What are your quirks?

[wooÐs]

• Whenever I have a prescription bottle of narcotic pain meds, I always store the bottle upside down. I take a lot of medications every day and those bottles are never upside down. Yet the vicodin / percoset must always be upside down. Even empty bottles - must be upside down.
• Whenever I walk in the house after being out for say 4 hours or more, I have to change clothes. Immediately. I let the dog out and then go change.
• After changing my clothes, I have to light something as soon as possible - either incense or a candle. It's like a ritual I have going or something. I don't feel comfortable until my clothes are changed and something is burning.
• I make my bed at night before going to bed. Otherwise, it stays messy all day unless I'm having company. But I have to have it perfect when getting in at night.

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[Reese]

I have a habit of chewing on things that have no business in my mouth.

[fresnelly]

I lose all self control if there are appetizers on the table.

[Baraka_Guru]

Speaking of food, when I eat, I always have to have some food in my mouth. I add more before I swallow it all. I like to mix things in there.

[Xerxys]

I am always naked if I can help it or if I think I won't be arrested.

[LoganSnake]

When I have different types of food on my plate, I always leave enough of everything for one last mouthful. I don't like to have one food overpower the taste of other foods, so I eat them all together at the end.

Clothes must hang facing right with the hanger hook facing away from me. Always.

Right shoe goes on first. Always.

I feel dirty when I have my street clothes on at home. I have clothes I wear only at home.

Nobody sits on my unmade bed in anything other than underwear or with bare ass.

Probably more, but that's all I can think of at the moment.

[streak_56]

I can never bend pipe or have wire at anything other than a 90 degree bend.
I baby talk to my fiance, even during serious discussions.
I have to hold a pillow over half my head and remove it a half hour later in order to sleep properly.
I have to shower coming into the house (most times) when I have left the house.
My food can never mix and I hate it when it touches!!!

[Xerxys]

Originally Posted by LoganSnake

... Clothes must hang facing right with the hanger hook facing away from me. Always. ...

Mine are to the left, but hanger hook away from me too.

Originally Posted by LoganSnake

... Nobody sits on my unmade bed in anything other than underwear or with bare ass. ...

What if the person is a dude?

[CinnamonGirl]

- When I microwave things, I don't enter a round number. 51 seconds... 37 seconds...etc.

- I can't sleep without socks on.

- Like Logan, my hanger hooks have to be facing away from me. I like my clothes to face left, though.

- I turn two cigarettes in the pack upside down, and smoke them last.

- I love to go dancing at clubs...but I hate dancing with other people (unless we're slow dancing or doing something with actual steps. no grinding, please.) Anytime someone tries, I spin away almost immediately.

- Anytime I hear "American Pie," I have to listen to the entire thing. I've been late to work because of this. And annoyed the hell out of friends.


Yeah, there are definitely more. Turns out, I'm a pretty weird person.

[Halx]

If I see a twisted bra strap, I have to fight myself not to reach out and correct it.

[Reese]

I have to shower coming into the house (most times) when I have left the house.

WHY IS THERE A SHOWER COMING INTO YOUR HOUSE!? Just yell out it, spank it with a newspaper and tell it NO! It should stop coming in the house when you have left the house.

[LordEden]

Originally Posted by CinnamonGirl

- I turn two cigarettes in the pack upside down, and smoke them last.

I thought I was the only one in the world that did this. I always tell people, "One is for good luck, one is for a good fuck".

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I have alot of quirks about sleeping. For me to really get good sleep I need to be:

1) Naked. I can't really sleep if I have clothes on unless I am drunk.

2) I have to have something to hug and have something in between knees (also my ankles). Usually, I have a body pillow that I wrap around. I wrap my feet in the covers to keep them from touching.

3) I can only fall asleep on my right side, I may end up on it during the night, but I have to start on the right. I also roll back and forth (pillow and all) during the night.

4) I have to have a fan or something going. Even in the winter, I have a fan running in my room.

5) No doors/cabinets/drawers can be open in the room I'm sleeping in.

6) I can not sleep and spoon. I can spoon or sleep, not both.

[wooÐs]

I can't sleep with nothing more and nothing less than an oversized tshirt / nightshirt. My ceiling fans are on year round. And no matter what the season is, I sleep with a lot of blankets. I like the weight on me. And I like my house cold. I can't sleep or just relax if it's hot. In the summer, my thermostat is on 70-72. If I could afford to have it lower, I would.

[Borla]

I always have to sit where I can see the door, whether it be at home, a restaurant, or any public space.

I want it cold. My furnace is usually 63-65* in the winter, and the A/C is usually 69* in the summer.

I like my drinks in large quantities. When I get a glass of water for dinner, I usually put it in a 32oz mason jar (and will drink more than one). If I pour a beer, I usually pour 2-3 at a time into a frozen mug. When I drink anything, if it's less than a 24-32oz quantity, I feel like I'm being slighted.

I can't only do one thing at a time. If I'm eating, I'm also either watching TV or reading. If I'm watching TV, I need a book, magazine, or my laptop. Even when online I take periodic breaks to read, or eat, or converse with someone.

I probably have 300k+ posts on message boards over the last 6-7 years. Almost none of them have blatant spelling errors, or grammatical errors. I will edit my posts if I find either. Run on sentences are the exception, I've been yelled at for them since Freshman year in High School.

[Xerxys]

Originally Posted by LordEden

I thought I was the only one in the world that did this. I always tell people, "One is for good luck, one is for a good fuck". ...

You totally just made that up right now didn't you?

[LordEden]

Originally Posted by Xerxys

You totally just made that up right now didn't you?

Been saying that for years.

[ColonelSpecial]

I also chew on things that should be chew on. I basically use my mouth as a third hand. I have been holding my keys in my mouth and thought to myself, where are my keys? The only thing I won't hold in my mouth is something obviously dirty or dangerous. It drives my husband nuts.

I can't look at the points of things. The worst are forks. If a fork is pointed at me tines up at a restaurant, I'll move it or ask someone to move it for me so the tines are down or not pointed directly at me.

I don't like to shower first thing in the morning or last thing at night like most people. I would rather shower at 2 pm right after work or 9 am before running errands.

When I go out, I prefer my head to be covered. It doesn't have to be fully covered so I use hats, scarves, headbands to cover it.

[CinnamonGirl]

Originally Posted by LordEden

I thought I was the only one in the world that did this. I always tell people, "One is for good luck, one is for a good fuck".

Originally Posted by Xerxys

You totally just made that up right now didn't you?

Definitely not made up. Good luck, good fuck. If someone's bumming a cig from me, I'll happily give them the second-to-last (the good luck one.) But NO ONE ELSE gets the last one.


I also sleep with a body pillow. Can't sleep without something between my knees... and I ABSOLUTELY cannot sleep with the closet doors open. I blame this on reading Cujo in the 4th grade.



Let's see...what else?

-- When I drive through a yellow light, I kiss my hand and touch the ceiling.

-- When I'm doing a shot, either as we're clinking glasses, or directly after, eye contact must be made with everyone I'm drinking with. Not as easy as it sounds.

-- I make a wish at 11:11, even though I know it's completely silly and asinine.

-- I don't eat meat. Apparently, that's pretty quirky.

-- I count my steps, and half the time, I don't even realize I'm doing it. It doesn't matter what the end number is, or anything like that...it's just something I do.

-- All of my clocks are eleven to thirteen minutes fast. The original idea was to fool myself into being on time... but since I KNOW they're fast, it kind of defeats the purpose. I have to stop myself from subtracting minutes when a clock is actually right.

-- My cds and dvds are in alphabetical order. It's partly organizational, partly amusement at what ends up next to each other.

[Charlatan]

I don't have any quirks. I suppose, given this thread, that's pretty quirky.

[LoganSnake]

Thought of a few more.

I can't fall asleep if I am not covered with a blanket up to my neck. There's a weird feel of anxiety if I am covered anywhere below.

I also cannot fall asleep when I am not facing away from the wall. My reasoning for this is that when I am facing the wall, my back is turned to the emptiness of the room, leaving me exposed. If I do fall asleep like that, 99% of the time I wake up from one of those dreams where you trip and fall into nothing.

When I am in the car and the music is playing, I move a part of my body to the beat. I can't otherwise. If I am at a red light, I stomp my foot. If I am driving it's either my right hand tapping away at the shifter or my lower jaw is tapping away at the upper. I've had a sore jaw from long trips due to tapping away at the beat.

I'm better at it now, but up until recently, I would avoid gaps in tiles and would time my steps to only hit whole surfaces.

If I have a stack of identical items (DVDs, CDs, papers), the edges have to match and all of them have to face the same direction.

If something is crooked or a bed cover corner is turned up, I can't rest until I fix it.

[ShaniFaye]

I have a going to sleep ritual, first I have to lay on my back, then on my left side, then on my right side..spooning Dave, I cannot fall asleep if I skip a step. I cannot fall asleep on my left, for some reason my brain is REALLY active when I lay that way

[thirdsun]

Originally Posted by ShaniFaye

I have a going to sleep ritual...

In order to sleep, I absolutely have to spend, at least part of the night, with my left leg propped on a pillow in semi-fetal position; otherwise, I get restless leg syndrome in my left leg for hours...

[Bear Cub]

I can't sleep without a fan on, preferably a Honeywell Tornado desk fan. Some other white noise will do, but it can't be something loud or bright like a TV.

I attribute it to living near highways all my life, and always hearing something off in the distance. The silence of living out in the country is painful to me.

[Xerxys]

Originally Posted by LoganSnake

... I'm better at it now, but up until recently, I would avoid gaps in tiles and would time my steps to only hit whole surfaces. ...

ROTFLMAO!!

I'm not crazy, now I know. Unless of course, LoganSnake is crazy then, well, were both crazy.

[thespian86]

- I sleep with no sheets on my bed.

- I roll my t-shirts and put them in a drawer; I find it works better than folding.

- I lift my toes when I drive past openings in the curb (driveways, streets, etc).

- When I eat a burger and fries I always eat 50% of my fries, take three bites (or less), of my burger, and finish my fries before I can touch my burger again.

- I have an order of importance involving coffee mugs and their usage.

[Strange Famous]

I chew pens
I write as if English wasnt my first language often (but it is fact the only language I can speak)
When I am walking at night and feel threatened I wrap my car keys around my fist and it makes me feel better
when I play any racquet sport I tap the back wall/fence twice at every change of ends
When I play in goal I slap the crossbar a couple of times at the kick off of the first and second half

[savmesom11]

I can only shower before bed, not when I get up in the morning.

I can't stand the shades or curtains drawn during the day time.

If people's family/living room are in the basement (even a finished basement like mine) I don't stay for longer than an hour. Below ground level makes me paranoid and feel trapped.

I never wear shoes in the house....ever

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I almost forgot....I can't eat pizza whole, I must pick off and eat the toppings first and then the crust.

[Crack]

I can only wear headphones over one ear.

I always have to light a cigarette when I get into the car.

[Reese]

When riding in vehicles, I keep a drum beat going with the center lines in the road and I get mad when the reflectors after every other line are missing because it throws off the beat.

[lostgirl]

Originally Posted by savmesom11

I never wear shoes in the house....ever

Me either, socks come off as well.

I like sandwiches with chips on them.

I have to sleep naked.

I will have to think of more.

[Crack]

Originally Posted by lostgirl

I have to sleep naked.

Originally Posted by lostgirl

have to sleep naked.

Originally Posted by lostgirl

to sleep naked.

Originally Posted by lostgirl

naked.

You lost me.

[Vigilante]

I'm not sure about quirks. I have a few things that are habitual, but if it doesn't happen, I don't sweat it.

I typically fall asleep on my left side, but that's because my wife sleeps to my right and I get hot and roll that way. If we stay in a hotel and go to opposite sides of the bed than at home, I sleep however suits me. I have slept fully clothed, in underwear and naked. Doesn't really matter, but I usually sleep in underwear because our dogs sleep with us and I don't want them discovering a play toy. No sir!

My OCD was gone by the time I was a teen, so all those typical OCD things don't exist. I can pop one finger and not pop the other, I can leave water on the counter or eat a sandwich with filthy hands.

I guess I have one unexplainable quirk that I can think of. I'm afraid of heights, but I have to be pretty high up first. The wind makes it much, much worse. If I looked over the edge of a 3rd floor roof, I would probably be in controlled fight-or-flight mode.

I have a hard time in pools, but that's because I nearly drowned in one as a teen. I've worked through most of that fear.

[Plan9]

I'm all about validation by association. Ex: I use TFP as an example of why I'm not such a bad guy after all.

[ametc]

~ I dance while I eat.
~ I spray my bedding with perfume before i go to sleep at night.
~ I wear the same pair of jeans for a good week before changing into another pair. (Unless they get really dirty.)
~ I sit in any chair with my right foot under my left leg.
~ Apparently, I'm very random from what I'm told by everybody who knows me.
~ "American Food" is completely new to me. (I grew up on Filipino food even though I haved lived in the US for most of my life.)
~ I hang out at the graveyard with my best friend so we can talk with tombstones of people we have never met.
~ I have been near death twice and died once.
~ I'm psychic... or intuitive. And my "powers" come out at random moments. I can't control when I'm able to sense something. :C

[savmesom11]

Originally Posted by lostgirl

I like sandwiches with chips on them.

I have to sleep naked.

Love chips on my sandwiches...and I love sandwiches

I also sleep nekkid even when I am not sharing my bed with anyone. An ex from a very long time ago got me in this habit and now it feel weird any other way.

[MSD]

Originally Posted by Xerxys

ROTFLMAO!!

I'm not crazy, now I know. Unless of course, LoganSnake is crazy then, well, were both crazy.

[ZombieSquirrel]

When eating M&M type candies (Skittles, Reese Pieces, etc.) I divide them up by color and arrange said groups alphabetized by name of color. (Blue, Brown, Green, Orange...). Then I have to even them up. If there are 3 blues, 4 browns 7 greens and 5 oranges, I have to eat 1 brown, 4 greens and 2 oranges until they are all in equal amounts. Then I eat them one by one alphabetically.

If I eat french fries, they have to be on the plate parallel to each other.

I will not pour the syrup on pancakes, but will have it in a saucer/bowl and dip bites of PC in it.

I will NOT step on a crack even though I know it will not break my mother's back.

I count my steps going up stairs, but not going down.

Markers, colored pencils, crayons, etc. all have to be organized by ROY G BIV (Br, Bl). If it's one of those BIG boxes, I have to take time to arrange by shades going lightest at the top down to the darkest.

Will go out of my way to close a filing cabinet, desk drawer, door etc. in an office. Even if it's not mine. At this moment I know my co-worker's filing cabinet is open, because it always is. I will go close it after hitting "submit reply."



There are more, I'm sure. I'm whacked.

Now I have a filing cabinet to close....

[katyg]

I cannot sleep without knickers and socks on. pretty sexy!

I like to count the streetlights on long car journeys.. I cannot help myself it's like a tick

I love to pop other peoples' spots/blackheads

I am 28 and still collect hello kitty toys and things though I hide them when people come over.

...what a catch!

[genuinegirly]

I brush my teeth once after waking up, once after eating breakfast, once before leaving the house in the morning, and once before bed (never had a cavity).

[Vigilante]

Originally Posted by thespian86

- When I eat a burger and fries I always eat 50% of my fries, take three bites (or less), of my burger, and finish my fries before I can touch my burger again.

Ha! That reminds me. I slap a layer of fries on my burger, squeeze off some ketchup on them, then eat the massive burger, with fries.