What are your idiosynchrasies?

[JWBear]

I can’t stand food all mixed together on my plate. I just don’t understand how people can go through a buffet line and just pile everything together into one big mess. <shudder>

I hate it when restaurants plop your garlic bread right down on top of the spaghetti sauce. I can’t stand soggy bread!

If I’m eating potato chips (like with a sandwich), I have to sort them by size. I eat the crumbs first, then the small pieces, then the broken ones, and the whole ones last.

I must have my orange juice in the morning. If I don’t, I’m a raging ***** for the rest of the day.

Hmmm… All mine are food related. That should worry me….

[flippyshark]

I can't read about other people's excentricities without permanently taking them on myself. Thanks a lot guys.

There are plenty here that I share with many of you. (I don't like food mixing on the plate, I flip the pillow a lot, I sort candies by color and eat every type of item in trail mix one at a time, among other things.)

One item I didn't see here - I am repulsed by the practice of putting milk in cereal. I can't stand to watch people eat it and I certainly don't do so myself. Even worse, the sound of someone slurping the milk/cereal combo off their spoon sends me cringing. I do occasionally buy cereal and snack on it from the box.

[Prudence]

I'm completely normal. I have no idiosyncrasies.

[lizziebith]

I'm a compusive "straightener." Last week, while standing in front of a co-worker's desk, I was caught absently aligning all of her files while we conversed. Luckily, she thought it was cool. She's one too!

[wendybeth]

Originally Posted by Freaky Tiki

I don't know if the sensual is the right word but I know where you're coming from. I find it to be very relaxing, I wish there was way to tell the lady to take her time without sounding creepy.

Speaking as a hairdresser, it's not creepy so long as you refrain from moaning and keep your hands on the outside of the cutting cape at all times.

[Ghoulish Delight]

Originally Posted by wendybeth

Speaking as a hairdresser, it's not creepy so long as you refrain from moaning and keep your hands on the outside of the cutting cape at all times.

Okay, now I'm feeling weird, 'cause I always keep my hands beneat the cutting cape, so as not to have a pile of hair on my arms. And now you're telling me, I could have been... Damn, why didn't I think of that?!

[Eliza Hodgkins 1812]

I touch my face a lot. Some of it has to do with being self-concious, but it's usually influenced by what I'm doing. If my attention is rapt while learning, watching something, listening, etc., I touch my lips and nose alot. And it's a TERRIBLE and specific habit. It's usually with my middle and ring fingers pressed together, and with just the tips of those fingers I press against my lips and then my nose, and back and forth and back and forth. It's SO odd but I've done this, or something very similar to this, since I was a kid. Similarly, I'll press my thumb lightly against my lips/nose while my pointer and middle fingers play around with my cheek.

I'ts an idiosyncrasy in the strictest sense, because I've never seen anyone doing anything remotely like it.

[Matterhorn Fan]

Originally Posted by Not Afraid

l can vouch for MF's cupboard-closing habit.

Can you? I don't remember closing any of yours.

[Cadaverous Pallor]

I touch my face constantly. I couldn't really wear much makeup if I wanted to because it will be gone in an hour.

I always mess with scabs and I have no clue I'm doing it.

Pillow flipper, twitcher.

Interesting about the ice chewing. I'm an ice chewer and I grind my teeth a lot. (insert ecstasy joke here) I think I'll look into the vitamins...

[Capt Jack]

I whistle...

I have a feeling it may get me killed one day as I do it unconsciously while I work or walk. Not loud but alot. I also tend to talk to myself out loud while I work. Not as noticable as it used to be in this day of cell phones and earphones.

I (and other people) could probably think of alot more