Things You Do That You Think No One Else Does

boo3000 · 14-06-2012 03:08PM

When i was a kid I used to imagine there was a special race of people living in the walls of houses and they'd bring me in there for adventures. Of course i don't do that anymore.

ibarelycare · 14-06-2012 03:09PM

boo3000 wrote: »

When i was a kid I used to imagine there was a special race of people living in the walls of houses and they'd bring me in there for adventures. Of course i don't do that anymore.

That's terrifying

boo3000 · 14-06-2012 03:10PM

Welcome to my world.....

DubArk · 14-06-2012 03:12PM

I went through a stage of scratching furniture in particular wooden items…. Tables, chairs, sideboards in particular but I see where you might be seeing this very differently to me!!

I wasn’t scraping/damaging the furniture- I was actually scratching the furniture cause I thought it was itchy!!

LOL makes me laugh!!!!

Bad Panda · 14-06-2012 03:16PM

Walking home in from school (especially in autumn) before every step I'd quickly pick out three leaves - two were goalposts and one was the ball. I'd kick the 'ball' between the 'posts' and carry one with each step.

I still do it sometimes!

kfallon · 14-06-2012 03:35PM

Easy Rod wrote: »

When i was younger...If i was walking on the pavement and heard a car coming behind me, i'd create an imaginary race to the next crack in the pavement or streetlamp and would occasionally even dip my head over the line to make sure i won.

Oh yeah, did something similar....don't do it anymore tho....honest

Easy Rod · 14-06-2012 03:40PM

kraggy wrote: »

I'm 34 years old and I still do that!

Sweet, now I can admit I still do it. Freaked when I lose though.

castletownman · 14-06-2012 03:42PM

omahaid wrote: »

I piss in the sink

Oh yeah?! I **** with the door open

But on a serious note, I work for my local paper reporting on local GAA matches and I have often spent half the night working out what time I would have to leave the house at to be at matches in ample time, a few days in advance. For example, if I had a match on a Saturday evening at 6 p.m, I would planning ahead on say Wednesday night as to what time I would leave the house at. Doesn't sound like the craziest thing of all time, but it those get annoying having estimated departure times floating around in the mind when I'm trying to sleep.

kfallon · 14-06-2012 03:44PM

Easy Rod wrote: »

Sweet, now I can admit I still do it. Freaked when I lose though.

Mine was kinda different in that it was a race to see if I could cross the road before an oncoming car (or a car coming behind) would pass me out. Both feet had to be on the path for me to win, the amount of times I couldn't get my poxy left foot down in time and lost by the length of a bee's dick :pac:

Best username ever · 14-06-2012 03:48PM

castletownman wrote: »

Oh yeah?! I **** with the door open

One of my mates used to take a dump at parties with the door open, he had no shame.

af_thefragile · 14-06-2012 03:59PM

Make 4 pot turbo or V8 engine noises as I walk around the place pretending to be driving a WRC car or a Ferrari supercar...

Tea_Bag · 14-06-2012 04:31PM

If no one is around, and I'm listening to music on my headphones, I like to imagine someone is filming me for the music video, and I act appropriately for the music.

ibarelycare · 14-06-2012 04:48PM

Tea_Bag wrote: »

If no one is around, and I'm listening to music on my headphones, I like to imagine someone is filming me for the music video, and I act appropriately for the music.

I do that too when I'm driving

spacecookie555 · 14-06-2012 04:54PM

If i scratch between my fingers with my thumb i have to scratch each one equally if i dont i have to give the one i missed an extra couple of scratches. I kinda do the same thing with grooves on anything i have to touch all the grooves fully if i dont il keep touching it til i do...
Is that really weird??

spoofilyj · 14-06-2012 04:55PM

I still do this except now I'm on a bike and its when I cycle home from work.

I have to beat the bus out the N11 as far as the first Passenger overpass, If I do I'm delighted all evening, but when I dont I try and have another race with some other vehicle so I can win...

When I was a child I used to on long car journeys count the lamp posts on the side of the road, or one I spent hours counting out loud on a trip from Cobh to Killybegs. I think we got as far as Sligo and my parents were ready to snap...
I used to think it was easier to have 100 seconds in a minute so on these journeys I could count all the way up to 8 or 9 thousand depending on how many more minutes my dad said we were away from you destination...

barone · 14-06-2012 05:09PM

used to stick the small earphone buds in my mouth to make cool loudspeaker effect

Haroldinio · 14-06-2012 05:14PM

I used to imagine a laser beaming out of the car wing mirrors cutting the hedges down to wing mirror level. I didn't want to cut the telephone poles or cyclists so i had to imagine turning the laser off/on really quickly at every one. I still find myself doing it........off/on...........off/on...........off/on...........off/on......:)

DEFTLEFTHAND · 14-06-2012 05:23PM

When playing season mode on Fifa I really immerse myself in it. For instance during the day at work or wherever I'm thinking about my upcoming games and changes to the team I can make, transfer buys etc.

When I achieve success with my team I feel really proud and satisfied, when I lose I cry and break things. My biggest 'achievement' was in Fifa 10 where I brought Notts County from League 2 all the way to Premiership and Champions League glory. In my fantasy world I was given the freedom of Nottingham and inducted into the county Hall Of Fame for this.

J. Marston · 14-06-2012 05:47PM

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

When playing season mode on Fifa I really immerse myself in it. For instance during the day at work or wherever I'm thinking about my upcoming games and changes to the team I can make, transfer buys etc.

When I achieve success with my team I feel really proud and satisfied, when I lose I cry and break things. My biggest 'achievement' was in Fifa 10 where I brought Notts County from League 2 all the way to Premiership and Champions League glory. In my fantasy world I was given the freedom of Nottingham and inducted into the county Hall Of Fame for this.

I used to do that too, when I was around 9.

DEFTLEFTHAND · 14-06-2012 05:49PM

J. Marston wrote: »

I used to do that too, when I was around 9.

I'm 24.

wonton · 14-06-2012 05:53PM

instead of beans on toast, I eat beans in toasted pitta bread. me gusta.

Rothko · 14-06-2012 05:54PM

Jaafa wrote: »

Also sometimes when I really get into a book, I tend to pick up mannerisms from some of the characters for a while after.

I do that too except it's usually with characters from a movie

Deus Ex Machina · 14-06-2012 05:54PM

Great thread OP.

The least of my secret weird habits, of which I have literally thousands:

When I'm a passenger in a car I can't help but image that there are lasers coming out of the outsides of my shoes which have to avoid all cars, either parked or moving, and all pedestrians. If my toes are flat the laser is flat, going along the ground. This is the lethal height. Anything that comes in contact with this laser will be destroyed. If I raise my toes to press against the top of my shoes the lasers are raised, thus avoiding any road or footpath users.

The effect of this mindset is that on any car journey, half my mind is focused on raising and lowering my toes in concert with the traffic on the road outside so to save them from the lethal lasers of death which shoot from my shoes. Why don't I just keep the lasers up all the time so nobody gets hurt you ask? I don't know, it has just never felt right. I think I have to at least flirt with danger.

I would be genuinely be interested to know if either A) anybody else does this or

if you would consider somebody who does this (and a lot of other similar weird habitual turns) to be in some way crazy?

Deus Ex Machina · 14-06-2012 05:59PM

Haroldinio wrote: »

I used to imagine a laser beaming out of the car wing mirrors cutting the hedges down to wing mirror level. I didn't want to cut the telephone poles or cyclists so i had to imagine turning the laser off/on really quickly at every one. I still find myself doing it........off/on...........off/on...........off/on...........off/on......:)

How did you turn them off? Did you just do it with your mind? I have a very similar thing I still do, as you can see in my post above.

cartell_best · 14-06-2012 05:59PM

"Things You Do That You Think No One Else Does "....

Indicate at a roundabout.

Realise there is someone else in front of you at an ATM before they decide to sort out their "PURSE" or wallet and it takes them forever to realise what they're doing!

Say "thank you" and "please"

Supermarket self service means a basket and not a trolley full...especially when tesco's machines decide to upload the "managers" profile or the machine confuses customers so much with "unexpected item in the baggage area" that they have a near death experience at the thing!, and you just get so annoyed in your own head when three out of the six machines are being used by people that believe that a famine is on the way and the last technology they encountered was VHS. Then you can see yourself becoming famous for all the wrong reasons!

Suss out the fool that cuts you off in traffic and you make sure they're not part of the Manson clan before you let rip through face and body language with the protection of your cars capabilities from going 0-100kmh..(hence, i don't engage in road rage).

Respect my elders.

Want to just shout out my voice the top of my lungs in a queue - "FFS...you're invading my body space and you've already made way too much body contact"*
jeez

(* God damn Gamestop)

Tea_Bag · 14-06-2012 06:03PM

Deus Ex Machina wrote: »

How did you turn them off? Did you just do it with your mind? I have a very similar thing I still do, as you can see in my post above.

blinking turns them off for me. when my eyes are closed, the lasers turn off.

elefant · 14-06-2012 06:05PM

When walking on the footpath, counting how many steps in between the gaps. I'd lengthen or shorten my stride to try and make sure I took the same amount of steps on each section.

Still do that sometimes.

Deus Ex Machina · 14-06-2012 06:07PM

Tea_Bag wrote: »

blinking turns them off for me. when my eyes are closed, the lasers turn off.

Jaysus, playing very loose and fast with the aul lasers there buddy. Surely you have to have your eyes open to be able to judge when something is going to come in contact with them, or to know when it's ok to turn them on again? Madness!

Chavways · 14-06-2012 06:08PM

Every sentence I heard,I used to repeat in my head over and over and see how many syllables were in it.It used to annoy me so much if there was an uneven number of syllables in the sentence.Used to do it for song lyrics aswell.

later12 · 14-06-2012 06:08PM

NegativeCreep wrote: »

Does anyone else count the letters in a sentence you've just heard to see if it's an odd or even amount of letters? Then, if they're odd, make it into two piles, one odd and one even and then say the sentence again making sure to pronounce the gap in between the piles? I also feel very frustrated of its not an even number if letters :rolleyes: I literally do this about 60 times a day and it can get really distracting, especially during exams :L

Am I mental? :L

I read the entire thread to see if anyone else does this. I do it too; In my case, it's a matter of counting the syllables in sentences and the letters in individual words to make sure they are not odd. It can get absurdly addictive, I find I have to really force myself to stop doing it

f_o_r_c_e... dammit.

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