You know, the more I post, the more I realize how weird I am. I'm a ground beef, egg hating germaphobe.
Have you ever done that? Just stepped back and realized, OK, I'm not that normal.
For instance, my mom comes over to watch the kids for a little bit when I leave for work (I leave at 4:30 a.m. and my husband doesn't get home until 8 a.m.). I don't make the bed before I leave because he's going to come home and sleep in it. My mom is a neat freak. She will make the bed. If for some reason my husband doesn't sleep that day and the bed is still made when I get home, I have to remake it. The bedspread is always wrong. She puts it on there with the top at the bottom according to me and it absolutely drives me insane.
I also can't stand to have the towels folded differently from how I like them. My mom folds them differently than I do. I always go back and refold the towels in the bathroom. I can't stand to have the ugly side (with the seam) showing. I like the pretty folded side out.
Am I just totally weird, or does anyone else have these kind of tendencies? You know, can't stand to have the toilet paper coming out towards the wall...stuff like that?
AM I QUIRKY OR OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE?????
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I think we all have a little obsessive compulsion. For me I have a thing about expiration dates on food and drink. If it expires today I won't eat or drink it. Also I have to shake the door Knobs to make sure they are locked at least a couple of times.
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Sometimes, when i'm lonely... i crawl into a laundry basket and tickle my ears. But, Some times I don't...
Yeah, as long as you keep it to 3 or 4 quirks I think you're ok.
I'm similar to SOMECHICK in the eating, although I don't take it to a micro-level of disecting a pizza
But for as long as I can remember I HAVE to eat ONE item on my plate before I move onto another item.
When I was a kid I never realized I did it, until one day at a restaurant that me and my Dad would go to on a regular basis for breakfast three of the waitresses were watching me over a booth and laughing They told me they noticed I ALWAYS did that.
I've never gotten over it. It can be really frustrating because for example if I have a burger, fries and potato salad I'll usually start with the fries, then move on to the potato salad, and by the time I get to my burger it's cold. But I can't eat the burger first, it just seems like it's supposed to be last.
So, the moral of the story is, I'm OK, You're OK Trish
I've never figured out why I do that to pizza, but I just do. So..you eat everything separate? Hmm..that's ok, I have a friend who does the same thing. It's a habit he's had forever too.
I'm trying to think of other things I do. Well, in the mornings I have a strict regime I follow when getting ready. Everything has an order of sequence to do it. I can only brush my teeth after I"ve dried my hair, not the other way around. And I get up every morning at the same time, not a minute earlier, not a minute later. Everything is timed out perfectly. If I'm a minute late at all, my whole day is pretty much shot.
I do the same thing with pecan pie, I eat the nuts and crust first before I eat the inside.
I used to (but got over it) open pop cans just enough to leak the pop out when you squeazed the sides in and out. It only took me an hour and a half to drink something. I broke this habit real quick when it came to beer!
If there is a stack of cups sitting in a convenience store or even at work, I will take one from the middle of the stack.
I rinse the coffee pot out 3 or 4 times before making coffee at work. You never know what the clean up crew the night before did in your coffee pot after you complained about there work!
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Sometimes, when i'm lonely... i crawl into a laundry basket and tickle my ears. But, Some times I don't...
man I did not think I was all obsessive compulsive (like all of you!) until I read on through these.
I am crazy about the expiration dates too. I won't knowingly eat something if the date is today. A few times I've bought food items, got them home and saw that they "expired" today. (This is why the bag of salad was 50% off etc...) and changed my whole meal plan to cook and eat the stuff with the date. I will dig to the back of milk and juice rows to get the newer stuff too.
I jiggle the lock- its a good common sense quirk I think- we get so lost in our routines that its good to double check things like locks. A few times I left my routine and found that I indeed forgot to lock the door.
Riggs- me and you have eaten PLENTY of meals together- I never noticed that that is the way you eat! My cousin Julie is the complete opposite. She eats in a clockwise circle. 1 bite of this, one bite of that, and then on to the next. Around and around she goes.
I also have a lady friend who INSISTS that the sheets go on the right way. I pretty much let her make the bed.
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Most of our Sunday evening meals are one course deals. Pizza, Manicotti, etc. But if you ever watched me eat the manicotti, it's the salad first, the bread next, and the manicotti last.
That's not so bad though, in fact, probably not that abnormal.
But it seems more bizarre when I go out to eat, and eventually I'm sitting there with an empty plate except for my untouched burger, or something like that.
But now that I've spilled the beans you're gonna start noticing! Dammit! I shoulda kept my mouth shut!
) until I read on through these.