Idiosyncrasies, foibles and aversions.

rachiibell

If i'm having a meal of hot and cold food on the same plate eg few slices of pizza and a salad they cannot touch but i get particularly worked up if the hot food touches a cold tomato! It makes the tomato go funny! My mum used to say me and my sister drove her mad because whenever she gave us sandwiches we would take them apart to eat but if she gave us a meal of different cold foods (ham, salad, coleslaw, ect) with bread then we would make our own sandwiches!

Ettenna

Beetroot cannot go on the same plate as any other food.

Food cannot be mixed on the fork or spoon.

I cannot have tinned tomatoes on the same plate as anything else (ie fried breakfast).

I chew food in a certain order in my mouth so that all the teeth are used!!

Odd numbers are my real bug bear. If I don't change the volume myself I have to check it after the other person has done it just to make sure, even if I've seen them do it. Two of my daughters are the same.

DVDs and CD's are in alphabetical order and woe betide anyone who messes them up.

I count things - stairs, steps, numbers of times each tooth is cleaned. I have a certain order that my teeth are cleaned, if I lose track I have to start again otherwise it doesn't feel right.

Everything is done in even numbers or in 8's.

I rub my teeth with my tongue and it has to be in a certain order or I have to start again.

Mrs_Ryan

My biggest thing is colour co-ordination in the wardrobe. Everything has to be grouped according to what it is and what colour it is from light to dark. I have my own wardrobes in their own order and woe betide OH if he messes it up :mad:
My match worn rugby shirts have to be displayed correctly as soon as I bring them home and I have to be able to see them when I'm sat at my laptop. My mate thinks I'm nuts and she keeps hers in bags under the bed (which I personally think is a bit crackers because you can't see them there!) likewise I have one which I wear and I have to hang it on the wardrobe door- it annoys the hell out of me if OH moves it..
If I wonder where my keys are I can't settle until I find them.
I'm sure OH would accuse me of having many other annoying little habits but they're the only ones I can think of off the top of my head

mysecretalias

Cushions. The cushions on the end of my bed have to be lined up in a very specific formation. My OH went through a period of time attempting to take the cushions off the end of his side of the bed every night to sleep (his theory was that they got in the way of his feet which was ridiculous as the bed is a super kingsize) so I would wait until he fell asleep then quietly rearrange them into the correct formation.

My OH has now given up trying to move them at all

Also food I'm very strange with and everyone takes the mick out of me. Everything on my plate has to be cut up before I start eating - i.e. Chips cut in half then half again, meat cut up into fork sized portions. Then when I do finally get round to eating it, each forkful has to have a bit of everything on my plate on it - takes me ages to eat usually, it's probably why I'm so thin!

Cant stand talking on the phone - if the house phone rings and there's no one else at home, I'll just ignore it. It winds OH up no end when he's trying to get hold of me

Gosh so many others, will have to have a think and come back with more!!!

BritAbroad

Light switches. We've got a few double switches where one will control one thing and the other will control a light, and several other switches will control the same light. I can't stand it when one ends up flipped the 'wrong' way.

The car has dual control a/c. If I'm in the car on my own, both have to be set to the same temperature. Weirdly, it doesn't bother me if they're different when I'm in the car with other people.

Toilet paper must hang under the roll. And I remember being fond of the taste of sponges too.

picklekin

I get REALLY mad at people who treat punctuation like a word, it does NOT need a space before it or after it:

like this ! or like ( this )

Arrrggggggggggggggggggggggggggg......

I can't help but point it out to people, and I know it makes me look like a pedantic idiot.

This_Year

Shampoo and washing up liquid bottles should be closed and the right way up. OH will upend the bottle when it's near finished to get the last of it out but it looks wrong. Good :money: MSE sense but in my world, it's bad.

Candles should be in pairs.

My phone must always be on my right but when it's charging in the office the charger lead is too short so it must go on the left and it bugs me.

People who stir their coffee the wrong way and then chink the spoon on the cup twice. On occasion if I'm feeling stressed that is almost enough for them to need emergency abdominal surgery to remove the spoon.

A knife stuck in the butter as if it's Excalibur. :mad:

Toilet roll where it tears unevenly. I will unroll enough to make it an even tear.

My own foible is I will put any little bits of rubbish (sweet wrappers, bottle screw tops, pen tops, scraps of paper etc) in my pocket until I find a bin to put it in rather than just walk it to the bin and put it in. Even when I'm standing next to the bin in the kitchen it still goes in my pocket. Why?

Georgiegirl256

BritAbroad wrote: »

Toilet paper must hang under the roll .

Noooo! :eek: It's got to be over the top! :rotfl:

Cottage_Economy

Tea bag in hot water for no longer than about 10 seconds and then must be squeezed well on way out. And not with fingers either. If i see someone put their dirty fingers on my tea bag to squeeze it out i dump the tea and start again. Any tea with bag left in for longer than 15 seconds is dumped.

There is a ick bitter taste with tea bags which comes out when it sits in water for too long.

Despite this, hubby still makes crap tea for me. He insisted on making me one this morning and left it to stew while he went in the living (read: checked his emails for 10 minutes). Another 20 seconds squeezing and adding milk and I would have drunk it. As it was, i took one look at the dark brown lukewarm bitter yuckiness with bits floating on it and chucked it down the sink.

Mr_Toad

Good grief!

To think that you walk amongst us looking normal. :eek:

I read this thread because the title intrigued me. I didn't realise that people expended so much time and energy on the stuff you do, life must be very complicated and draining for some of you. All the odd or even number on the volume stuff. Egad!

It does explain some things though. When I made the girlfriend a coffee the other day she asked if I was really going to use the cups that I got out of the cupboard rather than the other ones that were in there.

They were at the front and don't leak, which as far as I'm concerned is all cup needs to be. It never occurred to me that they might be the 'wrong' cups.