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to wonder if you do weird things when you think you're not observed?

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ChaosTrulyReigns · 07/03/2011 01:27

say thank you to cashpoint machines?

say excuse me if you rumble?

open your mouth when applying massacre?

steal sample some of the meal when you're plating up?

read the end of the book before the rest?

shout at the television?

talk to the animals?

pretend you're a firebreathing dragon on a frosty morning?

wear pants in your hair when you can't find a bobble?

shove a few dirty things in the dishwasher and rewash clean stuff, to save emptying it?

drink the milk from a bowl of cereal?

Obviously these are pretty rhetorical, please feel free to add your own queries.

Grin
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lololizzy · 09/03/2011 22:51

orange slugs !!!!!!!!!!retch retch. please remind me of them next week when i start a strict diet and have food cravings!!

thefirstMrsDeVere · 09/03/2011 22:49

I hate slugs. When I moved to my house it was the first time I had a garden. It was a very damp summer. I had never seen so many slugs. ORANGE ones! Big ones and little ones and they are so disgusting. I planted my first flower - a lily. They ate it ALL over night. It disappeared. Shock

I like snails though. I think they are cute. Except when I go to put the rubbish out at night without anything on my feet and tread on one. THAT is beyond disgusting.

lololizzy · 09/03/2011 22:39

The cake eater was a big whopping snail! The story behind it is i was trying to get over my slug phobia .Thought i would start with snails..picked up a big one (by the shell..am not that brave!)) and put it on garden bench. Then thought myself very brave to touch its 'feelers'..my ex came out and asked why i was prodding the poor thing in its EYES!!! Shock yes i had got to something like 35 yrs of age, not realising their eyes are out on stalks and are in fac not feelers/antennae...he gave it some of his coffee cake by way of compensation, and it went down a treat..they have really weird mouthparts that open and close like a strange flower..would'nt have seen it without macro

thefirstMrsDeVere · 09/03/2011 22:27

That sounds lovely! A baby snail eating cake awwww

When I was in my 20s i used to climb out on a precarious flat roof to sunbathe. I nearly bloody killed myself rescuing a millipede thingy because it was frying. I was also on the phone at the time, wearing a bikini.

The workmen down below thought it was their birthday and Christmas come at once Blush

meadowlarks · 09/03/2011 22:25

MixedClassBaby - I do the "bing bong" thing over the Uni Challenge theme tune too! I also pretend I'm the announcer and I say "University Challenge. Asking the questions...Jeremy Paxman!"

I enjoy saying "Yarp" and "Narp" in answer to questions ever since I saw Hot Fuzz. Ocassionally, I've forgotten that I'm not at home and I've said it to some strangers. As in - "So, meadowlarks, have you considered our tax-free ISA?" "Yarrrrp."

I can also only hoover to the tune of "Don't Stop Me Now" by Queen. I've worked out a full routine where I sweep in and out to the beat and swing the hoover round on the solo. Logically, I dust to "Another One Bites the Dust". The rhythm's a bit slower on that one but I like to take the time to do my best disco moves as I reach into the corners.

lololizzy · 09/03/2011 22:23

i save them too! even though it makes me cringe picking them up ! the tiny ones are sooo cute though. I once photographed a snail (on macro lens) eating some of my cake. It really enjoyed it and the detail came out really well with crumbs all over it's 'face'

thefirstMrsDeVere · 09/03/2011 22:21

I save snails. It can take me bloody ages to walk up the road when its been raining. I move them to a wall so they wont get srunched. Specially the really teeny ones. I cant bear the thought of them toiling away up the street for hours only to get stepped on

oldsilver · 09/03/2011 22:17

I also clean my plate at the end of the meal with my finger - it's a struggle not to do it when out and about.

I always sneeze when plucking my left eyebrow - never my right.

When sweeping the kitchen floor as soon as I get to the washing machine my face contorts weirdly...

I apologise to inanimate objects if I bump into them..

There are others, THOSE I am not sharing Grin

lololizzy · 09/03/2011 22:06

I don't mean the cat's with me when i'm out and about..that would be even weirder ?!

lololizzy · 09/03/2011 22:06

I used to sell fossils and would hold up huge ammonites, one to each ear, to the mirror to admire myself as Princess Leah

lololizzy · 09/03/2011 22:05

i often catch myself talking to the cat. Even when i'm out and about..sometimes i've even done it out loud Blush

thatwouldbeanecumenicalmatter · 09/03/2011 22:00

I'm an underdog Olympic Curling Athlete when mopping the kitchen floor - then regret my ace shot when the bucket hits a cupboard and half the mucky water sloshes out onto the floor...

jettah · 09/03/2011 21:33

Oh I forgot to add I can't walk across 3 drain covers as someone told me when I was younger that it brought bad luck. This worked pretty well until I became a mum, I have to randomly cross roads and cross back to avoid them, which is safer than popping onto the road to bypass them! My OH thinks I'm ridiculous. But at least I have my good luck!!

UmYeahLikeTotally · 09/03/2011 20:57

When I'm alone and hoovering, I put on the first Arctic Monkeys album and hoover really really fast in time to the music, headbanging as I go......its fun!

UmYeahLikeTotally · 09/03/2011 20:57

When I'm alone and hoovering, I put on the first Arctic Monkeys album and hoover really really fast in time to the music, headbanging as I go......its fun!

medicalmayhem · 09/03/2011 20:49

mixed so funny burping egg nog, Grin

Eaglebird · 09/03/2011 20:45

I reprimand bad drivers in other cars when I'm driving, in the style of a patronising driving instructor ('The speed limit's 70 you know' / 'You need to leave a bigger gap' / 'That wasn't a very good manoevre, was it?').

I trolley surf in the suparmarket car park. DS shouts 'faster Mammy' and eggs me on to do it in the aisles too.

When I hear a Bee Gees song, I have to sing along in a high pitched voice. The cat loves it.

I twang the tendon things on my chest (at the front of the chest, between your collarbones, just under the adams apple area) and pretend I'm playing a bass guitar

thefirstMrsDeVere · 09/03/2011 20:07

I do that too! I love trolley surfing.

MixedClassBaby · 09/03/2011 20:07

I burp the words "egg nog" really loudly, sometimes at the cat to wake her up if she's asleep Blush

I also sing a "bing bong" song over the University Challenge theme music. It goes something like "Bing bong bing bong tapdallalalala rumpity bingly bong, tuurump bing bong bing bong...etc"

canei22 · 09/03/2011 19:55

When doing the hoovering I put on headphones and play really loud my cd of the chicago musical and become Roxy Hart.....Singing and dancing... I am 52 and nothing like Roxy....

Also practice belly dancing in kitchen while cooking. Ahm more of a belly wobble in my case.

Always talk to my cats as if they are a toddlers.

SlightlyJaded · 09/03/2011 19:46

Aboard I do that :o

AboardtheAxiom · 09/03/2011 19:44

Ooh I also like to push the supermarket trolley really fast and lift my feet off the floor so I ride down the aisle. Or spin the trolley right round 360degrees. Get some funny looks for those ones!

AboardtheAxiom · 09/03/2011 19:43

Some of these are hilarious! Grin

I salute magpies

talk to random animals and my dog and cat

dance around with my dog holding his paws

Sing loudly whilst washing the pots

I hum theme tunes from children's programmes/ films (past and present) and make poor ds guess what they are

I love it when me and DS are out together as I get to be silly in public all in the name of motherhood (running like an airplane with my arms out, or being a race car are firm favourites).

I call household appliances "stupid" if they aren't working or are working too slowly

Doing a racing commentary when walking the dog "and it's doggy in the lead followed closely by aboardtheaxiom"

brusselspouts · 09/03/2011 19:34

Yes, I always thank the cash machine and I'm glad someone else puts pants in their hair.

LadyOfTheManor · 09/03/2011 19:24

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