Reasons why people think you're crazy

Please bear in mind that I think all of these things are perfectly normal. It’s you weirdos out there that think I’m crazy. :slight_smile:

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[li]I cut up my pancakes into eighths, pizza-style, before eating each wedge.[/li][li]I get excited about watching professional bowling on television.[/li][li]I despise chocolate.[/li][li]I’m not attracted to Angelina Jolie.[/li][/ul]

I would rather watch a really bad horror movie than a good, Oscar-worthy drama.

I’m metabolically incapable of ordering the same thing as someone else at a restaurant.

I sometimes bust out with random little dances while I’m doing mundane tasks like washing dishes.

When I drink a soda with ice, I like the ice better than the soda.

Non sequiturs and cheese.

I heat up cold coffee in the microwave and then put ice cubes in it.

I write Pirates of the Caribbean and Doctor Who fanfiction, and I am 30 years old.

I just started smoking again after having quit for eight months.

Yesterday I abruptly forgot how to count to three. In front of my program manager, no less. Most embarrassing.

I type out everything I say in my mind.

I build forts in the living room out of tables and blankets, and I am 30 years old.

I get “premonitions” about things, and usually obey them.

There’s much, much more but that’s about as high as I feel like flying my freak flag this morning.

-I am never happier than when I am watching some sort of educational movie or television. I once stayed up until 4 in the morning when I had to work the next day because I was watching a special on the history of math.

-I love showtunes and 80’s retro hits and consider them superior to all other forms of music.

-I buy christmas presents and stocking stuffers for my kitties, wrap them up and place them under the tree as if I were giving them to people.

Are the eyes take-off-able?

Just other people at the same table, or do you survey the entire place before figuring out what to order?

Actually most of the really crazy things I do, nobody knows about.

But the ones people do know:
I shout at the TV.
I don’t eat potatoes. Or drink anything carbonated.
For the longest time I had no interest in dating.
I make up my own languages. And nearly all of them are related to Thundercats.
I wear kimono (not as often as I would like)
I go barefoot. Outside. Once in the snow (for, like, two minutes)
For a while, when I was chatting I’d do two or three people at once (myself, Felino, and Mya-chama). Just for fun. And I’d what and see if anybody would figure out they were all me. Now I never chat so it doesn’t come up.

I keep campaigning in my son’s Cub Scout pack for an adult “Open Class” in the Pinewood Derby.

I spend way too much time in front of this d@## computer!

All of my jokes are corny; the rest of my humor is usually too dry to be caught. Stephen Wright is my hero.

After I made a sidewalk at my kids’ school, I pointed out to the teachers that one side was hyperbolic, just in case they wanted to go outside for a geometry class. I think that conic sections are introduced at the junior high school level around here.

I wanted to build a couple of “whispering walls” (two walls with the apexes of a parabola carved into each one) at the school as well, but nothing came of it.

I like cartoon shows like King of the Hill and Monsters Inc., not because I think that they’re funny but because of how accurate they are in depicting the social dynamics of their subjects (Yes, I work in a factory and live in Texas. That’s why I picked them as examples.)

I walk around the (quiet, residential, but traffic-y) neighborhood singing 1930s pop tunes. Not only is it excellent vocal practice, but I can gauge the aerobic intensity of my walking by the fact that I’m just a little bit too winded to sustain the long notes.

I have waaay too many collections (latest: leather flight jackets).

I enjoy having clean dishes and clothes but will not not NOT put them away.

She mentions amoebas and the men are all snorting and pawing over Olives. I mention armpit hair and I get NUTTIN!

You all have no taste. :stuck_out_tongue:

Might be a little tough, they seem to be glued on quite well (and I’m not going to pull too hard on mine) but not impossible.

:smiley:

Well, you have to understand that unlike armpit hair, the cilia on amoebas doesn’t just sit there looking pretty – it’s a propulsion system! No offense, but you’re going to have a hard time competing with that.

Heh. It just counts for the people with me.

People think I am nuts because:

I have a “superheroine-in-peril” fetish. I commission artists to draw Wonder Woman or my character Panther Girl getting knocked out and captured by supervillains.
I am an H. P. Lovecraft fan and have several different Cthulhu plushes and figures on my desk.
I am a big “Lynda Carter as Wonder Woman” fan and have her as my screensaver.
I love cephalopods – nothing excites me more (well, except for superheroine knockout/capture scenes!) than watching a good Giant Squid special on the Discovery Channel.
I enjoy going to movies alone.
I enjoy going out to restaurants alone, especially if I can take a magazine or book and read.

Long ago, it was established that I was “simply not quite right.”

Among other things, I:

  • write on walls as part of some form of insane creative process (3M came out with those gigantic poster-sized sticky notes. These are fantastic. As is chalkboard paint.) I have been doing this since I was a child. I even develop screenplays that way.

  • tend to be a fount of useless information and it freaks many people out

  • name inanimate objects and talk to them (we have full conversations)

  • lapse into various accents at random while shopping, just to freak out the natives. Leads to the embarrassment of my better half, but the great amusement of fellow theatre/entertainment coworkers who usually join in. Hilarity ensues.

  • I study rather complex mathematics with my father (a mathematician and university professor) for fun. This also leads me to write on walls. A lot. Yes, for FUN. I consider this (and tutoring a handful of Grade 7-12 students in math and physics) relaxing.

Me? Weird? Just a little.

I wouldn’t go to Disneyland or any other theme park even if the tickets were free.

Oops! I forgot some stuff…

I grow my pinky fingernails long, and I do not snort cocaine. I have no real reason to grow them long, I just find it amusing for some reason.
One of my very favorite resaurants is Hooters, to the dismay of some of my more respectable, politically-correct colleagues. I enjoy going there with the latest issue of Fortean Times, and showing the odd pictures to the waitresses. I almost always get the chocolate mousse pie for dessert, and take a picture of the waitress as she brings me the cake. I have amassed quite a collection of “Hooters girls with cake” pics!
I have collected comics since I was about ten (started around 1970). I have a whole room of my house devoted to comics storage.
I have a collection of medieval weapons, or replicas of them. All my swords, spears, axes, maces, etc. are kept in my bedroom.
I have stuffed animals on my bed. Two cows, Sylvester the Cat, Bugs Bunny, a lamb, and a koala. Also, I bring a Cthulhu plush, a “Dracthulhu” plush, and a “Little Hoot” Hooters Owl to work with me every morning to place on my desk at work. At night, I bring them home with me.
I enjoy going to Church every Sunday morning so I can sing. My regular voice is baritone/tenor, but I enjoy singing the soprano line in falsetto – unfortunately, I have noticed lately that my high voice has deteriorated somewhat from its “glory days”, which is a bit upsetting.
I may think of more stuff later…

The bones are the best part of any drink! And you have to crunch them to get the yummy insides.