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Car54

Friday, October 25, 2002 - 09:41 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Hey Lori, get this. When I was a little kid, my grandpa had apple trees in his back yard and there were snakes all over.

He was a real tease, and he told me that if I sat down on the potty, a snake would come up the plumbing and lick my bottom.

I never peed at his house again in my entire life. My mom would have to drive me all the way home if I had to potty.

Oh, maybe I should move this over to the Childhood Memories thread. Or maybe we need a Childhood nightmares thread.

Goddessatlaw

Friday, October 25, 2002 - 09:41 am EditMoveDeleteIP
OK, I'm never looking at this thread again.

Draheid

Friday, October 25, 2002 - 09:42 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Goddessatlaw R U Sure? C U L8R Then! LOL
Sorry, Heyltslori, I couldn't resist! lol

Djgirl5235

Friday, October 25, 2002 - 09:45 am EditMoveDeleteIP
You know there's one other quirk that I have, but it's a justifiable one... About 5 - 10 years ago, there was a huge report on our news (around Toronto) that there was a peeping tom in roadside toilets (you know - shanties?)... Well, they actually caught the guy, but the whole thing creeped me out, plus the thought of the number of bugs that could come up and "get" me while I'm sitting on them?!?! I have a really hard time using the washroom at our cottage since it's an outdoor toilet - all outdoor toilets bother me to a great deal!!!

Webkitty

Friday, October 25, 2002 - 09:46 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Ok, I've been tempted back

Responding to Hey's post: I do that too! I know its crazy, but I just have to. I will circle around until I get that perfect spot under the shade! (it has to be under the shade)
It doesn't take as long as people would think, just a little patience and willing to circle a few times if nessesary.

Grooch, I have a friend that lived in NMB for 13 years and he warned me about paper and cardboard when I moved to Florida but I've never had a problem, really.
It must a SOUTH Florida problem! j/k <webkitty ducts and scampers out of the quirk thread now...>

Draheid

Friday, October 25, 2002 - 09:49 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Heyltslori & Webkitty: I have the parking quirk too. Fortunately for me (at least until now, we'll see after I post this! lol) I've had extraordinary luck with parking. I can usually find a space within 6 spaces of the front door on the first try. I've even pulled straight into the 1st or 2nd space during the height of Christmas season. This drives my family nuts, but they don't complain too much! And it was real handy right after my surgery when I couldn't stand to be in the 'elements' for long walks and such!!

Wargod

Friday, October 25, 2002 - 09:50 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Hey...my husband does the same thing finding a parking spot....it drives me absolutely batty! I'm just the opposite...since my car is a tank, I look for the furthest parking spot in the whole lot, just so that I have an easier time getting out of the spot when I'm done.

Now, where was that gripe thread????

Grooch

Friday, October 25, 2002 - 09:51 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Car, I refuse to take a shower or use the bathroom during a thunderstorm ever since my cousin told me that she had a friend whose bathroom blew up after lightning struck and it ran up the pipe. It blew the toilet right off the floor.

I also won't use the phone either during a storm. At my job, lightning struck and traveled through the brand new phone system we had just installed and blewit up. It also blew up a few computers, and I saw it come out of an a/c duct in the president's office into another duct across the room.

I am amazed no one got hurt.

Grooch

Friday, October 25, 2002 - 10:00 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Webkitty, when my husband bought his bicycle a few years ago, we had to keep the box it came in, for a dew days, in case there were any problems and we had to return it.

So, one morning, I was sitting on the couch, drinking my coffee and reading the paper, when all of a sudden I see a mouse scurrying across the floor.

I'm like, "what the heck?" there aren't any mice in South Florida. I see it running across the room again and then I realize it is a giant ROACH!

I almost died! I was running around the room with my rolled up newspaper whacking it, and whacking it, but the d*mn thing woudn't die. I never saw one so big before. I finally found the can of bug spray and fumigated him.

I then went and took that bicycle box and threw it over the terrace railing.

I figured it must have come from the box (I never had a roach before.) But now thinking about it, maybe it came up through the pipe like the frog did?

Heyltslori

Friday, October 25, 2002 - 10:05 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Draheid...U R Very Funny! lol...NOT! :)

Grooch... a frog came up while you were taking a shower??? OMG..I hate frogs! I probably would have dropped dead. That freaks me out to even think about it!

I thought worrying about bugs was bad...now I have to worry about frogs, snakes, and lightning! YIKES! I'm gonna have to learn how to pee faster!

Zachsmom

Friday, October 25, 2002 - 10:07 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I have a quirk.. I cannot stand it when people do not flush toliets in a public bathroom. Drives me bonkers..why do people not flush? I guess I should follow Cars advice and not expect people to have a brain..then when I see a flushed toliet I will be pleasantly surprised..

Speaking of Roaches..I never lick envelopes..a co-worker told me a story about a friend of hers.She had a cut in her tongue and licked an evelope..a few days later her tongue was extremely swollen..she went to the doctors to get it checked and they found roach eggs breeding in her tongue.,evidently a roach had laid it's eggs on the glue on the envelope and it was transfered into her tongue!!!! YIKES!!!

Grooch

Friday, October 25, 2002 - 10:11 am EditMoveDeleteIP
OMG! ZM! That is so gross! And it leads to proof (if the story is true) about my paperbag and cardboard box quirk. Roaches like the glue on them and that's where they lay there eggs. Ick! Ick! Ick!

Zachsmom

Friday, October 25, 2002 - 10:13 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Sickening isn't it Grooch..since I heard the story I will never ever lick an envelope again..If I don't have access to water..then I lick my finger and then seal it.. but I will have to wash my hands immediately..

Grooch

Friday, October 25, 2002 - 10:14 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Lori, I almost did have a heart attack!

I had to go sit down for a while to get my heartbeat back to normal. And then I had to go find a way to catch the frog (ick!) and get him out of my apartment.

My bosses had a good laugh at me when I had to explain why I was so late to work.

Car54

Friday, October 25, 2002 - 10:15 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Ok, the exact change, unloading shopping cart quirks are looking good to me about now.

Grooch

Friday, October 25, 2002 - 10:18 am EditMoveDeleteIP
ZM, I will never lick another envelope again either.

Kaili

Friday, October 25, 2002 - 10:23 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I've heard the roach thing too- it's one of those stories that goes around. Urban legand or whatever. Still, it is true that they are abundant in envelope places (they like the glue) so it could happen. I prefer to buy the ones that you pull the strip off of and they are already sticky...just in case.

Draheid

Friday, October 25, 2002 - 10:23 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Zachsmom: I thought the envelope licking sounded like an urban legend so I looked it up.

Here's the scenario

And here is the explanation why it's a legend.

Here's a site for researching this and other Urban Legends.

Hope this makes you feel a little better! :)

*Dad*

Kaili

Friday, October 25, 2002 - 10:25 am EditMoveDeleteIP
draheid- you read my mind...you're just a bit more motivated than I am.
haha

Draheid

Friday, October 25, 2002 - 10:27 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Kaili: Yes, I know. And the answer to the question you are pondering is a definite NO! You know what I'm talking about!:O

Kaili

Friday, October 25, 2002 - 10:29 am EditMoveDeleteIP
No? No? What do you mean no!!?? It was such a good idea!!! You really don't think so?! ARGHHH!

Zachsmom

Friday, October 25, 2002 - 10:34 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Okay..I have an additional quirk..I hate it when people lie to me..I just emailed her those links Dad and now I am royally pissed off!!!!!!

But I still won't lick an evelope!!!

Draheid

Friday, October 25, 2002 - 10:37 am EditMoveDeleteIP
ZM, I don't think she intentionally lied to you. Some people are just gullible and allow themselves to believe things they hear. And to then pass them on as fact. You might take a look at the last link and, just for fun, find something there to relate to *her* as fact and see how long it takes her to either pass it on or figure it out!

Zachsmom

Friday, October 25, 2002 - 10:40 am EditMoveDeleteIP
No..she told me that it happened to a friend of HERS!!! She lied..I'll never trust her again..I am sitting here trying to think of a way to use my seniority and get back at her..I could make her life "heck" from now on..perhaps a little "glitch" in her data-entry program would do the trick..

Fanny

Friday, October 25, 2002 - 10:41 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Some of you are making me feel really mainstream normal, and for that I thank you. LOL.

Quirk: Butt Juice.

I cannot lay my eating utensils directly on a restaurant tabletop. They must lay either on a plate or a napkin or something, just not on the tabletop.

Why? Butt juice.

I've seen those buspeople cleaning off chairs and booth benches with their cleaning rags and then they go directly to the table top and wipe it off. When one wipes off a chair seat or bench seat, one's cleaning rag is going to pick up butt juice which will then be neatly distributed on the tabletop when it is next wiped down. Tabletop butt juice can then easily transfer to eating utensils which can just as easily be transferred to my mouth.

And the thought of ingesting other people's butt juice is just not all that appealing to me.
Call me weird.