Weird Obsessions
Posted by Beans and Greens on Apr 19, 2007 · Member since Apr 2007 · 169 posts
Everybody has one or some right?
One of mine is I don't eat after 5pm....ever
The World's Largest Collection of Vegetarian Recipes
Everybody has one or some right?
One of mine is I don't eat after 5pm....ever
I also don't like ANYTHING to stay in the right hand side of the sink. Left side can be over-flowing, but the right side must be empty.
LOL! I thought this was my own original weird idiosyncrasy! I totally have a thing about dishes staying on the left side of the sink. For years, I've been asking my husband to put things on the left side, and he can't figure out what the big deal is. I don't know what my deal is either--I guess I just like to have all the dirty dishes collectively to one side instead of spread out and chaotic. Good to know I'm not the only one!
You all make me feel kinda normal, or umm maybe just sick like the rest of the world.
If you have seen the movie Amelie, it goes into likes and dislikes of the characters as it goes on. It was quite interesting to me, actually.
I can't stand cigarette butts on the ground or anywhere except the trash. I was bad about this as a smoker, can't have one that is "out" somewhere and I never would smoke in the house. Peeeyouu!
I can't stand people who talk in movies. I don't like other people to talk to me when I am trying to watch one of my 3 must see shows, it is time to SHUT UP.
WHen I make the bed, the flat sheet has to have the pretty side against the fitted sheet so that when I turn it back, I don't see the back of the flat sheet and I hate when people do that!
I dislike dirt, but I tolerate disarray well. I'll step over toys, but do not ask me to sit in the bathroom if it ain't clean.
I hate short tined salad forks to eat with, give me the long tined forks please. I prefer to eat with the soup spoon instead of the little teaspoon because well, I have to take more time to shovel it in.
I have an absolute obsession about colored paper, colored pens, colored pencils and colored postits. This seems to fit with my obsession for clear plastic boxes in colors and all manner of fun storage items. I have a real yen to own a couple of dozen different bento boxes because they are nice to look at.
I like things to match. Bras and panties should be worn in sets. Curtains should match the rest of the room and the paint should match. (This is from teh woman who has 2 yellow walls and 1 apple red wall in her livingroom with olive pasley curtains with those other colors, mixed with some plaid and floral prints in those colors, but they DO match.) Oddly enough, my plates are all Corelle, but about 10 different patterns. I always buy 3 colors of towels for every bathroom too. Weird, huh?
I actually wear an apron when I do my dishes. Why I need to wear a homemade pretty apron over my tattie sweats while I load the dishwasher and scrub pans is well beyond me.
Ladydragonfly, I am like that, also. This is coming from a smoker. I HATE smoking in the house. I don't wear clothes more than once (sweaters, sweat shirts, ect) because they smell like smoke. They have to be washed first. I am obsessed with eating mints, too. If I go to class or a meeting or something, I don't want to talk to people without chewing a few mints first. Maybe it's a sign that I should quit .... ;)
My boyfriend can't stand the little forks, either. I use the little ones just to save him the big ones.
Oh and I'm the same way about things matching. It drives my boyfriend nuts! I HAVE to match. All my socks are all the same type, brand, size, and color so I ALWAYS have a matching pair LOL. My undies as well. All of my undies and socks and bras HAVE to be white cotton, so I keep buying the same brand for that reason. I won't let my boyfriend out of the house unless he matches :o ::)
Oh and I'm the same way about things matching. It drives my boyfriend nuts! I HAVE to match. All my socks are all the same type, brand, size, and color so I ALWAYS have a matching pair LOL. My undies as well. All of my undies and socks and bras HAVE to be white cotton, so I keep buying the same brand for that reason. I won't let my boyfriend out of the house unless he matches :o ::)
Hee hee heeeee...years ago I saw an episode of the Cosby show in which Denice's snotty superior bf of the moment tells her father, "Matching socks are a bourgeois convention." And I hollered "COMRADE!" Since I live in a city where fashion is all, image is all, forget about you-as-a-person, it's not how you feel it's how you look, I fell on this ocncept with glad cries and started mix-and-matching my socks just pour epater les bourgeoises. And if anyone is looking at my ankles, they might as well have something interesting to see! (And you would be surprised the number of people who have kindly taken me aside and informed me that I was wearing 2 different socks. As if I hadn't put them on myself.) I tend to say, "Yes, I know, I have another pair the same at home."
Is it really any wonder I'm unemployed?? ;D
Great thread! I do some many things that most of you do so I don't feel as odd! :D Here's some that weren't mentioned yet:
~ I hate feet. Seriously despise them. I can't stand anyone touching my feet, I won't touch other people's feet either. I will touch my own, paint my toenails, etc. but that's it!
~ When I'm nervous I rub my feet together - one over the other - I do it without even realizing.
~ When eating veggie burgers & fries I eat all the fries first, then the burger.
~ I put salt on almost everything before even tasting it. Good thing I have really low blood pressure (100/60).
(And you would be surprised the number of people who have kindly taken me aside and informed me that I was wearing 2 different socks. As if I hadn't put them on myself.) I tend to say, "Yes, I know, I have another pair the same at home."
LOL ;D ;D ;D I like your attitude!
I thought of some more-
- The toilet paper roll always has to be 'over' and not going under or backwards....I'll even switch it around at somebody's house if it's not over
- I carry around hand sanitizer and use it frequently
- If I'm in a public restroom I don't touch anything and will use a paper towel to open the door etc
- I don't like to use the air hand dryers in bathrooms
- I don't like buffets I think th ey're unsanitary and gross....but there is this ONE Indian buffet sometimes/ restaurant that I like and have gone to because the food is the bomb and they have a really amazing selection of Northern Indian foods/curries etc.
- I sometimes get creeped out about using silverware in restaurants when I realize how many hundreds of people have wrapped t heir lips around the same fork spoon etc and sometimes i just like to use an individually wrapped plastic silverware.....
- i don't wear shoes in the house
- i dont like to sample makeup at department stores/sephora type places its impossible for them to keep it sanitary
- I wear sunscreen and hats all the time, even in the car while I'm driving. The sun is so strong and I like to have least exposure possible to its harmful rays
- I will NEVER use a portapotty...those things are disgusting
- whenever i get a new magazine, I always have to get rid of the little subscription papers they have wedged in there ( so many) because they really annoy me and interfere with me enjoying the magazine. I also don't like big thick adverts that interfere w/ page turning such as perfume ads etc
- I'm really picky about picking produce. I like to smell fruit too
- I like to buy coffee beans in bulk then grind myself so they're fresh. I also like to get organic coffee becuase coffee is the second most pesticide sprayed crop after cotton. I also find that nonorganic coffee just tastes like pesticidey bean juice haha or sock juice lol
-
- i like to soak/scrub all produce before eating. also i like to scrub/wash tops of canned goods
- i like to freeze almost everything to rule out weevils (flours, flaxseed meal, etc..... and to keep it longer, fresher, etc)
- i don't like to eat samples at stores
- i dont like to be touched by people i dont know (kiss on cheek, hugs, handshakes etc, just not my thing)
uhhh I"m sure I can think of some more! :D
Wow! I guess I have a lot of obsessions, because you guys/gals keep coming up with ones that I forgot LOL. Beans and Greens, I'm the same with toilet paper. I do the same with paper towels, too.
I hate public restrooms, but when nature "calls" ... gotta go. I put my martial arts skills to use there. We have a stance called "horse stance" and I use this stance when I have to pee so my butt doesn't touch the toilet. I use my feet to flush, and I open the door with my feet (if the door swings out), or use a paper towel. And I also hate the air hand dryers.
I hate shoes period. Always have. If I'm not in a public place, my shoes are off.
Wow! I guess I have a lot of obsessions, because you guys/gals keep coming up with ones that I forgot LOL. Beans and Greens, I'm the same with toilet paper. I do the same with paper towels, too.
I hate public restrooms, but when nature "calls" ... gotta go. I put my martial arts skills to use there. We have a stance called "horse stance" and I use this stance when I have to pee so my butt doesn't touch the toilet. I use my feet to flush, and I open the door with my feet (if the door swings out), or use a paper towel. And I also hate the air hand dryers.
I hate shoes period. Always have. If I'm not in a public place, my shoes are off.
I use my feet to flush too? Is there any other way?! I don't sit on the toilets either -- seat covers aren't enough!
Hee hee heeeee...years ago I saw an episode of the Cosby show in which Denice's snotty superior bf of the moment tells her father, "Matching socks are a bourgeois convention." And I hollered "COMRADE!" Since I live in a city where fashion is all, image is all, forget about you-as-a-person, it's not how you feel it's how you look, I fell on this ocncept with glad cries and started mix-and-matching my socks just pour epater les bourgeoises. And if anyone is looking at my ankles, they might as well have something interesting to see! (And you would be surprised the number of people who have kindly taken me aside and informed me that I was wearing 2 different socks. As if I hadn't put them on myself.) I tend to say, "Yes, I know, I have another pair the same at home."
Is it really any wonder I'm unemployed?? ;D
I think it's so great that you do that yabbitgirl! It's great to break the norm and be free like that :)
Pregnant women FREAK me out.
::Edit::
Whenever I see one I have to run away and vomit! :o I dont really know why I don't like them, I just dont. Even if it's someone I knew before they were pregnant! I just stop talking to them for 9-10 months, and try not to picture what they look like.
Beans and greens, you hit all of the issues I didn't mention.
Ashley, so you know why they freak you out?
Not me. When my sister was pregnant, I wanted to feel the baby "kick." I don't have kids myself, so I thought it was the coolest thing in the world to see my nephew being born. It's the weirdest feeling, though. It's like you see this life being born into the world and my "motherly" insticts kicked in (like I said, I don't have kids). So, for me, that was special.
Oh I didn't mention my karate obsessions (except one)... That's a whole different thread for us martial artists ...
Somebody mentioned smellling fruit in the market. I do that. Spanish women don't, but when they see me doing it, they start, sort of shame-facedly hoping no one else is looking--and then they sort of cut their eyes at me as much as to say, "So? What do you get out of it?" (My question is, how can you NOT smell a good melon from a green one?)
I love rattling people's preconceptions of the world... :D
Another of my weirdnesses surfaced last night. And I didn't realise what it was till I tried to articulate it. I was giving DH a backrub because he'd slipped and fallen on the street and at 62 that's no joke! No real damage, a skinned knee and rattled teeth is all. Anyway. I'm synaesthesic, which I thought at first was only (in my case) about how I percieve sound. Well I was rubbing his back when I suddenly said, "You've got a little arthritis in this joint." He agreed and asked me how I knew. I said, "It's got a dark blue place." Silence you could spread on bread. Vegan wholegrain bread. I look up and he's staring at me in total disbelief. "You know, blue. Not red or white." More silence. Well, just so you know: Intense pain is white; "old" pain like sore muscles or fading results of a fall etc is red; and chronic pain like arthritis and fybromalgia is blue. OK? How do I know that? The colours show up in my head as I pass my hands over the person. I thought all those who used massage could see with their hands....guess not.
I'm one of those weirdos that will not eat their food if it is touching other food. I usually just end up using a separate dish for each food item.
I also have separate utensils for scooping cat food out of the cans. I absolutely cannot use a fork or spoon if it touches cat food, no matter how well it is washed.
I cannot sleep if the floor hasn't been vacuumed.
If I think about changing the sheets, even if I'm almost asleep, I have to get up and do it or I won't sleep.
Now that hot water bottle season is upon us in this unheated apartment, I obsessively "recycle" the water by dumping it the next day into my mop bucket. Throwing a gallon of water a day down the sink (contents of 2 bottles) goes against the grain in this drought-ridden country.
hhhmm i think i have quite a few,
1. i HAVE to clean my bathroom, walls, roof, windows, doors etc at least once a week.
2. i also have songs playing in my head.
3. i have to make every coffee better than the last, and refuse to use decaf!!!
If sheets come slightly off the bed, in a corner or something, i completely FLIP and i mean flip, if i cant fix it within 5 seconds i usually run out of the room crying. My boyfriend always goes in his room first to check his bed before i come over to fix his if they're off a bit so i dont go crazy on him.
Any backpack i see must be completely zipped up with the zippers in a good place, i walk around school fixing zippers.
I refuse to wear matching socks unless they're toe socks, knee highs, or i run out of non matching socks, but the non matching socks must match in a way (if one has flowers, the other must have flowers, if one has a different colored heel, the other must have a different colored heel)
And i cannot delete all my texts at once, i do it one at a time, until i have 51 left, then let it go up in the 80s and delete to 51 again..
hah.
One of my coworkers pointed out to me that if anyone moves something on my desk, even slightly, I will reach over and move it back. I didn't even realize I was doing it. :-[
Pages