What quirky things do you do to savor life?

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The discussion centers around personal quirks and habits, particularly those related to reading and eating. One participant shares a tendency to prolong finishing a good book, while others reveal their unique eating rituals, such as consuming food in a specific order or dissecting meals. Many participants mention counting various objects in their surroundings, like tiles or chairs, often as a subconscious habit. Quirks also extend to personal routines, such as using a lamp as an alarm clock or folding clothes in a particular way. The conversation highlights how these idiosyncrasies can be amusing and relatable, with participants sharing their experiences and encouraging each other to embrace their quirks. The thread emphasizes the diversity of human behavior and the lightheartedness of discussing personal eccentricities.
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We all have quirks. One of mine is when I read a book that turns out to be really good, I don't want it to end, so I read less and less every day as I near the end, sometimes I put the book away for months, not wanting to finish it. :blushing:

I'm in that quandry right now, I've been reading an excellent book, and I'm stretching it out to the point that it is ridiculous.

I know people that will only eat food on their plate in a certain order, or eat a sandwich a certain way, or disect their food.

So, what quirky things do you do?
 
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I bark and growl at the mailman.
 
I count everything. I am also checking if number of syllables in a phrase I hear or read is divided by 4.
 
Whenever I eat french fries that need ketchup, I put a thin line of ketchup on each fry. I never really paid attention to the difference of doing this until I did it around friends and they started laughing.
 
zoobyshoe said:
I bark and growl at the mailman.

Do you chase after him?

For me it's Anime...

Then I realize if you hold out and not watch it for a while, you forget things and it becomes bad.

So finish the damn book before you forget everything and you start to think it's bad.
 
Borek said:
I count everything.

Oh yes I do a bit of this also...mostly in public places if I am waiting lol I count all of the tiles going along each side of the room and multiply them to get the area...I do the same with ceiling tiles, I also count the amt of chairs, the #of people, the #of doors, air conditioning vents...and the insanity continues...lol

Edit:
I just remembered that I do this at home also...each horizontal blind, etc.
 
I had to reread the 2 year old locked version of this thread as soon as I saw the title...
 
Whenever I'm in the train, I take the prime factorization of the wagon number. They turn out to be mostly prime...
 
Just about everything I do is quirky.

I discovered long ago that no matter how loud I made my alarm clocks, I would sleep through them. Then one day I discovered that a lamp on a timer will wake me almost instantly. I've been using a lamp alarm clock for almost 20 years now.

I sleep on a camping inflatable air mattress at home, because I'm too lazy to buy a real one. It comes in handy when I want to go camping, as I just deflate it, and roll up the sheets, blankets, and pillow, in the mattress, and throw it in the truck.

I always wear black on Monday. I even have black underwear. I hate Mondays.

I still fold my t-shirts the way they taught us in the Navy. Thin-thick-thick-thin.

I won't discuss my driving quirks, as I'm sure that would just start a fight. o:)
 
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Evo said:
I'm in that quandry right now, I've been reading an excellent book, and I'm stretching it out to the point that it is ridiculous.
Have you ever considered reading the book twice, instead of trying to draw it out? :-p
 
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I don't wear shorts. Ever.
 
  • #12
Evo said:
We all have quirks. One of mine is when I read a book that turns out to be really good, I don't want it to end, so I read less and less every day as I near the end, sometimes I put the book away for months, not wanting to finish it. :blushing:

I'm in that quandry right now, I've been reading an excellent book, and I'm stretching it out to the point that it is ridiculous.

I know people that will only eat food on their plate in a certain order, or eat a sandwich a certain way, or disect their food.

So, what quirky things do you do?
I'm never quirky, but I do read multiple books concurrently. Well, I used to eat an even number of sandwiches, crackers or cookies, but I gave that up.

I pretty much eat anything and everything. Usually, at a meal, I finish before anyone else. I was taught to clean my plate. My mom was a bit perturb that I licked my plate clean. :biggrin:
 
  • #13
Evo said:
So, what quirky things do you do?
Right now, I'm trying to resist the urge to go for a stroll around my block in the leading rains of Irene. I probably would if it wasn't actually fairly warm out. I did do that for Katrina. :smile:

(No need to worry about my safety -- the high winds are still a ways off)
 
  • #14
I don't read books, but when I do read something - magazines, news articles, etc., I always read them backwards. Usually by paragraphs, but I can also read sentences backwards word-by-word and still make sense of things, and read at a normal speed that way.
 
  • #15
I scribble equations, thoughts, anything on every piece of paper lying around...
 
  • #16
Pengwuino said:
I don't wear shorts. Ever.
Eww... too much information Pengy... and I doubt you are telling the truth, hehe...

I read and reread books that I really like, the Doidge book, "Brain that Changes Itself" comes to mind. I have read it cover to cover four times, after a short pause, and I even redlined it, a first for me, the wretched thing is falling apart. I also read James Gleck's "Genius, the Life and Times of Richard Feynman" at least 5 times over a number of years. I am on my third copy. I lost my first two, having lent them to others who never returned them.

Rhody...
 
  • #17
Whenever someone does a calculation out loud, I automatically do the calculation myself.
I have been wondering if that is typical for mathematicians and/or physicists...

I've learned though not to tell people my result, even if theirs is wrong (as long as it's not important anyway).
Somehow people that know me automatically ask for my confirmation anyway.
 
  • #18
Maybe Peng meant shorts and not underwear?
 
  • #19
Evo said:
Maybe Peng meant shorts and not underwear?

Maybe but it still takes you there:rolleyes: TMI peng peng :biggrin:
 
  • #20
Maybe he wears diapers then
 
  • #21
rhody said:
Eww... too much information Pengy... and I doubt you are telling the truth, hehe...

I read and reread books that I really like, the Doidge book, "Brain that Changes Itself" comes to mind. I have read it cover to cover four times, after a short pause, and I even redlined it, a first for me, the wretched thing is falling apart. I also read James Gleck's "Genius, the Life and Times of Richard Feynman" at least 5 times over a number of years. I am on my third copy. I lost my first two, having lent them to others who never returned them.

Rhody...

I post things that things at the forum trigger in my brain:

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Men should pause for one moment and take another long hard look at the very thing that brings meaning to their meaningless lives. --- some dame​


http://www.berkeleybreathed.com/"
 
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  • #22
I listen to "Boppin' to Grandfather's Clock" every night before I go to sleep.
 
  • #23
BAH! Stop judging me forum.
 
  • #24
Pengwuino said:
I don't wear shorts. Ever.
I don't wear underwear, ever. Don't soil your pants! Underwear is a remnant of French aristocracy, which relied on layer and layer of clothing and perfumes and colognes (where does that word come from?) to allow people to pretend to be clean.
 
  • #25
turbo said:
Underwear is a remnant of French aristocracy, which relied on layer and layer of clothing and perfumes and colognes (where does that word come from?) to allow people to pretend to be clean.
I thought it was to keep sweat off of the outerwear.
 
  • #26
Jimmy Snyder said:
I thought it was to keep sweat off of the outerwear.
I have laundry appliances and clothing-rotation to take care of that.
 
  • #27
I also yell at my tortoise when I'm mad.
 
  • #28
>_> back to the quirks please -_- this thread is killing me right now. lol

You see what you started peng. Only flyingpig is supposed to do these things.

kcajrenreb said:
I also yell at my tortoise when I'm mad.

ahh a quirk ok good I did not see this before I posted.
 
  • #29
HeLiXe said:
>_> back to the quirks please -_- this thread is killing me right now. lol

You see what you started peng. Only flyingpig is supposed to do these things.
ahh a quirk ok good I did not see this before I posted.
I have a dog. He is like lightning compared to a tortoise, but he is pretty single-minded. Run, run, run, get treats, run some more, go for a ride on the 4-wheeler... Treats? Got a tennis ball to throw?
 
  • #30
turbo said:
I have a dog. He is like lightning compared to a tortoise, but he is pretty single-minded. Run, run, run, get treats, run some more, go for a ride on the 4-wheeler... Treats? Got a tennis ball to throw?

Ahhhh thanks Turbo :biggrin: being a visual learner is great for calculus...but not for sweaty underwear lol

What kind of treats does he eat?

Another quirk I have is folding towels -_- It does not drive me crazy to see them thrown about but I just go to them and fold them automatically...even if I am just visiting a friend lol
 
  • #31
HeLiXe said:
>_> back to the quirks please -_- this thread is killing me right now. lol

You see what you started peng. Only flyingpig is supposed to do these things.

rawr. BAN HELIXE!
 
  • #32
Evo said:
We all have quirks. One of mine is when I read a book that turns out to be really good, I don't want it to end, so I read less and less every day as I near the end, sometimes I put the book away for months, not wanting to finish it. :blushing:

I'm in that quandry right now, I've been reading an excellent book, and I'm stretching it out to the point that it is ridiculous.

I know people that will only eat food on their plate in a certain order, or eat a sandwich a certain way, or disect their food.

So, what quirky things do you do?
Have you read Shogun by James Clavell? It's around 1100 pages.

An old friend of mine used to have his eggs sunny side up, and he would eat the white part leaving only the yolks, which he would then eat. Yuk.

I myself am not quirky and have no quirkinesses to report.
 
  • #33
Pengwuino said:
rawr. BAN HELIXE!

:frown: *sniffle*
 
  • #34
HeLiXe said:
:frown: *sniffle*

awww JK JK FRAYEND! It's your initiation to the cool peoples club on PF. Meetings are weekly in the chat room.
 
  • #35
Pengwuino said:
Meetings are weekly in the chat room.

:cry: BAN ME BAN ME!
 
  • #36
HeLiXe said:
:cry: BAN ME BAN ME!

:smile: :smile: :smile: :cry:
 
  • #37
:-p
 
  • #38
KingNothing said:
I don't read books, but when I do read something - magazines, news articles, etc., I always read them backwards. Usually by paragraphs, but I can also read sentences backwards word-by-word and still make sense of things, and read at a normal speed that way.
That's beyond quirky. It's metaquirky. Or maybe just superquirky.
 
  • #39
Astronuc said:
I used to eat an even number of sandwiches, crackers or cookies

If you will have ever chance of watching Day of the wacko - do.

Offer addressed only to people in at least their forties.
 
  • #40
i remember when i was like before 10, everything i do had to be even, have to walk up the stair in even number of steps, have to have even amount of pencils, even amoutn of bites when eating.

that gradually went away, but another quirky thing i do that I have always been doing is that when ever there is some sort of line drawn on the floow I always have to jump over it
 
  • #41
- I smell most anything I come into contact with
- I can't eat an apple without getting the chills from chewing the skin
 
  • #42
I often read my posts over and over again. At the same time I hate to read the same story or book over again.

As a consequence of my job and locking myself out of places a few times too many I unconsciously check my pockets for keys when I walk out a door even if I checked consciously before I walked out the door.
 
  • #43
Dembadon said:
- I smell most anything I come into contact with

My cat does that too.
 
  • #44
Ivan Seeking said:
My cat does that too.

What are you getting at, Ivan... :biggrin:
 
  • #45
Dembadon said:
What are you getting at, Ivan... :biggrin:

How do you greet your friends? :confused: I know how my cats greet their friends and I don't like what I'm thinkin.
 
  • #46
What about things that you remember for no good reason.

1-8-4-3-6-5-7-2

Anyone care to guess? I'm thinking Turbo might know this.
 
  • #47
Firing order. My old man was hooked on 8 cylinder Chevies. He never should have let me drive that Impala SS!
 
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  • #49
When I take Duke for a walk, I pick raspberries and blackberries and feed them to him along the way.
 
  • #50
The first time I kissed a girl my own age, we were under a pig.
 

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