Weird stuff you do?

ibh · 16-04-2008 01:24PM

My OH has an obsession with the number 3.

I can't stand on the cracks on the footpath. I also have to fold all clothes when putting them away, but they have to be folded properly, not that sh1tty rushed folding.....

kittensoft1984 · 16-04-2008 01:26PM

the number 3?? in what way?

16-04-2008 01:41PM

kittensoft1984 wrote: »

1. When in the toilet at work and someone else is in there too I always wait till the other person comes out and leaves the toilet before i come out of the cubicle.....

xzanti wrote: »

So do I and I always scald spoons, cups etc before I use them in the office..

+ 1 to both of those.

Lil' Smiler wrote: »

Apparently, me eating raw potato is weird...

It is.

emo!! wrote: »

have to sleep on the left hand side of the bed, or i wont sleep at all, also have to face right when going to sleep or i cant sleep either.. strange

Practically everybody 'learns' to fall asleep on one side or t'other and it becomes very hard to break this habit (unless under the influence). Especially if you're conscious of it.

r3nu4l wrote: »

Also, when eating dinner I always leave a bit of my favourite thing on the plate until last so that my memory of the dinner is good - delayed gratification for the win

I do that with everything. Especially sweets, jellies etc. Always Always Always leave the best til last.

[QUOTE=Gun_Slinger;55678246I eat raw black pudding

[/QUOTE]

Me too, and white as well.

I eat my toenails straight off the toe.
I have to have a window seat on a bus. If i know that all of them are taken, I'll either stand downstairs or wait 'til the next one.

16-04-2008 01:49PM

When I wear my watch I wear it on my right hand (I'm right handed).

ryoishin · 16-04-2008 01:51PM

i say things in my head over and over, id say im boardlining the ocd thing.

Use to be a hygene freak but not so much anymore. Also smell my finger if i rub in between my toes.

Cullilingus · 16-04-2008 01:55PM

Gun_Slinger wrote: »

I eat raw black pudding

Raw pig blood.. Yummy! :pac:

If I see a longish number, like off a car registration number plate, ill try to add/multiple/combine each individual digit in my head, to try and make a multiple of 10..

Sherifu · 16-04-2008 01:57PM

I take off my watch when I eat. Something my grandad used to do i'm told.

FunkyChicken · 16-04-2008 01:58PM

Raw black & white pudding are so tasty. Far nicer than when cooked.

I count steps all the time too even though I know how many most of the ones I normally use have (14, 29, 15). It's really annoying cos I dont want to do it but it just happens. I have to say something out loud to stop or distract myself so I cover a few steps and lose count.

edit: Ditto on the car reg adding up to 10 thing. Always do that when smoking in the work car park.

Another one is saying words I see on sign posts or billboards etc. backwards in my head. I know hundreds of words backways now

Overheal · 16-04-2008 01:59PM

I chew on my shirt collar or my hoodie threads when im nervous/anxious

If I've been playing the same video game too long I'll begin to imagine it manifesting in real life as I walk down the street.

I will ocassionaly wear sunglasses at night.

Cunny-Funt · 16-04-2008 02:01PM

kittensoft1984 wrote: »

When in the toilet at work and someone else is in there too I always wait till the other person comes out and leaves the toilet before i come out of the cubicle.....

Yep same here. I think its only fair. Taking a dump is a private thing, and since the two of your have just heard each other taking a dump, its best not to know who each other was ....

Or at least thats some ****ed up attempt at a logical explanation

lol

Xavi6 wrote: »

I'm all about 'The Land Before Time' - "Don't step on the crack or you'll fall and break your back". No footpath cracks for me.

Woah! flash back to my child hood there! Loved that as a kid (the movie)

Overheal wrote: »

I chew on my shirt collar or my hoodie threads when im nervous/anxious

yeah me too but more when I'm watching TV or playing a video game. I have big chew marks in the necks of many a t-shirt.[/QUOTE]

Overheal wrote: »

I will ocassionaly wear sunglasses at night.

Thats just you being American

hehe

Ay Cee · 16-04-2008 02:08PM

If someone in work uses the microwave and takes the food out before it reaches 0:00 I have to reset the digits back to zero. I can't leave it at like 0:03 or 0:17

I'd gotten up from eating before, hit reset and sat back down before I even noticed what'd I'd done.

Overheal · 16-04-2008 02:17PM

No Cunny theres some things I do that will make even an American's head turn around

Blisterman · 16-04-2008 02:21PM

Overheal wrote: »

If I've been playing the same video game too long I'll begin to imagine it manifesting in real life as I walk down the street.

Well, don't play GTA then. :pac:

Sometimes if I've been doing something visual and repetitive for awhile before going to bed, like playing Tetris, or drawing on CAD, I keep doing it in my head, and can't sleep.

Clink · 16-04-2008 02:21PM

I read every newspaper and magazine from the last page forwards, doesn't make any sense as I'm not a sports fan

Cunny-Funt · 16-04-2008 02:33PM

Overheal wrote: »

No Cunny theres some things I do that will make even an American's head turn around

:eek:

hehe

bitemybanger · 16-04-2008 03:16PM

I see dead people:pac:

ibh · 16-04-2008 03:23PM

kittensoft1984 wrote: »

the number 3?? in what way?

Has to turn to light off 3 times, check's phone 3 times etc etc... OCD FTW!!!

I have a thing about odd numbers. I hate even numbers. If i'm putting food in the microwave i'll heat it for 1min 37secs or 2min 13secs. I can't just put it on for 1min or 2 min etc etc..

When i'm playing football as well I always try and wear an odd number.

kizzyr · 16-04-2008 03:29PM

I can only sleep on the left side of the bed and can only fall asleep when turned on my left side.
When using the toilet anywhere other than my own house I alway wipe the seat with tissue paper.
When using a public bathroom if someone else comes in I will wait until they're gone before I leave the cubicle.
All of the clothes in my wardrobe have to be facing in the same direction i.e the buttons on the shirts etc be facing to the right and the enclosed part of the hanger must be facing outwards.
Depending on what I'm having for dinner I don't like the different foods touching off each other. So if I'm having steak, potatoes, carrots, sugar snaps and onions they can't be touching off each other. If they are I'll move them away from each other before I'll being eating.
When eating said dinner I will eat it in sections i.e. the carrots first, then sugar snaps, then potatoes, then steak and then onions. The odd thing is (yeah like there is only one:o) that if I'm eating a stir fry or lasagne or some such I have no problem with the foods touching or being eaten together.
If I'm walking somewhere with someone I can't stand them being on my left hand side, it just feels wrong.
Thats enough of my madness for a while:o

:| · 16-04-2008 03:29PM

Sherifu wrote: »

I have a hang up about that.

looptheloop wrote: »

How engaging..

apparently some of you like to make bad puns, pretty weird...

I used to spell words backwards in my head. Like if I was talking to someone I'd start spelling every word they said backwards in my head.

I also keep adding up the numbers on my vcr/dvd player to make multiples of the first few digits or make the number symmetric in some way. Love when it hits 1.23.45. actually sometimes pay more attention to this than what im watching.

Tricity Bendix · 16-04-2008 04:02PM

Xavi6 wrote: »

I'm all about 'The Land Before Time' - "Don't step on the crack or you'll fall and break your back". No footpath cracks for me.

+1

but I take it a step further. If I step on a crack with my left foot, I have to step on one with my right foot. For some reason, it doesn't work the other way round. Also, if I'm walking up stairs, I get upset if one leg has climed more than another. It has to go something like left-right-left-right. Odd numbered stairs freak me out.

I'm also obsessed with visual continuity. Example: if I'm in car/bus/train i'll focus solely on either plants of buildings (usually depending on whether I'm going through a town or the countryside), and I try to make sure i can always 'see' from one tree to the next. If a house were in the way, I'd look for a bush in front of the house, or grass. All this has to be done before I drive by. Driving can be quite exhausting.

I'm a bit of a clean freak. Well, its more i have a certain set of standards. Hair in the shower/sink being the most important one.

kittensoft1984 · 16-04-2008 04:05PM

ok no offence but mine see normal now!!!

ibh · 16-04-2008 04:11PM

kittensoft1984 wrote: »

ok no offence but mine see normal now!!!

Thats what boards is here for. You will always find someone else who is much worse than you.

Tricity Bendix · 16-04-2008 04:28PM

I was reading an interview with Catherine Tate, and apparently she had this thing whereby if she saw a coat lying crumpled up on the floor, she'd think of someone whose name began with the same letter (c) in the same crumpled up state and would have to pick it up and hang it neatly. I thought that was a pretty cool one.

Is it OCD, or just quirks?

Aisling(",) · 16-04-2008 04:43PM

If im listenign to a song i automatically try and see if i can translate it into irish...didnt even notice that much till some pointed out i was singing i get all the girls in irish.

if im getting on the bus i have to pay everyones busfares and get the ticket in one piece and roll up really tightly into a tube and and cant throw it away till im off the bus.

i generally have a runnign commentary in my head but ive started saying it out loud on my own...get scared ill do iit in public some day.

when im walking i generally look at my feet with occasional glance up so i dont walk itno a tree.also i try and make it to certain things like cars or trees in a certin number of steps and if i dont i run a bit of the way...only do that when im on ym own though.

oh and i do the eating raw pudding thing aswell.

Duff · 16-04-2008 04:48PM

When someone says '' so and so touch wood'' I have to find two different pieces of wood to touch...maybe im just greedy..

Jimoslimos · 16-04-2008 04:53PM

I like to crush up my cereal (cornflakes/krispies usually) into a fine powder before pouring milk on and eating.

Dinter · 16-04-2008 05:00PM

Have a habit of making really long and noisy sighs if I'm even the slightest bit bored or distracted.

Have no idea where it comes from but it means that I can be talking to someone and suddenly have this overwhelming urge to exhale for about 5 seconds. Really obvious too and sounds like the sort of depressed sigh a potential suicide might make before he steps off a roof.

Makes meetings in work kind of awkward. I'm sure when I'm away from the office my colleagues check to make sure I didn't bring a gun to work with me for my arbitrary murder/suicide pact with them.

Funny because other than that I'm a pretty polite person irl.

Overheal · 16-04-2008 05:06PM

Blisterman wrote: »

Well, don't play GTA then. :pac:

Sometimes if I've been doing something visual and repetitive for awhile before going to bed, like playing Tetris, or drawing on CAD, I keep doing it in my head, and can't sleep.

It was Metroid Prime. I was in the nightclub, bored of my face. Staring up at the ceiling were these exposed air ducts and all I could think was I could probably powerball through them and find another ****ing missile expansion.

Dudess · 16-04-2008 05:17PM

mantime2 wrote: »

Sometimes when Im **** to my shoe collection I like to have child porn on the laptop

Ah how we've missed you. Banned.

oneweb · 16-04-2008 05:30PM

xzanti wrote: »

So do I and I always scald spoons, cups etc before I use them in the office..

Me too. Well, it's a case of having to, ever since I was greeted with a dried lump of pasta underneath a spoon one beautiful morning at work.

rugbug86 wrote: »

and I'm awfully OCD-ish when it comes to stairs. I need to count them when I walk up them and if I get the number wrong I have to go back and do it again.I use lifts lots...

What way does that work with escalators? 1, 1, 1, 1, 1?

Come to think of it, I think I had a stage where I did that for a month or so. It's not like there's suddenly gonna be a step missing at home or something. I did compare other people's stair count tho.

I wipe my phone and bank cards clean every now and then.

Weird stuff you do?

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