# Weird Things You Do. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 4, 2001, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-things-you-do/74876 "2001-08-04T03:10:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2001, 7:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-things-you-do/74876/21 "2001-08-05T07:30:04Z")
This is how I make my bed: blanket on the bottom, sheet in the middle, blanket on top. I don’t like the way sheets feel, but I feel compelled to use them anyway… ---
**Author:** ![FarmerOak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e9c0ed/32.png) [@FarmerOak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FarmerOak)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2001, 9:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-things-you-do/74876/22 "2001-08-05T09:51:17Z")
If my Instruments of Commerce (tape dispenser, ruler, stapler, InBox, blotter, keyboard, ruler and DayPlanner) are not at right angles on my desk, I simply cannot concentrate. Interestingly, my house is a disgusting pigsty. I function quite well in either environment. I simply want to work in an orderly environment, and am comfortable conducting my **real** life in a disorderly one. ---
**Author:** ![Agrippina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8797f3/32.png) [@Agrippina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agrippina)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2001, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-things-you-do/74876/23 "2001-08-05T13:24:08Z")
I’ve just recently began to make timelines of books I really love. The only one I’ve finished so far is **1984**. I’m currently doing the **Ender’s Game** series (currently on **Speaker for the Dead** ). I don’t know why, but I just love timelines and must know when things are taking place. ---
**Author:** ![Fosfero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/82dd89/32.png) [@Fosfero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fosfero)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2001, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-things-you-do/74876/24 "2001-08-05T13:33:41Z")
Guess I’m pretty normal. The only weird things I do are: 1. Read the very worst comics first, then make my way to the best - I usually start with Kathy, Beetle Bailey or For Better or Worse. 2. Sing to my food when I’m really hungry as though it were the object of my affection. 3. Say “Hi” to Opal. 4. Rollerblade in my boxers late at night when it’s too hot to sleep. 5. Eat ice cream with peanut butter mixed in. Makes boring vanilla DELICIOUS! ---
**Author:** ![Wicked\_Blue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/2acd7d/32.png) [@Wicked\_Blue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wicked_Blue)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2001, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-things-you-do/74876/25 "2001-08-05T13:36:24Z")
Demo, that’s not, um, _‘riveting’_ that I’m doing in that picture. 😉 Rosie ---
**Author:** ![psycat90](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@psycat90](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psycat90)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2001, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-things-you-do/74876/26 "2001-08-06T20:36:21Z")
I live with Demo. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2001, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-things-you-do/74876/27 "2001-08-06T20:49:36Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by featherlou \* > \*\*(Although in all fairness it may be a _teensy-tiny_ bit strange to take a big drink of soda and say “Aaaaahhhh” with the first swallow in public. \*\* That’s _not_ weird, I have already trained both of my wee ones to do the same. Oh, and I like to read most periodicals from back to front. _misspelling of “weird” corrected_ [Edited by UncleBeer on 08-07-2001 at 07:01 AM] ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2001, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-things-you-do/74876/28 "2001-08-06T20:51:48Z")
I like to spell “wierd” the unique way, not the more normal “weird” way. ---
**Author:** ![BunnyGirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@BunnyGirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BunnyGirl)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2001, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-things-you-do/74876/29 "2001-08-06T20:58:38Z")
The only one that’s coming to mind right now is that I scrape all the toppings off pizza, eat the toppings and then eat all the crust. Mmmm…crust! ---
**Author:** ![THespos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8c91f0/32.png) [@THespos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/THespos)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2001, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-things-you-do/74876/30 "2001-08-06T22:45:56Z")
I drive with my foot poised over the clutch pedal at all times, even when I’m on a long trip. In the summer, sometimes I sleep outside on a hammock on my back porch. I go through the supermarket backwards (last aisle first). I’ve been known to put barbecue sauce on scrambled eggs. I immediately strip down to my boxers upon arriving home from work. I eat the Lik-M-Ade sticks by themselves, then I dump the flavored sugar into my mouth. I tell telemarketers that my girlfriend is the head of the household. When they ask to speak with her, I tell them that we broke up. I make pancakes with weird stuff in them, like cranberries or butterscotch chips. You don’t even want to know what I put in pasta sauce. I sometimes give people the finger in traffic just because they look like they might be mean. I burn old furniture. I sometimes moonwalk spontaneously, just so I can convince myself that I haven’t forgotten how to do it. I separate my change into 3 buckets. One is for pennies. One is for nickels and dimes and one is for quarters. When all of these are full, I dump them into a bigger bucket and take it to the CoinStar machine. I have no idea why I separate it in the first place, as the machine does that for you. I get really upset when I tell the cashier at McDonald’s that I want a Large #1 Extra Value Meal with Coke and they ask me to repeat my drink choice. I keep gifts that people give me as gags and display them in my apartment as if they had tremendous sentimental value. That is why there’s a plush marionette of Captain Kirk hanging down from a shelf in my bedroom, and why there’s a 1/20 scale Cadillac Sedan DeVille on a glass shelf in my living room. When I’m seated on the subway and it’s time to get off at my stop, I reach up and grab the vertical pole above my head and use my arms to pull myself up to a standing position, instead of getting up like normal people. I ask store clerks to give me a discount for no particular reason. (BTW, this actually worked last Saturday when I was buying 3 kegs of beer.) If I momentarily forget someone’s name, I will call them “Gus,” “Zeke,” or “Clem” (if it’s a guy) or “Clementine” (if it’s a girl) until their name pops back into my head. I go stargazing on summer nights in my backyard, invent new constellations, and teach them to my sister. I try to make them believable so that she doesn’t know I’m lying. (“Those six stars over there make up the constellation Leonides. No, that’s not the lion one. It’s actually a millstone with a handle on it. See?”) I make smiley faces in my peanut butter when I make a PB&J sandwich. Why wouldn’t you? I draw Van Halen, ZZ Top and AC/DC logos in the margins of my notepad as I take notes during important meetings. I eat parking tickets. Whenever I get one, I crumple it up into a ball, chew it up and swallow it. It makes me feel better about having gotten one in the first place. ---
**Author:** ![TruePisces](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/truepisces/32/13628_2.png) [@TruePisces](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruePisces)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2001, 10:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-things-you-do/74876/31 "2001-08-07T10:21:40Z")
Weird things? Not me! 😃 But I _do_ do a few things that are a little… different… than most people. When I yawn, I actually say “Yawn” (either before, during or after, depends) I make… interesting… noises when I stretch. I “Hi, Opal” my non-SDMB friends (How else am I going to get them curious enough to join??!!!) The minute I walk in the door of my apartment, I get undressed. I set the alarm about 15 minutes early so I can hit the snooze button twice before I get up. Other than that, I think I’m pretty mainstream. I mean, everyone has oreo cookies for breakfast, don’t they? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![UncleBeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/977dab/32.png) [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2001, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-things-you-do/74876/32 "2001-08-07T12:03:16Z")
I corrected every unintentional misspelling of “weird” in this thread, how’s that? Other than that, I do nothing that could even remotely be considered weird. At least, according to Freud. ---
**Author:** ![Qis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Qis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qis)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2001, 12:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-things-you-do/74876/33 "2001-08-07T12:26:57Z")
erm. I’m pretty average. i can’t think of anything wierd i do, soo vanilla. erm. I hate using mice when i am on teh computer, adn it agitates me when people insist on using them to do tasks that can be done with shortcuts. erm… When i pour milk onto cereal i always pour the milk over teh top of all teh cereal, rater than in the middle of the bowl, so that i get all teh cereal soggy. oh, adn when i reach the end of teh cereal there is hardly ever any milk at the bottom. I ramble about utter bunk to anyone who will listen. i freeze up wehn i am talking to people i dont know. adn if i think about what i am talking about to my friends i freeze up too. its been years adn i still do it. If i am talking about something i know is right, i still go red int eh face, adn get accused of lying. i go red at anything. I overheat all the time, sweating and everything. I eat icecubes when i am out just to keep me normal. My eyes water wehn i walk past strangers who look at me. i cant help it. i clean my teeth while i tidy up the house. i cant vacume when other people are in teh house other than my sister, cos i need music up so loud u cant hear the cleaner. Nothing extraordinary, but hey, some pwople might think some of it worthy of note. ---
**Author:** ![Daniel\_Sugar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/da6949/32.png) [@Daniel\_Sugar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daniel_Sugar)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2001, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-things-you-do/74876/34 "2001-08-07T12:35:23Z")
I call people “Larry” I like to wash the dishes naked. This sometimes can be a problem when company is over. ---
**Author:** ![Simetra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/278dde/32.png) [@Simetra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simetra)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2001, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-things-you-do/74876/35 "2001-08-07T12:58:53Z")
Jessica thinks this is weird: I like cream in my iced coffee, but no sugar. And I like sugar in my hot coffee, but no cream. Even I think this is weird but I can’t help it: Everytime I pass under a yellow light, I do a quick little Romanian blessing. Oh well. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Qis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Qis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qis)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2001, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-things-you-do/74876/36 "2001-08-07T13:34:15Z")
not you ---
**Author:** ![alice\_in\_wonderland](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alice_in_wonderland/32/176_2.png) [@alice\_in\_wonderland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alice_in_wonderland)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2001, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-things-you-do/74876/37 "2001-08-07T14:28:25Z")
I sing to my bunnies… “Sugar, la la la la la la, Oh, Bunny Bunny…” I’ve been told thats weird, but the bunnies like it. Also, I like to eat green onions dipped in salt - yummy. Al. ---
**Author:** ![dcnewsman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dcnewsman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dcnewsman)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2001, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-things-you-do/74876/38 "2001-08-07T14:50:48Z")
What is your webcam address so we can all watch you being weird? 🙂 > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Louie \* > \*\*[I tend to do some odd things when my webcam is on](http://www.geocities.com/louie82681/weird.html) \*\* ---
**Author:** ![John\_Kentzel-Griffin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ccd318/32.png) [@John\_Kentzel-Griffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Kentzel-Griffin)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2001, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-things-you-do/74876/39 "2001-08-07T14:59:44Z")
Nothing. I don’t do anything weird. I used to think I was weird, but several years ago, I came to the realization that I was _not_ weird at all. Everybody else is weird, _I_ am normal. ---
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2001, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-things-you-do/74876/40 "2001-08-07T15:37:50Z")
When I see the misspelling “wierd”, I take it as a misspelling of “wired”. As in _Wired_ Magazine. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-things-you-do/74876.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-things-you-do/74876.md?page=3)