# What's your weird idiosyncrasy? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [February 28, 2005, 7:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-weird-idiosyncrasy/292266 "2005-02-28T07:31:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2005, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-weird-idiosyncrasy/292266/41 "2005-03-05T02:13:42Z")
> [@TheLoadedDog](#): > > it is generally something people here associate with Americans. You can probably add Brits to that, as I’m pretty sure it’s common for us to grab something to read if we are heading for the toilet. ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2005, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-weird-idiosyncrasy/292266/42 "2005-03-05T02:30:00Z")
I hate shoes. Kick 'em off anywhere and everywhere. Even at work. I hate coats. It has to be very very cold, or I have to be outside a long time for me to wear one. Mostly though, I just go with a shirt to work. It makes my boss nuts, as he is always chilly. ---
**Author:** ![indecisive1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/41988e/32.png) [@indecisive1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/indecisive1)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2005, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-weird-idiosyncrasy/292266/43 "2005-03-05T02:37:35Z")
Back in school days one of the girls we hung out with found a way to use the word idiosyncrasy almost every blasted day. Sometimes she’d work it a couple times a day. I hate that blasted word! This thread is killing me. ---
**Author:** ![Strinka](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/strinka/32/512_2.png) [@Strinka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Strinka)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2005, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-weird-idiosyncrasy/292266/44 "2005-03-05T02:47:17Z")
I wear four watches and a red t-shirt. Always. There are many others (e.g. compliments confuse me) but that is the most obvious and I have so many. ---
**Author:** ![TheLoadedDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/35a633/32.png) [@TheLoadedDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheLoadedDog)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2005, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-weird-idiosyncrasy/292266/45 "2005-03-05T02:53:42Z")
> [@Lobsang](#): > > You can probably add Brits to that, as I’m pretty sure it’s common for us to grab something to read if we are heading for the toilet. Aaah yeah. The main guy I know who does this is a Pom, come to think of it. ---
**Author:** ![dwc1970](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a183cd/32.png) [@dwc1970](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dwc1970)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2005, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-weird-idiosyncrasy/292266/46 "2005-03-05T03:25:00Z")
A few random idiosyncrasies about me: I always wear a red shirt on Friday (yes, I am wearing one right now). My Satuday is not completed without an iced mocha from the local coffee bar. I cannot sleep in dead silence. I must run a fan to provide some white noise. I always fill my gas tank so that the amount paid ends in a 0 or a 5. When I am in a restaurant I like to sit so that I can see the entrance/exit. I also become anxious if I do not know what the time is or can quickly find out. I always say “zero” when I recite a number, especially a phone number. “O” is a letter of the alphabet and is thus used differently. I always have my Windows folders set to show file extensions and details. Most often I like to see more than just the names of the files. Also, selecting blocks of multiple files when using large icons doesn’t work the way I would expect it to work. I always have the full path in the title bars. Any time where I have to sort something by color I always follow the order of the colors in the rainboe (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple). I’ve got some other oddities I could list, but my break is over and I need to get back to work. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-weird-idiosyncrasy/292266.md?page=2)