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Weenerlobo

Friday, October 25, 2002 - 07:15 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I love this thread!

Speaking of people who wait to hear the total before writing checks, how about those at the bank drive through who ask for a pen so that they can fill out their paperwork in the car?!?!?! Arrrrgggggg.

Twinkie - ya beat me to it re: the change. We dump our pennies in one jug and all the silver in another. We've gone on some fun long weekends and paid for some great stuff that way. Of course, the pennies take a looooooong time to fill and usually only pay for an expensive dinner, but hey! With the amount of change that our company deposits with our bank, the tellers don't even bat an eye.

Wink

Friday, October 25, 2002 - 07:16 am EditMoveDeleteIP
ROFL Bob

Wink

Friday, October 25, 2002 - 07:24 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I have a problem with pre-read newspapers. If I'm not the first one to read the morning paper with crispy pages it puts me off for the whole day. It's comforting to know I can now inform my family that I'm not crazy just quirky.

Heyltslori

Friday, October 25, 2002 - 07:27 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Sure...you can TELL them that you're not crazy Wink... whatever gets you through the day. :)

Djgirl5235

Friday, October 25, 2002 - 07:37 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I have the pleasure of sitting behind all those change counters in the drive thru every morning! I stop at Tim Horton's for my morning coffee, and as I'm sitting in line, I have my $1.35 already in my hand while the rest of them dig around when they're at the window. Me? I hand them my money, they hand me my coffee and I drive away... How hard is that?!?!?! If I don't have the change, I give them the bill, wait for my change, drop the change in a container rather than try and fiddle with my wallet, and drive off with my coffee... I have very little patience in the drive thru, so I guess this would explain my tendency to have it go quick and dirty myself...

Danzdol

Friday, October 25, 2002 - 08:11 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I absolutely love this thread...it's good to vent. I will be here often when I start remembering more:

Eating Habits

I might not be Ms. MAnners or anything BUT I hate when people eating do the following:

-Make sounds when they are eating....ANY sound.(Except crunchy things but if your mouth was closed you would not hear it as much)
-Eat with their mouth even the leat bit open.
-Drink water while you still have food in your mouth

For some reason I don't mind finger licking.....GO figure.....that probably comes from eating too many cheez doodles when I was little and your fingers get all orange so you have no choice but to lick them. Gross for some people I know.

Personal Space

I too freak out if someone is too close to me. I DO turn around and say "Excuse me"and I give them my pit bull stare. I don't care where it is...the bank...the supermarket.....ANYWHERE. Do you really need to be breahting down my back? Is it going to get you there sooner? WOuld you like my groceries in your face if you get any closer?

Driving

I have this rule for driving: If you are going the speeding limit and I am frustrated because I want to go faster then it's my problem. If you are going way below the speeding limit and I want to go faster you are going to get my horn for as many miles as it takes for you to realize that you are a moron that needs the lesson.

Now, if you beep at me and I am going the spped limit or above it then I will slow down to about 20 miles an hour just to annoy you and if you think you will switch lanes on me I will block you.

Does anyone think I have road rage?

I have no choice. I live in Miami where traffic is a nightmare. You have a lot of elderly (and I mean ooooooollllllllllddddddddd)that drive 1 inch from the steering wheel and tourists behind the wheel with the map open."Is it here? no it's over here, let me switch 5 lanes in the middle of rush hour traffic and then hit the brakes when I realize that I am wrong to then switch lanes again"

GGGGGGGRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

Babies

Do people really need to reach out and touch my baby if I don't know them?

"oh he's so adorable" as they reach their dirty hands and touch his little feet, hands or even worse HIS FACE. "Ah, excuse me Miss......where have those filthy hands of yours been for the last hour before you touched my little baby?"

Why stop? I am on a roll:

-All of my clothes has to be hung by color and type......Pants, dresses, tops, blouses, shorts and skirts. It goies from black to grey to white, off white, bronwn to yellow to orange to red to pink to green to blue. It looks pretty too.

- If I have a lot of things to do and I don't write them I won't get any of them done

- If anyone touches or moves anything from my desk I notice and I start screaming. When I am done , I pick up everything and leave the desk clear. There is nothing worse then coming to work to a messy desk.

- People who expect you to kiss them (on the cheek of course)when you were just introduced and to say goodbye. (It's a latin thing I guess)
Do I really have to kiss all 50 people at a reunion before I leave? I usually escape somewhere and when I am back my husband finished his round and I stand at the door and do my Miss America wave and I am out the door!!!!!!

-LAst but not least......I DO have to have my sheet and comforter underneath my legs and around me like a cocoon. Even if I am sweating. I think it must be a subconsious protection thing. My husband and I fight at hotels where the sheets are nice and tighly tucked surrounding the mattress....I immediately lift my legs and make it all messy under me and he freaks.
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I think that is enough stuff for one post don't ya think.....I think I have to go to anger management after writing all of this.:)

Car54

Friday, October 25, 2002 - 08:22 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Kitty, I guess the difference is... I would tell the bag boy what I wanted, and it would not bother me that I had to tell him. I wouldn't really think about it at all.

If someone is in line behind me, most times, I have absolutely no conciousness of them. Sometimes I will scoot my stuff forward so they can start putting their stuff on the belt. I work in retail, so I tend to see virtue in keeping the line moving at all costs.

In terms of change, I am one of the ones who go through the take out and get the same exact thing...I know what it costs, and usually I have exact change right when I give my order at the microphone. I don't hold up the line, and my cashier seems to be happy to just take my money and wave me on to the pickup window. I also tell them what condiments I want when I give my order so they don't have to break their rhythm when they are handing me my bag. Again...not a biggie.

Now I am worried that my sweet little old lady cashier at Wendy's is harboring secret bad thoughts about my exact change habit.

I have so many really dumb things going on in my life...grocery shopping and fast food are just not on the radar.

Goddessatlaw

Friday, October 25, 2002 - 08:40 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Hey, if it helps, Car, I caught myself arranging my bills facing the same way largest to smallest in my wallet the other day. Never done it before. If I didn't have too many quirks before, this thread is adding a few to my list.

Grooch

Friday, October 25, 2002 - 08:44 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Danzdol, you are a very brave woman. You actually honk nonstop at people in Miami?!?! You are crazy!

I know someone who honked at someone on the Palmetto (by 25th St) and the guy in the other car pulled out a gun and shot his side window out. So, I use my horn sparingly.

And you better not be in the left lane when you are doing the speed limit. MOVE OVER!!!! It drives me insane when people won't move over to let a faster moving car pass by them.

And don't even get me started on drivers who decide to do the same exact speeed as the drivers in the other lanes, so it ends up that every sinlge driver is blocked behind them, and there is wide open road ahead, with no cars for miles ahead of them.

And it also makes me crazy when you sit for 15 minutes in the exact change lane at the toll booth, and when it comes time for people to pay, that is when they start looking for their money. What have they been doing for the past 15 minutes?!?!

South Florida driving can drive a person insane!

And I can relate to the latin kissing thing. I do pretty much the same exact thing.

Webkitty

Friday, October 25, 2002 - 08:49 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Great post Danzdol I didn't start this thread, but welcome to the zany world of quirks. I seem to obsessed with this thread, is that a quirk?

You reminded me of another one I have

I know most people just love a big, fluffy comforter on their bed, but they make me crazy!

I don't need much more than a sheet most of the year (Florida) but during the winter I have a wool crewel worked blanket. Its heavy, but not puffy! (don't like the puffyness)

Car, I hear ya, you have such a hectic work schedule and these things are just not priority. {{Car}} It wouldn't bother me if it was an occasional thing, but like I said, its always HOT here, so its every blasted time.
But I guess life could be worse, just one of my quirks for the quirk thread.

OK, I'll see how long I can stay away from here now.........hehe

Wargod

Friday, October 25, 2002 - 08:49 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Wasn't there a cheek kissing episode on Seinfeld?

Webkitty

Friday, October 25, 2002 - 08:59 am EditMoveDeleteIP
One minute! lol!
Oooh, Florida drivers! Grooch, in the area that I live, people actually STOP in the right hand lane when pulling into a parking lot. They move, ever so slowly into the parking lot, like their car will break into pieces if they don't g-i-n-g-e-r-l-y pull in. (mostly senior snowbirds, but locals do it as well)

Being from up North orginally, this type of driving would be begging for a rear end accident.

I don't know if its something only done in the area where I live or not, but it backs up traffic in the right hand lane continually. If you need to MAKE a right, and HAVE to be in that lane, bring your patience with you.
Ok, now I'm really, really going.........

Grooch

Friday, October 25, 2002 - 09:00 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Webkitty, my blood pressure is rising just by reading your post. Arghhhhhh!!!!!!!

Webkitty

Friday, October 25, 2002 - 09:02 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Grooch, I said that was my last post.......

Car54

Friday, October 25, 2002 - 09:03 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Webkitty, I find in life, you are a lot less stressed if you have absolutely no expectation that people have a brain. If you think they should know.... it bugs ya. Just assume people are stupid and you need to tell them what you want every freaking time. Then you are all prepared and expecting it when they prove you right.

If they do turn out to be smart and thoughtful..you get a pleasant surprise and you really appreciate them.

If they were smart...would they be bag boys?

See...puts a whole different perspective on it.

Heyltslori

Friday, October 25, 2002 - 09:07 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Ok, Ok...I thought long and hard...and perhaps I DO have a couple of things that some people might find quirky (if not irritating) :)

I need to park in a close spot. You might think that's called laziness...but it's more like a challenge for me. I will drive around and around the parking lot...watch the people leaving the store to see what car they get into...and I feel a real sense of accomplishment if I get a really good spot. Needless to say this drives any passengers I might have nuts.

I hum or sing pretty much constantly. If I lived in the BB house you would all hate me. :)

If I post something that I think is witty I check back often to see if other people think I'm witty too. (yes...that IS pathetic)

And lastly...this is more of a pet peeve...but I HATE it when people type "u" for "you" or "r" for "are". That makes me crazy.

Posting (and checking back soon) :)

Grooch

Friday, October 25, 2002 - 09:12 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Webkitty, I live in Florida also, but I refuse to use the paper bags at all, and will have a fit if they try to use them.

I stopped using them after someone told me that roaches like to lay their eggs in them. ICK!

So no paper bags or cardboard boxes in my house. (Is this considered a quirk?)

Grooch

Friday, October 25, 2002 - 09:14 am EditMoveDeleteIP
<making note to self to make sure to reply to all HeyItslori's posts. And to never get in a car with her.>

Heyltslori

Friday, October 25, 2002 - 09:16 am EditMoveDeleteIP
lol...thank you! {{{{Grooch}}}}

Car54

Friday, October 25, 2002 - 09:16 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I heard that roach/paper bag thing too.

Heyltslori

Friday, October 25, 2002 - 09:22 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Speaking of bugs... I can't flush bugs down the toilet because I'm afraid they will make their way back up and bite my bottom!

Grooch

Friday, October 25, 2002 - 09:28 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Your Welcome, Hey!

Grooch

Friday, October 25, 2002 - 09:29 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Hey, the bug bottom biting thing is a definite quirk!

Djgirl5235

Friday, October 25, 2002 - 09:38 am EditMoveDeleteIP
No it's not!?!? I do the same thing, and I keep my drains plugged unless I'm using the sinks or bathtub so that nasty critters don't come up through the drain... is that weird?

Grooch

Friday, October 25, 2002 - 09:40 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I had a frog come up through my bathub when I was taking a shower one time.

And I lived on the 3rd floor. So maybe it's a good idea, Djgirl.