Random Quirks

[elija]

As long as I have my keys. I don't care about anything else. My keys.

Ah yes. Keys. When I leave the house I MUST be looking at my keys. It's the only way I believe I haven't forgotten them. Now that's got to be quirky!

[Artesia]

I sleep on my back, with my arms up above my head. I've never come across anyone else who sleeps like this. My mother says that I've done that ever since I was very little. And I still do it.

When I drop off mail, I always drive to the Post Office to do it. Even if I use the drop box, it's only OK if it's located right outside the P.O.

One thing that became deeply ingrained in me from my Macintosh days in grade school was to keep the Recycle Bin in the bottom right corner of my screen. Whenever I install a new OS or create a user account on a computer, the first thing I always do is move the Bin to the proper corner.

I never trust the redial button. Even if I just dialed the number 30 seconds ago, I always re-enter it manually. (This is slightly OCD-ish, I know.)

When I drive long distances, I like to put my left foot up against the dash (with my leg up against the window). It would be really bad to be in an accident in this position.

[Freston]

When I drive long distances, I like to put my left foot up against the dash (with my leg up against the window). It would be really bad to be in an accident in this position.

When I drive abroad, I take my shoes off. I dunno, there is some incredible sense of freedom driving across the border to another country barefooted.

[ryokimball]

I have a few of the same attributes some of you spoke of, but as for myself...
I don't think I've ever used a computer more than three times that I haven't opened. Even if it's at school or my new intern position (I r Linux programmer now!!), I find some excuse to open it up and move something around.
Also, I like portability, to a slightly abnormal extent. My wireless keyboard isn't wireless just so I don't entangle myself --it's so I can walk across the room and still be typing. Wires on laptops annoy me. Even closets bug me because they're like cabinets you can't move around, and it's so freakin' annoying when the architect seems to have placed it in exactly the wrong place in the room.

Also, the little spell-checking dots in word-processors and whatnot... if they're there, I really want them gone. This is a good thing for the most part, but instances like my name --there's no spellchecker in the world that would recognize Ryo as correctly spelled (but names like Finnegan seem to work fine...).

[cousinlucky]

I once lived with a woman who never knew where her #*+*# keys were.

Trying to " train her " to put them in the same place every day was not ever going to work.

So I got one of them screws with a 3/4 circle on the end of it and screwed it into the wall a few feet from the front door.

Whenever I saw her keys laying around somewhere, I would pick them up and hang them on this " hook ". Eventually she started leaving her keys on this hook once in a while when she came home.

Another woman I lived with would go off about I did not conform to her way of squeezing the toothpaste tube. I solved that by buying and using my own tube of toothpaste.

I am an old man and I can tell you that some of these " little things " can easily sour a good relationship.

My advice, gentlemen, is to abandon the " I'm going to stand my ground " strategy and seek a solution that eliminates the problem completely.

My grandparents had seperate bedrooms after their children became adults. My grandfather was a " neat freak " and my grandmother felt that
" anywhere at all within the right room " was just fine.

Another woman that I lived with had a seperate room with wall to wall carpeting and a large mattress on the floor. No TV , telephone, radio, or other electonic equipment was allowed in there. The walls had tapestries and a couple of paintings. It was not our bedroom; but a sort of an Adytum.
We had some very serious conversations and serious sex in that room.

She had a " quirk " of getting up and calling my job, and hers, and telling them we would not be coming in for the day. If it was raining or snowing very hard it meant we were to stay home in bed. There was NO arguing with her when she did this. I just had to explain to my boss how it was and ask him to please understand
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TechieMoe and I have the exact same " quirk " about those backpack zippers.

Techiemoe, thanks for a great " parable " topic for my website!!

[smolloy]

Having both zips at the top of my backpack drives me crazy! They always have to be together at the same side of the bag as the others.

I used to be like you, Moe, and put them at the top, but I had a bad incident where I was cycling home with a lot of stuff in the bag, and the weight of the contents of the bag was enough to pull the zips apart -- opening the bag and spilling all my crap across two lanes of traffic Not good. If the zips are at the bottom, gravity can't pull them any further, so I feel safer

OCD: When I'm grabbing my cash to stick it in my pocket before I leave the house, I have to organise the notes in order of their value, and I have to make sure all the dead presidents are facing the same way and are the same way up

[Geeth]

If I think about my keys or wallet or phone, I have to then check my pockets to make sure they are all there. They also cannot be in a different pocket to usual or I get confused and this I have lost one

I always check in the some order to, wallet, keys, phone.

I have to have alot of free space on the desk. By no means does this mean the desk has to be clean. Just cram everything to the back.

[cousinlucky]

Imagine, if you will, two guys fighting over which way the toilet paper unfolds in the bathroom!!!

[geese]

I can sympathize with that one. For me, the easiest way to not lose something is to put it back in the same place every time. Therefore, when I need it, I always know where it is. My wife, on the other hand, has a tendency to drop things (like her keys) in random places depending on what she's doing and it's an eternal search for where she dropped them last.

It is a bit the other way around for me. When I get home I tend to place stuff (car keys etc.) where ever I can reach. But I always remember where I placed it. The wife when making her rounds would pick the items up and place it "where it is supposed to be". Unfortunately, I do not know where that is.

Good thing she is always around or I will never find anything.

Geese