Bizarre quirks

[Svartalf]

So, people, do you have quirks that even you find bizarre and that you don't accept as a part of who you are?

Not necessarily anything seriously weird, just something you do, and have caught yourself in the act repeatedly, and that you don't understand, as it's not a normal part of doing things, is not a personal preference, and is something for which you have no explanation, rational or othewise.

One instance to start. When I want to use the word "within", 9 times out of 10 I have to correct it because I have typed it as "withing", for which I have no explanation since I learned that word quite correctly.

[Xamonas Chegwé]

One instance to start. When I want to use the word "within", 9 times out of 10 I have to correct it because I have typed it as "withing", for which I have no explanation since I learned that word quite correctly.

Very bad. It means you're going to die.*










* (due to being human and mortal)

[Svartalf]

yes, I know, like 40 years from now, and if I had wanted that kind of responses, I'd have posted in the pub.

[Ironclad]

I always have to pronounce hospital like Balkrick does, "hostipul". I have done this for years and it makes me warm inside still. ?

I also have a problem with personal adornments, I can't wear watches or necklaces or rings for long before they break. I got a plastiky G-Shock to counter this 'issue' but it makes me itchy after a bit, so it comes off.

There's more.

[Robert_S]

I always have to pronounce hospital like Balkrick does, "hostipul". I have done this for years and it makes me warm inside still. ?

I also have a problem with personal adornments, I can't wear watches or necklaces or rings for long before they break. I got a plastiky G-Shock to counter this 'issue' but it makes me itchy after a bit, so it comes off.

There's more.

I have the same thing with watches and jewelry. I'd go absolutely bonkers if I had a piercing.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

I keep forgetting to add "n't" or "not" to my sentences. One time at RDF this resulted in my defense of the Merkin military looking like this:

The American military are a bunch of drunks with guns.

[Svartalf]

You mean they are N'T?
I mean, if you're a representative specimen... (yeah, I know the army will deny you, and the USMC will denounce you as a deckswabber)

[FBM]

Almost every time I leave my apartment or hotel room, just after I lock the door and take a few steps I remember something I need or need to do inside. I have to unlock the door and go back in sometimes even 2 or 3 times. This has been the case for as long as I can remember, and there's no sign of improvement.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

You mean they are N'T?
I mean, if you're a representative specimen... (yeah, I know the army will deny you, and the USMC will denounce you as a deckswabber)

Not a drunk.

[Svartalf]

Almost every time I leave my apartment or hotel room, just after I lock the door and take a few steps I remember something I need or need to do inside. I have to unlock the door and go back in sometimes even 2 or 3 times. This has been the case for as long as I can remember, and there's no sign of improvement.

I sometime display that one, but I definitely classify that as a kind of Freudian slip, either due to my agoraphobia acting up, or to the fact that I simply don't want to do what I'm supposed to go out for.

[FBM]

I also frequently find myself standing in the kitchen with no idea of why I went there.

[Svartalf]

That happens to me too... especially when I remember that the booze or snacks I would have liked to get are actually not in storage

[Tero]

I don't know how much it is a quirk. But I once tried to learn to type. My left hand remembers where the letters are, but I have to peek or use one finger for the right. I am right handed. I usually type all the letters but sometimes jumbled.

I tend to spell worse and worse and sometimes it looks like I am pronouncing in Finnish what I type. I also don't know how to hyphenate in English. A lot of that has to do with learning English at age 12 and not earlier.

[Tero]

I also frequently find myself standing in the kitchen with no idea of why I went there.

Do you find the car keys in the fridge? Then you are normal.

[Svartalf]

Normal puts his car keys in the fridge? yeah, that qualifies for this thread.