quote:Originally posted by chillas: I like to park in the same parking space everyday. It's not the closest one to work, nor the closest one to the lot exit. It's kind of right in the middle. There's not real reason for it. But I get a bit irritated when I get in and find someone in my space.
I'm the same way for the grocery store and at the middle school when I pick up my daughter. So much so that I actually get there an hour early. Its okay though, I catch up on my reading and stuff.
For me I think part of it has to do with the fact that I come in to work so early. I work in an office, with regular office hours, but I got permission to move my shift up - instead of starting at 8:00 I start at 7:00. As it is, I'm often in early anyway, 6:30 and sometimes even 6:00. So I'm usually one of the very first people here.
This means that the parking lots are virtually empty when I come in. But at least a half dozen times that I can recall, I've rolled in to find a single car in the lot, and that in my space. And it isn't the same car everytime either!
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quote:Originally posted by LyndaD: No one may touch or even talk about my feet in my presence.
Is it okay for people to touch your feet if you're not around?
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quote:Originally posted by Mickey is a Moorish Idol: Continuing on...I hate people I don't know very well touching me. I mean, I HATE it. If there's someone that's a hugger, and I don't feel comfortable enough around them, they will be hugging a very stiff body. Which makes most people look at me with a "WTF?" expression when they find that out, after knowing what my summer job is.
Although I can understand the sentiment, if you plan on working with deaf children (you do, right?) you will definitely have to learn to live with it. Touching is a normal (and frequent) part of deaf culture. As is hugging.
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I always blow into any cups or glasses I'm about to use before pouring my beverage into it. I also wipe any bowls or plates I'm about to use quickly with my hand. I guess I think I'm getting rid of any towel fluff that might be on/in them from when they were wiped.
When it comes to sleeping, I HAVE to lie on my right side first. Lying on my left side first is simply unheard of!
Also, a more recent quirk that I've developed involves my two pairs of slippers. They were on sale, so I figured I might as well buy two pairs, and save one pair for when the first ones wore out. Yeah right! I couldn't decide which pair to wear first, so instead I alternate which pair I wear every day. Some days I forget which pair I wore the day before, and the world falls into utter chaos. Posts: 96 | From: Victoria, Australia | Registered: Jun 2005
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quote:Originally posted by Mickey is a Moorish Idol: Continuing on...I hate people I don't know very well touching me. I mean, I HATE it. If there's someone that's a hugger, and I don't feel comfortable enough around them, they will be hugging a very stiff body. Which makes most people look at me with a "WTF?" expression when they find that out, after knowing what my summer job is.
Although I can understand the sentiment, if you plan on working with deaf children (you do, right?) you will definitely have to learn to live with it. Touching is a normal (and frequent) part of deaf culture. As is hugging.
Oh, I know. That's one of the few forums that I'm comfortable with it. I've been involved in the Deaf community for 7 years, so I'm used to it. I can't explain what exactly it is, but it's like I separate the two cultures in my mind, and in the Deaf culture, I'm fine with it. In the hearing culture...not so much.
ETA: a couple things I realized last night, as I was heading to bed- I have to have a light on in whichever room I walk through. So, when I go to lock the door at night, I have to turn on the kitchen light, so I can turn off the living room light and walk through the kitchen. Then I have to turn on the hallway light and turn off the kitchen light, which is on the same light switch. And the light switches to the kitchen and the hallway have to be going in the same direction
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Mostly this is when I'm trying something new, and a sniff will give a reasonable, less intense indication of what it will taste like. Sort of like a warm up.
Sometimes, though, it's because I want to enjoy the aroma of food before the taste. Good chocolate, for instance. Sashimi, too - very fresh, raw tuna has such a delicate sweet scent that matches its flavor.
But common foods I don't do this with.
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I forgot about one. When I'm in bed, I have to crack my joints before I'm comfortable enough to try to fall asleep. First my right ankle, then my left knee, then my back. ok, so my back isn't a joint, but still, I have to crack it. If the pressure gets too much during the night, it wakes me up and I have to crack them again.
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quote:Originally posted by chillas: I also tend to sleep with no covers, but that's due to a cover hog and not habit.
Hey!
That's one of my habits. I must have some kind of cover on in order to sleep. Even when it's hot out, I have to have a sheet or something.
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quote:Originally posted by Signora Del Drago: Krystals are better. I wish we had them in Oklahoma. I miss them.
BLASPHEMER!
Oh, I'm sorry, no, no, let me get it....
I have never, ever liked Krystal. I do, however, loooooooove White Castle. Majorly dig on White Castle.
And it sucks that I live in California and can't get White Castle unless I buy that frozen crap which are NOT REAL WHITE CASTLE SLIDERS.
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quote:Originally posted by Cactus Wren: I need to drink while I eat. A meal requires at least two glasses of whatever I'm drinking, usually water. Call it "washing it down" or whatever you like, but that's the way I prefer it.
I, too, like to have a fan on while I sleep, even in winter. One problem is that I sleep very warm, and in summer use only a sheet if that. I can't sleep if I'm even a little sweaty -- I'll get up and take a brief shower.
And I can't stand having the sheet tucked in at the foot of the bed. I need to be able to move my legs, and when the sheet is tucked in they feel pressed down. I do like having several pillows -- at least two for my head (so when one is warm I can change to the other) and one long body pillow. If I get cold, I'll lie on my side with a pillow against the small of my back.
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Here in Arizona, showering before I sleep!
I also can't stand having my hands not clean. If I have to eat anything with my hands (sandwiches, French fries, even popcorn), I spend a lot of time wiping my hands and go through a lot of paper napkins. When my skin is dry, I use only the tiniest bit of lotion, and can't do anything but rub my hands together until it's completely rubbed in and I can't feel it any more. (The lotion also has to be from a reasonably new bottle, so it doesn't smell rancid.)
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I have this weird thing about numbering people, but it's far too complicated to explain properly. In short- if you are a relation or a friend, you are an 8. I you are someone I don't like, you are a 5. People I don't know or am not sure about are 11. I don't know why.
I have to follow my surroundings in my head. in a room, I will mentally trace the line of the wall, along the floor, up the wall, along the ceiling and back to the original point. sometimes I do it horizontally, around the wall and into all the nooks and crannies. If I feel like i went wonky, or didn't 'touch' the wall, I have to do it again. In a car, I will trace the line of the landscape to the side, in my head. I do it so much that I don't even realise that I do it anymore. Oh and i also sort of smooth the road down in the appropriate directions, in my head as I'm driving.
OCD much?
Ooooh and I'm also a temperature-control-legger because i *have* to have something touching my back and the back/free side of my neck. The foot of my temperature-control-leg cannot overhang the edge of the bed, in case the under-the-bed monsted grabs it. Obviously.
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How could I forget the weirdest thing I do??
I have 5 pairs of slippers. (There used to be more.)
When I get in/out of the shower, I wear the one plastic/shower-shoe pair. Once, I actually get out and put my towel on, I put on the next black pair. After I dry my feet off, I put one the pink, fuzzy flip-flop pair. Once I'm dressed or have my pjs on, I put on the final pink pair. But, there is ONE more, big white fuzzy pair. I sometimes wear them if I feel like my pink pair don't feel "right". What is wrong with me???
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This is something for me to think about: I certianly have my own weird habits and and I used to think they were cute, but after I've read through this thread I've realized that if I had to interact closely with someone who had weird habits I would not be amused. I don't intend to offend anyone by saying this, but I'm going to try to be more rational in the future because I think that that's what I want from other people.
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I don't eat little round colored candies in any particular order, but I do like to make little flowers out of them before I eat them.
I do the all-bundled-up thing in bed too, complete with temperature control leg. The more covers the better.
If I have my food at the same time I never eat one thing, then another. I eat main dish, side dish, salad, and even soup all together, one bite of this and then one bite of that.
Nonny
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I eat M&Ms in pairs of which the two colors must not match. It takes a bit of doing to arrange the pairs so that there's not a bunch of any single color as I exhaust the package.
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I've been thinking about how to explain this one for a little while now. Here goes...
Sometimes I will get a word or short phrase stuck in my head. I'll them count out the syllables on the fingers of one hand, starting with the thumb, and I will continue to repeat the phrase until the last syllable of the phrase ends on a pinky.
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TallGeekyGirl, I do the same thing, except I tend to go back and forth (start at the thumb, go to the pinky, go back to the thumb, etc). I'll do it with songs (either live or in my head) until I drive myself crazy.
There are a couple of other snopesters who do something similar as well. Pretty weird, hm?
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I'm really picky about a lot of the food I eat or drink. I will not eat tomatoes, drink orange juice with pulp, or drink bubble tea, because I hate the way they feel in my mouth. I could continue the list, but I'd be typing for awhile...
I've gotten odd looks from people because I tend to sniff things (and often the people who are giving me strange looks fall under this category.) If I smell something, I need to figure out what it is and where it's coming from.
I also have to sleep with a fan on, or at the least have an open window to sleep well. Doesn't matter if it's -30celcius, I need to feel air movement. In addition, the colder the room, the more reason for me crawl under more blankets. I feel more secure sleeping at night under a pile of blankets. It's not unusual for me to wake up completely covered in blanket except for my face and one of my feet for temperature control.
I don't think I do it anymore, but often on long road trips when I was a kid and got bored I had this thing where I needed to blink *just* as we passed a lamp post or telephone pole (only one or the other, never both at the same time) while on long stretches of open highway. Preferably telephone poles because I could watch the cables dip and then rise. Same goes with barbed wire fences and fence posts. Or, to mix things up, I might instead scrunch my toes as we passed them. I thought it was more fun to do the blinking thing though.
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...Has anyone else read this thread and thought "Hm...I wonder if I sound OCD or fall somewhere in the range of autism spectrum disorders...?"
(Sorry, I've been studying that in my special ed class, and a lot of the little things that bother us to no end remind me of some of the things we discussed in class)
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I've wondered sometimes about my "syllable counting," but it's something I do to pass the time or amuse myself. I don't feel compelled to do it the way someone with a true disorder would. I don't think in my case that it's OCD, just one more quirk to add to the quirky pile that is ME!
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1) Have to sleep with a blanket, no exceptions 2) I count everything 3) If I break my morning routine, I feel lost all day 4) I must have my parking space 5) Must have my car keys at all times (except sleep) 6) I have a set pattern for my internet browsing (snopes is fifth on the list) 7) If a floor has a pattern on it, I walk in a set pattern 8) I despise uneven things, and will do everything I can to achieve symetry 9) Must have on hat 90% of the day (it's like my safety blanket, kinda sad at 22) 10) Will purposely avoid continuing a list if it will end on an uneven number
quote:Originally posted by Nick Theodorakis: Speaking of White Castle, I must order an even number of sliders when I get carry-out there (both for single orders or a family order), even if that means I eat one less than I really want. When my dw asked about this, I replied that to do otherwise would disrupt the fabric of the universe.
Nick
I love odd numbers. Wherever possible I deal with odd numbers - for example I will let a telephone ring for 7, 9 or 11 rings before giving up. It is is not that I displike even numbers, I just prefer odd ones. I suppose I am the 'equal and opposite reaction' to Nick that keeps the universe in order.
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quote:Originally posted by MissE: What is wrong with me???
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I see that many here share my odd habit of having to sleep at least partially covered. If it is terribly hot, I can get buy with just covering my feet and shoulders. I also sleep better with my back facing a wall. This came from being afraid of the dark as a child (IF you see them first...) but now is just a habit. One that I had never noticed until a friend recently pointed it out to me; I tend to buy things in twos. Two bottles of water, two bottles of tea, two sandwiches instead of a combo meal. Some other oddities: - I "growl" lightly as I relax. You might call it a purr, if a cat had a carbuerator - I try to adjust my glasses even when not wearing them. Not with my hands, but by twitching my nose and ears. - I blink quite a bit, as I can't stand for my eye lashes to stick together (I am cursed with long lashes, and they always seem to be entangled). - I laugh when accused of lying. This, of course convinces the accuser that I must be lying. Oddly, I can flat out lie while keeping a straight face. - I bob my head to music... even if there is no music playing (always a song in my head). - I drink incessantly. Not alcohol, but water and tea. If a wait person can keep up with my water intake during a meal, they automatically get a tip bonus. In Japanese restaurants, I always sit near the water pitcher. I keep a thermos full of ice water beside my bed, because I wake up thirsty in the middle of the night.
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I count stairs as I'm climbing or descening them. Espicially my basement ones. But I think came about because of all the heavy things I've had to help Mr. Dragon carry up and down (i.e. the air conditioner, the pool table) and I couldnt see the stairs. So I counted them to know when I've reached the last one.
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The mention above about the shower got me thinking again.
I shower/wash in a very definite routine, and if I do something out of order or purposely do NOT do it, I tend to screw up other things while in the shower, and then I feel out of sorts all damned day long.
If I cut my hair (I like being in the militar!!), I take a shower to get rid of the stray cuttings immediately... and since I cut it at night, my shower is done. I also shave while I am in the shower.
I've found that the following morning (sometimes only five hours later or so), I HAVE to take a shower to feel "right" all day... and this includes going through all the mechanations of lathering up my face and scraping off my baby-smooth skin with the backside of the razor... all in the attempt to go through the motions of keeping up the routine.
My beloved bride thinks I am full goose bozo.
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quote:Originally posted by Wolf333: - I drink incessantly. Not alcohol, but water and tea. If a wait person can keep up with my water intake during a meal, they automatically get a tip bonus. In Japanese restaurants, I always sit near the water pitcher. I keep a thermos full of ice water beside my bed, because I wake up thirsty in the middle of the night.
I'm sure you've had your blood sugar checked. Drinking on that level is usually a very bad sign!
As for me? I have to have the temp at or below 70° F when I sleep, with the fan on, I tend to get hot at night, but during the day, the temp stays near 80°F or I complain of being freezing cold.
I absolutely cannot stand using a straw on any non-carbonated drink! Won't have it.
In anything (like most here, apparently) is in a mix, I tend to consume the individual parts as groups. Nuts for example: Consume all cashews first, then filberts, then almonds, then pecans, then those wretched peanuts. The exception to this is colored candies that do not have a distinct difference in taste (i.e. m&m's).
I've also recently developed a tendency to eat grapefruit as a snack, like an orange.
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Just remembered another one when reading about the numbers.
I'm very weird about numbers. Only on certain things, though, say for instance if there is a volume counter on the television. These, and only these numbers are accetable to me (my volume goes from 0-63)...
Once I almost cried because my boyfriend thought it was funny to turn it to like, 19 or something.
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quote:Originally posted by Wolf333: - I drink incessantly. Not alcohol, but water and tea. If a wait person can keep up with my water intake during a meal, they automatically get a tip bonus. In Japanese restaurants, I always sit near the water pitcher. I keep a thermos full of ice water beside my bed, because I wake up thirsty in the middle of the night.
I'm sure you've had your blood sugar checked. Drinking on that level is usually a very bad sign!
Yes, since both of my fraternal grandparents had diabetes, I get checked at least annually. The fact that my grandfather had diabetes is probably the root of this habit. I spent quite a bit of time with my grandfather, and whenever he drank, I drank. I was just trying to emulate him. Over time, it became habit.
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I can't sleep unless I read something in bed, the light drove my ex nuts.
My partner and our daughter, both have the leg sticking out if they get hot.
When our son was born, he had to be in Neo Natal, for a week, we brought him home and as soon we would lay him down, he would cry, the solution, we put a radio in his crib. The neo-natal was busy music played, he was not used to the quiet. He is 17 years old and still needs a radio to help him sleep.
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My main weird habit involves colors and patterns. For instance, I cannot just open a box of crayons, markers, colored pencils, what-have-you, and start coloring. I have to take them all out of the box and arrange them in a specific order. This is why the Peanut and I have different stuff to color with. I can't stand when people use my crayons and they don't put them in the box right.
I tried to color with a bucket of markers once, but I couldn't keep them in order and ended up giving them away.
Anything that can be made into a symmetrical pattern will be, but it must first be sorted into components. Blocks must be sorted by color and shape, then they can be used to build something, but I can't build asymmetrical things.
If there is a pattern in what I have, I'll order things by pattern. When I had 2 colors of dishes, they were always in the cabinet by color; black, blue, black, blue. I hated when someone else put stuff away and messed it up. My friends who have Fiestaware joy in opening their cupboards to show me the multi-colored insane stacks of plates. It makes me shudder.
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I like to use colored pencils. The pencils absolutely must be in order starting with the lightest shade graduating to the darkest shade of a color. If they are not, I can't draw a thing.
My closets are arranged the same way.
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Don't even THINK about touching my neck. That little spot in the collarbone, where it dips in? I just freak out if anyone touches me there. My poor DD - 9, touched me there a couple weeks ago, and I went ballastic. My mother thought I was insane, watching me.
As for covers, this is weird, I know. I like to pull them all the way up to my chin, but I hate to have the blanket touch my chin. The top sheet HAS to be folded over the blanket or it drives me nuts.
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