Almost a year ago I wrote a post about what an odd person I am and it turned out that I wasn’t really so odd after all. We all do weird things.
Like, I’ve come to terms with the fact that every time I wash the dishes I get an excruciatingly itchy nose but I can’t scratch it because my hands are wet because I’m washing the dishes. A little bit of torture each and every day.
And I’m okay that the few times I’ve managed to get my act together to go on twitter, my conversations are remarkably brief for a talker like me because every single time I’m suddenly busting for the loo. Once I’ve been, I forget I was ever twittering in the first place.
The other day I nearly gagged when I realised that I’d started to eat my steak before I’d finished all my vegetables.
There is no way I could fall asleep in a room with a cupboard door open.
If I kill an ant, I worry for days that millions of ants are coming to get me. This actually happened to me just this week as my pantry is full of ants and I’m pretty sure I stepped on one last Monday. I can hardly sleep because they’ve infiltrated the house and they are obviously coming to get me.
Before the ants can get me, I will probably get myself. I can’t drink more than three glasses of alcohol without fretting that I’m going to wake up in the morning and wonder what happened the night before. This comes from experience, sadly, but at the age of almost forty and after a mere three glasses over an entire evening, you think I would have gotten over my paranoia. But I am coming to get me.
Finally, I will leave you with this random oddity. I can’t sit with my back to the door. What am I, Vito Corleone? The Feds are after me? It’s particularly embarrassing at work because they just move you anywhere they want you and I fret that my new desk will be the one where my back is to the door. I made my colleague swap once (thank you, Johnny), but so far no one else has noticed this odd little habit of mine. If anyone caught on, it may go some way to explaining my amazing punctuality at meetings. Every meeting you go to, there I am, the chirpy early bird facing the door ready to brightly welcome you to the room.
PinkPatentMaryJanes says
I happen to think that people are odd if they DON’T do weird things. Quirky people are much more fun!
Salamander says
I already thought we might be kindred spirits, and now I am fairly convinced that at the very least, we are crackpots together…!!!
I cannot brush my teeth without watching behind me in the mirror. God forbid I should look down at the sink and look up again to see someone standing behind me!!
If there is a huntsman on the wall, it is watching me. And stalking me. And if I kill it (which I always do), it will send many, many more yucky huntsmen by some strange beyond-the-grave spider messaging system.
I have to go to the toilet immediately before sleep. Even if I have been five minutes beforehand.
I can’t sleep on the side of the bed nearest the door. I just can’t. Ok?
And I think i’d better stop there before I start out-weirding you…
You’re not strange. Unique is a better word, I think. xxxxx
Kellie says
I can relate to a few things on this list!
– I have to eat my veggies before my meat. And with sausage rolls, I have to eat the sausage first, THEN the pastry. It just can’t be done any other way.
– I cant sleep with doors open either, and I have to open them and look inside before I sleep. Too many horror movies!
– I have to sit facing the door also. You never know if someone is going to walk through and strangle you or something. Its like sitting in your lounge room at night with the curtains open, I freak out thinking someone will drive by and shoot me.
Yes we all do weird things, but that’s what makes us unique. Like everyone else.
x
Just Martha says
Yes we do. I had a chuckle at the ant thing because I think like that too. I will even save an ant to even up the score and show I’m not worthy of an invasion.
supermac says
Yup. Everyone’s quirky in their own way. I share the oddity of not sitting with my back to the door. I want to see everything that’s coming my way. I don’t want somebody literally sneaking behind me 😉
Mammamusing says
It is so refreshing to find someone so seemingly together is a bit odd.
Reassuring that I’m not the only one.
I can’t walk down stairs without visualising I’ll fall flat on my face and know my front teeth out. I now wonder why I bought a house with so many stairs.
I must always leave a little of my drink in the bottom of my glass.
There are plenty more oddities but I don’t want to appear too odd 🙂
Quill and Ink Handmade says
I’m the same – absolutely no way, no how, could I sleep in a room with a cupboard open. Not even if it’s open just a crack.
Aren’t personality quirks fascinating?
x
kitty says
Ok, so either I’m weird too… or this is all completely normal!
:: Itchy nose while washing the dishes, yep I hear ya. I also get itchy forehead & ears.
:: cupboard doors being open… I just can’t do it either. I don’t think I’m afraid of the boogie man, but surely there’s something freekin scary going to escape from the dark depths of those cupboards. Shut ’em in, I say!
:: Back to the door, can’t do it. If I find myself in such a position, I angle my chair to at least open my vision up to it. This is at risk of looking like a complete freak or just plain rude. But you never really get a chance to explain yourself in those situations, do you?
Have a beautiful week. x
Jodi Gibson says
I can relate to the cupboard door and have unfortunately passed that onto my children.
I have to fold the toilet paper like they do in the hotels in that pretty little diamond.
I can’t sleep unless it is pitch black (I even cover my clock radio light).
I hate air blowing on me like air conditioners or fans.
We all have our own little quirks – that’s why I love watching people and analyzing them. Not in a stalky way or weird way of course…okay said too much…going now…
Alice Becomes says
seems we all have a lot in common here! I can’t have cupboard doors open while I am sleeping. I can’t step on spiders without worrying that a family of spiders somewhere will be waiting for their mother/brother/sister/father to come home and he/she will never come. And I must eat my veggies first too. I have to have the TV volume on an odd number (used to be even, but as my partner and boys all have odd numbers for their birth dates, I changed to odd numbers). And oh so much more…we are all in this odd little boat together
Gill xo
therhythmmethod says
Snap! I can’t do anything if a drawer or cupboard is open. Like Gill, I have to have the TV volume set to a certain number – but it must be even. Same with the microwave, volume on the stereo … i can’t tell you how I felt when my no.2 boy arrived on 31/7 … he was supposed to arrive on 8/8!! My inner Rainman was doing laps up and down the asylum, I can tell you.
I comfort myself by thinking that we’re all a bit kookie.
Miss Pink says
Besides the twitter one we share all these quirks EXACTLY. And i have many more.
The twitter one? I usually tweet from the loo…so…
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Mrs Woog says
Sleeping with the built in doors opened? Are you mad? Love you even more xx
Diminishing Lucy says
The comment box is not large enough for my wierd shite.
xx
Jodie Ansted says
I just checked your last blog post on this, because I remembered it and laughed, because I instantly thought to tell you the exact same things I’d said before!
We all have our little quirks. It’s what makes a spesh.
😉 xx
Tracey says
Ha ha. Loving this one. I have way too many to discuss. Agree with you on the cupboard door and can NEVER sleep in a pitch black room. I feel way too claustrophobic. HAVE to have some light!
Mama of 2 boys says
Awesome stuff! So pleased to be in good company with my oddities.
I feel similarly about killing spiders, as you do about killing ants. It doesn’t sit well with me and I worry about it for days after. Weird.
I’ve got way too many to share here, but one which springs to mind as being particularly odd… I don’t like icecream in a bowl. If icecream melts even the slightest, it freaks me out. Because I can’t stand milk, I think the thought of it becoming milk is just too much for me. So I take one big scoop out of the tub and it eat like that. Freak!
Mama of 2 boys says
*or even eat IT like that! Sorry!
Aubrey S. says
I worry all the time about creepy crawlies in the house. Ants, spiders, roaches. They all have a place outside.
Abbie says
Loved that you posted what makes you special. I also love how many of your readers post what makes them special.
It helps the world go around.
I will leave you with this one: if the clock is at 11:11 I have to blink 4 times before it changes to 11:12 or I will be hit with bad luck.
Mind you now I have to look at this and do my ritual. haha
vanessawith3 says
Well, my cupboard doors are never left open so I have never thought about whether or not I can sleep with them open. We just had a pest guy spray the 3 million ants invading our place and I never once considered they were coming to get me. I feel really out of the loop, I want to be quirky too.
Daydream Living says
This is too funny! Honestly, that Vito comment made me laugh outloud, sitting here by my self, laughing at the computer….weird is my favourite and my best so please continue to do so and write about it,
oh and open cupboards are a no-no in my book too….
Maureen x
BabyMac says
COME ON! All completely normal. I can’t take anything out of the microwave before the time is up. And PPMJ suggested to me when I was lost on our first Monday in this house that I should vaccuum on Mondays and so now I do. Every week. Because she told me to.
You are not alone, this is just the icing on my very weird cake!
1000 Homes of Happiness says
ahhh, it seems you are not alone Maxabella. I have in fact released a little home in the very early days based around these Quirks. (Quirky)
I think they are what make you unique!
xoxoox
Amy xxoo says
Ha ha – my dad doesnt like sitting with his back to the door either. He reckons its because he watched too many cowboy movies as a kid!
Corinne – Daze of My Life says
As soon as I start washing the dishes I’m suddenly bursting for the loo.
When I was a child I refused to eat Coco Pops for many years because I decided that they were made of all the moles that people got cut off.
I eat crumpets with vegemite, I think that’s completely normal, but according to my husband it’s very weird.
I can’t sleep unless my ears are covered, even when it’s 40 degrees.
There are plenty of others, but I can’t think of them just now.
All very normal I think!
Karen Wilson says
I guess it depends on your definition of odd. I think people who spend all weekend worrying about the footy, and think that watching TV and going out drink are considered hobbies are weird!
Becky says
Glad to see I am not the only one who can relate to your post!
I have a thing about food touching. Everything has to be separate on the plate and only certain foods can be eater together, like sausage and potato but never carrot and sausage.
I, personally, think COWS are out to get me. And you. All of us, they have a plot to take over the world – I can tell and they terrify me. One day I will be able to tell James “I told you so!”
Ali @ Mummahh says
lol your not odd at all, i count everything in two’s over and over.
x
Christie - Childhood 101 says
Your post made me smile 🙂 Yes, we all have oddities…though some of yours are pretty odd! 😉
Daisy, Roo and Two says
Yes! I always do the most random things, and my husband thinks I’m a complete loony. Like I can’t let my hair fall in front of my ears. It must always be styled to be behind or I will go mental all day pushing it back. It’s not just becaues it’s annoying, but also because it just feels so wrong!
Also, whenever we pull up in the driveway Pal has learnt ot pass me the keys immediately, so that I can run inside and go to the loo. I have tried going to the loo wherever we are, before coming home. It doesn’t work!
You are not alone!
Stacia says
I can’t sleep without my ears covered up. I can watch the same movie 27 times in a row. And I’d totally switch desks with you if you needed me to.
Jane says
YES! So glad to hear I’m not the only weird person.
I always have to sleep on the side of the bed that’s closest to the door (easiest escape route, perhaps?)
I like to have the car radio on a volume that is a multiple of 5 or 10.
I’ve begun watching all DVD’s with the subtitles on. Like, English spoken TV shows and movies, with English subtitles.
xxx
yaga says
I can never, NEVER switch off the light in the cellar compartment at my parent’s place before I shut the door. Because there’s a ghost in there and it will come out and get me if the light goes off and the door is open. So it’s ‘shut door – controol – switch off light’. I’ve even trained my bf to that routine. ^^
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Andrea says
That ‘can’t sit with my back to the door thing’….that’s wise. It is a fung shui thing. All your ‘energy’ flows out the door. Better to put a shelf or something behind you to counter it.
….yes, I can’t do it either. I have visions along the lines of my soul getting sucked out the back of me….
melissa says
Odd is FUN!
I can’t kill spiders because I think they call out to their friends to seek revenge on me…
I have to have one foot out of the bed covers.
Posie Patchwork says
Thinking you sound terribly normal & my husband HAS to face the door too, like he has to be the furthest from the bedroom door in our houses, hotels, anywhere (so i get taken down first??) I can’t have the television volume on a prime number, we’re all nuts, love Posie
Lene says
Oh, I love this post! Being weird is so much fun. I have to sleep closest to the door, all the cupboards in the room must be closed and I check under the bed for boogey men. I also have a thing about coat hangers….they have to face all in the one direction. It’s a matter of life and death, really it is.
Shelley says
I am so with you on having a cupboard door open – I check every drawer in my bedroom and the sliding robe before I go to sleep to make sure everything’s tucked in. What do I think it is – Clothes Story and they’re all going to come alive at night? xx
Silver Threads of Happiness says
I have a thing about pegs. I dislike hanging out an item of clothing with two different coloured pegs. Eventually I bought wooden pegs but then some got wet and turned dark brown so imagine my joy when I found a pack of plastic pegs in ALL the same colour. BLISS! Makes hanging out the washing so much easier!
I’m sure its the nutty quirks that make us us. I have many more, that one is just the one most laughed about by my other half 😛
Kymmie says
Yes! So true. Except my weird things are just so normal for me, I actually don’t know what they are. I’ll have to ask my husband… and get back to you. xx
Jane@flightplatformliving says
ha ha,we sure do! I dont like my toes pointing towards anybody’s bedroom as i fall asleep as i think it will make something bad happen and i too have to sit with my back to a wall in cafes.