Your Weird Quirks

[Matt89]

I sleep face down with my head tilted to the side.

 

[cliffdweller]

I hate being late. I hate when others are late too.

If I arrive at something within 15 minutes of the start time, I do not consider myself to be "late," and if somebody gives me a hard time about it, I'm likely to label that person "high-maintenance" and go out of my way to avoid him or her.

I've walked off of jobs over this. It's an absolute deal-breaker with anyone and anything.

 

[hobojones]

I check my alarm several times before going to bed even if I know I've already checked it and it's set because of an innate fear of being late or not waking up

I have an obsession with fixing any crooked objects in a room

I have a physical inability to hear a song that I know the words to and not sing it, even if I don't like the song.

 

[mbamike]

I have to check a locked door I just locked to make sure it is indeed locked. Usually, I will lock the door, go get into my car, look up to see the door, then go back to check the door to make sure the door is indeed locked.

 

[Swellegant]

I didn't know this was weird until someone told me she does the same thing and the rest of the people at the table looked like we'd just admitted to some vile secret vice.

But I never give anyone or anything something to eat unless I've tasted it first. That includes babies and pets: I have tasted breast milk and baby formula and every kind of baby-food imaginable; also dog and cat food (wet and dry) and dog biscuits, turtle pellets and fish-flakes, birdseed and cuttlebones, before giving them to an animal. When I worked in food service I had to try everything on the menu so I'd know what it was like before I could be comfortable selling it.

But apparently that's very strange. Who knew?

Within my own family, it is considered strange that I eat meals one item at a time, in a specific order (meat, vegetable, salad, starch), rather than tasting at random or mixing things together in each bite. Only my father, my nephew, and I do this, and the rest of the family think we are freaks. Of course, left to my own devices, I always eat things that are already mixed together... shepherd's pie, pot pie, casseroles, and like that.

I also have a mild issue with symmetry: if I notice something off-center, or slanted, I have to move it. Fortunately I don't always notice, the bulletin board over my desk was hung slightly crooked and I didn't notice it for two years; and I was able to convince myself that it didn't bother me, since I didn't initially notice it. I just tell myself it's set at a fashionably rakish angle.

 

[cliffdweller]

If it's a constant issue that you can't show up to work on time, whether it's within 15 minutes of the start time on not, then you don't deserve the job anyway.

You must be someone's (micro)manager to make a statement like that. I've never kissed ass and kowtowed because "I should be so grateful to have any job at all." I'm not easily manipulated or controlled, and certain people hate that. Especially employers. Sorry I'm not one of your sheeple, but I'm not losing any sleep over it.

 

[cliffdweller]

Like I said, if someone is constantly 'late' like that, then I see it as an issue..

Like I said, then you're too high-maintenance for me to want to deal with.

 

[cliffdweller]

I'm afraid I have to agree with this.

@Cliff: at my place of business, you'd be fired very quickly for your behavior. That would be my company's decision, not mine, because the time you swipe in, goes into a central database.

I'm pretty sure I'd quit before they fired me. These days, I probably wouldn't have taken the job in the first place. I work a seasonal office job (which I could easily get by without) to supplement income I make as a freelancer. The office job is fairly laid-back about time - I do what I need to do and go home, and nobody bothers me if I'm 15 minutes late.

Years ago, I temped at an office that had one of these ridiculous policies. I was "given a talking to" one day for clocking out at 4:59 instead of 5:00. Nevermind that I'd clocked in at 7:56. I was told not to do it again, but that of course I shouldn't be a clock-watcher. I quit very shortly thereafter. They don't need humans for these types of jobs; they need trained monkeys. I am not a trained monkey. These places can go fuck themselves.

 

[chillyboi]

watching someone do something that i do, only not the way i would do it, i just want to scream, HERE do it this way!!

 

[looseliam]

watching someone do something that i do, only not the way i would do it, i just want to scream, HERE do it this way!!

Especially after the third of fourth attempt!

 

[chillyboi]

loose, i was in boystown tues

 

[borg69unimatrix]

Y' All are completely NUTS!!!!


...but I agree with, and do a LOT of the same things most of you do.

Some I didn't even realize, until I read you did it too.

"Oh yeah... I do that!"

 

[looseliam]

loose, i was in boystown tues

And you didn't call

WHat brought you 'round these parts?

 

[Swellegant]

^I hum all the time, whenever I'm not talking, reading, or watching TV... usually "Yellow Submarine." Is that weird?

 

[Titanic]

Whenever I'm speaking and my mind comes up with two possible ways to communicate something I usually can't decide which one to use by the time my mouth forms the words, so I blurt out something half way between them. A regular example is "big" vs. "huge", which usually comes out as "buge". It got so much more difficult when I became a writer and my vocabulary expanded, so I get "puncid", "brecked" and "soge" {bet you can't guess them!}. Still, the ex thought it was adorable, if a little clumsy.

Also if I'm listening to music I tend to lose my surroundings, so much so that I was told yesterday that I dance when I walk. Apparently it's quite noticeable too. I did wonder why I got all those honks from passing cars, just assumed they were people who knew me...

 

[Wilde Oscar]

Food on a plate must be separated. If there are peas in my potatoes, then I have to take the time to shove them into their own corners. There must always be a buffer.

When I'm in a store, I stop to rearrange and tidy up display counters to make them more aesthetically pleasing.

I'm a very fidgety person, so I like to have something on-hand to play with. If I have to wait in a line, the fidgeting goes into my feet, and I'll bounce on my toes or rock back and forth from one foot to the other.

As long as I'm wearing a long t-shirt or something, I like to have my penis sticking out over my waistband. I find it very comfortable.

 

[bw92116]

I use my teeth to make drumming sounds and patterns that only I can hear.

 

[MoufOfKhaos]

If I arrive at something within 15 minutes of the start time, I do not consider myself to be "late," and if somebody gives me a hard time about it, I'm likely to label that person "high-maintenance" and go out of my way to avoid him or her.

I've walked off of jobs over this. It's an absolute deal-breaker with anyone and anything.

You label a person as high maintenance because you're lazy, undependable or both?

I mean, I'm not the greatest guy with authority, but you've made me look like a saint.

To that I can only say, thanks for existing.

 

[maxpowr9]

This is a weird quirk my BF just noticed when he got home from work now. Apparently I always have my headphones on when I am sitting at the computer regardless if there is any audio playing. I literally feel naked if I am sitting at the computer and I don't have my headphones on.

 

[MJEH89]

"As long as I'm wearing a long t-shirt or something, I like to have my penis sticking out over my waistband. I find it very comfortable."

i find this comment the most intriguing...