Idiosyncrasies, foibles and aversions.

kezzygirl

Here are some of my quirks...

I would love a pedicure, but the thought of someone scrubbing the dry skin off my feet makes me want to vomit

I count things...so carpet is one, skirting board two, wall three etc and i will do it over and over

I count number plates, so the digits add up to 7 eg.pl06 bea=7. adding the two words together makes 9, the number plate plastic makes 10.add that to the 10 on the front number plate, then add one for the whole car=21(I hope u catch my drift pmsl)

I really hate it when hubby collapses on the couch,it really irritates me---why cant he just sit nicely instead of bouncing onto it!!!??

cutlery has to be in its right place/section

i throw food out if its been open for 2 days....

I wash my hands repeatedly when cooking-before chopping chicken,after chopping it,after lifting the chopping board and putting chicken into pan,after putting the pan in the dishwasher...and then I wash them again for good measure.

I could go on, but reading this has me slightly concerned

Janepig

My biggie is when I'm filling my car with petrol, it has to come to an exact amount of money in multiples of £5 so for instance £30, £35, £40, etc..... I get the shakes if I'm in DH's car and he fills up and puts a random amount in like £32.48. Arrrrghhhhhh. Today for instance I first attempted to stop at £30 but it went over to £30.01 (arrrgghhhhh) then £35.01 (arrrrghhhh) finally managed to get it to £40.00 bang on. Even my kids keep an eye on the pump when I'm doing it and cheer when I get it right :D.

As for food, I'm positively terrified of beetroot and tuna. I think I would actually die if either foodstuff ever made its way near me, much less into my mouth. I also have to have a piece of each food that's on my plate on my fork so I have a chew of everything at the same time. DD eats everything separately, ie, all her fish fingers, all her beans, then all her chips, etc... and it's as much as I can do not to club her to death while she's doing it!!! :D

I think someone else mentioned not liking black/green bits or bits of skin on their potatoes and I'm like that. I can't have anything poured over my chips, like gravy or curry sauce because I have to check each chip before I eat it to make sure there's no yucky bits.

I think that's all though so I'm not so bad.

Jx

catkins

This thread has made me laugh and it's nice to know I am not the only one that likes things a certain way.


To me though having books, cd's dvd's etc in some sort of order (alphabetical or by subject) surely makes sense. If they are just jumbled how can you find the one you are looking for? You wouldn't expect to go to a library or a store that sells cd's and/or dvd's and they were not in order would you?


To me, the same applies with things like having tins and jars facing the front of the cupboard so you can see straight away what something is

Georgiegirl256

hazyjo wrote: »

YO! SISTA!

Haha very similar. I was adopted, so who knows, maybe we share blood I'm also not horrendously tidy and not OCD as such, just 'strange' lol.
Jx

Hehe! Maybe?! Could you imagine if we got put in the same room together? People's heads would explode....I'm looking at you Mr_Toad!

I'm reading the posts thinking yup, I do that, and I do that. The matching coloured pegs, and writing in a certain coloured pen, blue not black. Oh, and this is one of my coasters, http://www.flickr.com/photos/wynnie/3768456091/ I guess that just about sums things up nicely really!

paulineb_2

his_missus wrote: »

Perfectly acceptable and sane organisational skills which I agree with 100%



My sister always chews the end off an ice cream cornet and "sucks" the ice cream out so it doesn't drip (she's 35)

Hubby drives me potty by not hanging towels back to dry properly and his socks always seem to fall next to the laundry bin not in it!

Yes, I eat the bottom off the end of an ice cream cone as well first, always did that as a kid.

Mr_Toad

Georgiegirl256 wrote: »

Hehe! Maybe?! Could you imagine if we got put in the same room together? People's heads would explode....I'm looking at you Mr_Toad!

That's what scares me, some of this stuff is so far past weird you couldn't get a bus back!

How do you all find time to do the ordinary things in life if your counting stuff and making sure both feet touch the yellow lines?

paulineb_2

heartbreak_star wrote: »

I must be really chilled. I feel like I have more to worry about than loo roll, hangers and the like haha!


...on second thoughts, maybe I'm the weird one! yikes

HBS x

Loo roll, curtains, drawers, etc, all I can say is, most people on this thread who have curtains, drawers and loo roll quirks, dont ever set foot in my house, you'd be horrified and theres nothing arranged alphabetically in my house either, one thing I dont have is even a touch of OCD.

Having said that, looking at my own quirks, only when you write your own down, you end up thinking you are bonkers.

This_Year

If I'm eating Chinese food I don't like mixing it on the plate so I take some of one dish, eat that, take some of another dish and so on.

My ex-SIL served a takeaway once and heaped it all on the plates all together - I was nearly ill at the idea and couldn't eat it.

It's only Chinese food, every other food pile it on.

tea_lover

I count things repeatedly too. For instance there are 7 things on my mantlepiece and I'll sit here counting them again and again, it's like I get stuck. Am doing other things at the same time though so it's not like it takes up much of my life lol.

Georgiegirl256

Mr_Toad wrote: »

That's what scares me, some of this stuff is so far past weird you couldn't get a bus back!

How do you all find time to do the ordinary things in life if your counting stuff and making sure both feet touch the yellow lines?

That one wasn't me, I don't do that one....what? do you think I'm weird or something? Joke! (Don't answer that one!)

To be serious for a second, for myself personally (and probably a lot of others too) they don't take over, they're just something you do, out of habit I guess, but if things aren't to your liking, then it's annoying! Habits, with a good dose of OCD thrown in unfortunately.

It's rubbing off on my husband though (or maybe he always did have the tendencies?), because he insists that his food is at certain places on his food, he tells me to out the chips on at say 12oclock and the peas at say 6oclock (positions on the plate).