To ask what you're 'weird' habits are.. Just for fun

[Alwayssearching]

Don't kit weird is the right word.

One of mine is.. I can't eat a yoghurt or cold dessert with a metal tea spoon. It has to be a plastic picnic one. Not the disposable ones the thicker type.

I add up the digits I see on the serial numbers buses, trains, American house numbers etc until they're a single digit.

Eg train number 15426 = 9 (each single number adds up to 18, 1+8 = 9).

Every time I see one.

I talk to myself and have imaginary conversations with others - out loud on a daily basis.

My washing line is most people's nightmare. I have to organise it correctly (everything is paired/like with like/hung in the same direction/ no underwear on outer lines/equidistant), can't have non matching pegs. My dh is banned from hanging washing with his slap dash perfectly normal attempts that make my teeth grind

I will add though that I've had ocd and measures like this although weird or annoying to others help keep the really bad rituals at bay.

The feeling on my fingers when they get too wet and go wrinkly, hate it. Have to dry my hands off in the bath

Dips can only be enjoyed if individual portion is on my plate; can't risk double dip shudders a towel for hair, a towel for hands, a towel for body, a towel for feet; not to be mixed. Chocolate or sweets cannot be consumed before noon unless in a pastry

I write words people have said or things I’m thinking on my thumbs, with my index finger. No idea why, if you said “my husband is really annoying me today” I’d pick a random word and spell husband on my thumb.

*Sometimes a phrase I've just heard, on TV or something someone has just said, gets stuck in my head and I silently repeat it to myself whilst "tapping out" the syllables on the fingers of my right hand

I do this too! Well, I draw the letters of the word/phrase onto my right thumb, using my right index finger. So it's sort of the same. I can't stop till I've finished it.*

WHAT I READ THE THREAD AND OTHERS DO IT TOO!!! Why??????

I sing on the toilet...

I’m weird about mugs. We have certain mugs I’ll only use for coffee, and certain mugs I’ll only use for tea and certain mugs I wouldn’t drink out of even if they were the last mugs left on the planet. DH, who is a good soul, has studied these foibles carefully and always provides the right mug.

My students know my classroom blinds must be all the same height and the tables must be properly aligned. I don’t even have to say anything these days, they just do it.

I am clearly surrounded by very nice, accommodating people.

Oh, and when bored in meetings or sitting waiting for someone, I ‘play’ piano scales on the table.

@ClangerTwanger
Would a plastic poly pocket work?

tickets, I'm like that but with my hands, I can't sleep unless they're wet, I put handcream on about three times, and sometimes I've even licked my fingers to try and get to sleep.

Also weird about mugs and there are certain ones I can’t use because they’re “wrong”, but often I can’t explain why their “wrong” I just can’t use them. I can’t drink from mugs with a dark inside either.

To all the people with weird petrol/fuel foibles, what do you do if the tank is full before the amount comes to the “right” number?

Light switches have to be the right way up, ie, press the bottom edge to turn the light on. Where there are two switches for the same light, Like the landing for instance, if I am downstairs and the landing light is on I have to go upstairs to turn it off. I can't use the downstairs switch because then they will be the wrong way up.

In the car I curl my toes as we pass lampposts, alternately, sometimes do that for the white lines in the road.

I can't have my food touching on the plate, but have to have a bit of everything on my fork

I also have a weird ocd about colour coordinating, even pyjamas. My pyjamas must match the colour of my underwear, socks/slippers. Even hair baubles have to match my outfit

Never ice cream or cream with Apple pie. Only milk.

PlaydoughBarbershop I’m the same but with even numbers. To the point that if my hand or other body part touches a surface I have to mimick the action so it’s an even number. I chew with an even number and take steps the same way. I used to have names that I would repeat things for when I was younger and each side of my mouth held one of the names, I would chew the food evenly between both sides of my mouth. I grew out of the two different names and just counted to make sure it was even. I’m happy to say I’ve stopped counting everything I eat as I do so, to make sure I’ve eaten an even amount.

what do you do if the tank is full before the amount comes to the “right” number?

I sulk get very irritated and try to find something in the shop to make it up to the pound.

Ahhhh I have found my people! (Especially you, clothes peg people. I feel we have a bond.)

Socks with days of the week written on them. I’d rather go sock-less than wear a wrong day.

People who wear odd socks. There’s a place in hell for you.

MY DISHWASHER. It’s not a free for all, there is a system and you will respect it. Don’t put your dessert spoon in the teaspoon place.

Cutlery drawer.

No messing with my cushion and fluffy animal arrangements on my bed. I bite.

Touch my jewellery arrangements and suffer the consequences.

So glad I’m not the only one ;)

Did a quiz recently and got 100%OCD and my washing line must have matching pegs, and the washing must hang symetrically around the support pole to the washing line

Ahh I can't drink from takeaway cups from coffee shops etc without the lid on. Have to drink them through the correct lid and hole. Or decant into a mug at home.
Also can't drink from a pop bottle or beer bottle etc if the label has been removed. Even if I've watched the person remove it once it's gone I can't touch it.

I count syllables on my fingers when someone's talking or I'm watching telly and it's ultra satisfying if they fit into a ten pattern on my fingers

I can't have the car stereo on at volume no.13 - which is really annoying as sometimes 12 is too quiet and 14 is too loud.

I have to do kisses in odd numbers.

I have 'tea' mugs and 'coffee' mugs - no logic as to which are which though.

I eat cereal with a tea spoon and can only get to sleep laying on my stomach.

Can only get out of bed on an even number eg 6.50 not 6.51.

I can’t wear socks and no knickers!!! It feels weird. I had to apologise to the nurse at a recent smear test and take my socks off too and then felt even weirder for apologising and bothering to explain- she probably wouldn’t have noticed if I’d just stayed quiet!