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

[weirdthings]

I take a blanket to the cinema 🤷‍♀️😂

That is so poignant @TwoRobins 💐

I file tiktok videos into folders then when I have quiet car time I'll pick a file and watch them through.

I like being single.

I don't have a television and I can't bear the radio because there is too much chat and not enough music!

I count stairs when I'm going up them. It's odd, but useful in a power-cut, because I can always get up and down the stairs without falling!

I hang my wet laundry in the greenhouse. It does a magnificent job of drying clothes and, if I forget to bring them in when it's raining, they stay bone dry in there!

I chat to, and serenade, my pets and the animals at work, with bonus points for any songs that can be related to the animals in question. I just hope that nobody ever hears me, as I couldn't carry a tune in a bucket!

My pets are all given human names (e.g. Steven, as there had never been a pet Steven before, and we don't recycle names).

I have an unusual job for a female. A whole new social group stopped and stared until someone burst out, "Well... that is QUITE a vocation!" which made me laugh.

I do this! I'm often picturing one particular area of a school I went to for a year when I was 11. And many other places.
I once tried to explain this to someone and they looked at me like I was bonkers!

I have a favourite number and the older I get the more I like it. My house number happens to be a multiple of that number which makes me really happy. I'm pretty sure that when I move one day it will only be to a house with a multiple of this number as the address 🤣

When you say "give it", do you mean you imagine eating it? Because I do that. If I can't decide in a cafe or restaurant what to eat, I'll imagine eating each dish and then decide which tastes better to me!

I pull hairs out of my head and tickle my nose! 🤣🤣 when I was a very small kid I used to lie on the settee for a nap with a tassled blanket...and the cycle began. I'm now 52!

I do that breathing thing too!!!!!!!!

Read the number plate of cars on tv shows. Sometimes pausing the tv so i can finish seeing what the number plate is 😂

I do this too! I can't remember learning how to do it, I feel like I've always done it & im not even aware I'm doing it until there's a little triangle in front of me!

I put myself into the recovery position every night to sleep in case I get ill in the night!

I like my food dry. I'm another one who doesn't really do sauces although I'll tolerate mayonnaise and ketchup in small doses. I can't stand gravy. Ugh!

We call it juicy bits after my DD misheard me when she was little. ❤️

Rinse my clean glass out before filling it with water. No idea why but can't stop myself!

I do this too.

Also, when I throw an item away I thank it for its service.

If I ever have to throw away food I apologise to it as I don’t want it feeling bad that it never reached its potential (being eaten and digested)

Pull faces at myself in the mirror in the work toilets. Hope there's not a secret camera in there!

Yes, I make faces too.

Also, look into mirror and blow self a kiss if I think I look sad or need some love!

I check my bed (under the pillows and sheets) every single night for spiders, even if DH is already in the bed asleep. Have done since I was about 7. I’ve only found 1 spider in that time, but I still can’t get into bed if unchecked.

Someone upthread said they see names as colours. I see numbers, days of the week, months of the year, years and decades as timelines in my head. The year 2000 is the most prominent year and sort of separates the two centuries. The timelines have all looked the same for as long as I can remember. When I’m thinking of a particular day or number, that one is in focus but I can still see those before and after it as a sort of blurred peripheral vision. The timelines are sort of beige with each day or number inside a square in black writing and I can ‘move’ up and down the timeline. I’ve always been good at remembering dates and doing mental arithmetic and maybe this is why, because I can see it all in my head!

Not sure if this is weird or not but I often go back to the same place in a dream but it can be months apart. And these places only exist in my dream.

I also remember dreams I had months or even years ago. My dreams are often really vivid and sometimes they stay with me throughout the day like a sort of echo. Best way I can describe it!

When I'm on the Tube (or any kind of public transport), I read the first letters of all the words on any signs and say (in my head, I'm not mad!) them as a word, even if it doesn't work. For example "mind the gap" to me while in tube mode would be mtg. I find it satisfying if they end up pronounceable.

I wonder if anyone else does this.

I add extra water to washing machine. Like 5 or more kettles...

Genius idea!

I do this! Every time!

Mine is in a similar state. It's too fragile for every night but it lives in my bedside drawer and it I am having a really bad day I get it out.

For the cinema - I have a battery powered heated gilet I wear now. (And for things like watching the children play sport). It's amazing - like wearing a heated blanket