What is something ‘weird’ that you do that other people don’t?

[weirdthings]

I take a blanket to the cinema 🤷‍♀️😂

If i drive past a greyhound or whippet or similar I say skinny dog!

That’s better than me and DH’s shorthand for small dogs.
small dog = “roasting tin”
tiny dog = “sandwich”
tiny loud dog = “ratdog”

We only realised this was super weird when DD’s friend looked horrified. My attempt at mitigation didn’t help. “I’m not a monster, obviously I’d peel it first!”

• I do not eat/peel dogs or endorse the practice, just in case anyone didn’t get the sarcasm

Eat the same thing for dinner for months at a time.
I just get kinda stuck on one thing!

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Perk of cooking!

Spontaneously adapt my behaviour around the hidden cameras (ocd)
Act out daydreams

This is probably outing because it is truly bizarre but whenever we have boiled eggs and soldiers in our family we have to smash open the bottoms of the shells when we're finished so that the witches can't use them as boats. None of us know where this habit comes from but it's been drummed into us for generations.

Think that cycle touring is a holiday... 🫣

Doesn’t everyone do that?!

The question was what do you do not what do you think everyone does ! Read the question !

Tell the oven to shut the fuck up/fuck off when the timer is up.

I say a prayer before going to sleep and sleep with my hands crossed over my heart. The idea was put in my head by a religious leaflet in a doctors waiting room as a child. I’m a staunch atheist!

I frequently yell “shut up!” at adverts, wishing that this worked with YouTube and others.

Related to this (and sorry to derail a fun thread), I don’t like being ruled by gadgets, and I will not get Alexa or similar devices, because I believe that if we succumb to too many of these things, one day such devices might become compulsory in the home as the only way to access the internet, broadcasting government propaganda that cannot be silenced, like George Orwell’s telescreens; and that the “emergency alerts” are a step towards this. They’re optional now, but they might not be in years to come. I will not get a Fitbit for similar reasons. And yes, I know our phones and computers are spying on us all the time anyway.

@Empress13 Why don't you talk to the dog?

I never leave one biscuit in the pack, in case it gets lonely.

I give cars a name that includes some or all of the letters in the car reg. There are cars in my street called Mavis (MV), Elsie (LC), and Penny (PNY), amongst others.

Not bizarre or outing at all @CleanQueen123

I think it's just generational. Everybody did it when I was a child "to save a sailor's life", linked to old superstitions about witches being able to magically sail out to sea in sieves and eggshells.

I'm a secondary school teacher and feel sad about old customs dying out so actively teach all my classes these things. The breaking the egg shell I teach as part of my Macbeth syllabus because the witches sail out to sea and wreak havoc.

I love these threads because people confess their whimsical behaviours and it turns out lots of us do the same thing. I trace things, count, touch type in my pockets, separate odd socks and don't dry them on the line until I have their pair mate back, periodically rearrange the plates so they all get used and don't feel left out, take a blanket to the cinema and so on.

I build forts as well. From blankets. Only when I'm alone. I then sit in them, read for a while, eat a snack and dismantle it.

Wave goodbye to the toilet contents when I flush it.

Thanks @ShowOfHands. I've never known anyone else familiar with it or where it might have come from.

This is really really minky,put a boogie in my belly button if I don't have a tissue at night and wash out the next morning.

I cross my fingers when walking or driving over a 3 section drain cover. Probably a bit dangerous when driving but I can’t not- just in case.

OMG Are you me? And are you Scottish?
I do this too and I've never met another soul who does it until now!!!
My kids look at me like I'm insane.
I think it's cos we are a superstitious, devil/evil fearing bunch.

My current car is called Yvanka for this reason.

My favouritist car ever was a curmudgeonly old metro called Dame Vera. Boy that old girl was cranky.

We're South coast so probably about as far away from Scotland as you can get and no Scottish heritage as far as I'm aware. Obviously Southerners are a superstitious bunch too!