Which personal quirk do you have?

I have a marked tendency to procrastinate when it comes to social commitments like parties and such which is puzzling. I always have a great time, but am conflicted beforehand about the the effort involved. I suppose I must be grateful to the missus who’s always ready for a good time and both fastidiously punctual and on to my trifling defects.

Things I read, watch… tend to be so obscure that sometimes I even end up being the only one to know about it.

I like to have the two slices of bread in a sandwich consecutive and the crusts aligned as they came out of the loaf. I also like whatever is spread on it on both sides and evenly distributed to all the edges.

I count syllables when I hear people talking because I have OCD. I complete a full rotation so that every finger has been started/stopped on and then I do the same thing on my other hand. After that, I do both hands at once.

It sounds a lot weirder than it is and I’m just glad that my OCD is mild compared to a lot of other people’s (though I can’t at all tolerate gore because of it) and that it doesn’t interfere with my life in huge ways. People have occasionally asked me what I’m doing if they see my fingers twitching, but I’m usually really good at doing it discreetly now.

Something that I think is a cool story is that, before I’d even spoken to the person who would become my best friend, I saw his fingers twitching at work and I excitedly blurted out “You’re counting syllables, aren’t you!?” from behind him when he was walking in front of me. After he recovered from being startled, we instantly hit it off.

I also don’t know anyone who can count syllables faster than me, or who can identify how many syllables are in sentences simply based on how they sound. Okay, maybe it is pretty weird. :P

Only my perfection in all things.

I am into having clean hands. I can’t stand when my hands smell like food or they’re sticky.

I have an anxiety when it comes to throwing things away in public garbage bins. I feel anxious that I am throwing the wrong thing in or that my rings might fall off and end up in the garbage, even if I’m not wearing them.

I also have a gift for pushing people away and not getting close to anyone anymore because of how betrayed I’ve been in the past. Latest case in point, broke the nicest guy’s heart last night but it needed doing. Better he not be infected with the hell that is my life.

I squeeze the tube from the end and always replace the cap.

On land, I toss my clothes into an open seabag in the corner. I don’t have a nervous breakdown if I sometimes miss, as long as it’s all in one corner. At sea, the clothes are rolled first, placed in the seabag, then the bag is cinched closed.

I usually wash the dishes and let them dry in the rack, but sometimes just rinse them and wash them later. The sink is always kept clean.

I have no use for an alarm clock. I always awaken about a half-hour before the sky pinkens, and I take my time getting up. I usually stare at the ceiling for awhile and think.

People find me pretty social and fun to hang out with. We’ll have a great night together, but then you wont hear from me for 2 weeks because I’ll go back to being a hermit.

I have a compulsion to rinse a glass or mug before I use it, even if it is clean as I once ended up with soap residue in a glass of water and it scarred me for life.haha
I am also a clean as you go type when cooking. My housemate is the polar opposite and she drives me nuts with her sloppy cooking adventures. It is like turning loose a 5 year old in the kitchen.

The mess she makes is unsurpassed for even the simplest dish. Several cutting boards strewn all over, soiled utensils lying on the counter tops, crumbs and herbs and bits of shit everywhere including the floor, things tossed in the sink covered in stuff, I am constantly cleaning up behind her because I can’t stand it! lol
While I am not OCD about anything I do like my environment tidy and also make my bed 1st thing in the morning.

I too never use an alarm clock, wake up naturally when it is light out and I do not use the TP holder in my bathroom, I keep my roll of TP sitting either on the side of the tub or on the back of the toilet, I hate messing with the annoying TP holder. I also brush my teeth in the shower to save time.

I don’t use alarm clock either. I use the day light (or lessening of darkness) to wake me up.

I used to be bad about replacing the roll of toilet paper, but when I re-did some things in my bathroom about 3 years ago, I made sure to put the toilet paper holder right in front of the toilet, so I have no excuse and it’s very easy.

I can’t rely on the sunrise or sunlight to wake me, or the sun set to tell me when to sleep. It isn’t that I have a bad attitude. I have a bad latitude. .... que Fozzy Bear’s catch phrase… Wakka Wakka!

M, when I’m working I use an alarm clock to be safe, but I can usually set my internal clock to wake me up at whatever time I want.

Some of the “quirks” you describe in the details just sounds like pure laziness to me, like tossing clothes whereever, dirty dishes spilling out of the sink….and expecting someone else to clean up after them? My husband does shite like that. He ate the last of the ice cream, threw the container away, but put the lid, which is mostly card board, in the sink.
He drank the last of the milk and set the empty container on the counter, instead of throwing it away. It’s been sitting there for almost 2 weeks.

@jca Yes, in this house the TP holder is to the right and back of the toilet and being left handed I have to swivel around to reach it, hence the off the roller methodology I employ. In all my other houses the TP holder was to the left or parallel on the right. This house has a lot of strange walls and alcoves that are useless space wasters. haha

…My TP is in a cool ceramic thing on the floor next to the toilet.

@stanleybmanly I have a marked tendency to procrastinate when it comes to social commitments like parties and such which is puzzling. I always have a great time, but am conflicted beforehand about the the effort involved
If it is a get together where a nice Polo shirt, some cargo shorts and some comfortable shoes would do, you still wait until the 11th hour to get ready?

@rojo I like to have the two slices of bread in a sandwich consecutive and the crusts aligned as they came out of the loaf.
For some reason I find I do that as well. I will eat a sandwich if the bread doesn’t match but I like it better when the halves match to make the sandwich even, and if there is cheese, it has to be on the outside of the meat that fills the middle.

@jca I am into having clean hands. I can’t stand when my hands smell like food or they’re sticky.
I did not start out like that in my younger life, but as I have gotten older I find I always need to have hand sanitizer handy and often some form of moist towelettes.

@Dutchess_III Some of the “quirks” you describe in the details just sounds like pure laziness to me, like tossing clothes whereever, dirty dishes spilling out of the sink….and expecting someone else to clean up after them?
When it comes to me tossing clothes wherever I would have to agree it is when I am in a hurry or too lazy to place them in a hamper., I try to be better at that so I know for sure which is clean and which isn’t come laundry day, some clean clothes do not get put away as they should..

Putting away clean clothes is a hassle. For sure. They tend to just pile up on my dresser, until I get a 2 second burst of energy, and put away however much I can in 2 seconds. I do that 5 or 6 times a week, and, by the end of the week….there is a new pile of clean clothes on my dresser. sigh

Sometimes I watch nature/ space documentaries and add my own narration, MST3K-style. My favorite documentarians are David Attenborough and Neil Degrasse Tyson.

@Dutchess_III: When the milk carton sat (or sits) on the counter for two weeks, during that time did you discuss with your hubby why he left it there or why he cannot put it where it belongs (garbage)? Or is it like who is going to give in and throw it out, so you both are stubborn and each waiting to see who gives in first? I think if it were me, I’d have to bring it up (“Is there a reason you can’t throw the container in the garbage?”

@jca Yes, calm discussion always fixes things, right? Wrong. Remember the passive agressive thing? Yeah. That. No. Mentioning it steps right into that bullshit.

I refuse to play the mommy role.