The quirky habits meme

[jethrien]

Tagged by maydove:

Ground Rules: The first player of this "game" starts with the topic "5 weird habits of yours" and people who get tagged need to write an LJ entry about their 5 quirky habits as well as state this rule clearly. In the end, you need to choose the next 5 people to be tagged and list their names.

1. I have a bizarre, nagging fear that I have walked into the men's restroom. This does not apply to brand new restrooms I've never been to before - clearly I checked before I went in. It also does not apply to restrooms I am extremely familiar with, like the one in my office, where I've been there a million times. This applies only to restrooms where I have been there just enough times to not check the sign on the door as I walk in. As soon as I walk in, I regret not checking the sign on the door, but cannot turn around to check it again. If I can find evidence that it is indeed a women's room, such as feminine hygiene products, I feel somewhat better. (The absence of urinals is apparently not sufficient evidence.) If I see a woman, I am instantly reassured. However, if the only other people are in stalls and wearing jeans and androgynous sneakers, I will fret until I actually receive confirmation that I have not indeed crashed the men's room.

2. I never scramble eggs in a bowl before frying them. I always break them straight into the pan and scramble them while they cook.

3. I do not like Velveeta or cheddar cheese. Unless it is in macaroni and cheese, in which case it's one of my favorite foods. But if you pour this exact sauce on, say, broccoli, it again counts as cheese and is nauseating. I fully admit that this makes no sense at all.

4. I have a very precise method of folding underwear. They must then be stacked in the drawer in a certain manner so that no folds show. If underwear gets messed up in the drawer, it must be removed and refolded.

5. If left alone with nothing to do for more than 10 seconds, I will read anything. If at breakfast, I will read the cereal box. If in the subway, I will read all the text of the advertisements. Standing at the kitchen counter, I'll read the supermarket circulars (with no intent to purchase, just for something to read). If in the bathroom, I'll read the back of the shampoo bottle. And finish it. And repeat.

Adding to the meme - what funny habits do I have that are strange but I haven't noticed I do?

I tag: chuckro, edgehopper, hyouneko, katertoticus, lithoglyphic.

Comments

[chuckro.livejournal.com]

2. I never scramble eggs in a bowl before frying them. I always break them straight into the pan and scramble them while they cook.

I'm not sure what the point is of scrambling eggs before putting them in the pan--I mean, maybe for an omelet if you're anal about it being perfectly homogeneous, but for scrambled eggs? All you're doing is creating another dish that needs to be cleaned. (Yeah, yeah, I know you're supposed to crack them in a small bowl in case one's bad, but given the relative rarity of bad eggs, it's not worth the trouble and extra cleaning.)

[saxbabe.livejournal.com]

Well, I always make scrambled eggs with milk, so I mix them in another bowl to mix in the milk (along with salt and pepper). If enough people as I think make them this way, then that should be enough of an explanation.

[shnayder.livejournal.com]

I do :) And sometimes mix it other random stuff too. Or brown some onions/peppers/whatever in the pan before adding the eggs.

[chuckro.livejournal.com]

Apparently tigermelp shares your dislike of calling strangers on the phone.

I doubt I've noticed any funny habits that we haven't talked about and you're already aware of. You didn't mention your tendancy to create dice towers or tin foil flowers during rpgs.

[katertoticus.livejournal.com]

I have, actually, walked into a men's bathroom. And used it. In Frist. I had pulled an all-nighter for some reason or another, and tickets for the Goo Goo Dolls (or Third eye Blind, I don't remember) were going on sale first thing that morning, so I figured I might as well go over to Frist and get in line. In the NE corner of the building on the second and third floors are bathrooms, men's on on floor and women's on the other, and I got confused about which floor I was on. I don't remember at what point I figured out I'd walked into the wrong one, but I do remember that I was far too tired to care in the least.

More entertaining, probably, was Michelle (my freshman roommate), Ali (freshman hallmate), and my first trip to Dillon Gym. We figured we'd go check it out. But for no particular reason, we went in the first door we noticed open (on Elm drive) rather than the main entrance, and wandering around suddenly found ourselves in a locker room (without having obviously passed through any doors or entrances)...we were trying to find our way out and fervently hoping we'd ended up in the right locker room when we came across a (fully clothed) guy and ran away! Passing through the first door we found we were suddenly in the hall outside the weight room. It was funny.

[wavilyem.livejournal.com]

1. I have a bizarre, nagging fear that I have walked into the men's restroom.

I'm not touching this one with a 40 foot pole! :)

[nanonicole.livejournal.com]

On the scrambling eggs thing... I scramble the eggs with a fork and I'm afraid to take a fork to my non-stick frying pan. I also sort of enjoy doing dishes, so it's not a big deal to have another dirty one. =)

[(Anonymous)]

Of course you've noticed it, but weirder than the egg frying thing (which I taught you to do), is the fear of closed shower curtain thing. As a result, our shower curtain never dried properly and had to be washed more often to get rid of the mold.

[jethrien.livejournal.com]

There might be an ax murderer hiding back there! And everyone knows that the ax murderers never strike until you open the curtain. So the only way to keep them from getting you is to keep the curtain open in the first place.

[(Anonymous)]

This is why we should ever let our children see "Psycho." I have an irrational fear of sand pits/sand boxes because of "Invaders from Mars."