Does anyone have a weird habit that they do?

mazdamiatamx5

Well, I'm still posting on boards.ie in 2025, isn't that weird enough, lol.

Must admit, I'm old fashioned in the sense I prefer old skool traditional discussion forums on the net, never entirely bought into the whole reddit/Twitter/Facebook thing.

jacool

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123546535#Comment_123546535

Nope, you are not following the "paper trail". its a one-handed operation. The forearm of the "tearing" hand locks the roll in position, and you can take a "sheet" if you have already, well, you know, taken a sh**.

selenie

I have this habit where I always have to double-check that I locked the door, even if I literally just did it and watched myself do it. Sometimes I go back twice just to be sure. Not the weirdest, but definitely feels a bit odd when I catch myself doing it again.

ILikeBoats

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123548419#Comment_123548419

I do this a lot. I once read if you say "badger badger badger" when you lock it the first time, it will enforce in your mind that the door is locked. I do it when I remember and it does work. I have no idea where badger badger badger came from.

brokenbad

Every time i park my car i always mutter to myself "Handbrake Check" - before i get out of the car. I have often walked back and double checked to make sure handbrake is on. The reason i do this is because 20 years ago, i was distracted getting out of my car, left the gear stick in neutral and forgot to apply the handbrake while i went into the local credit union - 5 seconds later someone came running in to say "is that your car rolling down the road? - sure as hell, i ran outside to see my car rolling down in the direction of another parked car - only to be stopped when it the wheel hit the kerb first. A close shave which made me paranoid about my handbrake ever since…..

Speedsie

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123548538#Comment_123548538

Does it relate to this perhaps?

https://youtu.be/EIyixC9NsLI

ILikeBoats

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123549519#Comment_123549519

Haha I always think of that when I do it too. Classic

jacool

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123548419#Comment_123548419

On the Tommy, Hector & Laurita podcast, they said that Hector had/has this obsession. He'll go back and check the house doors at least 5 times before he can drive away. He'll get back out of the car to check.

I only do it at night, once mind, before I go to bed, and that's just because I do not trust my beloved family members to do it.

Badly Drunk Boy

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123548538#Comment_123548538

On one episode of Would I Lie To You, somebody (probably David Mitchell) had the story that he always squawked like a parrot as he locked the door when leaving the house so that he'd remember that he had locked the door.

I forget if it was true or not. (And some or all of those details might be incorrect).

Heckler

The above mentioned actions about double checking or more etc. Performing a certain action that will stay in your mind that you have done some thing else. Thats OCD. Source me. I have it. Its very debillitating.