Archive through October 21, 2002
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Archive through October 21, 2002
Whit4you | Saturday, October 19, 2002 - 09:15 pm     I don't have any quirks but it'd be fun to hear about other peoples quirks lol. I guess others might find my sock thing a quirk... I hate absolutely hate having my toes covered with anything ever - can't handle them being under the covers in bed... even in 20 degree temps. I can't stand wearing shoes, and most definately can not stand socks. So when I buy my socks - which I have to have at least 3 pair of each color so I usually by my socks in 3 sets of 6 packs... anyhow I then proceed to cut all the toes off.. have to do it a certain way too but that's not really important. Doesnt' bother ME to have all my socks with no toes - but it sure seems to bother other people. I only wear socks when I absolutely have to (like my current job requires them...) otherwise I don't wear them period... don't wear shoes either unless they are required. I just can not bear to have my toes covered rives me wacko. That's not a quirk though is it? |
Weinermr | Saturday, October 19, 2002 - 09:19 pm     Discuss my quirks? Bomis does not have enough server space to store them all. |
Whoami | Saturday, October 19, 2002 - 09:36 pm     Ack! You took me up on the challenge. Ok, true to my word....hang on, I'll go over to the other thread and copy/paste my quirks from there...... <...distant sounds of whoami walking over to the other thread, copying the posts.......> ***When I eat cinnamon bears (or other critter shaped things), I bite off their heads quickly, so they won't feel anything else while I eat them. I also NEVER eat only one, cause I don't want the poor fella to be lonely in my tummy. I always have to eat at least two, so they have company in there. Of course, assuming I "end their lives" by eating them (thus biting the heads off quickly, before they feel pain), I'm not so sure why I'd be concerned if they are lonely in my tummy. I guess maybe they reassemble, and have a party in the digestive tract? That was a habit I started in childhood, and continue on with today, out of habit and tradition. ***Our whole family still gives our stuffed animals "oxygen pills," when the critter needs to be transported from one place to another in a limited air space container (such as, when it is wrapped as a gift). ***I read a sign posted over banannas in a grocery store that said, "please don't separate us, we grew up together." Refering, of course, to each bunch of banannas. Embarased to say, I actually pay heed to that when selecting bananas. I'm the way I am for a variety of reasons. First and perhaps foremost, I am the worst at being a sentimental old mush-head. Second, I have much too vivid an imagination. Third, I have a lovely sense of humor, that makes others think I'm much too wierd for them...... ..<whoami finishes her copying and pasting...looks around suspiciously....hopes she's not the last one to post here....hopes beyond hope someone else will have a few good quirks to confess...> Whit, I'm just about the opposite. If I wear socks, it drives me bonkers to have a hole in the toes. I can't stand to have my toe sticking out of a sock! Come on Weiner! At least share a few. Do ya really think I shared all MY quirks???? |
Whit4you | Saturday, October 19, 2002 - 09:47 pm     Whoami - well it'd drive me bonkers to have A toe sticking out of a sock too... it's different though when they all are...lol try it sometime |
Sia | Saturday, October 19, 2002 - 10:06 pm     Whit, my feet just FREEZE if I don't wear socks to bed; I am unable to sleep in the winter if my feet are bare. I can sleep barefoot occasionally in the summertime, but not if the A/C is on--or if the laundry room is piled up and I'm trying to minimize the amount of dirty clothes that we generate around here, LOL! There are times when the minute I take my socks off I begin to sneeze HARD and my eyes and nose get watery until I get my feet warm again! My father is exactly the same way, so this quirk is not unique to me. It sounds really weird, but life is easier for me if I wear socks when I sleep. |
Hillbilly | Sunday, October 20, 2002 - 04:06 am     Whit said: <I can't stand wearing shoes, and most definately can not stand socks. > I guess you know, Whit, that this means you might be a hillbilly! |
Lumbele | Sunday, October 20, 2002 - 05:37 am     Well, I may live in the prairies, but if that is an indication of hillbillyism (is that a word?) than so be it. Transplanted German hillbilly in the Canadian prairies avoiding socks and shoes whenever possible checking in. |
Sherbabe | Sunday, October 20, 2002 - 09:29 am     Here are a couple social quirks i have. In a grocery check out aisle. The person behind you starts to load her grocery's on the moving belt before you are done. I try to keep my cart between me and next person for as long as I can. Yet, when I move my cart to bagger, she immediately moves up to where she is right in my personal area. AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!! Get out of my space. OK, here's another. Your in an elevator. When the door opens to exit and the people waiting to enter the elevator don't give you enough room to exit before they want to enter. AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH! Alright, one last one. Your at an ATM machine. The person waiting stands immediately behind you. Absolutely, cannot stand that. So rude. OK, I feel better now that I have vented. |
Joyful | Sunday, October 20, 2002 - 01:08 pm     Okay here goes! I don't like for my food to touch. Eating one food at a time is best. I can't stand for my feet to be encased in a sheet, like if the sheet is tucked in. I have to loosen the sheet. I would rather die than use a porta potty at a public event. Clothes have to be clean, can't wear them more than once even if they look clean. Im so glad yall don't know me or you'd be locking me up in a funny farm! LOL |
Wargod | Sunday, October 20, 2002 - 01:20 pm     <wargod walks in, looks sheepishly around and proceeds to add a few of her quirks> Ok, I can't stand sandles that have straps around the toes..it drives me batty to have something between my toes like that. The feeling of cotton (like what you pull out of an asprin bottle) gives me goose bumps...I can't touch it, it's horrible stuff! I have a friend who discovered this quirk...I asked him to open a bottle of tylenol for me. He thought it was hysterical. He then went to all the elderly folk we worked with offering to help open their pill bottles. I got off work one day, went out to my car and he had left a cotton ball on my door handle. I cursed him as I took it off with my key...then got in the car and discovered he had covered my entire steering wheel with the cotton he had collected. He stood there laughing while I tried to take it all off with a pen. I think I'll stop there, LOL, before ya'll call the guys with the pretty white hug-me jackets and send me to the funny farm! |
Maesin | Sunday, October 20, 2002 - 01:39 pm     Okay I will add to this...don't want anyone to feel left out. I hate the sound of a vacuum cleaner, unless I am running it. Drives me insane! I ALWAYS wear socks. Well, not with sandals and not in the pool, but other than that, always! My twelve inches of personal space is sacred. I don't just give one evil eye glare, I give the two evil eye glare. I have been know to tell people to get out of my space. Money must always face the same way and be in denominational order. (that's a quirk from my job). No brown/beige kleenex. Only white or blue. I wrap the bow on my shoelaces twice. Don't know where it came from, but people think it weird that I do it. Last that I am willing to admit to: Pens. I have pens for everything. I buy pens all the time, I take free pens from anywhere and keep them. I have to have a variety to choose from! Well if anyone thought I was a bubble off before they can now prove it! Love this thread!!!!!!
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Willsfan | Sunday, October 20, 2002 - 01:40 pm     If I hear a mosquito buzzing in the bedroom I can't go to sleep until I kill it. And I like my sheets free of wrinkles and I iron my pillow slips (whether they need it or not). I have seen unmade beds in my friends houses and I cringe. |
Whoami | Sunday, October 20, 2002 - 01:47 pm     Ohh! Your cotton one reminded me of my worse real quirk (the other ones listed are "goofy quirks--is there any difference?). Anyway, I can't stand the feel of wood in my mouth. Wooden toothpicks.....FORGET IT!! Popsicle sticks....ewwww.....chopsticks....you name it. It gives me the heebie jeebie goosebumps. I have use a plastic floss pick instead of a toothpick. Carry one in my purse. I just plain avoid popsicles, and other items on a stick (I quickly pull the stick out of a corn dog and eat the food with my fingers). Use a fork instead of chopsticks. My mom can't stand to touch rubber bands. My sister hates the sound of styrofoam rubbing together. My stick fettish even goes as far as having to leave the room if someone is using one of those "wood" emery boards. I even bought my sister a metal nail file to keep in her purse so she'd stop using emery boards around me! Sherbabe, I know what you mean about people invading personal space in the market and stuff. Bugs the crap out of me too, or how about when they send their kids up ahead of them, and the kid twirls around on your feet!! Or when the checker peeks into your checkbook to see if you're writing it for the exact amount, so she can ring it up faster and get you out of the way faster (never mind the fact that she just spent 20 minutes giggling and yacking with the bagger about the cute boy in the next checkout lane). Ohhh, you shouldn't have gotten me started.... |
Weinermr | Sunday, October 20, 2002 - 02:05 pm     Willsfan - I'm with you on the mosquito thing.  |
Oregonfire | Sunday, October 20, 2002 - 02:14 pm     Once the light is off, I can't get out of bed until the light is back on, or the monsters under the bed will grab my ankles. The light scares them away. My pet peeve about the supermarket: When the person in front of you doesn't slide down a divider so you can put your stuff down, when it's clear as day that your arms are full. They have nothing better to do than stand there anyway. I always slide down the divider. |
Twiggyish | Sunday, October 20, 2002 - 02:17 pm     I rearrange my silverware (fork, knife and spoon) to the proper table placement. It doesn't matter where I am (even a BBQ restaurant with plastic everything..LOL) Don't we all have funny quirks? |
Neko | Sunday, October 20, 2002 - 02:36 pm     I don't know my quirks... That's a bad thing. I'm sure I have tons, but I can't think of any.... |
Hillbilly | Sunday, October 20, 2002 - 04:15 pm     Oregon...I'm with you on the item divider at the checkout. If the person or checker isn't kind enough to pass it down, I will usually walk up (invading their personal space), reach over the other customer's groceries and grab it myself. I bet they'll pass it down themselves next time! |
Whit4you | Sunday, October 20, 2002 - 05:37 pm     OMG This thread is too good.. I have no quirks ... but I'm enjoying reading others... my dot's are not a quirk... I swear!!!!! |
Sia | Sunday, October 20, 2002 - 06:29 pm     Whit, the over-use of ellipsis dots is not one of my quirks, but it is one of my pet peeves about a couple of people I know. My hubby's cousin is a high school teacher and every e-mail he writes is full of them. I have a dear friend who does the exact same thing. I suspect that both of them have forgotten the rules of punctuation, and that this is just their easy way around that! Enough of the DOTS already!! |
Aunt_Bob | Monday, October 21, 2002 - 03:48 am     Whoami...as I was reading this thread...from the beginning tonight...I was all ready to post my quirk about 'WOOD' in 'MOUTH'...and then I couldn't believe you beat me to it...just 'THINKING' about that makes my teeth clench...you named everything that drives me insane...I'm gonna add an extra one...those dang flat wooden spoons they put with dixie cups or sunday cups...whatever brand I guess depends on the name they use...If anyone around me has one of them, I take it away, literally...pull it out of their hands..all the while 'freaking'...give them a plastic or stainless spoon or if there are none available - I LEAVE THE AREA!!! I have been known to force a driver to STOP THE CAR, and I get out until the person is finished putting that WOOD in their mouth!!! Any other wood any where else...doesn't faze me. Sia...what is an elsiplis...or lispiss...or whatever you said up there...dot thingy...???? I've always been great at punkcherashun...but...I never heard of lipschitz dots...!!! |
Dallasbbfan | Monday, October 21, 2002 - 06:40 am     Mine is my closet. I am not a neat freak but my clothes have to be hung just so. All pants together, dresses together, etc. When my husband does the laundry and puts things on hangers I can't help myself from going behind him and moving everything where it is supposed to be. Anal little critters, ain't I? |
Azriel | Monday, October 21, 2002 - 08:34 am     LOL! I love this thread. I have a couple of quirks. I can't stand an open cabinet door. It makes me insane to walk in the kitchen and see that someone has left the cabinet open! Toilet paper must roll to the outside not the inside! If I go in your bathroom and the toilet paper is on the roll wrong, I will change it! In the tanning salon at work, we have shelves that we stack clean towels on. The Towels MUST all be folded the same way with the closed side facing out. If I go in to work and anyone has folded them wrong, I will refold them all. (Ask Kady, she finds this very amusing) Wargod, I share your abhorence to cotton balls, too. It makes me squirm just thinking about it. |
Wargod | Monday, October 21, 2002 - 08:45 am     Az, please come visit my house and explain the toliet paper thing to my hubby and kids! LOL. It doesn't bother me which way its hung, just so long as its hung! Which they can't seem to do! |
Azriel | Monday, October 21, 2002 - 08:56 am     Hahaha, well I didn't even go there, but now that you mention it, does it take a rocket scientist to figure out how to take that empty roll off and put the other back on?! My reasoning for the toilet paper rolling out is that if you roll it to the inside when you pull the paper just keeps rolling and people waste more toilet paper. When it's rolled to the outside it seems to stop rolling sooner when you give it a hard snatch. Oh, who am I kidding, it just must roll to the outside! I don't care if there is a reason, it just must! |
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