Ridiculous things that you do for actually no reason

[KenAdams]

Whenever I pick up a parcel from the reception desk at work or from a neighbour I have to tell them what's in it. I have no idea why, they obviously don't care but I do it EVERY TIME.

Please tell me I'm not uniquely weird?!

If I am jogging I cannot run on the pavement when there are parked cars as I feel really boxed in. Unfortunately this is most roads as there's not much off street parking where I live. So I have to run in the middle of the road. This means I go running at 5am so there is no traffic.

I am also terrified of vomit. If I think about sick I have to touch my head six times or something bad will happen. Sometimes my head makes me think about sick on purpose so I can be doing it all the time. I hate it and wish I could stop.

@Hecateh

Now I have “pee Paquita” going round my head to the tune of “sing Hosanna, sing Hosanna, Hosanna to the King of Kings”

I do the counting thing, often unaware I am doing it.

My worse one is when I make a cup of coffee (or even tea) My first boyfriend would always say 'Let the kettle go off the boil before you make the coffee' 45 years later I still say it to myself every single time!

When I see cars I zoom in on the last three letters of the registration number and think of an abbreviation I know eg CXR = chest x ray, DHC = dihydrocodeine etc.

Oh my, thank god i dont have neighbours, i am sat here laughing like a drain. I am glad to know i am not the onlycrazy one who does things for no reason. I do so many things that drive me mad, i have to use the same coloured pegs to hang an item on the washing line, if its pillowcases they must all have the same colour. I have to turn my wedding ring around on my finger 7 times before i go out the door or get off the bus or train and i can only eat crisps from a bag with my left hand

I have so many like these. These are the three that annoy me most.

1. I have to take notice of every car reg I see and work out how old it is. It’s like a compulsion. One time I accidentally drove without my glasses and it felt so relaxing because I wasn’t looking at all the regs.
2. I have the same thoughts every time I drive past certain places, do certain things or watch certain things. I drive past St Catherine’s Way to work every day and every day I think work is near St Catherine’s Way and I work with a Kat. Every single day!
3. this one might be quite hard to explain but if I make a mistake I have to imagine (even if just for half a second) if that was right and what difference it would make to the world. For example if I typed tomofofe instead of tomorrow I would spend a few seconds thinking what if that’s how we spell it and how would we pronounce it. I do this pretty much constantly and it drives me bananas at times.

I count different colours, I used to do it with everything but now only when I watch TV.

@PearlsBeforeWine You pee for 20 seconds 😱

@supermeerkat

Is that wierd? 22 seconds is my standard massive wee. preens

15 is normal wee..

@bethanygilbert

I give the names.. Normally incorporating the last 3 letters.. We live rurally so I often pass the cars. Loads of PN15 which causes much mirth..

The counting thing could be OCD related!

Giraffecantdanse I do this too! Always plan what I’d say about my latest dilemma and then ‘re-write’ it several times until I’m happy with it... sometimes I imagine responses and plan my reply. Very rarely do I post it though.

have to use the same coloured pegs to hang an item on the washing line, if its pillowcases they must all have the same colour.

I do this. Must be the same style and colour peg for each item, none of this one red peg and one wooden one

I count steps, I check out my escape route from any room I’m in, I mentally trace round objects with my eyes to make sure that I can get all the way around its outline with nothing in the way, if not I'm uneasy.

I also play hopscotch on my kitchen floor tiles while the kettle is boiling.

I check out my escape route from any room I’m in

This could save your life one day, so don’t feel bad about it.

As you were...

Another one who has to have volume set to even numbers, though I make exceptions for multiples of 5.

If someone asks me to spell a word I have to mime writing it first.

I used to form words/ acronyms with license plates, but then I got a job where I looked at vehicle registrations all day and burned out on it.

@FrappeLatte good point! My grandad taught me to do that, he was a very shrewd man.

I count things too. My weirdest one is that I have to count and march when I’m brushing my teeth. Yes march. I have no idea why

Also when I dry myself after a shower I sing a song by Depeche Mode (Cleeeean, the cleanest I’ve beeen).

I need glasses for distance, but always put them on to answer the phone, or if someone wants to talk to me. It’s like I can’t concentrate on what someone’s saying without wearing my glasses.

so glad to hear people talk to themselves. I always have. Dh has given up asking who I am talking to.

Also when I dry myself after a shower I sing a song by Depeche Mode (Cleeeean, the cleanest I’ve beeen)

I love you @UnitedRoad

When I’m at work, especially in meetings, I will write something but write all the letters on the same spot so that it’s unreadable. It is mainly when something or someone is annoying me. Just yesterday I wrote ‘shut the fuck up John you don’t know what you’re talking about and you’ve got a stupid tie on!

Sometimes I write whole paragraphs and make a hole in the paper.

It’s quite cathartic!

Whenever i open a can of baked beans i HAVE to eat a spoonful before cooking them. No idea why i do it, it's like a kind of ritual thing, I've tried not doing it but I can't.

I also count! It started when i used to have to count spoonfuls of baby milk powder, i had four kids, all over 26+ now but i still bloody count all sorts of stuff and sometimes don't even realise until I've finished.

Mine is so weird, when I'm a passenger in a car looking at trees/other inanimate objects, I say "on" until the next inanimate object where I then say "off" so basically, in my head I am saying "on off on off on off" constantly .

@KenAdams I do the same. I’m almost apologetic when receiving parcels and give a blow by blow account of who ordered it and what the parcel contains. 🤦‍♀️ I’ve even been to know to apologise if it’s been raining and they’ve got wet coming to my home!

Whenever I bought something nice and cheap (clothes/make up) and somebody compliments me on it, I tell them proudly how cheaply I have gotten that particular item.

And I love softy touching the cat when she sleeps because she will meow like ‘grrrrr’ as a ‘hello/f*cl off human slave’ and I love that sound

I talk to the dog as PP does, but I also answer for him - we have quite long conversations. He has a little boy's voice - and has a little speech impediment where he says a 'w' for an 'l', and he giggles all the time.
So it will go
me 'Hello favourite boy'
Him 'Hewo Mummy'
Me ' would you like your dinner?'
Him 'Wes wes I would, I hope it's chicken, I wove chicken' '

An having written that down it looks so crazy I can't believe I'm admitting to it.

@JigsawsAreInPieces if you were my neighbour I’d drive you crazy. I love being rebellious with my pegs! I love to mix them up and never have 2 the same side by side. Try it, it’s advised to do something every day that scares you