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!

[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

[Ponine]

Originally Posted by 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!

Oh, ok, I forgot about that. I tend to straighten merchandise. Put things back where they belong, make them face front, etc. It drives my family nuts.

I know that I touch my face a lot, and bite on my fingers to concentrate, but I am trying to break that.

[Tom]

Originally Posted by Prudence

I'm completely normal. I have no idiosyncrasies.

That's abnormal.

[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.

[tracilicious]

Originally Posted by 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.

Could it be a carry over from the womb? I ask because baby Jade is always touching her face. She'll suck her thumb while pressing her nose up and rubbing her cheek with her other fingers. When she isn't doing that she'll be rubbing her eyelashes. The girl cannot get to sleep without something to rub. Lately it's the thumb, cheek rubbing, while rubbing my armhair with the other hand. I think that some people are just very tactile by nature.

[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...