Tell us a weird quirk about yourself...

ORIGINAL: Lukes Wall
When I was younger, I had a real problem with holding things that could make my hands feel / smell funny.

I have this " problem" . I can' t really get my hands dirty unless I know I will be able to clean them afterwards. It grosses me out. And if my hands smell funny, I have to smell them, over and over again. And it keeps grossing me out. So I have to wash them quite often.

ORIGINAL: Cleffer

ORIGINAL: KuzinRob
-The order is always upper body, lower body, hair, face in the shower.

Hey...um. Next time you' re in the shower, think of the last place that washcloth/bar of soap was before you washed your face.

Oh, come on! I wash my face with my hands. I don' t need no stinkin' (literally, at this point) wash cloth to wash my face.

- I can' t go poop at anyplace other than home or my single chosen toilet at work. This makes vacationing very difficult.

I have a designated toilet on campus at school just in case I have to go during the day. Even if I have to trek all the way across the campus, I will always get to St. Albert' s Hall' s first floor bathroom, the stall in the second row all the way by the wall. It is always clean in there because there are nothing but science majors in the building, therefore likely anal retentive, and therefore know how to keep a public restroom tidy by their own means.

I have a designated toilet on campus at school

I have a designated toilet too... its call the professor' s doorknob. (I didn' t poop on it, but it was nice and warm!)

ORIGINAL: RoCkuS

I have this " problem" . I can' t really get my hands dirty unless I know I will be able to clean them afterwards. It grosses me out. And if my hands smell funny, I have to smell them, over and over again. And it keeps grossing me out. So I have to wash them quite often.

my messenger bag always contains individually wrapped Wet Ones wipes, hand sanitizer, and liquid antibacterial hand soap. my hands MUST be clean at ALL TIMES. taking public transportation just about kills me, since i always have to end up holding a handrail...

oh, and to all of you people that have to sleep with socks on... you are FREAKS!!

What are you, a paligamist (sp)?

Most of my waking hours, I either have to be pacing or drumming on something. Otherwise my left eye starts twitching and I shudder involuntarily from time to time. Actually, I think it' s less a quirk and more a programming glitch.

I see dumb people - all the fukkin time

ORIGINAL: JayBeefC
I have a designated toilet too... its call the professor' s doorknob. (I didn' t poop on it, but it was nice and warm!)

Not too sure that there has ever been a moment at which I really wished I had not seen something so funny... but when Jay stink-faced that doorknob, I about died. Especially when that professor came in the next morning and grabbed hold of it.

As for me, most of my quirks have already been listed by others. I too only eat one thing at a time, although in a different order. I usually start with my least favorite thing on the plate and finish with my favorite. That way the best part of the meal is usually what stays with me.

Other than that, one of my major quirks is to play on OTHER PEOPLE' s quirks. For example, many people, especially musicians, can' t stand to hear a dissonant chord or tendency tone left unresolved. So, there are a number of things I do every time I pass a piano;

1) Play " Mary Had A Little Lamb" , but make the last note 1/2 step higher than it is supposed to be.

2) play all the way up a scale, then back down, but without playing the tonic at the end (ending on the 2nd scale note)

3) play a common melody while harmonizing on a tri-tone (Aug. 4th/Dim. 5th). Generally sounds like ass.

When playing guitar, I tend to keep the beat by wiggling my left toe (like a metronome)
And I have to read something when taking a poop

I always end a guitar practise session by playing E5 chord 16 times. The first 15 of those are played using downstrokes with palm muting and the last one is played without palm muting and I let it ring...

OK, some more from me:
1. someone mentioned it before, but I also have to have my cash in my wallet in order by demonination, and also, they have to be facing the same direction.
2. I always put my left shoe and sock on first.
3. I always have 2 alarm clocks set when I sleep, in case one of them fails.
4. Any time I see a post from Bar69, i must reply telling him what an idiot he is.

What are you, a paligamist (sp)?

Even though the reply is to lunchbox (whom I don' t believe has mulitple spouses), I can only assume that this was directed at me.

It' s polygamist. Yes I am, and no I am not committing bigamy or any other crime.

Quirks-


I bite the inner corners of my mouth too!

I have a chicken pox scar that looks like someone pressed a hollow pen against my forehead for half an hour.

I like to draw eyes. For some reason, I always start with the eyes when drawing faces.

I can' t play the piano with anything on my feet!

There' s a few more that I thought of since yesterday.

Cant play the drums with shoes on

I can' t stand when I am watching a live discussion show, and I actually pay attention to the camera switches. Once, I counted 71 camera swiches in 1 minute.

ORIGINAL: deaddrahma

The overwhemling number of symptoms shown by this forum indicates a severe case of anal retentiveness and obsessive compulsiveness. Why am I not surprised?

Yep. Most of what I' ve read reminds me of Nicholson in As Good As It Gets.

I haven' t mentioned any of mine, but some are quite similar to many in this thread. I' d say my biggest ' quirk' is having to have all the blinds & curtains shut in order to sleep. I cannot rest peacefully if someone(or something) can see in. [:' (]

I remembered some others:

I always close all of the drawers in the room I' m in. It' s rather funny to witness.

I always put my CD boxes on soft surfaces, and I never pile them up.
Whenever I take some CDs from my bedroom to some other room, I put them between my fingers or something, so they don' t get scratched in the process.

I snap my fingers in all the ways you can imagine. Constantly. Over and over, until they start to hurt.

And I always make little " movies" of how I expect things to happen. From getting a Big Mac to going to a funeral, I always make this movies.

1. If I don' t have enough time to trim my beard evenly I will end up pulling at the longer areas over and over whenever I' m sitting down at the computer, or wherever. It' s really annoying.

2. I develop algorithms for things which I believe work best and work on a mass scale (if everyone does it). I do this for things like ethics, walking around (i.e. not running into people, etc), and communication/explanations (clear and understandable). I' m sure this tendency contributed to my interests in computer science (my major) and philosophy (my out-of-major concentration). However, I get annoyed when people seem ignorant of what should work and end up getting in my way or almost running into me (for the walking example).

3. I feel that I have a good innate sense of how objects move and fit together and I will always be leaning this way and that to walk most efficiently or something. It does work, but I do a lot of silly movements because of this (most of which I don' t bring out in public ). I' m also good at weaving through crowds in ice rinks, and I only skate like once a year.

4. If I' m ever standing around bored by a conversation or something I will start thinking about dance moves, or some type of dance, and sometimes do a step or two in place. I mean ballroom dances. Usually Samba or Jive, or a Waltz whisk.

5. If I' m bored and sitting I will start drumming on stuff. I do this all the time, as many people do. Too bad table and floor drumming looks dorky and they can' t see me on an actual kit.

6. I usually can' t sleep with any lights on, unless it' s a really small light or I' m really tired. Unfortunately for me, my roommate last semester felt for some reason that without his light on he couldn' t see anything, not even the computer screen he was playing Solitaire on at 2am? Wtf?

7. Back on the high school tennis team, I couldn' t do a topspin shot yet so I started doing this " chop" shot with huge backspin that annoyed EVERYONE. It would either be a really fast line drive with no bounce, or a short shot which bounced away from the person, making them run up to get it and still not be able to. I' ve learned topspin now (a while ago), so I can mix & match.

8. I usually eat food from favorite to least. That way I get to eat the good stuff right away and if I get full then I haven' t missed out on anything. I will also usually get almost full on restaurant appetizers if they are ordered.

I can' t think of any more now. Anyway, these are mostly random things I do and nothing huge. I don' t think there' s anything that I HAVE to do a certain way, or have just right. What' s wrong with sleeping in socks? If my feet are cold I will, if not I won' t. I just do whatever is reasonable.