ station with the sound up.
My clock has to be set fast, no exact amount, but at least 10mins. However, my alarm clock is set early enough so I can hit the snooze once and still get up when I need to.
I’m anal about being on time. So much so that I get to work 30 mins early because if I were to leave my house at a time where I would get to work on time, I worry there will be an accident on the freeway causing me to be late. This hasn’t happened yet, so I’m always Really early.
I also can’t sleep in an unmade bed. I make it every night before going to sleep.
I’m fairly superstitious (with some things): I knock on wood all the time, say bread & butter when passing on opposites sides of something while walking with a companion, I won’t pick up scissors if I drop them, or pennies that are tails up.
I can’t stand the mere thought, let alone feel, of dry hands or feet rubbing cloth. I wear socks on carpet, and apply lotion several times a day.
I’m a bathroom reader. If I don’t have anything to read, I’ll finger spell the shampoo bottles.
I talk to inanimate objects.
I pinch my nose a lot, not sure why.
I have to eat Altoids in twos. And I Always have Altoids (I buy them in bulk).
I hate when people leave the lid to the copier up. Usually it’s the guys in the office. What is it with you men and leaving the lids up on things ?
I can’t sleep unless I have at least a sheet covering me.
That’s all that I can think of offhand (as if it’s not enough).
I have a severe static electricity phobia. I do the rap-on-metal-before-touching-it thing, but I’ll also keep an eye on the car door as I’m exiting the car door so as not to touch it. I will then close the car door with my foot. I don’t actually kick the door closed; I just sort of push the door closed with foot, the way a normal person would with their hand. Sometime, when I’m in a particularly neurotic mindset and I’m trying to open a door, I’ll pull the sleeve of my jacket down to cover my hand so that my skin won’t contact metal door handles.
I’m fidgity. I always have to have something in my hands to play with. And I knaw on objects more than I care to admit.
Some urinals have solid blocks of stuff in them that are designed to deodorize the urinal. When I use an urinal so equipped, I absolutely must aim for and pee directly upon the fragrance blocks.
… and I’m too damn lazy to proofread before I post.
wow…great thread…
When ordering beer, I always order " A Lite beer from Miller" never “Miller Lite”. I count how many steps I take going from place to another. I sleep with the bedroom door open, with little if anything covering me. I am always early. I always read while on the throne. I walk my dogs separately, always taking each dog on the same path so not to show favortism.
Just wondering, for you people who need to get into a “made bed”, what happens when you get up to pee at night? Do you remake the bed?
I like to pay tolls with exact change, and will pre-plan a trip so that exact change is in the door pocket for every toll, folded up tight for easy handling.
If I’ve been particularly restless and can do it without waking my partner, yes, I will.
I like to slide the fortune cookie out without breaking the shell. Why, I don’t know, since I immediately eat the cookie.
When I was working at the L. A. County Office of Education in Downey, from 1987 to 1995:
I would walk into one part of the building during rounds, where some Halloween decorations had been, and say, “Death Kills!” then walk out the other door. (The areas I made rounds in were usually unoccupied so I could do these odd little things. When I had worked in a post office in 1969, one of the carriers had the “Death Kills!” sticker from a Mad annual pasted to the side of his upright sorting case.)
At 4:30 a.m., on the graveyard shift, I would slowly walk up the back stairs to the central corridor, then run as fast as I dared in the dark corridor to the other end, where I would go switch the upstairs lights on (required to be done by 4:30 a.m. every day) before walking down the front stairwell.
On the swing shift, I wouls go out the front door and count the employees’ cars on the lot just after 9 p.m. This proved to be helpful one time, when one employee’s van wasn’t there; to make a long story short, the van had been apparently stolen a few minutes before; he called the police and the van was soon recovered.
There were four urinals in the restroom off the lobby. When I came in on the first day of my four-day work week, I would use the first urinal, from the left; on Friday the second, and so on.
Thursday dinner would always be a pasta or rice dish; Friday soup and a sandwich; Satrday something from a fast-food place (or I’d send out for pizza); Sunday a TV dinner.
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dougie, if you look at it for a sec it says that she likes run on sentences.
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OK - I have to admit to the eating one thing at a time rule as well.
Also I like to eat the cake first and leave the icing to last.
The toilet roll has to be in place so the paper comes over the top of the roll.
Must have more than one pillow on the bed at night though I only sleep with one under my head. (The others are to throw around the room when I can’t get to sleep)
Need to take a mouthful of water BEFORE trying to put a tablet in my mouth (I do a great chipmunk impersonation when I need to take a tablet)
MMMM lots of weird habits really
When this thread started, I thought you all were really weird and, of course, I wasn’t like that. Then the weather turned cold and I decided to have one of my favorite cold weather drinks, mint tea. As I was waiting for my water to boil I picked up my tea bag and sniffed it. As I stood there sniffing until the water was done it occurred to me that this was just the sort of thing you were talking about. Now I’m sure there are other things I do, I just haven’t thought about them being weird.