Is it really so strange???
by My best friend and i were talking the other day about our "quirks" and although I’ve realized I have a few, I never realized how funny and strange they are.
One is, when I walk into a room full of people and they all start talking to me, I get really dizzy because I don't know who to address first. You see I'm the type person that is a little "personal" as in, I like to give you my full attention and look you in the eye so I can take in everything you are saying. Thus everyone talking to me at once makes me dizzy.
Another, my friend was cracking up at my use of several napkins when I am eating a meal. It seriously bugs me to use the same napkin. Now the cloth ones I'm ok with (don't know why) but the paper napkins....I just can't use the same one. After a wipe of the mouth, or something, that napkin gets thrown aside. It's funny because you will notice my nice neat little pile of napkins.
My list can go on and on....but I don't want to give too much away.
Now tell me, what are you quirks???
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It's retarded but, hey what's new? If you have a really deep voice on the phone our conversation will be VERY short. It's sooo dumb but my stomach actually rumbles like there's an earthquake. Of course my urgency in ending the call is to avoid the outburst of laughter into the phone :-\
Is it beause people with really deep voices sometimes sound like gangsters or perverts?
Had to laugh like an idiot at this!
I never thought about it like that but, now that you mention it... there is this one person in particular have only called them once, right after I hung up I kept giggling uncontrollably. Same person had left me a voicemail, and asked me to call them back but...I just couldn't do it.
I know who
You speak treason...usually I fall for this but, I won't there's NO WAY you could truly know HA!
Ok, I don't know who.
i hope someone else does this cuz its a problem with me. the tv remote! o man. does anybody here ALSO have a problem with scratching the buttons. like...for instance the best ones are the channel and volume ones when they are shaped like a triangle. does anyone here also loooove to scratch them with ur nails along the edges?? pls tell me its not just me. im sexy
yeah kinda, but only on remotes that have the squishy buttons
that's exactly what I was thinking, too.
hmmm... i dont know if i have any quirks... i copy todd in saying, BRING IT ON!!!!!
hmm, actually i think i pace while im on the phone... i bother katie so much doing that... hmm and i cant drive the speed limit, even if i try, even out in service... i dunno if that counts as a quirk... i dont know if i have any others.
haha... i do the same thing.. i pace SO much when i'm on the phone. fortunately i don't spend that much time on the phone, but seriously.
I have revived yet another thread. I think i am now singlehandedly responsible for the ressurection of this great website...
revived??? this thread is only a couple days old! it's still in stages of infancy!
oh well it was only like 5 comments before i worked my magic...
-When I eat candy, I have to eat them in even numbers. Always. This also applies to many foods, including but not limited to: peas, corn(kernels, not cob), beans, carrots and any other "loose" food, like veggies or something.
-I gesture like crazy when I'm talking a lot, or telling a story or something.
-When I relay conversations that have happened, I'll say "and I said" a lot. Like, I'll still be the one who was talking in the story, but when I tell it, I'll include "and I said" about a million times, for no reason, whatsoever.
i eat candy in multiples of two also so that i can evenly distribute it on the sides on my mouth while chewing. also, i try to eat the colors together.
Yep...I do that too, like with Skittles and M&M's and stuff.
i eat those in color order
ok. i can not eat after i have showered. i must eat, then shower. eating makes me feel dirty.
also. i do not like dirt. i do not like to be dirty. i can tolerate it for a short period of time but must change immediately.
i HATE the feeling of a dress shirt on my body. i wear tee shirts underneath EVERYTHING. (it just feels better.) also i can't wear a short sleeve dress shirt with a jacket. ARGHHHHHHHHHH
i feel dirty after talking to you, i must take a shower every time! LOL
some people wouldn't complain about that...
Sooooo....do you shower at night, or just not eat all day after a morning shower?
i can attest to this. dan is the cleanest guy i know. i like that fact, he always smells like soap. and the tee shirt thing, i learned that a lot of guys do this. wear tee shirts under everything.
yeah all the guys i know wear T's under or wifebeaters....so to me it would be strange seeing a guy with only 1 shirt.
yeah wearing an undershirt is not strange. it is totally traditional.
-When I walk, if there are lines on the floor I like to step over all of them with my right foot.
-I HAVE to have all my IM windows lined up perfectly otherwise I just can't type.
my IM windows are small and they have to be to the left :P
I'm sure I have tons of quirks, but everything I do seems normal to me. It must be the rest of you that are weird. Anyone want to point out my quirks? (*prepares self for ONSLAUGHT*)
oh, I got some for me, thanks to Lynz.
-I pace when I talk on the phone.
-I don't step on cracks, or the imaginary lines that extend off corners of desks, tables, furniture, or other things like that. (This is hard to explain unless I actually show you).
-Usually I pace while not stepping on lines made by the tiles in my kitchen while talking on the phone.
I'm sure there's more.
you had me at "IMAGINARY LINES!"
THAT cracked me up too!
"or the imaginary lines that extend off corners of desks, tables, furniture, or other things like that" very intriguing...can you step through the lines or do you actually have to vault over them?
I have to leave the planet, orbit for a while, and then descend on the other side of the imaginary line.
i must observe this.
it's amazing.
Actually, I can step over them, because they are just like the real lines that everyone else sees. They are only imaginary lines on the ground.
want a diagram?...Ian, where can I upload to?
Stop all this, Livy's head hurts! Too early must finish cap n' crunch.
I don't drink alcohol. Hate it. It makes me angry just looking at the stuff (most of the time). In fact I get mad sometimes when I see certain friends drinking a beer or whatever. It has no rhyme or reason for being so random. Some friends can drink a beer or whatever, and I don't care at all. Other friends pick up a drink, and I get all bent out of shape. It's very weird.
On occasion (very rare occasion) I'll drink a mike's hard lemonade or taste a sip of this or that. But usually I hate it.
why would it bother you if some drink and others dont? that is very interesting to me.
yeah, me too. I just can't figure it out. This happened to me the other day. I saw this old friend, and she had a beer, and I just was repulsed and enraged at the same time.
But last night--we had a family get together, and I was sitting right next to my cousin who is exactly my age, and we grew up together, and she had some alcohol, and so did her husband, and most of my other relatives--and I had no problems.
I'm quirky.
for some reason i am picturing this said with a snap "im quir-kay"
okay, what do you think I am---A gay? (that's right "A" gay.)
nu-uh i didnt say that
Bent out of shape? Does your face contort in all manner of strange diections,then you fold in half and your legs end up over your shoulders??? Asks originalsnob(wide eyed w/ expectation and hands clasped together)
you BET i'm crazy! crazy enough to shave a fire spitting llama and feed him ghoul welp shishkabobs!!!
oh! Oh, now I'm crazy, am i? Well, Yeah! Yeah, I'm crazy! Crazy enough to wear a pair of pumpernickel leiderhosen and dance around a spinach dip! waaaaaaaaaaaa!
HAHAHAH this totally made me crack up!
nice.
many traits i think are unique to me, i find others have, but one thing i do that i have never seen anyone else do is the way i eat corn on the cob. i use my bottom teeth to pry each kernel from the cob. its like "timber" and there are no remnents of kernels on the cob when i am done. i think i do this bc my dad always encouraged me to "clean" my meat of the bones (which i excel at) and i just took the process a step further. i dont know anyone else that eats corn on the cob like me.
ha i must've gotten that from him too
let me get this straight...you dont each meat, but you clean the bones?
no the corn on the cob bit silly. eating things with bones makes me feel especially vomiticious bc it reminds me that they were alive.
there is no way your cob is as clean as mine...i would have noticed it!
I'm pretty good at cleaning the cob, too. I don't miss any of the kernals except the "mini, mutant, freakishly small" ones.
that's probably bc i take so long that i'm sitting at the table long after you've gone
my mom picks each kernal off her corn. it's so funny.
It BUGS me to eat corn on the cob. i love the taste of it but i MUST take a knife and cut the corn off and eat it with a fork. i know, so weird.
I eat it your way too! It started when I had braces but I just hate corn between my teeth and chewing it like..off the thing. Ughh!
you may be right! i had braces too and i love corn on the cob. maybe thats when my method started. i guess its not so weird after all, if you do it too, lyndz. wait maybe you arent the best barometer.
i hate the corn between my teeth too. its a nasty feeling.
It's a terrible feeling. So, I just eat it as fast as I can, like three bites per swallow and I frantically run for a tooth pick after.
dad, is that you?
Yes. Call me daddy.
whos your daddy? wayne rink!
HAHAHAHAHAH!!!!!! I LOVE IT
watching that movie makes me feel so old. look at all the pop culture that has come and gone in my lifetime. like how she reacts to the cell phone and eminem is on the phone. he needs a decision. plain...peanut..plain!
i use a glut of napkins too.
i'm quirky.
i can't have the front of the remote control pointing towards me. like the little part where the beam comes out must face the tv. never at me. thats my most severe quirk.
another one that drives me nuts is when people use a knife or something to get the ketchup to come out of the bottle. just seeing the ketchup all over the knife makes me squirm. like, where are you gonna put that knife?
i need to show my friends and co-workers this. to show i am not alone in my napkin craze! :P
man, if i had a buck for every time somebody called me quirky
-i guess its odd that i MUST line a bic pens cap up with the writing on the side of it
-i squeel and make weird sounds about 30 times a day...to the point where its one of the things i'm just KNOWN for (but i just can't help it!)
-and this one i just learned about and find it incredibly weeeird...but apparently, when i'm thinking really hard, i move my lips like i'm talking (again, i can't help it! i never even know when i'm doing it!)
ah, yes. disorders! if we combined all the issues all the ezabel users had--we'd need a whole new magazine rack.
well i'm sorry to disappoint you (freak) but everyone does the bic thing. AND we all talk to ourselves...
no, its not talking to myself...no sound comes out of my mouth....apparently i just move my lips as if i was talking
i do the same with my pens.
Also, i sometimes mouth what i am thinking. It just depends on how "deep" in thought i am. so you're not alone :P
haha, oh good :-)
oh, i thought of another one...i don't usually walk in my house, i run.
and, i run to my car from my house always...my neighbors probably think i'm always in a big rush, but to me it just seems to be a waste of time to stroll around my property
HAHA we had a co-worker that used to run around everywhere. it would crack us up.
haha, see...i only do it at my house...because social restrictions hold me down! haha
Man this reminds me of the retarded sister in my friends hall! She only runs everywhere but i mean RUNS. She bolts like a banshee from her seat when she has to go to the bathroom and you'd think she left her iron on at home. Even after the meetings you'll see her dart around the corner, look, then turn around and run in the other direction..
P.S.-not implying that you are retarded...
whenever i'm concentrating really hard i stick my tongue out the left side of my mouth. just a little bit and kinda bite it. that's when i'm really thinking and i never know.
I like to give you my full attention and look you in the eye so I can take in everything you are saying.
Same here. My deal is it kills me when I'm talking and the person is looking into outerspace or trying to "multitask". In this case I've listened to what this person has said, and then they can't extend the same courtesy?
OH YES! i feel, i give you my time adn attention to make you feel like you're the only person in the room, at least extend a little courtesy to me and make me feel like you're at least paying attention (even if you're not) lol
Hahaha...I thought I was the only one who had a napkin thing. I KNEW there was a reason I liked you so much!!! :)
OH MY GOSH, you do not do that too? WOW, i get made fun of all the time from my family and friends. i have 2 nieces that do this also!
Absolutely. I ate at Subway today, and the guy gave me like, 10 napkins. I asked him for a bunch more, and he looked at me like I had 4 heads.
I always get a gazillion napkins when I go to McDonald's or something, because I know even if no one else uses them, I will. After almost every bits. It's crazy.