What is one quirky thing about you?

I refuse to eat food I can't see. :P This has mainly happened while eating in the car. I always have to have the interior light on in those cases. I don't eat in the car much. :rofl:

Next!

It throws me off of everything. I get jittery and out of kilter.

I never take the top newspaper or coffee cup lid, or the last... :rofl:

is that quirky?

I thought everyone did that.

I don't want other people having touched my paper or coffee lid.

B-) :rofl:

Trouble is, there's no call for female tenors in choirs... :cry:

Alas.

That explains everything.

It's all clear now.... :)

Is she serious? Does she make her own reeds?

She taught herself to play in Junior High. She was a violin player but there were no strings in the school band...so, the band director suggested the oboe. She doesn't make her own reeds...yet. She loves the oboe!
She's really amazing. She's never had music lessons..other than when she learned to play violin in 3rd grade from the school teacher...but she plays oboe, saxophone, guitar, piano and is now working on the flute. (sorry..a little mommy bragging!) :)

a ((((((BIG HUG)))))) kisses and a hearty "YOU GOOOO GIRLFRIEND" from me!

:hi:

synonyms.. i think visually and can draw a picture of words but can not speak them sometimes under stress and i have no perception of social interaction.. when i am in social situations i have no idea of what other people are doing or how to interact with them.. that is why i hang around here... less stress and i can interact

And if I don't, then remember later in the day, I get a huge panic pain in my tummy thinking that something is wrong with "the girls" (our two cats).

This all started a few years ago when I left the front door open after a long night of bartending (cokehead and cops were involved) and I didn't get home until 5:30 AM. I was so bent out of shape that I completely left the front door open and went to bed. I wake up and someone had stolen my tips, two cameras and a very heavy jar of loose change. What scared me the most was that i was asleep and Jeebus only knows what could have happened to me. And I would have felt horrible if anything happened to "the girls".

that was awful though.
It's never happened to me but I'll still go back and forth checking the ront and back doors over and over sometimes, but I'm just paranoid so yeah

I don't know why. Any shrinks out there?

I guess that would be my quirk. But then again, I live on a boat on an island!

If I could give up this urban lifestyle, I'd do it in a second.

I once had a nightmare that one of my cats had snuck into the dryer before I turned it on. Now I'm really paranoid about checking before I turn it on.

yes oh yes!
:bounce:

Welcome to DU, stuntcat!

I'd do it now for y'all if you could hear me.. well I'll just do it anyway!

:hi:

:party:

:headbang:

And welcome to DU.

I can't say it slowly even without thinking about it

ti pleh t'nac I

I think this stems from having had a problem with my esophagus in the past and having food come back up and not being able to get out of there.


I don't have that problem today as it has been corrected, but the anxiety is still there.

:P

in case the Commies barge in.

And you CANNOT have your back to a window, because what if they throw something through it?

I understand completely.

Redstone

I don't like to have my back to a window for sure, and the commies are everywhere!

I get nervous. I've got to be where I can move freely.

don't like crowds either

as if! :rofl:

;)

About 2 years ago I almost had an appendectomy and actually had to have 2 MRIs of my colon region that day. And when they do x-rays of that region you have to drink the nastiest of chalk stuff. The technician said I had about 1-2 hours to get the liquids down, it took me less than 30 seconds for about 24oz of the stuff.

Even though I've never lived north of Virginia

I may agree with you

there is a good deal of southern fare I don't care much for.

He eats EVERYTHING cold, and it drives me nuts, even though it shouldn't. It's none of my business.

Redstone

:shrug:

Stranger still, this isn't the first time somebody's posted about my hosiery issues in the lounge. :eyes:

Almost violently ill. :puke:

:D

:hi:

I thought it was just me.

She's one of those women that makes me really, really, really, really glad I like men. :-)

:hi:

that i like women :P

:)

you were going to wax sympathetic for the billionaire heiress with apparent lack of empathy for the rest of the world, and the narcissism of someone who feels entitled in the world.

but alas, you were down to earth

:rofl:

:P

:hi:

I can't stand Paris Hilton

although I did watch her short film on the internets :evilgrin:

I'd say she lacks a lot in a lot of areas if you know what I mean


;-)

It does show that she actually is good at something.

A la "Twin Peaks."

edit: Heh, didn't mean to reply to myself.

It is pointy, and the sides of the nostrils aren't even with the bottom of her nose. I can't understand why so many people think she is attractive.

:shrug:

:shrug:

:rofl:

:spray: :patriot:

dammit!


I'm trying to drink something here!

I hate it, but there has never been a time when I haven't done it.

hehe. No, I'd have to know you, or at least be looking at your face to be inspired to make a real guess. :D

Here's a pic if you want to try again

in my baseball cap! That, or, "F***, leave me alone, would you?"

I'd elaborate but I think I've hijacked this thread enough

:D

:P

how I'm thinking about you. And this time, YOU'D be right :)

:P

That one was easy :)

It was a joke taken too far, something I do far too often. My apologies. :hug:

You've done it before so I know it's a habit. And as I've admitted, I am asking for it with you. I'm trying to be better. :hug:

You're already there. :hug:

This makes Christmas very easy for my family. 365 pairs of socks.

I wish I could say the same for my husband though. :eyes:

sleep at night. I've always been this way, and I swear if I don't it won't go off/I won't hear it go off. I also give it one (1) last check for good measure.

I can't have anyone walking behind me.

I have a million other quirks, but I'm quirky about posting them.

I have a hard time with people behind me

I think they are going to thump me on the head or some such silly thing

:shrug:

There was a scene about that very thing. Hilarious.

no i missed it

I also have to see what I'm eating.

I crack all the bones in my body and once I start on one I have to do them all.

I'm sorry to hear about the door jamb thing.

:hug:

:hug: I think I shall live to see another day. :)

If not, I bequeath all my monkeys to you. ;)

They'd miss you so much. I'm a poor substitute.

I had a couple of friends who had the same quirk.

is a quirk!


:pals:

I have OCD (well, according to my doctor it's just OCD tendencies, but it seems like six of one and half a dozen of the other to me, and I do take medication for anxiety and OCD)...that pretty much makes me a walking, talking, mass of quirks! :rofl:

However, since I have been on the medication, I am able to walk past a jumbled or askew retail display without stopping to fix it.

occasionally by putting askew a picture or something around the office because she can't walk by it without straightening it.

I'm evil..

:pals:

It wasn't that I wanted to straighten everything out (one time I was straightening clothes on hangers and zipping unzipped jackets, when my friend stopped me and said, "You don't have to do that! You don't work here!"), it's that I truly could not help myself. If I walked by a display of CDs, for example, and they were out of place or upside down, I'd have to stop and fix it. I literally could not stop myself from doing it.

because it is something she can't help.

I wouldn't want people picking on me because of a quirk, or a problem I had.

I did do it a couple of times though, eeeek. I'm evil

i tend to be a bit eccentric. ;)

more interesting and lovable!

eccentric people are more fun to be around, especially if one is eccentric, neurotic, etc. (like me)

:hug:

:D

:loveya:

that I have never voluntarily seen a sunrise unless I was up all night.

I think I could say the same. I know people who get up and get tons of stuff done early in the morning.

I have to get up at 6:30 to get ready for work. That's a chore in itself for me.

I'd much rather be up late

and I've always been a nightowl too.

who were so damned chirpy and productive at some un-godly hour of the morning. And they would have been happy too, except they were so incredulous and irritated by the fact that I wasn't interested in getting up and chirping and producing with them. Even had one housemate who played "Good Morning" by the Beatles at full volume at 7:00 am to wake me up. Only once, I might add. :nuke:

you went new kew lar on them eh?

I would too

chirpy people in the morning drive me nuts.

Lots of caffeine

I check www.seatguru.com to be sure it's a comfortable seat, and call the Silver line to change to the optimal seat. I fly enough to be obsessive, but not enough to get Chairman's Status (there are so many people that fly more than me that I rarely get upgraded to first)

and its a subconscious reaction to knock away the arm of anyone who tries.

I moved from LA to Austin when I lost a job.

I moved from Austin to Seattle when I had a falling out with a friend.

I moved from Seattle to Austin after I quit a job.

All within the space of 3 years . . . .

Now that's weird.

:o

:)

that's all ya got?

Next question.

I eat snack foods in groups of two. If there is one left in a bowl, I can't eat it.

Two is fine, four is good (two groups of two, y'know); three or five? No.

I don't like to record the couple of TV shows I watch regularly. I will if I have to but I prefer to watch them when they air. And I don't mean that I don't want to have to wait to see them. I mean I treat it like an event, a planned little minivacation. It's really annoying me that the new BSG is being moved to Sunday nights at 10PM. That's too late for me (by Sunday I need to get to bed by 10 to be reasonable for Monday AM :) )

So instead of a nice two hour treat at the end of the week with Dr Who and BSG I just get Dr Who and then just catch BSG on my tape whenever I get a chance - so it's no longer an event so it's just a little less enjoyable.

I only set my alarm at times ending in a 1, 3, 7 or 9.
I eat my food clockwise.
I look under a lampshade before I reach up and turn it off or on.

never thought about it

so if you need to be somewhere at 9, you get up at 7? etc. what if you need to be somewhere at 8? 5?

lampshade thing I do. mostly looking for the switch, but it might be to see if something is going to get me

(not sure why) I remember having dreams about it when I was 4 or 5. I was on a soapbox in a park, preaching about the evils of mixing your food. I eat one thing at a time, and the order of consumption is clockwise.

The hour I set my alarm doesn't matter, it's the minutes. So I will set my alarm at 8:01 or 7:59 etc.

I'm checking for snakes under the lampshade. Some cartoons can haunt you.

I don't like clowns, and have had some threads about that recently, I really don't like them.

I mix foods though, sorry, I figure they all go to the same place. ewwwwww
I had someone really get upset about that once.

The alarm thing is interesting.

I love quirkiness!

Why limit me like that????

:P

but a lovable dork!

:yourock: :hug:

:shrug:

it's in the way that you...

well you're just a dork

that's all

:rofl: :hug:

No

Not THAT kind of tic...

I have one that comes out around my family of origin

other than that, I'm pretty normal.

i use the paper towel to open the bathroom doors so
I don't have to touch them. Only when leaving public bathrooms.


I also eat with fork in left hand and knife in right, like
english do. I am left handed though.

Way too many people don't even wash their hands after using the restroom! Gross!

both hands. I taught myself to do this when I was subbing to get the class' attention. It works every time!

I can write backwards - I learned in order to write notes to a friend in high school. A teacher embarrassed me one day by reading my note in class to her, so I did this for the next time; when he couldn't read it, he gave up, thus embarrassing himself. :silly:

He never did it again...

left hand writes backwards, right hand regular.

I talk to all of my neighbors when we meet on the street. I say "Hi" or "Hey, there" or "Happy New Year" and most of them look at me like I'm stabbing them.

Every now and then, a little old lady who doesn't speak English but only Mandarin or Cantonese smiles and nods.


Who knew you weren't supposed to greet your fellow mammals? :shrug:

are set at different times - ahead of the actual time. Anywhere from 7-16 minutes. I change them every so often.

I invariably get where I need to be just barely in time, if not a bit late; I purposely try to confuse myself

Only my dvd/vcr clock has the exact time. I try not to look at it when I'm getting read to go out. :P

I'd say that I have "a dysfunctional sense of time," so I have to set clocks and my watch ahead, so I won't be late. But I can't set them all for the same number of minutes ahead, say five, because then I'll think, "Oh yeah, that's five minutes fast." And I'll leave five minutes later.

Does that make sense?

That's why I'll set them differently every so often, because I'll get accustomed to it just as you describe. Even with 3 or 4 different clocks. That clock is 7 minutes fast, that other one is 18 minutes fast...yep.

I also share your night owl trait. I don't 'fully' wake up till at least 11 am. I'm on auto pilot before then. :hi:

can you trick yourself?

I've tried that. I invariably figure out what time it really is and calculate how much time i have.

I am chronically just on time or a little late.

I guess the DVD and my computer have the correct time as they set themselves LOL

But in the spirit of the question, I hate idle time so much that I never, EVER go anywhere without a book either on me or within an arm's reach.

I also don't like the feel of certain fabrics and I hate the texture of ground pork products.

Blue

I am right-handed, but one time, I decided to try writing with my left hand. I cannot write forward lefthanded, only backward! :rofl:

. . . Jamie Quirk should be in the MLB Hall of Fame. That's pretty Quirk-y.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/q/quirkja01.shtml

or any top to where fabric is close to touching my neck. I feel like I'm choking.

I collect Masonic/Elks/Shriners/IOOF memorabilia; I've got a bunch of stuff. My prized possessions from this collection is an Elk's Fez from the 60's in near-mint condition, and a pair of Shriners figure magnets from the late 40's.

Top that!:)

i dislike wearing shoes. at home i am usually barefoot and, i walk on my tiptoes most of the time. :hi:

I have to do that too!

I thought I was the only one

I will fall asleep quickly usually (although lately it hasn't worked well) when I do

:hi:

Tourette's Syndrome

per this definition when I was a kid


http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=3113340&mesg_id=3113340


CINCINNATI ENQUIRER

It's impossible to navigate through popular culture without having heard about Tourette's syndrome. And why not? It's not exactly your ordinary medical affliction. Unfortunately, for most people, Tourette's is equated with its rarest symptom: involuntary outbursts of cursing and other inappropriate language.

You probably would be surprised to know that only about 10 to 15 percent of people with Tourette's have "that cursing thing," the peculiar urge that is known as coprolalia. I, too, used to think Tourette's was synonymous with swearing. Had I known the truth, I might have been diagnosed decades earlier.

Those who do exhibit coprolalia and other pronounced symptoms certainly deserve much more respect and compassion than they get. More broadly, everyone with Tourette's needs better public understanding, and especially an end to the stigma that surrounds this sometimes bizarre disorder.

Tourette's, a genetic affliction, is characterized by two or more "motor tics" - involuntary physical movements such as facial grimaces or moving the head, neck or limbs in odd ways - and at least one vocal tic, which is usually little more than humming, grunting or whistling. Onset usually comes by mid-childhood, with severity of tics most frequently seen by age 10 or 12. In the majority of cases, tics then gradually diminish to little or nothing by adulthood. The course of each case is as unique as each individual; there is no such thing as a "typical" case of Tourette's.

As medical problems go, Tourette's is, except in the most severe cases, about the most minor imaginable thing to have. It's never fatal, and very rarely a disability. Indeed, countless people live their whole lives without realizing they have the disorder. Countless others know they have it but don't bother with treatment or even getting a diagnosis because they can live with the tics more readily than bothering with highly imperfect medications and their side effects.

I have music lists, a celeb crush list, to-do lists, and list anything I feel like.

I too love a good list!!
And Everything can go on one..

And by that I mean, that has to be the way the restaurant prepares it all the time. Not just when I come in.

everytime I fill up the car with gas, I ALWAYS start the odometer to 0000 again. It's like a thing with me and I get rather annoyed when the hubby forgets to reset it. :eyes:

cannot. do. it.

I only drink bottled water, especially Perrier, but I have to put the lid back on every time. I've tried really hard not to, but it drives me insane.

That is probably less a quirk and more a mental health issue.

quit labeling yourself

you're eccentric like the rest of us

:silly:

just about everywhere I go. There's coffee in it and I do drink it. I think it can be compared to people that smoke cigarettes because besides the addiction it may also bring satisfaction holding something. So the coffee mug gives me something to hang on to.:donut:

don't even know where to begin:shrug:

:P :rofl: