What are your idiosynchrasies?

[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...

[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....

[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.

[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!

[Alex]

On #4, back when I ate beef that's how I preferred them, not quite but almost blue rare. I used to say that I wanted one final moo to escape as I took the first bite.

[mistyisjafo]

Originally Posted by Alex Stroup

On #4, back when I ate beef that's how I preferred them, not quite but almost blue rare. I used to say that I wanted one final moo to escape as I took the first bite.

I seem to remember a movie where there was a quote to something like "Just bring the cow over and I'll eat what I want".

I'm actually trying to avoid a lot of beef now just because it's supposed to be bad to eat it rare. It's still darn good tho!

Originally Posted by tracilicious

Reading this thread has made me realize one thing: Humans are weird.

We're not weird, we're SPECIAL!

[tracilicious]

I went to a farm near me to buy raw (unpasteurized) milk one time. The guy that ran it ate everything raw. I assumed that he stuck to fruits, veggies, nuts, that sort of thing, but in the course of the conversation I found out that he ate anything and everything raw. Raw chicken, raw beef, raw eggs. Two dozen raw eggs a day to be precise. It was the primal diet he said. He claimed to have cured himself of cancer with it. Now, don't get me wrong, I do think that diet can help cure cancer in some cases, and if he said he'd been in remission for two years then I have no reason not to believe him. I think I'd rather be radiated than eat raw chicken though.

[Gemini Cricket]

-Skim Milk or Soy Milk... never 2%, Whole etc.
-Watermelons, nectarines, apples must be crunchy or I won't eat 'em.
-Don't like overly sauced foods.
-Don't like too many toppings on my ice cream.
-TP roll = over the top (if you have cats = over the back)
-On every trip to the park: enter on the left, must ride POTC & HM and must walk through castle once.

to name a few...

I could have sworn we made a thread awhile back talking about this stuff. Anyone know where it is? I tried looking for it to no avail...

[Not Afraid]

I always feel like I've missed something if I don't see my Swans at DL or poke my head into Disneyana. Actually, I can live without Disneyana, but I always feel sad when I don't see swans.

Yesterday, I was sad.