Quirky Habits?

[dorisc1981]

I have this terrible habit which I can't quit. It's terrible but yet I waste time on it. I split my split ends. Help!!! What are your bad and yet so entertaining habits?

[noyesno, MSN, APRN, NP]

Thought of another one:

When ever I have my own bedroom (which was only when I was a junior, senior, and senior .5 in college), my room has certain areas that I deem, "TOW AWAY ZONES," where extra stuff can not be placed.

For example: if my boyfriend was visiting for the weekend and put his stuff in one of the TOW AWAY ZONES, his stuff got towed. No fee was charged.

[rn/writer, RN]

Whenever we go into a restaurant my husband HAS to sit so he can see the door. I literally have to wait for him to sit down or he'll spend the whole meal looking over his shoulder. Choice seating for him is with his back to the wall.

I've actually read this is common with men; has to do with some primal thing that says they don't want to be snuck up on.

I do this, too. I don't care so much about seeing the door, and I don't have to have my back to the wall. I just want to be facing toward most of the action. DH has learned to pick the correct side of the booth, God bless him, and he doesn't have this kind of quirk at all. The other thing that chaps my hide in a restaurant is sitting where I can see into the kitchen. We're at a restaurant because I don't want to look at a dadgum kitchen, all right?

[rn/writer, RN]

I have a zillion books. Have them in the bedroom, the bathroom, the kitchen, the living room, the cars. And I have been known to go buy books because I was down to two or three 'waiting" and didn't want to get low!!!

I have to sleep on top of the covers at the beginning of the night. Once I am in bed, one foot MUST stick out of the covers. At home, I have MY chair, MY blanket, MY pillows.

All doors/drawers MUST be shut. It can look like a tornado just went thru, but those doors/drawers MUST be shut.

I have to have something to drink within reach all the time. Coke, tea, coffee, water, whatever. Must be afraid I'll suddenly wind up in the Sahara without a drop to drink!!

I have to have the car window cracked, even in the winter. And I have to sleep with a fan on, year round.

And ink pens!!! I am a lunatic for ink pens!!! I have a coffee cup full on my work desk, a basket of them on my desk in my bedroom, any number floating about my purse and a couple or three or ten in the console of my car.

And dirty dishes MUST be put in the dishwasher, no dishes in the sink for days at a time. And laundry, all laundry that is mine to deal with anyway, has to be done ALL in one day, every day, every other at most. Doesn't matter if the floor hasn't been swept in six years, that laundry cannot be allowed to sit in the hamper!!!!

You're on a desert island. You have to choose between a book, an ink pen, and a drink. How long does it take your brain to disintegrate and dribble out your ear?

[nursel56]

Fingerprints on small shiny objects like cell phones drive me so insane that I can't hold it without inspecting it for smudges and shining it up with the nearest cloth. But fingerprints on door jams or even window edges-- -nyah. Don't really care.

I compulsively smell printed things like new books and glossy brochures. I think this may have roots in the smell of the wet, purplish ink of a fresh "mimeograph" page from grade school days. If you contributed to the "you know you're old school when. . ." thread you know exactly what I'm talking about.

[perfectbluebuildings, BSN, RN]

I do the thing with license plates too- look for words or abbreviations in every one of them.

I like the volume on my TV to only be set at even numbers.

I don't like to write in any color ink but black.

I almost always need something in my hands to play with when I'm doing something passive like reading or watching TV- one of those stress balls, or a pen to click, or a Slinky. Much of the time I don't even realize I'm doing it.

I'm sure there's others I can't think of right now.. This is interesting and, lots of fun :-)

[rn/writer, RN]

i don't like to write in any color ink but black.

ooh, ooh, i thought of another one. i won't write checks in red ink. other colors are fine. just not red. sometimes, if i'm digging in my purse for a pen, the cashier will offer me a pen. if it's red, i'll keep digging. i suppose it's the obvious connection--red ink = insolvency. whatever is behind this quirk, i've been doing it for years and years and don't intend to change.

[Poi Dog]

I too have a need to have backup books to read. If I do not have any extras laying around, I go into panic mode...

I read magazines backwards...I don't know if it's because I am weirdo or because I am a lefty. Who knows, maybe I am just a weirdo southpaw

[NICU Kristen]

can anyone tell me why everyone writes "DH" when they are referring to their spouse? I cannot figure out what it stands for??? Driving me nuts! Must be one of my quirks I just gotta know!

[nursel56]

can anyone tell me why everyone writes "DH" when they are referring to their spouse? I cannot figure out what it stands for??? Driving me nuts! Must be one of my quirks I just gotta know!

Dear Husband with assorted variables as DS, DD, etc. Or even DS1, etc to refer to family members in an anonymous fashion.

OK, everybody, a new twist, who doesn't hunt back through retail shelves to avoid picking the very front bottle, magazine, package, etc.?

[sharpeimom]

it means dearhusband, darlinghusband, or once in awhile, d**nedhusband.

kathy:paw::paw:

[NewTXnurse]

Mine is I have to have Burt's Bee's chapstick with me at all times. I have three extra tubes at work - (just in case) plus a tube in bag on my medcart plus the tube in my pocket. Ohhh don't get me started on how many I have hidden around my house. I panic if I'm without it.

[Hoozdo, ADN]

I am guilty of needing to have something beside me to drink at all times. It is

even one of my job interview questions. If I can't have bottled water at my

workstation, then I won't work there!

Here's a new one no one else has confessed to yet. I like to add numbers.

Say I am at a stoplight, I add all the digits in the license plate number for

personal entertainment. I have no idea why I find it entertaining. I also do

it in slow traffic.

I am also with you all that don't set your alarm clock on an even number. It can't

be 7:00 or 7:02, but 7:01 is fine. No idea why.