# Your Pecadilloes/Idiosyncrasies **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 1, 2013, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-pecadilloes-idiosyncrasies/645751 "2013-01-01T15:59:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![RobDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f07891/32.png) [@RobDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RobDog)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2013, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-pecadilloes-idiosyncrasies/645751/21 "2013-01-02T12:57:57Z")
I always put my left sock on first. I’ve tried putting my right sock on first and it feels **absolutely** wrong. Also my left leg has to go in my trousers first, ditto shoes. ---
**Author:** ![drewtwo99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2013, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-pecadilloes-idiosyncrasies/645751/22 "2013-01-02T12:59:41Z")
I often gasp involuntarily. It’s almost like a hiccup but not quite. Usually happens around when I’m eating, I think, but not always. I often sing or hum anywhere and everywhere, even walking down a hallway or whatever. If I’m in a particularly good mood I’ll even do it in crowded places! ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2013, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-pecadilloes-idiosyncrasies/645751/23 "2013-01-02T13:00:18Z")
> [@Schrodinger\_s\_Platypus](#): > > I am responsible for no less than three dress code revisions at work- for trying to look more professional. Wow, I’ll bet you’re uber popular.😃 As for my own idiosyncrasy, I avoid moisturizing lotions, as I’m already plenty moist. ---
**Author:** ![RobDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f07891/32.png) [@RobDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RobDog)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2013, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-pecadilloes-idiosyncrasies/645751/24 "2013-01-02T13:01:47Z")
Also, socks absolutely must go on before trousers. ---
**Author:** ![RobDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f07891/32.png) [@RobDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RobDog)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2013, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-pecadilloes-idiosyncrasies/645751/25 "2013-01-02T13:06:25Z")
If I’m eating a roast chicken dinner I have to eat all of the vegetables first and leave all of the chicken until last. Any other meat can be eaten along with the veggies though. ---
**Author:** ![RobDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f07891/32.png) [@RobDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RobDog)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2013, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-pecadilloes-idiosyncrasies/645751/26 "2013-01-02T13:08:00Z")
Having worked in an environment with lots of static electricity, I now have to touch ALL door handles with the back of my hand before opening them. ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2013, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-pecadilloes-idiosyncrasies/645751/27 "2013-01-02T13:18:58Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > Seriously, I have way too many to mention. But there’s one that I’ve mentioned in other threads. It’s that I always “save the best for last,” especially with food. I eat the crust of pizza before the toppings. I eat the cake before the frosting. I eat sandwiches (including burgers) around the perimeter, then the center. I eat lettuce before the rest of the salad. > > That’s all for now. This is me, too. I’ve come to learn that psychologists consider this a sign of maturity (delaying gratification). Me? Mature?? mmm ---
**Author:** ![Sahirrnee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sahirrnee/32/13937_2.png) [@Sahirrnee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sahirrnee)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2013, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-pecadilloes-idiosyncrasies/645751/28 "2013-01-02T15:14:25Z")
I always save the best for last too. The opposite of my father who always ate the best first in case there wasn’t any room left for the best. I like to eat dessert first because as much as I like sweets I like real food better. I didn’t want to admit to doing things in even numbers too because I thought that was too crazy but I’m glad I’m not the only one. I’ll purposely misunderstand things too, but I usually do it to annoy people I don’t like. ex: my mother’s bf: your mother has told me so much about your father, he sounds like he was a great guy, we could have been friends. me: oh I don’t think so my mother’s bf:why not? me:he wouldn’t like anybody who is dating his wife ---
**Author:** ![corkboard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@corkboard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/corkboard)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2013, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-pecadilloes-idiosyncrasies/645751/29 "2013-01-02T19:28:34Z")
I don’t like finishing things. I’ll stop reading a magazine or newspaper article in the penultimate paragraph; I leave house projects mostly completed (eventually I’ll get back to it, but it might be months later); and ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2013, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-pecadilloes-idiosyncrasies/645751/30 "2013-01-02T19:38:57Z")
I always read a book of short stories in deliberate random order. I almost always put my shoes and socks on first because it is harder to deal with shoes when you are wearing a Utilikilt, which I wear almost everywhere (except bicycling). I very very rarely use contractions when I write. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2013, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-pecadilloes-idiosyncrasies/645751/31 "2013-01-02T19:39:25Z")
> [@Ethilrist](#): > > I mispronounce things on purpose. “Cedar Avenue” gets pronounced “Cheddar Avenue”. Barnacles and testicles rhyme with Heracles, not Jekylls. Causes people to look at me funny some time, but I figure, so long as I realize I’m doing it, and I’m doing it on purpose, I’m fine, right? Heh - my husband and I had a very good laugh one day talking about Spectacles, the Greek God of Eyewear (pronounced Speck-ta-klees). I do try to finish all my food at the same time - not really consciously, but it sort of ends up that way. Other than that, I’m perfectly normal! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Jane\_Elliot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jane_elliot/32/6166_2.png) [@Jane\_Elliot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jane_Elliot)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2013, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-pecadilloes-idiosyncrasies/645751/32 "2013-01-02T22:39:24Z")
I also save the best for last when I eat anything. I separate my M&M’s by color and eat my favorite color last (dark brown, light brown, green, blue, yellow, red, in that order). I don’t wear shoes in the house. I almost always wear skirts rather than pants, especially around the house. I won’t keep any animals that have to be contained, like fish, birds, rabbits, ferrets, mice, hamsters, etc. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2013, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-pecadilloes-idiosyncrasies/645751/33 "2013-01-02T22:43:31Z")
> [@NitroPress](#): > > Like Ethilrist, having fun with word pronunciations. A universal in our household, and it’s my fault, is to always pronounce the E on the end of kwaint words. Thus, we buy our flowers at the Old Town Flower Shoppy; note that a plaza has both shoppys and businesses; and in a rare doubleton, tried not to shop at the snooty Quaily Pointy plaza. > > I saw another one the other day, with a really, really egregious terminal E, but I can’t bring it to mind - “Concepte Shoppes” gets the idea across. In Sarasota there was a business called The Christmas Shoppee. Not sure how they wanted to be pronounced. ---
**Author:** ![chiroptera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df705f/32.png) [@chiroptera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chiroptera)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2013, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-pecadilloes-idiosyncrasies/645751/34 "2013-01-02T22:59:27Z")
> [@Jane\_Elliot](#): > > \ > > I won’t keep any animals that have to be contained, like fish, birds, rabbits, ferrets, mice, hamsters, etc. Same here - mostly! I have a pond in my yard; it’s a summer home for frogs, but also mosquitoes. It’s a pain in the ass scooping out the egg rafts every day so I decided to “save” a few feeder goldfish some years back to deter skeeters. They spend summer in the pond, but it’s not deep enough for them to survive winter. So they come inside every year and live in a big tank in my mudroom…the surviving 10-for-a-dollar feeder fish are 5-6 inches long now. 🙂 Also the even-numbers thing with a twist. I decided at some point in my childhood that four was my “lucky” number. So I tend to do things in fours. Sixteen works too, since it’s 4 x 4. ---
**Author:** ![Lancia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lancia/32/17174_2.png) [@Lancia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lancia)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2013, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-pecadilloes-idiosyncrasies/645751/35 "2013-01-02T23:16:55Z")
I will only use two types of writing instruments: mechanical pencils in .05mm _only_ or black pens. Math equations, science notes and general school notebooks: .05mm mechanical pencil. Never a Ticonderoga #2 or similar device, must be a mechanical. Everything else: black ink, gel or fountain pen. No rollerballs and for god’s sake never ballpoints. Never ever ever blue ink, only black. The only exceptions to this are when I have absolutely no choice: signing a credit card slip in a restaurant with a provided pen, for instance. Even those instances are exceedingly rare because I _always_ have a black Pilot G-2 or a simple Sheaffer fountain pen on hand: I keep one in my pocket at all times. Sitting around the house all day in sweats and an old stained t-shirt? Have a black gel pen clipped over the collar. It’s not because I use a pen all the time, but because when I do by god I better have the right one on hand. ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2013, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-pecadilloes-idiosyncrasies/645751/36 "2013-01-02T23:17:59Z")
> [@Ethilrist](#): > > …so long as I realize I’m doing it, and I’m doing it on purpose, I’m fine, right? If I get called on it I come back with, “I have a degree in English. When I break the rules on purpose, it’s _art_.” When someone else is talking I like to find unitended words and point them out. Like if someone says, “You’re in for a surprise!” I’ll say, “You said urine.” I’m impossible to be around if a sports announcer becomes fond of referring to a game as a “Home opener…” . That’s not entirely true. I’m impossible to be around most other times as well. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2013, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-pecadilloes-idiosyncrasies/645751/37 "2013-01-02T23:19:04Z")
Spek-ta-klees, the Greek god of eyewear! The mighty hero Tes-ta-klees! I love these! Bar-na-klees must be one of Poseidon’s minions, then. ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2013, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-pecadilloes-idiosyncrasies/645751/38 "2013-01-02T23:51:32Z")
> [@Jane\_Elliot](#): > > I won’t keep any animals that have to be contained, like fish, birds, rabbits, ferrets, mice, hamsters, etc. Ditto. I was blindsided into an aquarium for my daughter, against my strong personal preference to have NO “little animals in cages, ever” - and after two loads of fish died off, my point was made for me. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2013, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-pecadilloes-idiosyncrasies/645751/39 "2013-01-03T02:16:37Z")
> [@Sunspace](#): > > Spek-ta-klees, the Greek god of eyewear! The mighty hero Tes-ta-klees! I love these! > > Bar-na-klees must be one of Poseidon’s minions, then. Well, that only makes sense. I’m trying to figure out what Testaklees is the God of - men’s underwear?. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Seanette](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/seanette/32/9139_2.png) [@Seanette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seanette)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2013, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-pecadilloes-idiosyncrasies/645751/40 "2013-01-03T03:40:56Z")
> [@Lancia](#): > > I will only use two types of writing instruments: mechanical pencils in .05mm _only_ or black pens. Math equations, science notes and general school notebooks: .05mm mechanical pencil. Never a Ticonderoga #2 or similar device, must be a mechanical. Everything else: black ink, gel or fountain pen. No rollerballs and for god’s sake never ballpoints. Never ever ever blue ink, only black. The only exceptions to this are when I have absolutely no choice: signing a credit card slip in a restaurant with a provided pen, for instance. Even those instances are exceedingly rare because I _always_ have a black Pilot G-2 or a simple Sheaffer fountain pen on hand: I keep one in my pocket at all times. Sitting around the house all day in sweats and an old stained t-shirt? Have a black gel pen clipped over the collar. It’s not because I use a pen all the time, but because when I do by god I better have the right one on hand. I hate “regular” pencils, too. The only kind of pencil I can deal with for my sudoku/kakuro addiction is a .05mm mechanical (I do tolerate colored pencils when useful). My husband insists in using fountain pen if at all possible, I’m more flexible. Fine point, preferably black ink, and I’m happy. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-pecadilloes-idiosyncrasies/645751.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-pecadilloes-idiosyncrasies/645751.md?page=3)