# Weird things that make you happy **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 10, 2003, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-things-that-make-you-happy/154033 "2003-02-10T04:53:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Flamsterette\_X](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/41988e/32.png) [@Flamsterette\_X](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flamsterette_X)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2003, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-things-that-make-you-happy/154033/41 "2003-02-12T03:00:37Z")
Don’t know if this is weird, but knowing that I’ve made my friends happy by doing the one thing that I’m known for. (remembering birthdays) In fact, last week my friend Sarah said she’d thought no one would remember her birthday. (whether she should have known better is another thing quite entirely) Similarly to **avabeth** ’s post: when one of the kids at church will come up to me and give me a big hug, it just makes me feel happy. They’re around seven to twelve years old, and it just gives me happiness to watch them at play. 🙂 F\_X ---
**Author:** ![Zoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a4c791/32.png) [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2003, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-things-that-make-you-happy/154033/42 "2003-02-12T03:09:03Z")
This thread is so fine! You all should be writers! **Zap** , this grandmother thanks you for your post. If your grandmother is still living, I hope that you will consider sharing your OP with her. And **Francesca’s** small sheep are glorious! I like listening to _Carmen_\* while I go through the car wash and lying on my porch swing while there is a windless snow. ---
**Author:** ![caveman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/caveman/32/7242_2.png) [@caveman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/caveman)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2003, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-things-that-make-you-happy/154033/43 "2003-02-12T03:38:38Z")
palendromes ---
**Author:** ![Zap\_Rowsdower](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/3da27b/32.png) [@Zap\_Rowsdower](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zap_Rowsdower)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2003, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-things-that-make-you-happy/154033/44 "2003-02-12T03:51:34Z")
Thanks **Zoe** , unfortunately she has been gone for nearly 20 years. Wow…that seems so long ago. Also listening to [this](http://http://www.oddtodd.com/monkey1.htm/) gives me a big smile as well. ---
**Author:** ![Audrey\_Levins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/73ab20/32.png) [@Audrey\_Levins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Audrey_Levins)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2003, 11:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-things-that-make-you-happy/154033/45 "2003-02-12T11:26:09Z")
Sad songs. Even when I’m not sad. Getting email from friends, and packages from my mother. Waking up in the morning, thinking I’ve overslept, only to glance at the clock and realize I have three more long, delicious hours in which to sleep. Freshly painted nails. Taking photographs, and then developing them to find that the picture in my mind made it to film. Reading a book that makes my heart ache. Chips and queso. Getting a tickle in my nose, and then actually sneezing. Fresh, warm laundry. When the sun shines but it isn’t hot. Getting compliments on my hair, on a good hair day. Using all the hot water, just because I don’t feel like getting out of the shower. Red Bull. ---
**Author:** ![peedin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peedin/32/14095_2.png) [@peedin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peedin)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2003, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-things-that-make-you-happy/154033/46 "2003-02-12T13:28:41Z")
**Francesca** where did you get your small sheep? I loff them and would like to have their cousins Would they get along with my mooses? ---
**Author:** ![Eats\_Crayons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/278dde/32.png) [@Eats\_Crayons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eats_Crayons)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2003, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-things-that-make-you-happy/154033/47 "2003-02-12T14:56:02Z")
**Socks!** Yes, that’s right – socks. I know **Lsura** mentioned it before, but it must be repeated. New socks make the world a happier place! I often wear steel-toed boots that wreck my socks. Or I lose one from each pair to the SockEatingMonster who lives in the washing machine. I can never find a nice, new pair because they wear out so fast. So new socks always makes me very, very happy. Need to get me a birthday present? Gimme a bag o’ socks! ---
**Author:** ![CrankyAsAnOldMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crankyasanoldman/32/11670_2.png) [@CrankyAsAnOldMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CrankyAsAnOldMan)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2003, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-things-that-make-you-happy/154033/48 "2003-02-12T15:06:03Z")
To expand on the socks theme… I like wearing my husband’s fluffy white athletic socks. My feet will be feeling a little cold but I can’t bear to put my usual socks on and suddenly I will remember my husband’s sock drawer. I love pulling out the fluffy white-and-heather-grey goodness and slipping them on my tootsies. Ahhhhh. Better then $1000 worth of therapy, I think. ---
**Author:** ![Caricci](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/85f322/32.png) [@Caricci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caricci)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2003, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-things-that-make-you-happy/154033/49 "2003-02-12T15:49:52Z")
I love it when Howard Stern has a morning where he is more like he was 15 years ago or so before he became national. ---
**Author:** ![Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ccd318/32.png) [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_in_Qatar)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2003, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-things-that-make-you-happy/154033/50 "2003-02-12T16:13:35Z")
Sorry for being so mercenary… Writing my annual charity checks. Filling out a credit app and knowing how it will come back. also… Shaking hands with a stranger and knowing suddenly he is a Lodge Brother. ---
**Author:** ![Serendipity](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f17d59/32.png) [@Serendipity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Serendipity)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2003, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-things-that-make-you-happy/154033/51 "2003-02-12T18:36:53Z")
There’s a certain woman at my school who, I believe, is Navy ROTC. Whenever I see her in uniform, all put together with her hair in a tight knot at the nape of her neck and carrying this little briefcase, I smile. I’m not really sure why, but I just get the biggest kick out of it. I think that’s truly a weird thing to be happy about. Socks, on the other hand, are normal. I mean, who _isn’t_ made happy by socks? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![racinchikki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@racinchikki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racinchikki)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2003, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-things-that-make-you-happy/154033/52 "2003-02-12T19:14:00Z")
Seeing a young man in a fedora makes me happy. ---
**Author:** ![elsa32](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/35a633/32.png) [@elsa32](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elsa32)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2003, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-things-that-make-you-happy/154033/53 "2003-02-12T19:56:11Z")
going out to breakfast on a lazy weekend day with friends or my bf and having good coffee and a good breakfast. sunny days at the dog park, especially the ones by the water. that brief time in the morning between waking up and getting up when everything is warm and cozy and my bf and i fit together just right. and that morning stretch. i love that. freeze tag on the beach where the bonfire is base and everything else is pitch black. spontaneous outings with funny themes (secret ‘matrix viewing’ slumber party where you must come dressed in black, sign-stealing adventures in camo with squirt guns) ---
**Author:** ![Flamsterette\_X](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/41988e/32.png) [@Flamsterette\_X](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flamsterette_X)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2003, 7:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-things-that-make-you-happy/154033/54 "2003-02-13T07:47:22Z")
Ooh, just thought of some other things: – The word “cheers” as in “cheers, mate” or “cheers for the support.” What can I say? There’s something just heartwarming about it, especially (as in my new friend’s emails) it’s paired with “lass.” (he always tells me, “cheers for now, lass”) 😃 – The way the sunshine will light my friends’ hair sometijmes during the summer… makes them look like angels, somehow. – The way that certain friends of mine look at weddings… one of them looked like a Botticelli angel at a wedding a couple years ago. (maybe it’s just me… but he looked terrific) F\_X ---
**Author:** ![Agrippina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8797f3/32.png) [@Agrippina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agrippina)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2003, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-things-that-make-you-happy/154033/55 "2003-02-13T14:07:23Z")
Singing “Mr. Blue Sky” by ELO in my car. Driving 45 minutes to work. Most people would hate it, but I love it (except for gasoline prices). ---
**Author:** ![B\_Williams](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@B\_Williams](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/B_Williams)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2003, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-things-that-make-you-happy/154033/56 "2003-02-13T14:34:17Z")
Getting a Tax refund check in the mail. BUT NOT THIS YEAR!!grrrr [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-things-that-make-you-happy/154033.md?page=2)