Quirky Habits?

SWS RN, ASN, RN · Jun 12, 2010

I pick my toenails, particularly the little toes. Any hint of a jagged edge or cuticle has to be picked, sometimes to the point of pulling too much toenail off and bleeding. :chair:
My older daughter does that! She is now 38 and has done it all of her life...when she was little, we used to call her the indian from the "pikatoyee" tribe...as in pick a toe ee"
She does not wear sandels very often...now does she get pedicures...no little toenails.
Ruby,
Did you really think "D H" ment Dick Head? or were you just trying to be funny? I need to know, because, when I first started reading the posts several years ago, I REALLY did think it ment Dick Head! It took me about a year to figure it out.
Of course, knowing my 2 ex-husbands, the first definition would probably be truer than the second.

TDCHIM · Jun 12, 2010

I can't sleep without pillows. Also, I like the 'cold part' of pillows.
I don't care how hot it is, I have to have a blanket on me or at least a
blanket touching a part of me.

I'm totally there with you. As I type this, I have a light blanket thrown over my legs and lower body while the air conditioner is running. Weird and environmentally awful, but it's just something I have to do! I make up for it by keeping the heat at 61*F in the winter.

I love cold pillow areas. I also need cold, crisp sheets.

allnurses Guide · Jun 12, 2010

and all this time, i thought it meant dick head!

pphhhffffffffffffffft!!!!!!!!!!!!! . . . . . . . . . anybody got a paper towel handy?? :lol2: :lol2: :lol2:

sws, i first saw that on a very prim sewing forum on compuserve back in the early '90s, so unless i was unknowingly in a group of "betty whites", it's likely it meant dear husband, lol.

SWS RN, ASN, RN · Jun 12, 2010

pphhhffffffffffffffft!!!!!!!!!!!!! . . . . . . . . . anybody got a paper towel handy?? :lol2:
SWS, I first saw that on a very prim Sewing Forum on Compuserve back in the early '90s, so unless I was unknowingly in a group of "Betty Whites", it's likely it meant Dear Husband, lol.

Yes, but I like my interpretation better!

....and after seeing Betty White on SNL a few weeks ago, she is not so much a prude! I thought she rocked! :yeah:

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Ruby Vee, BSN · Jun 12, 2010

ruby,
did you really think "d h" ment dick head? or were you just trying to be funny? i need to know, because, when i first started reading the posts several years ago, i really did think it ment dick head! it took me about a year to figure it out.
of course, knowing my 2 ex-husbands, the first definition would probably be truer than the second.
a little bit of both . . . when i asked someone on another board, that's one of the answers i got.

SWS RN, ASN, RN · Jun 13, 2010

Works for me! :)

scoochy · Jul 1, 2010

no way scoochy would make it through an Iowa winter! -40 would cure you of the open window part if not the fan!!

Winter is my favorite season, having been a downhill skier in my "younger years." As for the use of the fan, it is for "white noise."

scoochy · Jul 1, 2010

1. I also park in the same row of the parking lot every time I go to Walmart.

2. I have to have the toilet paper roll positioned "over" when the paper is hanging; same thing goes for the paper towel roll.

3. Have to have 3 bottles of ketchup in the cabinet at all times; I am a ketchup fanatic..

4. All coins go into certain piggybanks; nickles and pennies in one, dimes in another, and quarters in the big piggybank. If I put the wrong coin in a bank, I will empty it out to retrieve it!

5. All dollar bills have to be facing the same way in my wallet, and must be grouped according to monetary value!

TDCHIM · Jul 1, 2010

4. All coins go into certain piggybanks; nickles and pennies in one, dimes in another, and quarters in the big piggybank. If I put the wrong coin in a bank, I will empty it out to retrieve it!
5. All dollar bills have to be facing the same way in my wallet, and must be grouped according to monetary value!

Were you a bank teller in another life?

Scarlette Wings · Jul 2, 2010

I'm a nail-biter. Except when I get the fake ones, then I don't bite them. I have gone quite a while without biting them, but here I am, 58 years old, and still biting!

LOL. I had the same issue with biting my nails until I had to get dentures.

Ms. Smarty Pants RN · Jul 3, 2010

1. My alarm clock is exactly 10 minutes ahead of my phone.

2. I have to set my alarm clock exactly on 7:00, 7:15, or 7:30 but not 7:45.

3. My watch is exactly synchronized to my work time clock.

4. I am really weird with the volume. It has to be 3,5,8, or 10. And for the TV it has to be right in the middle.

5. I check my locks 3 times for the house and car doors.

6. I have to eat first then shower in the mornings.

7. I completely clean the desk area I use at work and get extremely peeved if some sits there even though its not assigned to me technically.

8. I have to have two books with me in case I get tired of reading one, I have a back up.

9. When I am angry I clean only the kitchen repeatedly even if say the living room is the one that needs to be cleaned.

10. I have my own blanket, spot on the couch, dishes at my house and at my dad's even though I don't live there anymore.

11. I have to sit smack dab in the middle of the movie theater and will ask people to move otherwise I cannot focus on the movie.

12. It can be 100 degrees outside and I still need to have a sheet across my middle. My legs and arms can stick out buy my tummy has to be covered.

I probably can easily go on to 20-30 without getting stumped. Guess we all have a bit of OCD or quirky habits.

Ruby Vee, BSN · Jul 3, 2010

11. i have to sit smack dab in the middle of the movie theater and will ask people to move otherwise i cannot focus on the movie.

how do the people you've asked to move take this?