Who does these things? Why?

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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Eats the tuna in oil instead of water.
Me! I love tuna in oil. As others have said it tastes better. Plus I mainly worry about carbs, not fat.

Leaves the toilet paper off the roll.
No way. That would make me crazy. I always replace it as soon as the roll is empty.

Doesn’t flush in public bathrooms.
I always flush in public bathrooms unless the toilet is busted and I can’t. Then I tell somebody to fix it.

**Eats the popcorn in the Christmas tins. **
I’ll only do that if I’m stuck somewhere and I can’t leave to get food and that’s all there is. This has happened to me at the office at least once that I can remember. See, in the Christmas food stuff we seem to have, all the candy and cookies go first, so only the popcorn is left eventually. It’s really not too bad if you’re like starving.

Talk really loud on a cell phone on a quiet area.
Almost never.

Watch reruns of Mama’s Family.
I actually like that show but the original routine on the Carol Burnett Show was way better.

Eat Peeps.
Blech, no. Too sweet and major carb action.

**Park in two parking spots, at once. **
I’ve done it in an emergency situation but not habitually.
**What are yours? **
I honestly can’t think of anything that people do that makes me wonder why they do it. I have come to believe that no matter how weird the thing is that somebody does, in their own mind they must have a reason for their actions. What they do about the consequences that follow may be the only thing that I need to worry about.

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Because it’s a very exact simulation of the boredom one feels fishing.

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I never get the people who watch the… what is it now? Two hours of Judge Judy every afternoon?

I know a couple of them. They don’t talk about it much, thankfully, though sometimes I get a “There was a story just like that on Judge Judy the other day . . .” when some odd bit of conversation is up.
Then again, I don’t know if everyone out there would “approve” of me coming home from work, making a bite to eat, browsing the message boards, watching an episode of the Sopranos, then checking the boards again before bed to see if there’s anything interesting going on. Different strokes…

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Leaves the toilet paper off the roll.

I have been known to leave a teetering stack of TPs on the counter next to the empty holder on occasion, as a friendly passive-aggressive reminder to my idiot brothers that someone had to wipe with the 2/3 of a sheet they kindly left for me, and then had to run down to the basement to get some more.

**Eats the popcorn in the Christmas tins. **

I feel that way about the compartment that holds the eerily white plain popcorn, but there is also caramel corn and fake cheddar cheese-coated goodness! I do feel a bit awkward about the Christmas tin itself. I mean, a home only needs so many seasonal trash cans, and it feels a tiny bit weird to throw away the permanent part of a gift. Send me your popcorn. But keep the tin.

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Peeps. <shudder> They’re ornamental, not meant to be consumed. I know this because I ate one once.

My whys:

Who actually puts those ridiculous spike-studded collars on their dogs? I’ve seen them for sale, but in 12 years as a vet tech I never saw a dog wearing one.

Who drinks instant coffee, and why?

Who are the buttheads that empty their car ashtrays in the parking lot? WTF? I smoke and I can’t imagine ever doing something so disgusting and inconsiderate.

Serious question: I once saw a computer for sale: it cost a bazillion dollars and had some kind of water-cooling arrangement. What’s somebody do with a system like that? Why would a computer need a radiator?

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Who actually puts those ridiculous spike-studded collars on their dogs?

For the first time in his almost 45 years, my husband has a dog he is completely devoted to and adores. As a gift to make said fat Dalmatian look bad ass as a joke, I bought her one in yellow. Of course, she never got to wear it much because she out grew it too fast. Does that count?
Mine are…

Who makes a rolling block to prevent other cars from passing in the left lane?

After someone tells you their specific choice of name to be called, who shortens it to something different?

When something will be easily found out (like through the internet because you’re a public figure, but in real life too), who makes an obviously opposite and thoroughly disprovable remark / action / whatever? I ask because of the thing right now where Norm Coleman had said that if he were the one behind, he’d step down. That was hardly two months ago when he expected Al Fraken to do it, but as soon as Coleman had the opportunity, he refused to do just that.

Who gets things out of a cabinet or drawer and doesn’t shut it?

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Liquid cooling is usually for computers running really high level graphics. I can’t judge whether it is necessary or not, having never used one.

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:DNot quite what I was picturing, but that’s just adorable. A fat girl Damnation with a yellow studded collar. Too cute!

Graphics, eh? Learn something new every day.

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It makes it Easter to eat those absurd things. (I also eat the Christmas popcorn, or at least I did when I was 6. Haven’t had the chance since.)

Who goes to torture-porn like Hostel and Saw?

Who buys Geritol?

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Neither: in brine. Cos it tastes better, darnit! Actually one of the things that make many of my friends in Spain (specially older and less travelled ones) go :confused: is the notion of “in most countries you can’t find tuna in brine.”

You mean pieces of paper or the roll off its holder? Mom does the first when it’s the very last pieces. I don’t, but then, neither do I change the roll and leave the empty one lying around (sometimes, within a yard of a paper bin).

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I use my foot. It’s not like the handle can get any dirtier, and if the toilet splashes during the flush I don’t want to get nasty toilet water on my face because I was leaning over the bowl.

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I do. My apartment is very, very small. I have room for either a water kettle or a coffee maker, not both. Coffee makers are pretty much single-purpose… they make coffee. An electric water kettle has more uses and greater capacity in a similar amount of space.

Japanese instant coffee runs from terrible to actually pretty decent, so I can manage. Occasionally, though, I’ll buy those little single-serving filter pods of coffee that you set on your cup and pour hot water into. Overpriced, but it means I get the occasional cup of drip coffee.

Most likely play video games. Also, they are made for enthusiasts. Why do they make sports cars that can go a bazillion kilometers an hour when the speed limit is 80? Some people just like knowing that they have the best.

The computer needs a radiator because it runs hot enough that it cannot be properly cooled with air alone.

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Tuna in oil tastes better, period. I press out as much oil as I can and use only a tablespoon of mayo. I want to taste tuna, not tuna flavored mayonnaise.
glares at Mr. J.

Ze Questions:

Why do some people leave their ATM receipt in the machine?

Beyond a Santa hat at Christmas, what compels some people to dress up their dogs?

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I can’t help you with the ATM thing, but I do know that smaller dog breeds do benefit from wearing coats/sweaters in colder weather. My mother has Yorkies who shiver like mad if it drops below 40 degrees; when she takes them for walks in winter they will probably be wearing doggie coats. The smaller the dog the smaller the body fat ratio…they just can’t handle colder temperatures as well as their bigger canine brothers.

The fact that a small dog in a sweater is cute…well, that’s just a bonus.

Personally I don’t understand people who drive large trucks who hang those absurd and revolting “balls” underneath them…the ones whose point is to look just like the balls that hang off an overheated Great Dane.

I always assume that the person driving the truck has none of their own.

Along the same lines, I also don’t get people–and by “people” I mean “persons of the male sex”–who refuse to neuter their dogs because they can’t fathom losing their own balls.

My brother is a member of this group. He has a Tibetan Spaniel who marks everything in sight because he–my brother, not the dog–identified too personally with the neutering process. He “couldn’t do it” to his dog.

I have had this discussion with other guys I’ve met over the years. They think neutering is cruel and unusual punishment.

Oddly I have never met a female who thinks this way.

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Tuna in oil is better because the oil doesn’t waterlog the tuna and preserves the flavor better. Tuna in water is like that stuff they call pork these days, full of water and devoid of flavor.

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Oh! This drives me batty!

I have to second the warmth thing on this one. My baby girl {R.I.P.} used to bring me her sweater when she was cold.
** Why don’t people re-fill ice trays, instead leaving them laying empty on the counter, or even worse they will put them empty back into the freezer?**

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Tuna: I prefer the oil, thank you very much, makes it more tuna-y to me.
Toilet Paper: While my cat has not discovered the joy of unrolling, my toddler has.

Sorry, those are all I’m guilty of.

Who are the freaks that if you dial a wrong number, call you back demanding to know who you are and why you called them. And yes, I’ve had several over the years be very, very suspicious. Do cell phones make wrong numbers obsolete? I don’t have the whole damn world programmed in, on occasion, I do dial by hand.

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Why do people hand-wash dishes when the dishes are dishwasher-safe and the dishwasher is right there?

I did when I was a teenager. My parents and grandparents did, so I thought, that’s how you drink coffee.

Now, if I drink instant coffee, it’s only during Passover. If I’m used to getting coffee at an office coffee machine or coffee shop, I can’t do that during Passover, since those coffee machines wouldn’t have been made kosher for Passover. I still need my caffeine during Passover, and I’m not going to lug a 2-liter bottle of Passover Diet Coke to the office (I’ve never seen Passover Diet Coke in anything other than a 2-liter). Hence, instant coffee. It’s yucky, but it’s better than being tired and grumpy. I’m crabby and irritable enough by the end of Passover because of eating a lower-carb diet. If I had to go without coffee, too, they’d have to sound the civil defense sirens any time I went out of the house.

Mr. Neville used to be really bad about doing that with cabinets. I managed to train him to stop. I wear glasses, and have since age 13. This means my peripheral vision is not very good, since the glasses don’t extend out there. In fact, my brain kind of filters out the blurry stuff out there, so I only notice what I can see with my glasses. As a result, if cabinets over the counter are left open, I’m going to end up hitting my head on them. It took quite a few iterations of “bonk. OW! Dammit!” to train him, but ultimately I did.

Because they forget, or they get distracted. Same reason they sometimes leave their card in the machine.

I didn’t understand this when I lived in the SF Bay Area, either. Now I do. It’s cold here. Dog booties might even be helpful when there’s salt or other ice-melting stuff on the sidewalks.

Also, some dog breeds have less fur than others. There is a (very friendly) pit bull in our neighborhood that I sometimes see walking in a doggie sweater when I’m waiting for the bus in the morning. Her fur is very short, so she probably doesn’t have enough to keep her warm outside in the winter. A Siberian Husky the same size probably wouldn’t need a sweater, because they have so much more fur.

Maybe they’re hard of hearing?

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Mostly it’s a holdover from a long time ago when they were informative shows that taught you something. Now all the famous guys like Bill Dance or Roland Martin host half hour commercials for the sponsors. Anyway, I like to watch fishing shows in the winter time because I don’t ice fish (I do my drinking indoors) and I’m a big time fisherman and it’s nice to watch some action. That’s all.

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Not if they have a remote starter. My brother has one specifically for this reason.