# Things that seemingly, only you do. **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 22, 2004, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-seemingly-only-you-do/256279 "2004-07-22T02:02:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![AwSnappity](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a3d4f5/32.png) [@AwSnappity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AwSnappity)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2004, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-seemingly-only-you-do/256279/41 "2004-07-24T03:32:31Z")
I reminded myself of another quirk at dinner tonight: I dip my french fries into strawberry jelly. This is preferable IMO to milk shakes. ---
**Author:** ![Briny\_Deep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/briny_deep/32/17188_2.png) [@Briny\_Deep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Briny_Deep)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2004, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-seemingly-only-you-do/256279/42 "2004-07-24T05:08:07Z")
I can’t stand the tiny strings left on bananas after you peel them. So I remove them, too. I’m the only person I know who peels bananas twice. (I have many weird food issues, but this is the only one that people usually comment on.) ---
**Author:** ![Nightwatch\_Trailer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/9dc877/32.png) [@Nightwatch\_Trailer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nightwatch_Trailer)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2004, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-seemingly-only-you-do/256279/43 "2004-07-24T05:45:15Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > Stuff that I think might be unique about me, or at least unique-ish: > Similarly, I hate coffee, but I loved coffee-flavored foodstuffs. > I save all my ticket stubs from going to movie theaters, unless the stub doesn’t say what the movie was. I don’t think I’ve ever had an entire cup of coffee because I can’t take the taste, yet I like coffee-flavored ice cream, candy, and coffee-flavored drinks other than coffee. Until recently I saved all my movie ticket stubs. I think I still have them in an envelope in my desk. Actually, I still haven’t recovered from that entirely - I have a two-week old _Fahrenheit 9/11_ stub in my wallet right now. I’m also a member of the group that eats the worst food in a meal first, and the best last. I really dislike talking over the phone. I’d much rather communicate face-to-face or in writing. I’ve developed a severe aversion to swimming in even moderately cold water. Everyone I know can take cold pool or ocean water, but it takes me an insanely long time to coax myself in (if I get in at all). Brr. ---
**Author:** ![Abbie\_Carmichael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/49beb7/32.png) [@Abbie\_Carmichael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Abbie_Carmichael)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2004, 7:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-seemingly-only-you-do/256279/44 "2004-07-24T07:35:53Z")
The thing _I_ do that nobody else does is I put honey on my pizza. In the 6 years I’ve lived here nobody has even _heard_ of doing such a thing. Hey, don’t knock it. It’s yummy. > [@nonpolar](#): > > I’m sure no one does what I do after pissing. :o > I take toilet paper and wipe my penis.I just can’t stand this feeling of wettnes in my underwear. My husband was reading this over my shoulder. He wants to know how the hell you manage to get it wet to begin with. Given that I am sans penis, I don’t know who to believe: my husband, who claims it doesn’t get wet when you pee, or you, who claim it does. FWIW, if I were a guy, I’d wipe too, wet or not. Gotta keep things tidy down there. It’s just the nice thing to do. ---
**Author:** ![Shrinking\_Violet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df705f/32.png) [@Shrinking\_Violet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shrinking_Violet)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2004, 11:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-seemingly-only-you-do/256279/45 "2004-07-24T11:31:48Z")
> [@masonite](#): > > I can’t stand the tiny strings left on bananas after you peel them. So I remove them, too. I’m the only person I know who peels bananas twice. > > (I have many weird food issues, but this is the only one that people usually comment on.) Nope - you’re not alone there. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![iwakura43](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de0a6/32.png) [@iwakura43](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iwakura43)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2004, 11:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-seemingly-only-you-do/256279/46 "2004-07-24T11:36:21Z")
> [@Abbie Carmichael](#): > > My husband was reading this over my shoulder. He wants to know how the hell you manage to get it wet to begin with. Given that I am sans penis, I don’t know who to believe: my husband, who claims it doesn’t get wet when you pee, or you, who claim it does. Sometimes a drop remains, uh, inside, because of surface tension. Without a shake or wipe, an unpleasant bit of wetness can result in one’s boxers (or briefs, whatever). ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2004, 12:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-seemingly-only-you-do/256279/47 "2004-07-24T12:23:39Z")
Keyboard shortcuts? Where can one find a list? (I’m serious, I use my mouse for a lot of stuff.) When I go to work, I have to open the various softwares I will be using in a certain order. First is e-mail (I get tons each day, so keeping it open helps me stay on top of urgent issues) then our traffic software. I have several modules in our traffic software that have to be opened in a certain order. If for some reason, the computer wigs out and something shuts down, I have been known to close everything down and reopen them in the proper order. I absolutely cannot leave the garbage can at the side of the road after the trash has been picked up. What bugs me is when I come home from work and I see the empty trash can still lying on its side at the end of the driveway, when I _know_ my children walked right by it on their way home from school. Sometimes I swear my children are stone-blind. ---
**Author:** ![Dante](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dante/32/9673_2.png) [@Dante](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dante)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2004, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-seemingly-only-you-do/256279/48 "2004-07-24T15:54:35Z")
> [@iwakura43](#): > > Sometimes a drop remains, uh, inside, because of surface tension. Without a shake or wipe, an unpleasant bit of wetness can result in one’s boxers (or briefs, whatever). A piss meniscus, if you will. ---
**Author:** ![Omega\_Glory](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/7c8e57/32.png) [@Omega\_Glory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omega_Glory)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2004, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-seemingly-only-you-do/256279/49 "2004-07-24T16:00:06Z")
I also remove the stringy pieces of bananas, and save movie ticket stubs too. I always break my banana before I get to the bottom tip, then I throw the the peel, along with the tip, away. I never stir my fruit on the bottom yogurt before eating it. Instead of listening to a variety of songs , I’ll listen to one or two songs repeatedly for a couple of weeks until I get sick of it/them, then move on to a new song. I make nicks in the hard outer layer of my fingernails then peel it off, leaving the softer, weaker section behind. For some reason, my sister’s nails natually have small nicks, so sometimes (during moments of intense boredom I peel off the hard part of her nails too (she’s still a child, so she doesn’t mind). ---
**Author:** ![nonpolar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/3da27b/32.png) [@nonpolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nonpolar)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2004, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-seemingly-only-you-do/256279/50 "2004-07-24T16:01:39Z")
Wet Penis thing.You know I’m not circumsized(I liked that way) and when I’m finished with peeing loose skin at the end can trap urine . PS.I drink a LOT of water and coffe/tea daily ,so I visit washroom often. ---
**Author:** ![toadspittle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c0e974/32.png) [@toadspittle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/toadspittle)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2004, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-seemingly-only-you-do/256279/51 "2004-07-24T16:38:12Z")
Every time I pour a drink from a 2-liter bottle of soda, I crush the center of the bottle so that I have some sort of handle with which to hold the giant, unwieldy thing. (How the heck are you supposed to pour them, anyway? Usually too hard to just grab with one hand–esp. when I was younger; too unbalanced if you grab by the neck = spills; and if you hold with two hands and don’t hold the cup on the countertop in place, the force of the flow can knock over the cup =spills) Anyway, I often left the big dent in the middle of the bottle when I closed the cap and put it away. My friends called them “[my name]-handles”. I also spend inordinate amounts of time thinking about how, if I were to find myself transported back in time, I would explain modern scientific understandings and technology to people in the past. ---
**Author:** ![norinew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/eb9ed0/32.png) [@norinew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/norinew)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2004, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-seemingly-only-you-do/256279/52 "2004-07-24T18:09:22Z")
A lot of things here I recognize in myself, including the one food at a time thing; even in salads, which hubby says is very weird of me. So what? So, here’s my list: I tap out rhythms to (nursery rhymes, radio jingles, whatever) on my teeth like this: three beats on right molars, three closing my teeth completely, three on my left molar. Then I see how many times I have to go through it before I end up exactly back where I started again (IOW, end up on three beats on my right molar, instead of somewhere else along the progression). I don’t do it anymore, but I went through a period of time where I would take off my watch, while I slept, and put it under my pillow. I’ve no idea why. I use the word “well” as a declarative sentence. For instance, hubby will say something like “I have to be in Baltimore pretty early Monday morning, so I think I’ll just go down Sunday night” and I’ll say “well.” Just that. Nothing else. Obviously, I mean “well, if that’s what you think is best, it’s okay with me”, but I just say “well”. I make “lists” of one thing. I’ll be talking about a subject and say “well, one thing is. . .” or “in the first place. . .” when there’s no “two thing” or “in the second place”. See, I don’t even get to the second thing in the list, so I cannot use “Hi, Opal” as my third thing. ---
**Author:** ![lightingtool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/57b2e6/32.png) [@lightingtool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lightingtool)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2004, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-seemingly-only-you-do/256279/53 "2004-07-24T20:20:55Z")
I found this to be very funny: > [@bouv](#): > > Let’s see…I also write out small numbers instead of using the numerical symbol, technically, the rule is that if it is one hundred or less, you write it out. I learned this in 3rd grade, but apparantly no one else has. Underline added by me I doubt I’m the only one who does this, but I keep my wallet in the right “cargo” pocket on my shorts or pants, instead of in a back pocket. If I’m wearing pants without extra pockets, I’ll leave my wallet at home, and just bring along id, one credit card, and cash. ---
**Author:** ![Astacey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f05b48/32.png) [@Astacey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Astacey)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2004, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-seemingly-only-you-do/256279/54 "2004-07-24T20:49:55Z")
When I make cheese burgers at home, the cheese can only touch the bread and the burger. All of the lettuce, mustard, ketchup, onions, or whatever have to be on the opposite side. This is also the rule for other cheeseburgers that are cooked by me and/ or eaten in my home. “House Rules” They think its crazy but usually go along with it. If I happen to get a cheese burger ‘out’ well, then it doesn’t matter at all. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2004, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-seemingly-only-you-do/256279/55 "2004-07-24T22:46:17Z")
> [@toadspittle](#): > > I also spend inordinate amounts of time thinking about how, if I were to find myself transported back in time, I would explain modern scientific understandings and technology to people in the past. I do that, too. Except that it’s almost exclusively Elizabethan England. ---
**Author:** ![iwakura43](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de0a6/32.png) [@iwakura43](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iwakura43)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2004, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-seemingly-only-you-do/256279/56 "2004-07-25T00:02:38Z")
> [@lightingtool](#): > > I doubt I’m the only one who does this, but I keep my wallet in the right “cargo” pocket on my shorts or pants, instead of in a back pocket. If I’m wearing pants without extra pockets, I’ll leave my wallet at home, and just bring along id, one credit card, and cash. I don’t understand how people can stand to sit on their wallets, deforming the wallet as well as the buttocks. I keep mine (my wallet) stashed in my left pocket–right pocket is reserved for car keys–after all, the ignition’s on the right! To this end, I bought a ‘front pocket wallet’ (small wallet with a money clip) recently, which I’ve found to be very comfortable–much less bulky than my old one. ---
**Author:** ![CanvasShoes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/74df32/32.png) [@CanvasShoes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CanvasShoes)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2004, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-seemingly-only-you-do/256279/57 "2004-07-25T04:44:53Z")
Okay, I know I’m probably the only woman on the planet who does this, and I know that it’s really weird, and I don’t know why I feel this way but… I am always a bit weirded out by men who are seriously into cooking. I KNOW, I KNOW. I can guess as to why, part of it may be that of the men I’ve dated, the ones who are into cooking seem so AR and perfectionist about it. But why that bugs me, I don’t know. Now, there are probably a ton of doper guys out there who are good cooks and enjoy it and don’t at all match what my experiences have been, but I still can’t stop the red flag from flying when I hear a guy start off “I love to cook, I’ve got the complete set of Habitat cookware and I make this awesome lamb with chiffon, you have to use chickadee spice in JUST the right amount…” I hear stuff like that, and my inner girl says “RUUUUUNNN”. So far, I haven’t been off the mark, but I’m not sure why I get the “strange” cooks 😃 ---
**Author:** ![CanvasShoes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/74df32/32.png) [@CanvasShoes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CanvasShoes)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2004, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-seemingly-only-you-do/256279/58 "2004-07-25T04:47:33Z")
> [@DeVena](#): > > I only eat one food at a time. For example, if presented a dinner of chicken, green beans, and potatoes, I will not eat a bite of each. I’ll eat all the green beans, then eat each food going clockwise around the plate. If anything is served in a separate dish, it’s eaten first. > > My brother, the freak, does the same thing but counterclockwise. You’re one of my kids aren’t you? 😃 I have a daughter who is 24, and a son who is just about 14, and they both did this the whole time they were growing up. None of the rest of the family did, so we couldn’t figure it out. ---
**Author:** ![Sundog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d2c977/32.png) [@Sundog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sundog)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2004, 10:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-seemingly-only-you-do/256279/59 "2004-07-25T10:31:19Z")
> [@toadspittle](#): > > I also spend inordinate amounts of time thinking about how, if I were to find myself transported back in time, I would explain modern scientific understandings and technology to people in the past. Ah, I do that, too! Also, whenever I watch a movie set in the past, I end up thinking stuff like “Well, if Spartacus had an M60, this wouldn’t be a problem.” This ends up leading to me spending an inordinate amount of time thinking about how if I went back into the past, exactly how I’d go about carving out a kingdom for myself with a boomstick and a few loyal henchman. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Bird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Little\_Bird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Bird)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2004, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-seemingly-only-you-do/256279/60 "2004-07-26T01:56:56Z")
> [@calm kiwi](#): > > I have to start with the thing I like least and work my way round to the thing I like best. > > The very last mouthfull has to be the best mouthfull. I have been know to leave one mouthfull of something I expected to be third best and turns out to be the best. I do this as well, but I do it with the individual food, too. If that little piece of maccaroni and cheese is all crusty and toasty and ready to go, it’s gonna be the last piece of maccaroni and cheese I eat. Except, of course, with steak. I don’t eat much since I am so wee, so with steak I just cut off the nasty brown outside and enjoy the lovely red inside. Kinda like a Reese’s Cup. > [@ivylass](#): > > When I go to work, I have to open the various softwares I will be using in a certain order. First is e-mail (I get tons each day, so keeping it open helps me stay on top of urgent issues) then our traffic software. I have several modules in our traffic software that have to be opened in a certain order. If for some reason, the computer wigs out and something shuts down, I have been known to close everything down and reopen them in the proper order… Ditto. Otherwise how do you know where everything you need is when you look at the toolbar? Also, both my boyfriend and I eat the same number of stuff on the same side. One bite on the left, chew, chew, chew, one bite on the right, chew, chew, chew. I had a lot of other “must be equal on both sides” things, but the Paxil cleared that up after a while. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-seemingly-only-you-do/256279.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-seemingly-only-you-do/256279.md?page=4)