# Your unique and surprisingly not behavior **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 5, 2012, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-unique-and-surprisingly-not-behavior/633712 "2012-09-05T04:47:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![raventhief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/raventhief/32/4_2.png) [@raventhief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raventhief)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2012, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-unique-and-surprisingly-not-behavior/633712/61 "2012-09-12T03:57:10Z")
I always swallow pills by taking a sip of water first, and then kind of inserting the pill into my mouth. I dont remember any traumatic pill incident as a child but I have done it for ages and ages. Sip of water, pill, swallow. When I am all happy and warm and just about to fall asleep, I tend to rub my face against my pillow like a cat scent marking or something. I do not notice doing it usually, I more notice when I havent done it , and as soon as the thought occurs, I have to rub my face against the pillow. When i was young, I was fanatical about food not touching other food on my plate. When told it would all mix in my stomach, I said I had individual pockets in my tummy for different foods. I narrate my activities and also have big elaborate imaginary arguments with people. i say this, so they respond with that, so i will say this other thing. It gets quite heated upon occasion. I am sure I do a lot of other weird things that just arent coming to mind now. ---
**Author:** ![carnut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnut/32/3531_2.png) [@carnut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnut)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2012, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-unique-and-surprisingly-not-behavior/633712/62 "2012-09-12T04:34:02Z")
My brother claims I am the only woman he knows who keeps a Dremel tool in the bathroom. I use it to sand away callused skin on my feet. Mind you, using a carpentry tool for this purpose is not for the faint of heart nor the heavy of hand. But it is a much better value than other callus removers - and I can use it for carpentry purposes as well! ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2012, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-unique-and-surprisingly-not-behavior/633712/63 "2012-09-12T04:57:29Z")
Sometimes when I see my cats napping, I’ll clap my hands twice like I’m the Sultan of Arabia and say really loudly: “Come cats, I wish to be entertained!!” I must be a feckless sultan as they have yet responded to my demands. ---
**Author:** ![chizzuk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e36b37/32.png) [@chizzuk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chizzuk)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2012, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-unique-and-surprisingly-not-behavior/633712/64 "2012-09-12T05:48:48Z")
I have visually inspected the walls and ceiling of every bedroom I’ve slept in for the last 3 years, every night, to make sure there are no insects or crawlies. One experience with a house centipede dropping down onto my bare leg in the dark was all it took. I do it right before I turn out the lights and if I get into bed and realize I forgot, I have to get up and turn the lights back on again. ---
**Author:** ![Locrian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/locrian/32/14146_2.png) [@Locrian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Locrian)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2012, 6:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-unique-and-surprisingly-not-behavior/633712/65 "2012-09-12T06:24:09Z")
When I see anything cute/adorable (baby, cute girl, cute cartoon character, etc.), I say, “Eeeeee!” When I’m talking to a cute girl and her story is about a bad time or event, I say the “eeeee” at a lower pitch. On emails, I’ll type the “sad eeee” as “…eeeee…”. Example: “Eeeeee! Hi, cute female person! How are you?” Girl: “Just got a parking ticket. Sucks ass.” Me: "…eeee… yes, it does. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Mississippienne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d2c977/32.png) [@Mississippienne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mississippienne)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2012, 7:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-unique-and-surprisingly-not-behavior/633712/66 "2012-09-12T07:01:27Z")
I went through a period where I needed to have my legs tugged on. My hips felt weird and if I laid in bed and had my then-bf tug on my leg, the hip would feel better. New Yorkers eat with huge friggin’ forks. No one understands what I’m talking about, but the forks here are like giganto-sized. I keep trying to eat everything with a smaller salad fork when I’m at a restaurant. I practice swimming with only my legs or only my arms, in case I’m in some odd situation where I’m paralyzed below the waist or have to grasp something in my hands and at the same time swim to safety. ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2012, 8:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-unique-and-surprisingly-not-behavior/633712/67 "2012-09-12T08:11:50Z")
> [@Mississippienne](#): > > . . . > > New Yorkers eat with huge friggin’ forks. No one understands what I’m talking about, but the forks here are like giganto-sized. I keep trying to eat everything with a smaller salad fork when I’m at a restaurant. > > . . . My Grandmother, visiting New York from Atlanta, raising the fork she found beside her plate in a restaurant: “It must be the serving fork, no lady could possibly fit this thing into her mouth.” My brother, being 13 years old at the time, and wellyouknowhowboysthink was reduced to a heaving crimson mass of guffaws. ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2012, 8:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-unique-and-surprisingly-not-behavior/633712/68 "2012-09-12T08:14:17Z")
> [@salinqmind](#): > > . . . I’m on the fence about the wedding gown. I suppose I could whip one up out of tablecloths, shower curtains, jewelry bits, duct tape, and such . . . Toilet paper my dear - it’s the only way to go. [A $2,012 toilet paper wedding dress gives new meaning to 'cheap and chic'](http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/alltherage/2012/06/a-2012-toilet-paper-wedding-dress-.html)😛 ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2012, 10:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-unique-and-surprisingly-not-behavior/633712/69 "2012-09-12T10:38:39Z")
> [@olivesmarch4th](#): > > I’m pretty sure I’m one of the few adults who enjoys pretending to be a slug or an octopus. I would say I do this 4-5 times a week. I would love to meet my kindred spirits, though. [Here’s one.](http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20111024013754AA3jws2) I honestly don’t think I have any ‘unique’ habits. Some weird ones, yes, but I can’t think of any that are unique to me. > [@Asimovian](#): > > Whenever I grab a bottle of water out of the refrigerator at work, I walk back to my office tossing/flipping it. I do this with anything that’s non-carbonated (water, iced tea, juice). ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2012, 12:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-unique-and-surprisingly-not-behavior/633712/70 "2012-09-12T12:07:44Z")
> [@TruCelt](#): > > Toilet paper my dear - it’s the only way to go. > > [A $2,012 toilet paper wedding dress gives new meaning to 'cheap and chic'](http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/alltherage/2012/06/a-2012-toilet-paper-wedding-dress-.html)😛 Forgot all about the TP gowns! Gads, these are exquisite! 😃 For TP gowns, that is. ---
**Author:** ![jackdavinci](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackdavinci/32/3259_2.png) [@jackdavinci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackdavinci)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2012, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-unique-and-surprisingly-not-behavior/633712/71 "2012-09-13T06:05:40Z")
> [@Kamino\_Neko](#): > > I honestly don’t think I have any ‘unique’ habits. Some weird ones, yes, but I can’t think of any that are unique to me. Those might be covered under the “surprisingly not unique” part of the title. ---
**Author:** ![SCAdian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scadian/32/3292_2.png) [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2012, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-unique-and-surprisingly-not-behavior/633712/72 "2012-09-13T21:00:39Z")
> [@purplehorseshoe](#): > > **Athena** ’s post reminded me: I usually eat my burgers upside-down. That way, the thicker upper bun soaks up all the condiments. That’s not weird, though. That’s THE RIGHT WAY TO DO IT. > Oh, and I put ketchup on my hotdogs. > (d&r) I pick my hamburger up off the plate using my fingers, with my thumb on top to hold it; moving it up to my mouth automatically inverts it, so the top half of the bun is on the bottom. And I don’t put ketchup anywhere near anything that I intend to eat. ---
**Author:** ![SCAdian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scadian/32/3292_2.png) [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2012, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-unique-and-surprisingly-not-behavior/633712/73 "2012-09-13T21:10:40Z")
> [@myskepticsight](#): > > I do the same thing, because the exact same aspirin thing happened to me as a kid when I started getting headaches and I was just like ‘hell no’ and figured out the other way. > > **I** look at people funny when they lay pills on their tongue and then go for their drink - it doesn’t make sense! Those pills are sitting there DISSOLVING why are you doing that? You’d probably look at me _really_ funny, then - I usually just work up a mouthful of spit, toss the pills into my mouth, and swallow, without taking a drink afterward… ---
**Author:** ![\_Olive](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/_/4af34b/32.png) [@\_Olive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/_Olive)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2012, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-unique-and-surprisingly-not-behavior/633712/74 "2012-09-13T21:37:47Z")
> [@olivesmarch4th](#): > > I’m pretty sure I’m one of the few adults who enjoys pretending to be a slug or an octopus. I would say I do this 4-5 times a week. I would love to meet my kindred spirits, though. > > I didn’t realize until recently that ‘‘Cat Mom’’ is a pretty common expression among cat owners (as in, ''I’m trying to be a good Cat Mom!") Also surprisingly common: Mama’s Baby Kitty. I think it’s kind of funny that we all seem to have come up with it independently. I pretend to be a slug when I get massaged. Which is going to happen today! ---
**Author:** ![phreesh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9fc29f/32.png) [@phreesh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phreesh)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2012, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-unique-and-surprisingly-not-behavior/633712/75 "2012-09-13T21:42:12Z")
I avoid deleting letters if I can avoid it to…save electrons? I don’t know. For instance, if I type ‘straght dope’, I’ll move the cursor to the middle and add an ‘i’ instead of deleting and writing it over. It gives me a tiny measure of happiness when I can recycle a letter from an other word and use it for a correction. For instance, when a word ends in a ‘d’ and I type a ‘g’ or something and also the first letter of the next word, which might be ‘devil’. Then I can just pull the d back a couple spaces and type a new one. Weird. I know. ---
**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:** [September 19, 2012, 12:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-unique-and-surprisingly-not-behavior/633712/76 "2012-09-19T12:20:42Z")
> [@Miss\_Woodhouse](#): > > I rarely eat the last bite of food on my plate. I don’t know why I do it. When I really love the dish I’ll clean my plate, however, I never finish the last bite of a sandwich. That one is more explainable. All you’re down to in the last bite of sandwich is bread. No point in eating it anymore. > > I don’t narrate my life but I do have a bad habit of talking to myself out loud. People tell me that’s a pretty common thing but I still get strange looks in the grocery store when I talk to myself about which canned tomato product I need to buy next. Shopping always makes me talk to myself. Thinking out loud can be helpful. 🙂 ---
**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:** [September 19, 2012, 12:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-unique-and-surprisingly-not-behavior/633712/77 "2012-09-19T12:23:19Z")
> [@digs](#): > > I was just saying the other day that the ‘Dope’ is the most concentrated collection of smart people I’ve ever found. This thread proves it’s the most concentrated collection of interesting people, too. > > I listen to audiobooks most of the day. Don’t need stereo, so I clean and cook and work with one earbud in. > > One reason I do that is without it I’m narrating – it was driving my family crazy. Because I don’t talk, I sing. Like a “sung through” light opera (think “Les Miz”). Even the most boring tasks are redeemed if they’re part of a stirring, funny musical… imagine cleaning the bathroom while singing like Jack Skellington when he sees Christmas for the first time, but all the lyrics are about an epic battle between the toilet brush and the Swiffer. > > Why, yes, the whole thing rhymes. Of course. > > So I wait til no one else is home, and sing to the dogs. At least they understand the value of a free musical-in-the-round. Any hope you can be talked into posting the lyrics to the bathroom cleaning song? I think that has some entertainment potential. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Karen\_Lingel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/karen_lingel/32/18649_2.png) [@Karen\_Lingel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Karen_Lingel)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2012, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-unique-and-surprisingly-not-behavior/633712/78 "2012-09-19T20:46:53Z")
We have a sign outside the clean room listing all the items that are prohibited in the clean room (food, drink, paper, pencils, rust. Yes, there is a line item for “rust”). At the bottom of the sign it says “Read this sign every time you go into the clean room”. So I do. ---
**Author:** ![Doug\_K](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b5ac83/32.png) [@Doug\_K](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doug_K)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2012, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-unique-and-surprisingly-not-behavior/633712/79 "2012-09-19T21:00:49Z")
> [@Karen\_Lingel](#): > > We have a sign outside the clean room listing all the items that are prohibited in the clean room (food, drink, paper, pencils, rust. Yes, there is a line item for “rust”). At the bottom of the sign it says “Read this sign every time you go into the clean room”. > > So I do. Sounds like a variation of phone system menus. “Please read carefully, as list of prohibited items may have changed.” ---
**Author:** ![rivulus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/839c29/32.png) [@rivulus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rivulus)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2012, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-unique-and-surprisingly-not-behavior/633712/80 "2012-09-20T02:25:55Z")
I use my tongue to push the toothpaste a little more firmly onto the brush. Apparently this is weird and unusual enough that several roommates and friends have commented on it. I think it stems from camping as a child… where my mom would put some toothpaste on my brush and then I had to walk a ways to the nearest water spigot or bathroom to get water and then be able to rinse, etc. I was worried that the toothpaste would fall off. (Not sure if it ever did.) Long story short, it turned into an ingrained habit that I do unconsciously to this day. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-unique-and-surprisingly-not-behavior/633712.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-unique-and-surprisingly-not-behavior/633712.md?page=5)