Idiosyncrasies

[onlyMark]

I have a few.
One is that I always ask the ticket machine at the entrance to a car park, "Can I have a ticket please?" when I press the button.
It started many years ago to convince the kids when they were small that a little man is inside the machine slipping them through the slot. I still find myself doing it when I alone.
Another is that no matter the weather, I will only start the engine of my car when the driver's door is open.
If I'm making two cups of tea/coffee at the same time, or more, mine must be on the left. It also must be stirred clockwise, then anti-clockwise and then a figure of eight to finish off. I wont taste right otherwise.

Just thought I'd share that.

[questa]

Sept 28, 2018 7:44:59 GMT onlyMark said:

Just thought I'd share that.[/quotee-e

Ve-r-r-y interesting. My friend, Sigmund and his friend, Karl, would like to meet you, someday...

[whatagain]

Good posts, both of them ;-)

I fully understand. I have also some obviously.

A recent one is when I struggle with the hatch of my car, I am always muttering 'f...g car'.

Is idiosincracy the fact to keep checking that I have my passport every few meters once I start a journey towards the airport or is it a 'TOC' (trouble obsessionnel compulsif) ?

[mossie]

I have had several pitying glances when I use the automatic tills in shops. There is inevitably a hectoring female voice telling you what to do at every stage, I usually have to say something like "Hold on Dear!, I'm going as fast as I can"

And of course when presented with these little card readers I tell the waiter that the little Jap inside it is working as hard as he can. But what really gets up my nose are the coffee shops, with the infinite variety of heated stable runoff, which takes ages to reach the cup. I always complain that the little Italian inside the machine needs his backside kicked.

[kerouac2]

I am one of those people who will carefully eat all of the white part of a fried egg and finish it off by popping the whole yolk in my mouth. Apparently many people find this disgusting.

[rikita]

i don't like having turned too often in one direction. some days i don't care, but some days, if i did a few left turns (like while walking around in the apartment), then i have to do a few right turns to even it out. also, if i mistakenly move my finger along an uneven surface with the fingernail scratching it, then i have to move my finger along there again, going the other direction, so the fingernail gets pushed back towards the finger. not sure how to explain this ...

[onlyMark]

I have a thing where if I am going up steps, I have to change the leading leg now and again so I don't start too many times with the same one.

[rikita]

ah, that too ...

[questa]

When walking up or down a flight of stairs I always count each step in the back of my mind. Same goes for any rhythmic repeated sounds, like a church bell ringing, hammering a nail into timber and footsteps across a wide road.

[kerouac2]

I used to count steps, but I stopped.

I also used to try to estimate how many steps it would take me to get from point A to point B (such as one end of the street to the other -- nothing too complicated), but I used a very weird counting system that I don't even dare try to explain.

[mossie]

I generally count stairs.

While at work I was for ever counting paces, trying to make them a yard long. This was so I could work out surface areas to calculate the tonnage of asphalt needed, the kerbstones and concrete path edgings were conveniently made exactly a yard long so made a good check.

[casimira]

My propensity for logging in to this forum after getting pissed off and deleting my account and then regretting it afterward only to have to then again go through the process of proving that I am "human" vis a vis some visual challenge of which I fail at least three times because my vision is failing and makes me want to not prove to anyone that I am human!!!!!

[bixaorellana]

Oct 11, 2018 13:35:45 GMT kerouac2 said:

I used to count steps, but I stopped.

Oct 11, 2018 15:20:10 GMT mossie said:

I generally count stairs.

Usually I try not to count stairs because I have a pointless compulsion to count things. But when I was in Amsterdam this summer, it really behooved me to count the stairs up to and down from my apartment each time I used them. That's because the hall lights were on a timer. If I came in or was going out and the light wasn't on, that was good because turning it on gave me plenty of time to get all the way up or down. But if I needed to use the stairs when the light was already on, there was no way of knowing when it would turn itself off and plunge everything into darkness. Thus I always counted the 14 stairs going up or down just in case the lights went out.

[kerouac2]

I have saved my cinema tickets for years, but I have decided that it is perhaps time to dispose of them before somebody says that I am crazy.

[bixaorellana]

One little spark and there goes an entire 18th century building.

[cheerypeabrain]

Maybe more superstition than an idiosyncrasy...

If I see a single Magpie I always say 'Morning Major'. It HAS to be done, even if I'm on a crowded bus or talking to someone I break off to address the bird..

I count syllables on my fingers....a phrase or just a line of song or poem. Have to keep repeating the words until over and over (in my head) as a count them off..the 10 syllable phrase is very satisfying...I do this much less frequesntly now than I used to. I think it was a nervous thing.

[cheerypeabrain]

Good grief Kerouac...you need a notebook to stick them in..

I think I've been to the cinema less than 50 times in my entire life....

[kerouac2]

Just think how I've been suffering since October (after suffering from March to June).

[htmb]

I was trying to think of the last film I saw in a theater. I’m pretty sure it was the one about Dick Cheney, so a couple of years ago. I hated everything about it, except for the fact it was well-made with good acting.

I’m guessing your not being able to attend the cinema several times a week is like me missing the gym. I’ve missed it terribly and it’s the first thing I plan to resume when it’s safe.

Saving all those cinema tickets is wild!

[bjd]

Looks more to me like something that belongs on the hoarding thread.