Poll: In what ways are you eccentric? (for riceandpeas)
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Ok, I’ll play. But this is kind of hard, isn’t it? We get so used to our own eccentricities that we rarely notice them.
Exactly. * I hate having the radio on in the car if people are talking at the same time.
Oh gods, I cannot stand having 2 noises like that. If I’m watching tv, and mog wants to play a computer game, he has to put headphones on. It makes me really anxious and angry and stuff to have 2 clashing noises. * Chewing gum annoys me, unless I’m the one who’s chewing it (legacy of too many students)
YUch. I can’t be around anyone chewing that stuff. It turns my stomach. I have in the past really embarrassed someone by turning to them in the middle of a class and saying "look, if you don’t stop chewing that stuff, I’m going to vomit all over the place. SO just put it in the bloody bin!" * Half the time, music annoys me if I’m not the one who put it on (even if I like it)
Yep. * The rest of the kitchen can be filthy (or clean), but the counters MUST be wiped off.
Yep. Clean, but cluttered in my kitchen. * I cannot handle it if someone else is cleaning up in my flat, even if it’s mog. Totally freaks me. * NO-ONE gets to wash my underwear for me. Sometimes my mother in law takes a load of my laundry to do because we don’t have a washing machine. BUT I cannot let her do my underwear. I’d rather do them by hand at home than let someone else do it for me, even in a machine. Again, I’m sure my family would be able to come up with a huge list…. — Wolfbitch / Laz Spashett "damaged people are dangerous, they KNOW they can survive"
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i always back into a parking space always use the same gas station pump never liked carpet, never will i buy at least 50 rolls of toilet paper at any one time i listen only to Yanni have only Yanni tapes try to keep material possessions to a minimum. only what can fit into my toyota tercel never type anything longer than one screen page
You have others, too (such as swinging on the chandelier), but you didn’t have any room left to type them because you were at the end of your screen page. Bryan Sin Nombre
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i always back into a parking space always use the same gas station pump never liked carpet, never will i buy at least 50 rolls of toilet paper at any one time i listen only to Yanni have only Yanni tapes try to keep material possessions to a minimum. only what can fit into my toyota tercel never type anything longer than one screen page
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I’ve gotten so used to some of my eccentricities that I don’t really know anymore what those things are. I just keep so much of my life hidden from the world that it’s all subconscious now. Lemmee see….some of mine are *No matter how many layers of clothes, dishes, etc. are on my floor, I still find it imperative to clean the lint out of my keyboard
HAHAHAHAHA YESSSSSSS And my PC desktop is neater and cleaner and more orderly and less clutteredthan anything else in my life. Well, my desk here is still kinda bad…… I used to be given a really hard time about that, and my love of canned air to clean it out, but one of my other friends said that she has the other problem, and if you do too, then I guess its not that uncommon! So There 
Nuts
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I’ve gotten so used to some of my eccentricities that I don’t really know anymore what those things are. I just keep so much of my life hidden from the world that it’s all subconscious now.
Lemmee see….some of mine are *No matter how many layers of clothes, dishes, etc. are on my floor, I still find it imperative to clean the lint out of my keyboard *I tend to go on impulsive ebay shopping sprees (have been pretty good lately though) *in my mind numbers and letters have personalities and genders *I have this thing for counting once in a while (this sounds kinda OCD like sometimes)…like I had to yell at myself for weeks to stop counting the number of beanie babies on my shelves, or how many window panes in each window or room….even though those things hadn’t changed….. I have more, I know…just can’t think of them right now Nuts
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hmmm……how much time have you got? i have such an intense aversion to making phone calls that it is usually necessary for me to enlist the aid of my friends or my kids just to call and schedule appointments for me. i will go to work sick rather than call in. and if/when i’m in an extremely depressed suicidal crisis, i have to ride it out on my own, ‘cuz i will not call therp, pdoc or a hot line. death seems preferable. i am so adept at minimizing and denial. that when the pdoc asked me if there was anything unusually stressful or traumatic about my childhood, i assured him that no, everything was fine, no trauma there. it wasn’t til later that it occurred to me that perhaps i should have mentioned the deaths of both my parents??? i am so dependant on familiarity that i have to be desperate to consider going to a different grocery store, bank, pharmacy or gas station. i will even risk running out of gas just so i can make it to ‘my’ gas station. i am so anti-social that i have lived in some places for years and years without ever getting to know any of my neighbors. (so even though i’m within driving distance of buffalo, you won’t see me at mary beth’s next weekend!) and i also cannot stand to have the radio on if i am not the only person in the car…. i am a bit of a slob, but i am compulsive about crumbs or ashes on a table or countertop and have to continually brush them off, even in a bar or restaurant. i only like odd numbers and am disturbed if my house number, phone number or extension has more even numbers in it than odd. seems like a bad omen…. i am a bookworm and an internet junkie and am so embarrassed by this that i go to great lengths to conceal these weaknesses from friends or family. almost like hiding a drug or alcohol problem… well, i could go on but i’m starting to worry myself! and more than you wanted to know! and in an obvious attempt to minimize the ’stranger’ impact, i often close my notes as.. your pal, mad
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<about eccentricities I can’t stand spic and span cleaning. I can’t thoroughly clean anything. It removes the life from a space. I can’t completely finish anything. Basically the same reason. It ends the journey of that thing, and I don’t want it finished. I will make it look finished though…..few will see a stitch left undone. When I paint, I never show a complete figure. Some part is always outside of the frame. Even if I am doing a full length portrait. Other artists have pointed out you’re not supposed to do that, but I have my reasons. One can never assume to show the whole of anyone or anything. Some things should remain hidden. My most eccentric behaviors though I keep private. For the above reason. Sandra
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I eat everything on my plate separately leaving the meat to the end. I will not read a newspaper that my wife has crumpled by reading first. Brian
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i always wear 2 different color socks i often wear 2 different earings often read the ending of a book 1st read the newspaper from back to front like to drink lavoris, the mouth wash not much, just stupid stuff
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said: * NO-ONE gets to wash my underwear for me.
In fact, now I think about it, I don’t think I’d feel right taking it to my inlaws and washing it myself in their machine… weird, huh? — Wolfbitch / Laz Spashett "damaged people are dangerous, they KNOW they can survive"
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I eat everything on my plate separately leaving the meat to the end. I will not read a newspaper that my wife has crumpled by reading first. Brian
I have to sit on the floor to read newspapers. — Wolfbitch / Laz Spashett "damaged people are dangerous, they KNOW they can survive"
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– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – said: said: * NO-ONE gets to wash my underwear for me. In fact, now I think about it, I don’t think I’d feel right taking it to my inlaws and washing it myself in their machine… weird, huh? naw, you might be tossing them in with them watching and one falls on the floor. eek.
I didn’t realise but one pair of my knickers was in with the towels I gave them to wash last time. I was SO distressed when I found out. — Wolfbitch / Laz Spashett "damaged people are dangerous, they KNOW they can survive"
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<often read the ending of a book first yeah! i ALWAYS do that! if the ending is sad, i want to be emotionally prepared. god forbid i should get emotionally involved with a character that’s going to die or something…. if the ending is good, i want to be able to happily anticipate a sure thing! mad "do not go gentle into that good night…."
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And I type along in time to the music… if I’m singing, it’ll be one click for every syllable. Or sometimes it’ll be along with the rhythm of a CD…. I’m doing it now too (along to the Craft soundtrack.) Laz x – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Ok, I’ll play. But this is kind of hard, isn’t it? We get so used to our own eccentricities that we rarely notice them. Exactly. * I hate having the radio on in the car if people are talking at the same time. Oh gods, I cannot stand having 2 noises like that. If I’m watching tv, and mog wants to play a computer game, he has to put headphones on. It makes me really anxious and angry and stuff to have 2 clashing noises. * Chewing gum annoys me, unless I’m the one who’s chewing it (legacy of too many students) YUch. I can’t be around anyone chewing that stuff. It turns my stomach. I have in the past really embarrassed someone by turning to them in the middle of a class and saying "look, if you don’t stop chewing that stuff, I’m going to vomit all over the place. SO just put it in the bloody bin!" * Half the time, music annoys me if I’m not the one who put it on (even if I like it) Yep. * The rest of the kitchen can be filthy (or clean), but the counters MUST be wiped off. Yep. Clean, but cluttered in my kitchen. * I cannot handle it if someone else is cleaning up in my flat, even if it’s mog. Totally freaks me. * NO-ONE gets to wash my underwear for me. Sometimes my mother in law takes a load of my laundry to do because we don’t have a washing machine. BUT I cannot let her do my underwear. I’d rather do them by hand at home than let someone else do it for me, even in a machine. Again, I’m sure my family would be able to come up with a huge list….
– Wolfbitch / Laz Spashett "damaged people are dangerous, they KNOW they can survive"
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<snip One of probably many: Although my study (until recently — thanks Melia) has crumpled papers and half-destroyed newspapers scattered around the floor, I insist that my books be arranged neatly on my bookshelves, and I freak out if the pages or covers (paperbacks) get wrinkled — and the same holds true for journals I subscribe to.
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How’s this for eccentric?(just things I can think of now): I bite my fingernails and toenails I tear up napkins and chew on my clothing I lose everything and break things I used to pull out my hair and eat it I used to be afraid to look at the number "7" I talk out loud to myself and have conversations with myself I AM working on changeing some of these patterns however "Alvintchase"
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i always wear 2 different color socks i often wear 2 different earings often read the ending of a book 1st read the newspaper from back to front like to drink lavoris, the mouth wash not much, just stupid stuff
This reminded me of an eccentricity I forgot about. I read magazines from back to front as if I’m afraid to commit myself. ..but not papers or pamphlets. Is’nt it odd all the same. I’ve even tried to reverse this but it felt as if "that" was the wrong way. …and I experienced the vaguest feeling of fear. Xplain dat ! The Brian-files
