What are you totally, insanely insistent about... that most people might think you were nuts for?

Nope, you’re just an idiot. JUST KIDDING JUST KIDDING =)

I insist on real mashed potatoes instead of the fake stuff..
I insist that we DO NOT order pizza when we have a party…

I guess that stuff is just annoying about me. LOL

Stopping at stop signs.
Just do it.

Well, I insist on certain kinds/brands of toiletry items. But my most manic thing is my car. I want it clean at all times. And you DO NOT slam my car doors! I will turn on you immediately. In fact, if you’re a new rider in my car, I will tell you flat out. And if you’ve ridden with me before, I’ll remind you. I get the old eye rolling from people at times, but…tough! Nothing goes up in the visor, either. Cars are too expensive to not take care of them, & the one I have is a sweet ride.

It drives me nuts when fans for the oposing team yell and try to distract during high school basketball free throws. Even worse when their team is way ahead.
It seems so unsportsmanlike.

SPECIFIC
I refuse to eat off of paper plates indoors.

Close and tighten the caps on shampoo/soap/toothpaste/pills and put them back where you found them and turn them so the labels face forward.

GENERAL
Put things back where you found them and how you found them.

I have to have smartwarter bottled water. It is the only water I wil drink. It is $1.39 – $1.69 a bottle so I go out of my way to find it on sale. When I find it for $1.00 a bottle I stock up on it. I will buy like 20 or 30 bottles at a time.

well, as a former arachnophobe, I have an insistence about trying to educate people about the things that they assume about spiders are not true. There are so many false myths about spiders that too many people take as gospel. I am no longer scared of spiders, and I find them fascinating, and I want to help other people lose their fear of these creatures, because of all the things to be frightened of, spiders shouldn’t be in anyone’s top ten. You should fear other humans a hundred times more than the lowly spider. But I know it’s an uphill battle, because I swear people find comfort in their fears, which just seems really odd to me.

Please wipe your feet before you enter my car.
I mean, you do it before you enter my house, right?

Think. I mean seriously. People need to think more. Like before they do things. People do so much without thinking.

Even me sometimes, but I try to avoid that.

Every time I leave to go somewhere I run through my mental checklist. I make sure I have my wallet, my cell phone, my keys, my iPod, and my camera. Always always always. My friend used to make fun of me for doing this until she lost her keys one day. I just looked at her with a told-you-so face and said “Shoulda done a check list.” She still doesn’t do a checklist, but I think every time I verbally go through mine (yes, I say each item out loud) she runs through hers in her head.

@laureth: Well, yeah… but that’s not really an idiosyncracy, is it? That’s just common sense. LOL

@steelmarket: What would one wipe their feet on if you’re outside?

Personal: Diet Pepsi, the addiction is so strong that I get ‘sick’ when I run out.

General: When my students don’t pay attention to what is going on in the world.

@galileogirl I can empathize with your general thing. A few years ago in my eighth grade english class a girl asked about “when the Chinese blew up the Empire State building in 2001.”

@Allie “spectacles, testicles, wallet, watch” – from Monty Python

@Elumas Gaaah. That is so discouraging.

Slow traffic keep right. SLOW TRAFFIC KEEP RIGHT!! In my town, people just toodle along in the left lane (usually about 10MPH under the speed limit, mind you) without a care in the world. In fact, they usually sort of stagger with the cars in the right lane so that there’s really no way to get around any of them. So, I know it’s mean, but I get as close to their bumper as possible until they get the HELL over. So. Annoying.

I brush my teeth about 6 or 7 times a day. When out to dinner at a friends or at a restaurant, I will go brush after the meal.

I mentally count every repetitive action I perform. It can be the steps I take from the driveway to the front step (7), the number of strokes I make with my deoderant (left arm 7) (right arm 8), or the amount of times I swallow, each time I take a drink (avg. 4). It isn’t OCD. I don’t atatch any special meaning to it when I’m doing it nor does it interfere with my daily activities. It’s just something my brain has been doing in the background for years.

@Blondesjon I used to be a big counter, too! I found it distracting though, so I worked on quitting.

Now, my obsession is my kitchen cabinets/drawers. Everything in them must be neat and orderly. God forbid you mix different types of glasses together. Don’t just toss the forks into their compartment, they must be stacked dammit. My spices are all in identical glass jars (labeled with my label maker, of course), arranged alphabetically, and must face in the same direction… like little soldiers. Mind you, the rest of my kitchen could be in a shambles, sink full of dirty dishes, etc… but if one spice jar is facing sideways I will notice and correct it!

The end of the toilet paper roll must ALWAYS roll over the top and never underneath where you have to go searching for it.

@Bluefreedom I wish I could give you double lurve for that.

@Bluefreedom Right. Nothing makes my butt pucker faster than to try to scrape it off the wall with my fingernails. Plus it just looks tacky, IMO.

You people are all so picky. Come on! Live little. Relax. It’s just life.
jeez, I really can’t stand it when people are so pedantic.

Food on my plate, CAN NOT TOUCH. Steak will not touch the fries, and def not the ketchup or corn. If it touches, I will let someone else eat it.

And if I use my fork to eat, I have to like lick everything off it before it touches a different food.

i will only drink snapple out of the glass bottle it comes in. it just tastes WEIRD in a cup.

(i must have still been thinking about the original post, because at first i typed “i will only eat chapstick out of…” before i caught myself).

@chelseababyy‘s answer reminded me of another of my own. I don’t eat the edges of meat. Not of steak, or ham, or a porkchop.. that outer edge gets cut around and I eat the middle part.

Speaking of food insanity… I can’t share or let anyone even touch any dairy product. If you take a bite out of my ice cream cone or touch my cheese, it’s yours.

@augustlan I’ve heard of people with the dairy product thing going on. What’s up with that?

@essieness I have no idea, really. It just seems… slimy. I do know some other people that have the same issue, and they don’t know why, either.

@augustlan I’m the same with dairy products.
I don’t have any idea why. If they drink my water or diet pepsi, I’m fine with drinking after them. But don’t touch my ice cream or hot fudge milkshake.

@augustlan and @chyna Maybe it’s the ooey gooey-ness of the dairy products? How it sticks to your lips? I guess I can see how that might be sort of gross!

@chelseababyy I so have the urge to push all your food to the center of the plate so that it looks like a train wreck. Yeah, I know, I’m evil. :-)

@evelyns_pet_zebra Nooooo! Pleaaaaaaaaaase. Eek. I would start like, twitching. Ugh

I so want to invite all of you food phreaks (I mean that in a nice way) to a dinner party now.

I HATE cross contamination. Do not stick that knife from the peanut butter into the jelly. Do not get toast crumbs in my butter. Do not put the mashed potato serving spoon into the veggies.
All labels must face me when I get in the shower, open a cabinet, refridgerator, etc.
Blue dishes with blue dishes, white dishes with white dishes. Silverware in the correct slot, stacked neatly (appearantly I’m a bit like @Augustlan) white towels one one shelf, purple and grey on another. Don’t even try to mix the beach towels with the bathroom towels.
There’s like a million more things. I just like organization.

@elijahsuicide what about that peanut butter and jelly that comes in the same jar? Does that still count?

Haha there’s something evil about that. I won’t buy it.

@elijahsuicide dude. peanut butter and jelly in the same jar honestly makes me wanna gag. I know that q wasnt for me. But I wanted to give my input anyway ^_^

@elijahsuicide I think you and I are much alike. I’m the same way with labels. Oh, and you should see my closet.

@chelseababyy I have a feeling our closets are quite similar. Color coded, etc? Shoes also? Yep.

Color and style coded, you know.. long sleeves together, t-shirts, dressy shirts, tanks. Yes, shoes also. Woo!

@chelseababyy lurve lurve lurve!

@elijahsuicide Ditto, all the way.

@chelseababyy Ok but I think here’s where we differ- I mix corn with my mashed potatoes.

Peanut butter and jelly in the same jar? Have you lost your mind?

@augustlan I agree. That would be food touching. Hate that.

@augustlan interestingly enough, yes I have, if you find it, there is a reward.

It’s probably palling around with mine, in the frizzer.

Thanks guys, now I have this in my head. AHHHH.

I love you guys.

ooh I’ll add another one, similar to chelsea: If I have three things on my plate… a main, a side, and a veg, I will eat all the veggies first, then all the side, then all the main. Never will I stop, take a bite of the other, and then go back.

If you get toast crumbs in the butter, I will go from the other side. Jelly in the peanut butter? I’ll have a cheese sandwich. And quite possibly the biggest foodie hangup I have: If I bite into a piece of gristle, the meal is over. I don’t care if it was my first bite, and I don’t care if there’s still a big mound of yummy mashed potatoes in front of me (which really, there wouldn’t be, since I eat the side first), I won’t touch another bite. And the leftovers? You can pretty much bag them up and take ‘em home, or throw them out, since I won’t be eating them. They’re infested.

@poofandmook That’s exactly how I feel about egg shells and crab shells. Ooh, and if I bite into a rubbery feeling scallop or something, I’m done.

@poofandmook I don’t think I’ve ever EVER eaten anything that I’ve taken home from a restaurant. And I usually don’t eat homemade left overs either, with the exception of pizza.

@Chelsea: No, I love leftovers. But if we had, say, meatloaf… and I bit into it and there was gristle, the meatloaf is good as garbage.

@Aug: Yeah, eggshells count in the “gristle” department. Basically anything that’s not supposed to be there.

I got three words for you fellow organization freaks…
Brother P Touch

I lurve mine.

if im reading a book and my eyes go faster than my mind but I already know what it says I will go back and read it again. I know thats retarded but dont tease me
Also when I type and in the word im on the first letter is wrong i erase the entire word and retype it weird huh

@poofandmook Something about leftovers just… urks me.

The cloth napkins have to be folded in four squares. Then they have to be folded into
one triangle. The open four corners, which are then stacked, have to be on top when the napkin goes on the table. The napkin has to go on the left side of the plate. The fork/s go on top of the napkin. The spoon/s go to the right of the knife on the right side of the plate. If any of this is wrong, everyone has to wait while I correct it. Or no food.

“Or no food” – Awesome @susanc

I would help set your table if it meant food.

@cprevite – tonight the napkins were correct, and so we had
boeuf bourguignonne with spaetzle, a green salad with lemon and tomatoes, and an apple-raspberry crisp. Just to let you know.

Mmmm.

<<—licking lips

Smooshing my toothpaste into my toothbrush.
I hate when the entire glop falls off on one side of your mouth.

sleeping until I am no longer tired… I’ve done it since grade school

I miss this question.