List: Quirky Tendencies

[tarotgal]

Day 2 List: Quirky, mild OCD-ish Tendencies
The DC Nerdfighters had a discussion about this a while back, with everyone listing things they did. I guess I forgot how much I actually do that's a bit funny until I realized so many people have their own similar things. Get ready to have a good laugh!

1. Whenever I eat M&Ms or Skittles, I line them up in a bar chart by color, in rainbow order. I eat the largest column first, then the second largest, all the way down until each column has an equal number. And then I eat them equally, one at a time (or two at a time, depending on how many I have left at that point) backwards through the color spectrum. Oh, and I like the Ms or Ss facing upward. This applies also to Smarties or Neco wafters (when they were vegetarian), but only if I have the means.
2. When eating Fritos and I'm able to dump them out to look at them, I eat the curvy (unpredictable) ones first. Then I eat down from the most curvy to least. Then I eat all the small ones/broken ones before the long, straight ones
3. When I pull the handle for paper towel dispensers, I pull it an odd number of times and count the act of tearing off the paper as the final even number; I like even numbers. The two paper towel dispensers at work are always 7 pulls and then 8 is the tearoff number.
4. When I climb up or down stairs, I count the number of stairs either by counting every stair or counting in sets of eight.
5. I divide my food evenly on each side of my mouth, usually one bite on one side and another on the other side. I go as far as to split goldfish crackers down the middle in order to make sure there are even amounts.
6. A game I play with myself in the car is to clench my teeth whenever there is grass on the side of the street and unclench them/open my mouth when there's a break in grass for a driveway, street, or sewer opening. I used to play it when we went driving cross-country during childhood vacations and I catch myself doing it now still occasionally
7. I don't like foods mixing on my plate if I can help it. Separate plates/bowls for things is always awesome, especially with there are foods that will leak into others (I don't like bread that becomes soggy with spaghetti sauce that has traveled all the way across my plate, for example). I also tend to eat my least favorite part of the meal first and work my way through to end with my favorite.
8. Whenever I play solitaire, the Aces piles have to go Hearts, Diamonds, Clubs, Spades or Spades, Clubs, Diamonds, Hearts
9. I don't talk in the morning until I leave the house, if I can help it. Maybe I'll say something to a pet, because I know they don't talk back, but I don't like talking to actual people because I can't predict what they'll say. I like to stay in my own head, which moves FAST, but my body & mouth can't move fast. If I have to respond, I prefer to grunt or nod or write, but not speak actual words unless I absolutely have to
10. Not all times, but maybe 50% of the time, when walking on certain sidewalks (such as the one in front of one of the libraries I volunteer at) I will pace myself when walking so that I won't step on any of the cracks.

And, yeah, I could probably think of more, but 10 is such a nice number, don't you think?

Comments

[ell-wren.livejournal.com]

I thought it was obvious that to eat M&Ms any other way would be unspeakably vulgar.