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?!

@TikkaMoSalah please please post a picture of the scotty dog sandwich. I need a visual!!

@managedmis I get you with the over familiarity. So awkward!! I rarely give eye contact to shop assistants and hate it when they start the chit chat. I just want to leg it out of there with my shopping. I'm quite sociable usually! Actually thinking about it, perhaps I'm not!

Love all this weirdness. I have found my people.

I also see words in colours. Like I can visualise a word and it has a particular pictorial shape and hue. This was why I was always good at spelling at school. Each word had a "right" shape and constitution.

@Honeybee85 I think that stems from not believing you deserve nice things. Like you have to convince yourself (and others) that its a bargain to justify that you bought it, and you feel guilt for spending money on yourself. I do it.

@KurriKurri love your dog conversations!!! I bet he is a cutie too.

For some reason every time I hear a sentence on tv that is a sentence from a song I start bellowing out the song.
Watching a programme the other day with a contestant called Eileen and the host said ‘come on Eileen’....and off I go bellowing out the song. Later that evening a programme about Prince Charles being the Duchy of Cornwall and he is passing it onto William and then I’m bellowing ‘pass the dutchie to the left hand side’

My partner is very good and doesn’t bat an eyelid which is great because my singing skills are dire

Whenever I am talking about months or times of the year I always have the image of an elliptical shape in my head.
December is on the right and June is on the left and it sort of slopes down from Christmas to Easter and up from September to Christmas.

If I'm making notes in a meeting, I sometimes use my left hand and write them in mirror-writing.

I did this once during an exercise at a team-bonding type event and unexpectedly we were asked to hand our notes to the facilitator so she could make a presentation to share with everyone. Goodness knows what she thought! Fortunately, no one's notes had their names on!

I count the syllables in song lines on my fingers, in the hope they will end on a 5 or multiple of
Back for Good is a corker

What-ev-er I said

What-ev-er I did

I did-nt mean it

3 lines on the trot!!

@BendyLikeBeckham

Yes, that indeed might be it. I bought myself a very fancy handbag I had wanted for ages but couldn’t afford this spring and even though I knew rationally that I deserved it, I felt so guilty for spending that money on something so expensive. It stayed in my wardrobe closet for months because I told myself it was ‘too fancy for me’.

Even if I have just that moment put my house keys in my pocket I still have to check they're there before closing the door. I have had a few lock outs over the years and it is the most dispiriting, and expensive thing, but still, I know I am being tiresomely neurotic.

@KurriKurri I'm crying. Why the speech impediment 😭

When I'm putting on mascara I always open my mouth??!!

Dolly I do the same, except I say "I want my husband" even when it's him that has upset me

@kenAdams - - I don't know, it just sort of came about somehow - I think because when he was a puppy I'd do this baby voice for him and it just kind of stuck.

If I mention the dog, my DS always says 'don't do the voice, just don't do the voice people will think you are mad'

He is a seriously cute dog though.

PMSL at the dog with the speech impediment! My very pretty and small female cat has a gruff cockney accent despite living in Lancashire. Sometimes when she gives me a gentle nip, I hear her voice in my head going 'Fuck off you slaaaag!'

To the previous posters I count everything too ! It can get very tiring at times but it's do nice to know I'm not alone

@Plastictattoo I'm cracking up at your cat personification! All cats are evil gangsta bastards, so the Ray Winston act seems apt!

I have subtitles on too - even on live tv! It drives my OH crazy. I'm also riding a horse when driving the car or walking with a trolley etc!

I have to take pictures of my plugs and video the fact that my doors are locked every time I leave the house . I also have to check my alarms are on 50 million times before I go to sleep.

I think I’ve got a serious issue

I can’t push a swing without saying “wheee” 😳, no idea why!

Shouldn't have read this thread, now my brain has found a bunch of new things it thinks it has to do!

Whenever I give DS his straw cup I suck my mouth like I'm drinking through a straw. I hate it but can't stop doing it.

When I was little I always had to wash my face 7 times when I brushed my teeth, no more, no less. In the car I always had to lock my door because I had intrusive thoughts that I would open the door when we were going down the motorway or something and fling myself out.

For some reason every time I hear a sentence on tv that is a sentence from a song I start bellowing out the song

I do the same. DD tells me off for it.

I say I want to go home whenever im really stressed, panicked or sad. I even remember saying it to my mum in my first ever home... she looked at me weird

For all the counters, i was diagnosed with counting ocd arithmomania. It's all consuming 👀 if I'm not counting something specific, there's just Constant steam of numbers in my head

Yes to imaginary conversations in the car and sometimes I pretend I’m being interviewed in a magazine and give answers in the car!

Don't think have seen it mentioned.. I have to scratch my hands in an order. Between the fingers up the fingers, over the fingers. If I miss one bit (eg someone interrupts me) I have to start again until the process is done.

Oh hazarď I agree. I hate new places and want to go home. I'm 45!