# 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:** 11\ **Page:** 5
**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 20, 2012, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-unique-and-surprisingly-not-behavior/633712/81 "2012-09-20T03:30:27Z")
> [@rivulus](#): > > 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. I do that too, and we weren’t campers. ---
**Author:** ![california\_jobcase](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@california\_jobcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/california_jobcase)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2012, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-unique-and-surprisingly-not-behavior/633712/82 "2012-09-20T03:48:18Z")
I squirt the toothpaste into the bristles from the top instead of just placing a bead of paste on the bristle ends. ---
**Author:** ![commasense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/commasense/32/3017_2.png) [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2012, 7:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-unique-and-surprisingly-not-behavior/633712/83 "2012-09-21T07:23:07Z")
I have been thinking about starting a thread like this just to mention the fact that I don’t use shaving cream (or anything else, except a twin-blade razor) when I shave. I wear a beard, but it is not very dense, and the individual hairs are rather thin, so it’s easier to trim the beard line on my cheeks and neck with a dry blade and no shaving cream. My wife thinks I’m crazy, but I’ve been doing it this way for decades. I’ve probably saved thousands of dollars. If I didn’t wear a beard, I would probably go back to an electric razor. ---
**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 22, 2012, 6:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-unique-and-surprisingly-not-behavior/633712/84 "2012-09-22T06:54:44Z")
I find shaving cream to be pretty wasteful and useless. As long as there’s some cheap semblance of a lube strip on the razor I’m fine. Actually, even hot running water will do. I don’t think cream is really needed unless you are using an old fashioned barber blade. ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2012, 10:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-unique-and-surprisingly-not-behavior/633712/85 "2012-09-22T10:36:09Z")
> [@MadTheSwine](#): > > I park my car in parking spaces that rarely get used because I feel sorry for them. I’ll do this with any gizmo that requires me to choose a number, but where the exact number isn’t otherwise important. Like, the volume control on a TV remote, or the number of seconds you warm something up in the microwave. It’s to the point where I’ve internalized it – I just get this feeling that I haven’t given “8” much love in a while, or whatever. ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2012, 10:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-unique-and-surprisingly-not-behavior/633712/86 "2012-09-22T10:40:04Z")
> [@phreesh](#): > > 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. Nicholson Baker, is that you? 😉 (This sounds just like his kind of thing). ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2012, 10:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-unique-and-surprisingly-not-behavior/633712/87 "2012-09-22T10:47:02Z")
> [@Asimovian](#): > > Whenever I grab a bottle of water out of the refrigerator at work, I walk back to my office tossing/flipping it. I never think it’s weird until someone comments on it. I also tend to grab either a pen or a rubber band whenever I’m getting up to walk around the office so I have something to fidget with. Pens get flipped in the same manner as the water bottles. Were you a drummer in an '80s hair metal band? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Crawlspace](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Crawlspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crawlspace)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2012, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-unique-and-surprisingly-not-behavior/633712/88 "2012-09-22T15:54:47Z")
> [@HeyHomie](#): > > I thought I was the only person in the world who ate one thing at a time (used to give my mom fits). > > But I took it a step further: I wouldn’t let the different foods touch on my plate. At one point, I was so obsessive about it that I would have each food in its own bowl, but then Dr. Albracht put me on these little white pills… I am/was the same way. [LL Cool J](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcXZuVrBAfo)agrees. ---
**Author:** ![Chef\_Troy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/85f322/32.png) [@Chef\_Troy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chef_Troy)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2012, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-unique-and-surprisingly-not-behavior/633712/89 "2012-09-22T16:31:52Z")
> [@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 have to disagree here, **Miss Woodhouse.** If there’s nothing on the last bite of your sandwich but bread, then you simply aren’t constructing that sandwich properly. All fillings should be spread completely out to the edges of the bread – condiments, meat, veggies, everything. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2012, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-unique-and-surprisingly-not-behavior/633712/90 "2012-09-22T21:24:18Z")
> [@phouka](#): > > I used to do that ages ago. How’s Old Abe doing? Not bad for a 203-year-old. ---
**Author:** ![\_Olive](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/_/4af34b/32.png) [@\_Olive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/_Olive)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2012, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-unique-and-surprisingly-not-behavior/633712/91 "2012-09-22T21:29:44Z")
I put my toothpaste directly on my tongue. Then I squish it between my teeth.Then brush. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-unique-and-surprisingly-not-behavior/633712.md?page=4)