Random Poll o' the Week...

and be honest. Seriously. I have a big ol' vial of Verita Serum here and I am not afraid to use it!

What is your weirdest habit (or neuroses, whichever you feel like sharing)?

I have some habits that border on OCD. Like having to lock my car door three times before I walk away from it. Or checking my purse three times to make sure I have my keys before I leave the car. My weirdest (I think) is that when I wash dishes I have to drip a bit of water on the floor so that the bottom of my feet can be wet. Why? Don't ask me! It's a weird thing that I do. I even do it at other folks houses (Jen I did it at your house--you just didn't notice it).

So there...I am a water dripping, dish washing weirdo. What's your freaky habit? (And Dawn, by freaky I mean weird...so get your mind out of the gutta!)

ETA: just thought of another one. I know folks who can take their gum out of their mouth and like put it on their hand to taste something. I can't do that. If it comes out of my mouth for any reason...even if it is 2 seconds after I pop it...I gotta get a new piece. And I don't taste stuff while chewing gum. If I absolutely must taste something, I spit the gum out and do the taste. But I try not to do that. The point of the gum is to NOT taste stuff.

well... i have this thing with sounds... it's not a habit but i think it borders on unhealthy.

i canNOT stand when someone is snoring-- even if i'm not trying to sleep and the person is say, sleeping on the couch or in the car.  and forget about sleeping.  if i wake up and my boyfriend is snoring i find someplace else to sleep.  i feel the same way about gum cracking and sometimes keyboard typing.  i get really annoyed and crazy.  obviously i know that this is not normal and i make every attempt possible to let it go.  i certainly don't  yell at people to not snore or crack their gum.  but sometimes i have to get the heck out of there.

I didn't realize this was wierd until I did it a few weeks ago while out with friends and they looked at me strange when I did it. 

Whenever I order a coffee at Starbucks (or anywhere, really) -- I NEED things to be aligned.  The Starbucks logo needs to be in the front with the lid's sippy opening lined up with the center of the logo.  Then the cup sleeve's logo must be lined up with the cup's logo.  If it's not all lined up, I rearrange the lid and sleeve until it's perfectly aligned.  I can't take a drink unless it's all lined up. 

I have a few other OCD type things that aren't as strange.  Like if I'm at a customer service counter and there is a stack of flyers or at the library and there's the stack of free bookmarks.... I'll straighten the pile.  Of if there's a pencil can with all the pens facing downward except one or two, I'll flip those oddballs around to match the rest. 

Why is this so wierd?  Because I'm not naturally a neat person.  My house is in a perpetual state of disarray and those OCD tendencies do not spill over into housework at all.  It's the strangest thing.... wish I were more neat at home, but it's just not going to happen.  Can't teach this old dog new tricks, I guess.

Pam

I do the same thing with coffee cups. 'Cept I got more of a 7-Eleven budget. I am the same way about my SF syrups. All in a neat row, all facing the same way. Now if you saw the rest of my house you would scratch your head cuz...not so neat. Lived in? Yes. Homey? Yes. Neat? NO!

Oh tha****er on the kitchen floor would drive me nuts. I do the opposite and have a towel on the floor (when Im doing dishes etc) just in case water ever drips on the floor I can quickly wipe it up with my feet!  lol
Hmm you know, I have a son with diagnosed OCD. I do many things that border on it at different times in my life.  Counting, checking for locked doors etc.

I tear up ****ry) whenever I watch Extreme Makeover:  Home Edition.  My wife calls it my crying show.   I don't know if tht is weird, but it is embarrassing because I can't control it. 

RP

Well if you ever need a good cry...write to them and tell them about your friend Nik whose house is the damn money pit and have them come on over. That way you get something, I get something, and the universe is happy.

HUGS!

Hey Rickey Pete...that's my name for the show, "make you cry TV"..everyone here can relate to ya!!

Dawn

 Nik, totally with you on the car-locking thing... don't know why I can't believe the first "Ka-thunk, BEEP"!!  Not so much on the wet feet, I gotta say that's a little different.

Pam. Must. Have. Labels. Lined. Up.  At work I go around and unclip patient charts from the clipboards and align them all.  One the fastest ways to make me whine is the have the page edges all wonky. 

Okay, so my thing at work is that my patients have to be in the middle of the bed and their covers have to be straight and flat.  I had someone come into a room with me and she whipped out a tape measure to make sure they were in the middle.  I looked at her like she was insane, and she just started laughing her butt off.  I thought nobody knew about the crazy... but they all did.  They just humor me now.

At home... very lived in, not neat at all.  Weird, huh?

I check my door locks at home a bunch. I actually had to work on getting the number down to a reasonable level. I don't know why I do it. We live in the boonies and have never had a break-in (knock wood)

I always check my butt in the mirror before I leave a bathroom. I don't know if that's wierd or not?? I just have to make sure everything's in place, lol.