To ask what weird things you do

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This has probably been asked before but I've not been around that long, so don't shoot me! I'm out on a dog walk and unintentionally I kicked a conker along the path with my left foot. I then spent the next few minutes looking for another conker to kick with my right foot so it "didn't feel left out"!?!? Please tell me I'm not the only weird one out here, what utterly random shit do you do? Please........

I say hello to the bottles of vodka in the supermarket because I feel bad for them getting left behind by the gin craze.

@janaih you've made my day with this, best thing I've read all day

I love a bit of maladaptive daydreaming, or investing in my parasocial relationships as I prefer to call it

When putting diesel in the car the pence has to be 13p. If I go to 14 then I put another pound in and on and on.

Maladaptive daydreaming; I have a special playlist of songs on my phone where each song is the background to a different complex story/ situation and I choose which one I want to enter.

Every room I'm in I imagine I have a thick black marker pen and I draw a line down all the corners where two walls meet. The three way joins where two walls meet the ceiling are the best.

I always have to count how many people are in a group in my head before I can 'settle in.'

Suspected ASD (not for these reasons! No idea if these are related).

I touch my collar if I see a hearse or ambulance with its lights on until I see a living 4 legged animal. If it's an ambulance without flashing lights, it can be a picture, statue etc of an animal.
My family think I'm bonkers but shout "There's one!" to help. No idea where it came from. Probably I'm just odd.

@BuzzShitbagBobbly ha! Me too.
Also I flick my earlobe really fast as I like the sound it makes.

I can only go to bed on the hour or half hour.
I add up the numbers on number plates and clocks too.

I talk to myself as if I’m making a YouTube video while I do my makeup😂

I (cringingly often) like to pretend I'm in a music video. When I'm in the shower, or getting dressed, or whatever. I dance around like an absolute idiot (usually in a weird semi sexy stripper way). I would be MORTIFIED if my DH ever caught me.

If I'm using wine in a stew or a sauce I always take a glug straight from the bottle afterwards as if I'm some kind of Jack Sparrow character.

Oh. Also, I seem to always be moving my toes. This does sound really weird as I type. I sort of flex my toes on my left foot, and then do the same on my right foot. Or flex 3 times on the left, then same on the right. Or flex them in time to a song in my head. It's like a compulsive habit.

When I am waiting for a bus and there's no sign of it, I make a bet in my head about when it will turn up. I have to cross my fingers when I'm doing it, and then set a target like 'the bus will come after the 8th red car to go past me'. If it comes then I'm delighted with myself for predicting the future, if it doesn't I'll make myself a new bet. Repeat until bus actually arrives.

I am fairly normal compared with you lot.

Every time I do my makeup I pretend I'm a beauty blogger. I talk my way through the application, showing the product, talking about why I love it...

I have a story running in my head when I'm drifting off to sleep, I never get further than a certain point of it! Right not it's me winning the lottery and buying a mansion with pool, cinema, spa...
I also have one running where I live in the Trafford Center and all the shops are my personal wardrobe, shoe, makeup, fragrance, toiletry and accessory collection

When cleaning I also do the monologue pretending I'm a YouTube. Talking my way through the house.

When home alone I pretend my life's a reality show and talk through my family as though they're the characters (a lá Real Housewives of Cheshire...)

I have to say goodnight to DD in a certain way. If I don't I'm scared that something will happen to either me or her, it's so odd. She knows our goodnight 'ritual' off by heart now.

I can only eat things like tic-tacs in even numbers. If there's an odd number I throw the last one away. Terrified I'll choke if I eat the last one.

I could go on and on. I'm a bit odd.

Oh I can't bear to see one bean left behind at the last moment either!

Just think, they go through every stage from the field to the tin, having the juice put on, maybe being MONTHS in the tin and getting to know their tin mates, wondering what happens at the end and then - daylight! The big moment! And then nothing, everyone is scooped out going whooooo and poor last bean is thrown straight in the bin, cold and alone, wondering what happened.

No way!

Oh I've thought of more.

Have to salute one magpie otherwise, you guessed it!, I think something terrible will happen.

I have another nighttime ritual which includes me starting from the kitchen and working backwards to ensure every door and window is locked (even if they've not been opened.) I do this twice, otherwise I can't get into bed.

Like I say, odd

getting to know their tin mates

Love this. The life story of a baked bean

I rescue worms from puddles. And I still cuddle a particular bear at bedtime. I also talk out loud to myself a lot when I am on my own. I am in my mid 40’s..

I do loads of these things too. I thought I was just weird but seems I am in good company. One of my strangest ones is that I have to tap the table before I switch off the table lamp at night. I do loads involving numbers and stepping on things too.

When I'm reading on my kindle I use my right thumb to go round the bottom right corner repeatedly.

I have to sleep with the duvet over my head or the monsters will get me. I'm in my 30s

Ears and wolves for me. I have to lie on my left side facing away from the window and have my right ear covered. In the hottest weather the entire rest of my body can be uncovered by I can't sleep unless my ear is. Or the wolf will get in. I'm in my mid 40s.

Pick the skin off my lips, it's a boredom/stress/nervous thing.
I'm a maladaptive daydreamer too! I've made myself cry on occasion by imagining really sad things.
When I listen to music (even in public) I can't keep my hands still, I have to move them around.
Counting, I count everything. I always buy things in twos (a habit I'm really trying to break with make-up/clothing.)
I like to buy groups of things, say a whole lipstick range or all the plaid shirts I see in a season.

Love this thread, especially the magpie saluter.

When the sun comes out from behind the clouds I raise my arms and face to the sky and say “Laaaaaaaaaa!”

@BlueShadow I also rescue worms, snails and other such critters and wish them a good day once they’re out of harm’s way. I tried to revive a worm on its way out recently. Wet its dried-out body. Put some soil and greenery about it, gave it some words of encouragement and waited. It showed signs of renewed life. It looked like it might just make it. Until my toddler deliberately stepped on it. I was way more upset than I should have been.

Just for context, I am a red meat enthusiast and work in a very cutthroat industry.

I always say thank you to my car after getting out. It's now 19 years old and has never let me down or needed any expensive repairs.

The beans story is just too cute!

I always talk to myself aloud while parking in a tight space and say well done to myself.