Name one of your quirks, I'll go first

[DS1]

If I see or hear a string of numbers, I'll reverse the last two in my head, but correct them again when I write them down or otherwise produce them (dialing phones, calculators etc)

I'll see 123456789
Remember 123456798
I'll put 123456789

:shrug:

[Shananigans]

1. Wow...that should be a thread killer in itself!~

;)

[Donkeyboy75]

2. I keep track of the number of telephone poles

I pass on my right and left side while driving down streets. First to 100 wins.

[Guaranteed]

4. Go left!

Always been a fan of the left. :P

[Liberal Veteran]

3. My quirks would get this thread locked.

So I'll pass.

[kmla]

5. Sometimes, after I speak, I will "type" the words in my head, and

keep track how many are typed by the left hand, and how many are typed by the right hand. Then I will compare numbers, and see which hand typed more.

Mostly just an exercise to make sure I will always remember where the correct placement is on a qwerty keyboard, and to make sure I don't forget how to type.

Freakish, I know.

[Susang]

13. I do a similar thing

Ever since I took Typing I in high school. I type my sentences in my head as I'm speaking them. I don't compare which hand typed what, though. My whole goal is to keep up with what I'm saying. Apparently, I'm a speed typing freak.

[KinkyDem]

6. I name my quirk ... George

and I love him ...

pats George gently on the head.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

18. hi george. how goes your day?

[rbnyc]

7. Wow. That's really weird!

:hi:

I can't even think of a quirk now. I know I must have one. Hmmmm. I'll have do bust myself doing something quirky and get back to you.

[radwriter0555]

8. Putting my closet in chromatic order seems very NORMAL right

about now.

Although the tendency to sort by collar style and sleeve length is a tad overwhelming at times.

And the cozy pants are seperate from jeans.

Coats and jackets are all in the front closet (discriminatory?) and the sweaters are in the BACK of the closet (MORE discrimination...)

I feel better now.

I have to work on the shoes a little.

[Bertha Venation]

9. if something reminds me of a song, I sing it

don't know if that bugs Mrs. V., but :shrug:

[belladonna]

21. So do I!!

Glad to know I'm not alone. I also have this weird knack for remembering the lyrics to just about any song I heard more than once, even the really horrible ones. :shrug:

[Bertha Venation]

37. how about Mondegreens?

Do Mondegreens get stuck in your head? That is, songs w/ misheard lyrics? Like "There's a bathroom on the right" instead of "There's a bad moon on the rise?"

My favorite is this one

my love, I'll never find the words, my love
to show you how I feel, my love
mealworms could not express . . .

:hi:

[belladonna]

47. Haha, yeah they do

That and the lyrics to horrible songs that I'd rather forget about. My friends used to love to get me drunk and throw obscure songs at me to test me and invariably, I'd wake up in the morning with one of them stuck in my head. :crazy:

[Bertha Venation]

10. here's another: I have coincidences.

Almost daily, I "have a coincidence." The feeling is somewhat like déjà vu. Here's an example.

I'll be driving down the street and on the side of the road I'll see a discarded Pennzoil bottle. I'll remember it not only because I remember everything, every tiny damned detail like that, but because seeing the trash will make me mad. Later in the day, I'll overhear someone on the elevator discussing the oil change they got yesterday, and they'll say "The guy tried to get me to use Pennzoil, but I always use Quaker State." I'll instantly remember seeing that Pennzoil bottle and think, "there's another coincidence."

Right now that doesn't seem like a very good example, and I can never remember today the "coincidence" that happened yesterday. But this happens almost every day.

Weird, man

[Susang]

11. I hesitate at the top of escalators

And even if there is a step awaiting my foot, I have to pause and wait for the next one before I'll get on the damn thing. My sister does the same exact thing. It drives my husband crazy.

[blondeatlast]

23. Have you ever been "hit" from behind?

I've seen it happen like dominoes!

Actually a couple of people got minor injuries.

[NoPasaran]

12. "charmed"

On edit: Sorry, I thought you wanted the name of one of my quarks.

[geniph]

14. I have mild OCD

so my quirks are legion. There are many things which must be ordered just so, or counted, or otherwise uselessly fiddled with.

I line up all the paperclips in my desk at work, there's one relatively innocuous one.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

15. If something touches one of my nipples I have to touch the other equally

or else I'm uncalibrated. Seriously - it can be a problem!

[Padraig18]

16. I always see if a number divides by 3 or 7.

I have no idea why, but I always mentally check to see if a number can be divided by 3 or 7. :shrug:

[Whitacre D_WI]

17. I'll argue about Photoshopped (or not?) pictures with DS1, for some reason

[DS1]

19. When printing I put the letters on paper in the wrong order

As in F, then F R then FOR then FORD - I leave spaces for the missing letters, weirdest thing :shrug:

[SmileyBoy]

20. I always sleep without a pillow, and on my stomache.

I also cannot STAND cereal with milk.

[HEyHEY]

22. I won't eat a club sandwich that doesn't come cut in quarters

I always ask the waitress first. If she says it's cut in half I don't order it. Then they ALWAYS say, oh, we can cut it in quarters for you..I still refuse. Way I look at it, if you don't know to cut a club in quarters...you have no business selling them.

[ScreamingMeemie]

24. I have to check the alarm clock every night in three sets of threes

and then one more for good measure or it won't go off in the morning.

[kevinam]

31. kinda similar...

I set my alarm to a time ending in 3. Right now, it is set for 7:03. Always a three though...Kevin.

[blondeatlast]

25. I bounce my right leg CONSTANTLY when sitting at a table

or desk. Yes, indeedy--I'm doing it now.

Oddly enough, my son does it too, right leg and all.

[ScreamingMeemie]

26. My daughter does that!

...and it drives me nuts. ;)

[blondeatlast]

27. It STILL drives my mom nuts--I simply can't help it.

She's strangely forgiving of Blonde Jr, though; something about the only granchild, I suppose!

[ScreamingMeemie]

28. I think you got it right. That and she secretly blames you for passing

it on. ;)

[kevinam]

29. I hate being barefoot...

yea, I know, probably kinda odd. It isn't that my feet get all that cold, they just dry out, and feel uncomfortable...Kevin.

[slksln]

38. see I'm the opposite

I take my shoes off at every oppurtunity.

Not just my shoes either.

I guess I just didn't grow out of some things when I was a kid. I just learned how to tell when it's "appropriate" or not.

[Guy Fawkes]

30. I'll open my windows only when its cold out

And because I live in wisconsin, it means that about half the year I sleep in a 20*F room while the rest of my house is a normal 70*. I can't sleep unless my room is cold.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

32. I'm fussy about pillows

I don't like anyone sleeping on mine, because then it smells like that person. (I have a pretty acute sense of smell.)

In answer to the obvious question, on such occasions, I dispense with the pillows. :evilgrin:

[SarahB]

33. Insomnia and clumsiness

[Kadie]

34. When I put gas in the car

the total amount has to be an even dollar amount, no cents.

And it has nothing to do with having change, I always use a gas credit card.

[DS1]

36. I'm the opposite

I pull up knowing how many gallons I want, and get either right on or damn close. Unless I find abnormally cheap gas, then I'll just fill it to the end and then some.

However, if I find 94 Octane I baby the shit out of my car to see how many MPGs I can get out of it, instead of tearing up and down the highway with the extra horsepower.

[Snoggera]

35. I dislike being around people that

are sloppy.

That includes many things.

I like being around people that have conquered their teenage ignorance, and experience, in their minds, thoughts that are considered by adults.

That's just me.

[seaglass]

39. I don't like going to the gas station. I rarely get more than

5.00 worth of gas at a time. I have pumped my own gas less than 5 times in my life. If gas prices weren't in the news, I would have no idea how much gas costs. I know exactly how far I can drive with the fuel light on.

I make my husband crazy. He swears if I ever run out of gas he won't rescue me.

[Guy_Montag]

40. Wow, you lot are strange...

I thought I was weird talking to myself and various inanimate objects when I'm alone in the house, but you lot make me look like the height of normality.

Edit: I hate talking on the phone though.

Oh and I'm basically scared of pretty, young ladies. No idea why I get on with them once I get to know them, but I get all tongue-tied, blush, stammer and generally become the epitome of a geek around them. I even come across as rude & standoffish, instead of terminally shy.

I can't tell lies either. I blush & sweat - no idea when or why that started happening, but I first noticed when confronted by Norwegian customs a few years ago, but that's another story.

[2bfree]

41. Well........

If I go some place one way I'll take the other way back (if possible) so it seems like I'm going in a circle of sorts. I will only go to errands in a certain order or else it drives me insane!

[bearfan454]

42. I have to take the pop out of the box in the icebox.

I don't like the icebox with a 12 pack box of pop in it with 2 pops in it. I throw it away. Mrs bearfan says I am obsessive compulsive. I still don't want the box in there.

[Misunderestimator]

43. I used to mouth the last few words of what I have just spoken

... was totally unaware that I did that (a long time ago). I didn't do it all the time, but why would I ever mouth the words I had just said? Anyway, I quit that shortly after it was pointed out to me.

(I think it might have had to do with my finding out that I had a Texas drawl one summer in HS when I went up to Michigan for a summer music camp. It truly was a shock to me. I spent the entire summer practicing how NOT to speak Texan, and came back sounding like a snotty British girl.)

[Bossy Monkey]

44. Not colorblind, but almost invariably switch the words orange & green

No doubt due to some traumatic Jello experience in early childhood...:)

[THUNDER HANDS]

45. i sit indian-style at the dinnertable

I always have. Don't know why I do it. I always know it's time to stop eating when my feet go numb.

[Bossy Monkey]

46. Also, anything that goes in my left hand vanishes

I've been known to look all over the house for something I'm holding in my left hand. Very bad.