things you do that no "normal" person would?

[shugah]

i save safety pins. :wtf: family lore insists that my grand-mama grew up during the depression, so saved them. she taught her daughter (my mother) to save them. my mother taught me to save safety pins. so i do. save them - safety pins.

[ohheckyeah]

1. I count steps.

When I go up or down them, I silently count them. I don't know why....I don't care how many steps there are, nor do I remember from one day to the next how many steps there are, but I count.


1, 2, 3, 4, ........

Blah
:silly:

[hippywife]

18. I don't do that only on stairs

I do it walking anywhere. It started many years ago, without realizing I was doing it at first, but then it became a way to help me through my exercise routine of walking three miles a day when I got home from work. I haven't been able to stop doing it since.

:hi:

[EvolveOrConvolve]

42. Damn, I do the same thing

If I step on a crack in the sidewalk, I have to start the count over again.

It's actually a mild form of OCD, at least according to my head shrinker.

[wickerwoman]

37. I count those little lane dividing bumps on the highway

(but only on the bus or as a passenger in someone's car). Also count street lights in tunnels but for some reason have no interest in counting street lights on streets.

There's no rational explanation or application but it did teach me to add up by threes, fours and fives quickly.

[bigwillq]

43. I feel when you count steps

you never trip up. I count steps sometimes. I have this phobia with stairs. Not a fan, especially if its a long staircase, and mostly if they're outside. Freaks me out. So, if I count them, I never trip or get that feeling that I am going to fall. I guess it keeps my mind off the actual task of walking up them.

[alphafemale]

2. Not sure if this is not normal but...

For convenience sake I have kept a tupperware container with a knife/fork/spoon in the work fridge in the general area where I keep my lunches/snacks.

Today the spoon was missing from my container.

I found it in the dish dry rack.

I am forevermore going to store my flatware in my desk drawer.

Does that make me weird?

[ohheckyeah]

3. Are you asking US?

We're the weird ones. :)

[alphafemale]

5. Odd thing is...if anyone asks ...I'm..yeah...use my spoon

Just wash it out...put it back.

My spoon not being there...when i wanted my morning yogurt fix...pissed me off a smidge.

[ohheckyeah]

8. I hate it when somebody takes my stuff.

All they have to do is ask and I'm glad to share, but I don't like for things to just disappear.

[nomorenomore08]

4. Posting Brujeria songs in the Lounge...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x9380431

[JitterbugPerfume]

6. I have never admitted this to a living soul

but I ALWAYS add the numbers in phone numbers. I have reconciled myself to the fact that I am a bit strange.



Mom and granny were frugal souls .I remember both of them having chains of safety pins .

[ohheckyeah]

9. I bet other family members do it, too.

I said something about counting steps to my family members and my mom and brother both do it. They thought they were the only ones.

[unpossibles]

11. I used to do that as a mnemonic

it really helped me remember numbers, which I never do anymore.

[flvegan]

7. I wouldn't even know where to begin.

[one_voice]

10. I don't know if this normal or not..

When I mop my floors, the water has to be boiled. I boil the water, wear two pairs of gloves..add just a little cold water so if I have to wring by hand I don't scald myself. It's still hard to handle but I've been doing it for so many years...

I also dip pizza crust in soda...coke..it has to be coke. I can't eat pizza if I can't dunk my crust.

[Digit]

12. Years ago as a young teen when I actually ate W*nder Bread

I would devour the crust (if you can call it that), keeping the interior intact.
Then I would ball up the leftover piece and eat that.

I don't eat that crap anymore...and even taught my daughter that they call it W*nder Bread because
everyone wonders how they can call it bread. JMOBTW

For the record, I eat very little bread these days and when I do it is whole wheat and as a sidenote, she does as well...

[Demoiselle]

31. I used to do EXACTLY that with Wonder Bread!! Squeeze the middle together and yumm...

Now I eat oatmeal bread. Never graduated to whole wheat. Too sweet, or something.

[Digit]

34. That's too funny!

It is hard to believe I only weighed 97 pounds back then and eating that junk!

[MiddleFingerMom]

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Does anyone else think he looks like he's about to let loose with a truly disgusting sneeze?
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[RFKHumphreyObama]

14. I thank objects that have some sentimental value to me

And when I leave a hotel room or another place which has had significant value to me or where I have had an enjoyable time, I always thank that particular place.

It is the strangest thing ever.

[Heidi]

15. I think that's lovely!

Earlier this week, I had to travel to Davos (long trip from here) for two days of work, and I was missing The Wiley and Excellent Boy Cat Named Ginger so much. On Wednesday morning, I walked out into the client's parking lot to have a smoke, and in the distance, I saw a little black cat. I bent down, rubbed my fingers together, and she came running to me, rubbed all around my legs, "hrrrrrrrr, hrrrrrrrrrrr." Then, when I sat down on a low garden wall, she jumped up in my lap and rolled over on her back and let me rub and scratch her belly.

So, of course, I had to thank her and wish her "protection." :)

P.S. :hug:

[Brickbat]

23. I thank the oven when it beeps to let me know it's preheated to the right temp.

[JitterbugPerfume]

27. when my two oldest girls were little

we always said bye to the two trees in front of our house. One of them recently asked me if I remember that.


How could I possibly forget?

[nolabear]

55. No, you'd make a good Indian.

I believe that things have a presence too. Always have. So thanking them is only respectful.

[Duer 157099]

16. Saving safety pins is weird?

First of all, I take that as completely normal. What I would consider weird is throwing safety pins away. Why would anyone throw a safety pin away?

But then, I tend to save almost everything that I consider useful.

Jeez, I don't even throw rubber bands away unless they break.

[Lasher]

63. Me too.

Who in their right mind would throw safety pins away?

[KG]

17. haven't owned a TV for over 10 years.

[HopeHoops]

20. I still owned the TV I bought in '83 - I bought it as a monitor for my C=64.

I haven't watched TV since about '81. We did get cable for half a school year ten years ago, but only so my youngest could watch Mr. Rogers, Reading Rainbow, Bear In The Big Blue House, and other PBS stuff that was on in the morning (she had afternoon kindergarten). We canceled it as soon as the school year was over.

[HopeHoops]

19. Dance naked with a salad shooter.

:woohoo:

[gemdem]

45. You'd owe me a new laptop

if I'd have been drinking when I read your post... :spray:

the mental visual is priceless... :rofl:

[InkAddict]

21. I pick up junk "reading material" in the entrances of

stores, libraries, and restaurants--such things as apartment guides, senior and Latino newspapers, little local "classified" sheets, free alternative community, things-to-do, and jobs newspapers, etc...

My "abnormal" thinking is that if people, like me, do not take them, the publishers will think no one is interested and then these little "guides" will no longer be available for free...

[Dr Morbius]

22. When I'm driving and stuck behind another vehicle...

...I factor the numbers on the license plate, sometimes to determine whether the number is prime.

So say the number is 3637. Well, that doesn't divide by two, three, five, seven, eleven, thirteen, seventeen, and so on. 3637, as it happens, is a prime number. I'd have to go up through all the primes up to 59 to find out; it makes time go by on the road.

[Bucky]

24. I can't say. You'll all think ill of me.

[underpants]

25. No it's okay

we already think ill of you

:P

[nolabear]

57. It would have to be pretty out there.

[Skittles]

59. we already think ill of you, Bucky

[underpants]

26. I have a fear of jewelry

and balloons popping and hitting me in the eye

:shrug:

[JitterbugPerfume]

28. I miss you signature underpants

dancing on your posts! How weird is that?

[underpants]

29. :-)

[JitterbugPerfume]

30. yep--thats it!

:yourock:

[wickerwoman]

38. I'm terrified of umbrellas...

not just getting spiked in the eye by some little old lady coming in the opposite direction but my own umbrella collapsing and hitting me in the face.

[Odin2005]

32. I LIKE liver and onions!

:yoiks:

[Haole Girl]

33. I use anti-bacterial lotion after using anybody ele's pen

Mainly, because I figured out it was how I was catching colds. But people call me "Monk" at work. I don't care. At least I don't catch a cold every 6 weeks anymore!!

[Tobin S.]

35. I drive a truck for a living.

:)

[velvet]

36. well ...

When I get home and open the front door I like to call out "Hi home, I'm honey!". Home doesn't answer, but it makes me feel good. Yes, I have an axe (for chopping firewood) but I prefer to use the key.

[mwooldri]

39. I have a name and a gender for my vehicle.

My 2007 Jeep Liberty is a she and she's called Jeepie. She's hard working, but requires some TLC once in a while and to me looks fabulous. Plus she has never let me down yet.

I do have an emotional attachment to this motor vehicle. Other vehicles I have owned have had a gender - they were always female to me - but never a name (even though Jeepie is hardly original).

[nickinSTL]

40. I eat oatmeal for breakfast...

but not with the usual toppings.

I eat mine mixed with either salsa or curry paste (I actually prefer the curry paste, but it's more expensive, so I settle for salsa most days).

[WinkyDink]

41. At 60, I must still make a "rhinoceros horn" from newly-fallen maple thingies. I whistle in stores.

[LeftyMom]

44. The internet is not big enough to contain all of my quirks.

[Pushed To The Left]

46. I'm addicted to broken rubber bands

I "twiddle" them in my hand when I'm thinking about or imagining something.

[lazarus]

47. I moderate

a crazy website full of lunatics.

And I'm heavily into genealogy. I just made it back to Charles Martel.

[Tobin S.]

48. I take exception to that, sir!

I may be crazy, but I'm no lunatic! I challenge you to a duel!

[flvegan]

49. LOL!

:rofl:

[Sen. Walter Sobchak]

50. I have a baby monitor...

next to my guinea pig cage.

[foxfeet]

51. For a second there,

I thought you meant a baby monitor LIZARD. I then thought, "Well, that'll end badly."

I'm all better now.

[ScreamingMeemie]

52. I say "Books, Keys, Lunch Money" whenever I leave the house.

I got it from MrG as a way to remember things when I go out the door.

I also say "okay stove, doors, coffee pot, dog" as I walk around the house before I leave...

[UTUSN]

53. O.K., I admit it!1 I ADMIT IT!!!!!!!1 n/t

[nolabear]

54. I have to eat M&Ms in the right order.

Even up the numbers, cold to warm colors. And I havfe a bit of synesthesia, so high pitched sounds are yellow and I don't like to eat off of "cool" colors.

[AlecBGreen]

56. i USED to...

pee in all the urinals at my elementary school equally so none would feel cheated. A little in this one, a little in that one... :blush: I now practice the more conventional "winner-take-all" method that most others seem to follow

[Skittles]

58. I swim across lakes - at midnight

because, you know, less chance of being run over by boats

[cemaphonic]

60. I'm learning how to do magic tricks

Card tricks mostly.

There are some hobbies that are nerdier, but not many.

[Lindsey]

61. I HATE the smell of Ivory soap-relly bad childhood memories n/t

[MorningGlow]

75. Hey, me too

:puke:

No bad memories associated with it--I just hate the smell. I have a really keen sense of smell (or, well, had--lost a bit), and the smell of Ivory and the smell of most toothpaste (especially Colgate--mom's, Sensodyne--dad's), always made me gag. In fact, I also hate Mr. MG's toothpaste smell--Jason's tea tree.

My son is the same way, and I completely understand him. He gets ready in the morning in the downstairs powder room to avoid the smell of all the soaps and toothpastes in the upstairs bathroom, and I wouldn't begrudge him this quirk for a minute. Because I remember.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

62. One of my favorite "wicked indulgence" comfort foods is

whole grain toast with lots of butter and a small amount of maple syrup (not enough to run off the sides).

[Quantess]

64. remove all the raisins from Raisin Bran

I save safety pins, too.

[dawg]

69. Why don't you just buy bran flakes?

They do sell them without the raisins, don't they?

[Quantess]

70. Plain bran flakes are a lot harder to find, and are not the same texture.

I pick out the raisins, save them in a sandwich bag, and give them to my mom. She likes those raisins better than the normal kind because they are coated to make them not clump together. So it works out. :)

[Lasher]

65. I have discussions with the automated checkout machine.

You know, where you scan your bar codes yourself? It's always a female voice talking to me. Well, I talk back. When she says, "Scan your next item" I sometimes say, "Stop rushing me." People position themselves so they will be between their children and me.

[ScreamingMeemie]

68. I do that with the GPS... I either say, "Stop Telling Me What to DO!"

or "All right already, I will!" when she tells me to prepare to exit.

[HipChick]

66. I talk to myself..

:yourock:

[RandomThoughts]

67. That is such a deep concept.

It could be the concept of people not listening, or ideas of quarantines.

Or it could be ideas of all people being the same person, a particular metaphor for existence, but with some flaws.

Or it could be the idea of a person thinking spiritual things come from the person themselves.

Or it could be the concept of yourself in the future trying to correct your actions.

Or it could be the concept of in the after life you relive your life always seeing what you do trying to fix it until your life is correct, there by making the wicked only see the actions of bad, or something like that.

Or it could be the concept of a person in a dream state creating their own environment, I know that one is not true.

I don't think I believe in any of those doctrines, but then again, I don't only talk to myself.


But interesting statement. :D


There is a concept I do like, everyone part of the same thing in a certain way, where it is talking to oneself, but it is a tough metaphor to construct.

[DFW]

71. I speak Catalan.

I guess in Andorra, the Balearics and northeastern Spain, that's normal, but in most parts of the world it isn't.

[Fire Walk With Me]

72. Attempt to recognize and promote the truth, even when it discomforts.

[snooper2]

73. I count the number of times I swallow

while drinkng water from a fountain :)

[azmouse]

74. I enjoy keeping my house clean.

I've heard this is a sign of a wasted life. Go figure. :shrug:

[MorningGlow]

76. I often use my grandparents' mashup of Italian and English

whether or not anyone else can understand me. (My mom, aunt, and brother are the only ones left who would.) My grandparents have been gone for more than 25 years, and I still use their strange words and weirdly accented English. (Oh--and all the Sicilian swear words my grandmother taught me. Three years of Italian classes, I remember nothing. Sixteen years of hearing my grandmother swear in Sicilian slang--THAT I remember. :evilgrin:)