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to wonder if you do weird things when you think you're not observed?

207 replies

ChaosTrulyReigns · 07/03/2011 01:27

say thank you to cashpoint machines?

say excuse me if you rumble?

open your mouth when applying massacre?

steal sample some of the meal when you're plating up?

read the end of the book before the rest?

shout at the television?

talk to the animals?

pretend you're a firebreathing dragon on a frosty morning?

wear pants in your hair when you can't find a bobble?

shove a few dirty things in the dishwasher and rewash clean stuff, to save emptying it?

drink the milk from a bowl of cereal?

Obviously these are pretty rhetorical, please feel free to add your own queries.

Grin
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omnishambles · 09/03/2011 18:33

I do weird stretching exercises when I'm alone in lifts.

Tokyotwist · 09/03/2011 18:39

One to add to my list of crazy things...

I spend hours filling my online shopping basket with lovely clothes for dd and me, totally convinced I'm going to buy them, and then just before checkout I press the cross quickly so I loose it all.

Have to be careful with this game on Amazon as the darn thing remembers the next time you visit them.

b1uebells · 09/03/2011 18:42

I refer to myself as mummy all the time, even if the dc are not with me and I am talking to myself or the cat. Only totally normal things of course that one would say to a cat whether saying "mummy" or not like "mummy needs to put the washing on". This is probably helped my the fact the cat thinks he is human! Haha

Crystyclear · 09/03/2011 18:43

tobylerone we may well be the same person... yes to all of yours.

was very disappointed to learn that there is already a French version of "Beyond the Sea" as I've had my own version for years.

i also...

apologise to body parts before picking/plucking or shaving them. I'm particularly prone to begging blackheads to "get out" whilst cleansing.

i dance with my baby and sing him made up songs.

i salute magpies and have long conversations with the garden birds.

i used to have a dictaphone taped to the dashboard in my car to record shopping lists/things i didn't want to forget.

thefirstMrsDeVere · 09/03/2011 19:03

Haha at the amount of closet ballerinas on MNs Grin

Anyone else dance round the supermarket with the trolley then realise you didnt actually bring the baby with you this time Blush

TheMadHouse1234 · 09/03/2011 19:11

I push the trolley round the supermarket, and stop to look at something and start rocking the trolley, forgetting that it's not the pushchair and I've haven't got a baby in there

LadyOfTheManor · 09/03/2011 19:23

Tokyo- I do that! Decide to buy ALL of Next, get to the checkout and think "nahhh".

LadyOfTheManor · 09/03/2011 19:24

online of course.

brusselspouts · 09/03/2011 19:34

Yes, I always thank the cash machine and I'm glad someone else puts pants in their hair.

AboardtheAxiom · 09/03/2011 19:43

Some of these are hilarious! Grin

I salute magpies

talk to random animals and my dog and cat

dance around with my dog holding his paws

Sing loudly whilst washing the pots

I hum theme tunes from children's programmes/ films (past and present) and make poor ds guess what they are

I love it when me and DS are out together as I get to be silly in public all in the name of motherhood (running like an airplane with my arms out, or being a race car are firm favourites).

I call household appliances "stupid" if they aren't working or are working too slowly

Doing a racing commentary when walking the dog "and it's doggy in the lead followed closely by aboardtheaxiom"

AboardtheAxiom · 09/03/2011 19:44

Ooh I also like to push the supermarket trolley really fast and lift my feet off the floor so I ride down the aisle. Or spin the trolley right round 360degrees. Get some funny looks for those ones!

SlightlyJaded · 09/03/2011 19:46

Aboard I do that :o

canei22 · 09/03/2011 19:55

When doing the hoovering I put on headphones and play really loud my cd of the chicago musical and become Roxy Hart.....Singing and dancing... I am 52 and nothing like Roxy....

Also practice belly dancing in kitchen while cooking. Ahm more of a belly wobble in my case.

Always talk to my cats as if they are a toddlers.

MixedClassBaby · 09/03/2011 20:07

I burp the words "egg nog" really loudly, sometimes at the cat to wake her up if she's asleep Blush

I also sing a "bing bong" song over the University Challenge theme music. It goes something like "Bing bong bing bong tapdallalalala rumpity bingly bong, tuurump bing bong bing bong...etc"

thefirstMrsDeVere · 09/03/2011 20:07

I do that too! I love trolley surfing.

Eaglebird · 09/03/2011 20:45

I reprimand bad drivers in other cars when I'm driving, in the style of a patronising driving instructor ('The speed limit's 70 you know' / 'You need to leave a bigger gap' / 'That wasn't a very good manoevre, was it?').

I trolley surf in the suparmarket car park. DS shouts 'faster Mammy' and eggs me on to do it in the aisles too.

When I hear a Bee Gees song, I have to sing along in a high pitched voice. The cat loves it.

I twang the tendon things on my chest (at the front of the chest, between your collarbones, just under the adams apple area) and pretend I'm playing a bass guitar

medicalmayhem · 09/03/2011 20:49

mixed so funny burping egg nog, Grin

UmYeahLikeTotally · 09/03/2011 20:57

When I'm alone and hoovering, I put on the first Arctic Monkeys album and hoover really really fast in time to the music, headbanging as I go......its fun!

UmYeahLikeTotally · 09/03/2011 20:57

When I'm alone and hoovering, I put on the first Arctic Monkeys album and hoover really really fast in time to the music, headbanging as I go......its fun!

jettah · 09/03/2011 21:33

Oh I forgot to add I can't walk across 3 drain covers as someone told me when I was younger that it brought bad luck. This worked pretty well until I became a mum, I have to randomly cross roads and cross back to avoid them, which is safer than popping onto the road to bypass them! My OH thinks I'm ridiculous. But at least I have my good luck!!

thatwouldbeanecumenicalmatter · 09/03/2011 22:00

I'm an underdog Olympic Curling Athlete when mopping the kitchen floor - then regret my ace shot when the bucket hits a cupboard and half the mucky water sloshes out onto the floor...

lololizzy · 09/03/2011 22:05

i often catch myself talking to the cat. Even when i'm out and about..sometimes i've even done it out loud Blush

lololizzy · 09/03/2011 22:06

I used to sell fossils and would hold up huge ammonites, one to each ear, to the mirror to admire myself as Princess Leah

lololizzy · 09/03/2011 22:06

I don't mean the cat's with me when i'm out and about..that would be even weirder ?!

oldsilver · 09/03/2011 22:17

I also clean my plate at the end of the meal with my finger - it's a struggle not to do it when out and about.

I always sneeze when plucking my left eyebrow - never my right.

When sweeping the kitchen floor as soon as I get to the washing machine my face contorts weirdly...

I apologise to inanimate objects if I bump into them..

There are others, THOSE I am not sharing Grin

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