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Marysafan

Saturday, March 15, 2003 - 03:09 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
There is nothing in the world as as good as peanutbutter and ketchup on toast. Preferably...the ketchup making a smiley face!

Weinermr

Saturday, March 15, 2003 - 04:21 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Egbok, Twinkie, Tess, and Ginger, I stir my ice cream too. I love it all melty and liquidy. Too bad I'm not eating ice cream these days.

Twiggy, I like mayo, mustard, relish, and onions on my hot dog. Yummmmm. (not doing that these days either)

Bigd

Saturday, March 15, 2003 - 04:22 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Well, apparently I tie my shoe laces backwards. I guess when I was taught I learned to tie them the way it looks when someone ties them for you, instead of how it would be looking down at them. Does that make sense?

Squaredsc

Saturday, March 15, 2003 - 04:59 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
i stir my ice cream but only when its vanilla with chocolate syrup to make it like chocolate ice cream. but the weird thing is this, i hate chocolate ice cream when you buy it as chocolate ice cream. also i will read the 1st chapter of a book then the last chapter, then i will read the rest of its a good ending.

Mak1

Saturday, March 15, 2003 - 06:15 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Squared, I do the same thing with the ice cream. Plain chocolate just isn't as good as vanilla stirred with chocolate syrup. I also like mayo and ketchup on a BLT. The mayo and ketchup have to be mixed together. These are my only unconventional things that I'll own up to for now.

Bandit

Sunday, March 16, 2003 - 08:17 am EditMoveDeleteIP
"I also hold my pen/pencil "wrong." People are always commenting about it when they see me write something down."(from Whoami)

OMG!!! I'm told I hold my pen/pencil wrong too! It's like my middle finger supports the front and my forefinger wrapes around to the side. I dunno-hard to describe.

"I have to eat the whites around my eggs before I eat the yolk." (from Sisalou)

I do this too!

This is probably a little gross, but when my sister burps, she actually speaks the word "burp" while she does it. She's weird.

I think that this is a great thread. It's fun seeing that other people do the things that you only thought you did. Good idea, Whoami!!!

Sia

Sunday, March 16, 2003 - 08:50 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Let's see, is this the "Obsessive-Compulsive Thread," or what? I read a newspaper from the back page to the front (It's just easier to turn the pages; I've done that since childhood.)

I eat my over-easy ("dippy") eggs yolk-first; I usually leave most of the whites.

I have to scrub the kitchen sink with Comet before and after washing dishes, washing my hair in it, cooking, canning, cleaning a turkey, etc. A dirty sink just isn't going to do, so it must be sanitized first! (And then afterward, too, LOL.)

Like my mother, I begin "writing" with a pen before I begin writing: I move the tip of the pen quickly for several seconds before I actually start writing. I don't know why we do this! I also doodle compulsively (when not taking notes) while on the telephone.

I'm not sure I should reveal any more of my OCD quirks, but I have plenty of them!

Lyn

Sunday, March 16, 2003 - 12:08 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Sia, I have to wash the kitchen sink before and after I use it too :)

Oh, this drives hubby crazy - before I can throw out old/ruined clothes, I have to wash them first. (You never know who may find them at the dump and I don't want them thinking that we're not clean people)

Heyltslori

Sunday, March 16, 2003 - 01:37 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I have an open mind. I also try not to "knock it til I've tried it." Also, I really think Marysafan is a wonderful person. With all of that in mind, I tried putting peanut butter and ketchup (in a smiley face) on my toast this morning. I love ya Mary...but I gotta tell ya. ACK!!! :)

Urgrace

Sunday, March 16, 2003 - 09:23 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Sia and Lyn, I had a small lunch party and when it was over started scrubbing my sink before washing the dishes. My friends pointed out this was weird since I was going to put dirty dishes in the sink anyway. I think it's weird not to! I also make sure the counters are clean and uncluttered before I start cooking, then get everything I need out and put things away as I use them, sometimes washing bowls, pans and such as I cook.

TP must come over the top. I even changed the roll at work when someone put it on upside down.

<Golly, I sound like a neat-freak!>

Sia

Monday, March 17, 2003 - 04:27 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I'm with you, Grace. Who wants to wash dishes in a filmy sink that is crawling with germs that have been incubating in there? I use a dishpan, but scrub the sink and the inside AND outside of the dishpan before and after doing dishes by hand.

Happily, after almost eight years of marriage my hubby bought me a dishwasher for Christmas a year ago, which we finally got installed last summer! I just LOVE my dishwasher!

Mak1

Monday, March 17, 2003 - 04:36 am EditMoveDeleteIP
After reading this thread, I think stirring of the ice cream to milkshake consistency should from now on be considered a conventional way to eat it. It's just a preference for soft-serve over hard ice cream.

As to everything else, hmmmmmm, well.....

Djgirl5235

Monday, March 17, 2003 - 04:56 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I will ONLY eat the yolk of an egg, and it has to be "dippy" with toast soldiers...

I finally sat down with my BF and had a long discussion about since I'm the one who uses the tp the most, could he please be kind enough to load it onto the roller with the paper over the top, not rolling under... He looked at me as if I'd lost it, but I got my wish!!!

Also, I cannot eat any food off my plate if it's touching... I always have a little space between all my food, ... also... here's an example... Roast beef, potatoes, carrots & yorkshire pudding... okay... I start with the yorkshires, once I've finished them, I move to the carrots... once I've finished them, I move to the potatoes, and once those are finished, I eat the meat... Weird eh?

Wcv63

Monday, March 17, 2003 - 06:47 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I put mustard in my red beans and rice. Yellow mustard. French's.

I almost always sit cross-legged in my chair at my desk. I can't seem to work properly if I'm not sitting cross legged with my feet tucked under me.

Ice cream. I remember that stuff. Mmmmmmmm....haven't had any in a looooonnnnggg time.

Bandit

Monday, March 17, 2003 - 08:12 am EditMoveDeleteIP
DJ- what if you get full before you get to the good stuff? lol

Mak1

Monday, March 17, 2003 - 08:24 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Djgirl, my mom and middle daughter both eat the way you do, no food touching, one food at a time. I don't get it, I often mash other veggies into my potato as I eat. That grosses them out, lol.

I haven't had any ice cream in a long time, either, but this thread is making me crave it.

Sometimes I do something that I consider just being helpful, and people LOOK at me like it's unconventional. A couple examples would be letting someone go ahead of me in a line, holding the door for someone....you know, just the little things. They seem conventional to me, but people still act surprised sometimes.

Djgirl5235

Monday, March 17, 2003 - 08:42 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Mak - I think my unconventionalism stems from my eating disorder - your family's just weird! (lol - I'm just joking btw)...

Bandit - I'm not one to enjoy food, so if I get full before I finish, it's not a shame to me...

Bandit

Monday, March 17, 2003 - 09:20 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Wow DJ- you're lucky! I wish I had that problem-sometimes I think I enjoy it too much.

Justme

Monday, March 17, 2003 - 10:49 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I have milk and cookies for breakfast every morning before work and then when I get to work I'll have a cup of coffee

Dahli

Monday, March 17, 2003 - 03:30 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
my husband says 'pepper and salt' instead of salt and pepper... sounds so weird but his whole family does it. So I'm wondering if that's normal or how does the majority refer to them??

Mak1

Monday, March 17, 2003 - 03:56 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I would have to really concentrate to say pepper and salt, it sounds so wrong. (Lol @ DJ, they are a little odd, and I didn't even mention any of their compulsive behaviors....or mine either, heehee.)

Not1worry

Monday, March 17, 2003 - 07:47 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Probably the point of all this was for me to think of the unconventional things I do - and I'm sure they are many - but all I can think of is the "weird" things my husband does.

He eats pickles with popcorn, can't enjoy one without the other.

He puts his mayo or PB or whatever he's spreading on the bread with a spoon, not a knife.

He locks to the door to the bathroom when he's in it even if he's totally alone in the house and all other inhabitants of the house are 500 miles away.

I have all these cheap plastic Walmart drinking glasses that are mostly clear with designs on them. I feel I have to drink things that match the colors of these designs. The cup with the brown designs gets cola, the one with the flowers gets OJ. If someone drinks the wrong color drink out of one of these cups, it bugs me like crazy. I am getting rid of them all, now that I consider it.

Djgirl5235

Tuesday, March 18, 2003 - 04:40 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Not1 - how do you KNOW he locks the door if no-one's there???? lol

I too would really have to concentrate to say pepper and salt (as a matter of fact, it was very hard to type it!)

Sia

Tuesday, March 18, 2003 - 05:12 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Not1, it's funny you mention color-coding the plastic cups; I did that with my son's sippy-cups when he was really small. My hubby could never catch onto the system, but it was simple, in my opinion: the clear cup with the blue design was for water; the green-trimmed one was for milk (milk comes from cows who eat grass, which is green); the purple-decorated and -lidded cup was for juice, etc. This was so that my son's cup of milk would always taste like milk. I didn't want him drinking milk out of the juice cup, as I thought it would carry an odor and maybe the taste of juice even though I boiled the lids and the rubber seals in a pan of water on the stove.

Oh, and it would alarm me horribly to see someone spreading peanut butter or jelly with a spoon. I saw someone do that on "Days of our Lives" yesterday, and I had to leave the room! Knives are for spreading, not spoons, LOL!

Lyn

Tuesday, March 18, 2003 - 11:12 am EditMoveDeleteIP
My boys always have to have meat in their peanutbutter sandwiches (yuck)

Not1worry

Tuesday, March 18, 2003 - 06:35 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Well, DJ, I guess because I've come home and found the door locked. I don't think he heard us drive up and locked it. He admits it and since I have many much worse habits, I can't bug him too much about it. He just needs some security, that's all!

After 10 years, I am used to the spoon-spreading thing, but I know deep in my heart it's wrong.

I am so glad to hear that someone else has a drink color/cup color policy! I like your reasoning on the milk, that makes perfect sense to me.

I'm really compulsive about my to-do lists. If my husband scribbles something on it or I make a major spelling error, I have to re-do the whole thing so it looks neat. I gave him his very own notepad so he'd leave mine alone.

I also can't write with a pen unless the lid of the pen is put on the other end. You know, like the Bic pens with lids? If it's missing it's lid, I won't write with it. I try to avoid click-type pens, they don't have the right weight, I need a lid!

Hippyt

Tuesday, March 18, 2003 - 06:47 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
bread

Where's Whoami,and why has she done this to me? I don't know how to toast this! It isn't rounded anywhere!!! Should I go buy rounded bread,then if I do it upside down,I'll at least know it? Maybe,I should 'round' it myself?
hmmm..forget it,I'll have a freakin bagel!

Sia

Tuesday, March 18, 2003 - 08:51 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
But, T, how can you be sure your bagel's not up-side-down?!?

Hey, be different and daring: toast your bagels with the cut/flat side down!! LOL

Whoami

Tuesday, March 18, 2003 - 10:10 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
ROFLOL Hippyt!

roflol