What are your idiosynchrasies?

[Kevy Baby]

Originally Posted by wendybeth

Chewing on ice is a sign of a vitamin deficiency

No, its a sign that one isn't getting enough sex.

[Kevy Baby]

Originally Posted by Motorboat Cruiser

I very much prefer to enter Disneyland through the tunnel closest to city hall. I've been entering on the right side since I can remember and have no desire to change.

Um, this makes no sense. If you go enter through the tunnel closest to City Hall, that is the tunnel on the LEFT as you go in.

[Kevy Baby]

Originally Posted by Matterhorn Fan

Cupboards ought to be closed. I will close yours if you leave them open.

Originally Posted by Ghoulish Delight

What would it take to get you to follow CP around while she's in the kitchen?

And Susan too?

[Kevy Baby]

I have this odd ability to zero in on typos. Working in the print business, this is good, but I have no idea where this "talent" came from. I am more prone to finding them if I am not looking for them. My eyes just zoom right to them.

The sound of someone chewing their food drivess me insane. I will sometimes start to hum if I can hear someone chewing.

I twitch and sometimes have a hard time time sitting still. Although I am gettin past this.

I know Susan would gleefully point out MANY more...

[LSPoorEeyorick]

I leave the lees of liquid at the bottom of any glass, cup, or bottle I drink from. Unless I'm drinking water. Not that I mean to do this purposefully. (I think my subconscious must think that backwashed water must taste fine as opposed to backwashed juice or milk or soda. To my subconscious, I say 'eww, we don't backwash!')

My brain will get stuck on a phrase and a rythmn. If I think of song notes or a natural rhythmn (e.g. clock ticking, water dripping) my brain will stick in a phrase along with the rhythmn and I'll keep repeating it in my head without realizing I'm repeating it.

I have a unibrow (that's not my idiocyncracy, really) and since I so frequently have to pluck it, when my brain is in ponder-mode I'll sometimes absentmindedly reach up and seek out ill-placed brows to pluck.

Ever since I was a child, when I start to get sleepy I touch my left forearm. I don't even realize I'm doing it. Nowadays Tom helps prevent that by touching my forearm for me when he tucks me in. It is my body's auto-off mechanism.

[wendybeth]

Originally Posted by Kevy Baby

I have this odd ability to zero in on typos. Working in the print business, this is good, but I have no idea where this "talent" came from. I am more prone to finding them if I am not looking for them. My eyes just zoom right to them.

The sound of someone chewing their food drivess me insane. I will sometimes start to hum if I can hear someone chewing.

I twitch and sometimes have a hard time time sitting still. Although I am gettin past this.

I know Susan would gleefully point out MANY more...

Odd that a post about typos would contain several, particularly from someone who is normally so good about not making them....

[Tom]

Originally Posted by Prudence

I'm completely normal. I have no idiosyncrasies.

That's abnormal.

[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.

[tracilicious]

I take the pillow flipping to a new level. Every night I flip to the side and up and down so that I am sleeping on the opposite spot that I slept on the night before. That way the pillow wears down evenly. I must have my two pillows or I can't sleep. On occasion I've been tossing and turning and couldn't figure out why until I realized that Michael had one of my pillows. Damn straight I woke him up and made him give it back. Last night he found himself pillowless because for some reason Indi had his pillow. I offered him one of mine, but I was so grateful when he refused because I wouldn't have been able to sleep otherwise. When my pillows get too flat and I have to replace them, it is a rough few nights of adjustment.

I'm scared of garages. Particularly at night. When I have to go in the garage at night I hum a song for bravery. For some odd reason it always ends up being, "From the Halls of Montezuma."

The real reason I'm afraid of garages is because I'm afraid of roaches. When I was a kid we moved into a house that had been abandoned for a few years and had a really bad infestation. They creep me the hell out.

If I have to walk through a dark house I leap through touching as little floor as possible. See above.

I must pee immediately before getting into bed. Even if I just went two minutes ago. I don't even realize that I'm repeat peeing until I think about it.

[mistyisjafo]

I'm a picky eater. No really I'm a SUPER picky eater. Example?

1. I hate peas. Despise them. Any meal with peas takes forever to eat since I have to pick every one of them out BEFORE I eat the meal. I can't eat my food until its all out. Even if its not the main course.

2. I don't like tomatoes, beans, cucumbers, pickles, and just about every veggie except corn, broccoli, califlower and celery. I don't like a lot of fruit like red apples, mangos (except in alcohol for some reason), cantalope, and mellon.

3. You know those plates with little separate sections? I love those plates. I hate when my food touches other food. Like potatoes touching my steak or the veggies floating in chicken or my salad in my main course. I can't have chips touching dip. It's a serious problem. Which is why I tell people to ignore me when I eat. They always find it highly distrubing as I push my food away from each other.

4. Worse, I have to warn people about when I eat a steak (btw: WARNING if you get grossed out easily don't read the following) because I like my steak rare. Not medium, not medium rare, not even rarely medium just rare. I won't eat it raw but I like it more like lightly passed over a flame. I know gross right? Yea well can't say I didn't warn you.

I'm pretty sure this all stems from being an only child. My mom certainly seems to think so!