Idiosyncrasies

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Idiosyncrasies: Something we all have, and barely stop to think about them. If something isn't done the way you do it, well, the world is just plain crazy. Or stupid. Or should be locked up. Or something like that...

Anyway, I must confess; I put all the money in my wallet in decreasing order, all facing the same way and right-side up. I won't leave the store until all $37 is neatly organized in my wallet. In fact, I've almost forgotten items I've just bought because I'm busy filing the cash away.

When I hang up my shirts, or see my wife hanging them up, I make sure my hangers are all white plastic, and must facing the right way. I want to see the front of my shirt when I select it, darn it!

I can't think of any others yet. But enough about me, what about your strange habits? The ones your friends and family think are odd? The little, rather unimportant things that stop your world?
 
I arrange my money like that too. $1s and $5s to the left of the divider, $10s and $20s to the right. I also hang my shirts in spectrum order, with all the buttons facing left. Can't say I care what color hanger they're on, though.

I can only drink chilled water out of a plastic bottle or cup. Out of a real glass glass it just doesn't taste right.
 
Same with me, i always put my lowest bills on the top part of my wallet, because i use them more often. All the bills must be facing the same direction, so i can see what they are without having to fumble around and wasting time.

I always keep diferent clothes in different parts of my dresser. I have one for dress clothes, one for underwear and socks, and another for casual clothes.

I also keep my PS2 games alphabetically...heh.
 
I keep all my games in order from the day I bought them to now. All my clothes are hung the same way, same coloured hanger.
 
Before leaving the car I always always check the gearstick is in neutral and i give the handbrake a strong pull, even though i'm certain that both have already been done. Maybe that's just madness... :D
 
donbenni
Before leaving the car I always always check the gearstick is in neutral and i give the handbrake a strong pull, even though i'm certain that both have already been done. Maybe that's just madness... :D
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I always make sure that the car is in gear in the opposite direction to the predominant slope (5th gear if facing uphill, reverse if facing downhill), in case the handbrake fails, and with the wheels turned into the kerb to impede any progress the car might make if it were also to slip out of gear.

Redundancy is fun.
 
Interesting you chose 5th gear for uphill, what's your reasoning behind that?

I know many people that leave the wheels facing kerbwards, it's a very good idea.
 
There is no real reason, since any forward gear will do the job nicely - but it'll make it a lot harder to nick it by rolling it forwards onto a lorry :D
 
Famine
I always make sure that the car is in gear in the opposite direction to the predominant slope (5th gear if facing uphill, reverse if facing downhill), in case the handbrake fails, and with the wheels turned into the kerb to impede any progress the car might make if it were also to slip out of gear.
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Ha ha, nice to see I'm not the only one! I put it into 1st instead of 5th, but otherwise I everything exactly as you say... forward gear on an uphill, reverse on a downhill, wheels turned so that the car will hit the curb, or, if there's no curb, turned so that it takes the "safest" path should it go astray. :D For example, we have a driveway that cirlces the entire house, with part of it being on an uphill – I always park it with the wheels turning left, so that if it rolls, it'll end up on level ground. If the wheels were pointed to the right, and everything failed, it'd end up down a 50-foot cliff, which isn't quite an ideal situation.

That's a fairly minor idiosyncrasy for me though. One of my worst is the way the keyboard, mouse, and monitor (well, the entire laptop itself) is arranged. My laptop is exactly in the middle in front of me. My keyboard is offset about 4 inches to the left, and my mouse-pad is snug next to the keyboard, the edge of it is at a perfect 90-degree angle with the table, and the edge overhangs by about half an inch. Any changes to that setup (usually when my parents, especially dad, sit at the computer), and I go bezerk. Well, in my head anyway. And let's not even touch the issue of how much tension I like on my mouse cord, which is to say, absolutely none.

As long as we're discussing computers and idiosyncrasies, I also like having my virtual work area the exact way I want it. My dock's icon sizes must be 32x32 pixels, otherwise I go insane. Mac OS X icons are usually built at 8x8, 16x16, 32x32, and 64x64 (and some developers also do 48x48, but they're rare). Thus, at those exact sizes, the icons are 100% crisp. At any other size, there is noticeable "fuzzing"... actually, most people can't notice it, but I do, even if the icon's just 1 pixel size off. Thus, I have to have it at 32x32, else the fuzziness would drive me nuts (16x16 is too small, and 64x64 is definitely too big).

Also, I like my windows arranged a certain way – The top, left, and bottom edges must have zero pixels of padding, while the right edge needs to be one pixel away from the Dock (it looks odd when it's zero pixels away). If it's any smaller, then I feel like I'm wasting screen space, and if it's any bigger, then the windows are obviously going off the screen, which isn't ideal.

When I run (CC/Track), I have to have my shoes tied a certain tightness, and, even more important, they must be equal (the tightness on the left side must equal the tightness on the right side). Anybody on my Cross Country team can tell you that I usually tie and re-tie my shoes several times before I'm happy.

I have more, but you people are bored enough. BTW, I don't care at all how my clothes are hung... I just grab the closest hanger and stuff it in an empty gap in my closet.
 
Wowzers Sage. And I thought I was a neat freak when it came to my desktop (real and computer).

neon_duke
I can only drink chilled water out of a plastic bottle or cup. Out of a real glass glass it just doesn't taste right.
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I do this too. I mean, I'll drink water from a glass cup, but I won't be happy. :grumpy: What I do sometimes is buy a bottle of water (only Aquafina!) and save the bottle once I'm done drinking. Then I'll use that bottle for a while and put all my water in there. Not having to wash cups/glasses is also a plus.
 
To go along with the car ones, I always leave my gearshift in second, uphill or downhill. After I get out of the car and lock it, I always pull the handle and make sure it's locked, even though I know it is. I'm not a real security nut, it's just a habit.
 
OCD.
So yeah, I got a lot of that.

I park my car adjacent to our front yard so both of my parents' cars can get out of the driveway without anything being moved, and if my front and rear wheels aren't perfectly straight and the same distance from the edge of the grass, I can't walk more than ten feet away. I have to go back and change it. Before I had my own, when I'd drive my parents', I always had to have them parked with the same distance between the sidewalls and sides of the driveway.

When I'm going to sleep, if it happens that the right side of my nose is working, and I have to roll over to my right side, then I'll just lay there until whatever causes the functional nostril to change gets hopping and I can get back over to sleeping on my left side. It's just messed up the other way. I can't fall asleep stretched out, either. I can sleep that way, but I can't get to sleep.

Regardless of what system I'm turning on, I always hit the cold water before the hot. I don't have a blasted clue why that is, but I just thought about it, went to try it out the other way, and it was unnatural.

Man that's weird.
 
Zrow
After I get out of the car and lock it, I always pull the handle and make sure it's locked, even though I know it is. I'm not a real security nut, it's just a habit.
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I do the same thing, except I have an alarm system so I have the remote. I always push the "Lock" button at least 5 times before I can walk away.
 
Sleep – Oh boy, that's a biggie for me. Humans have 4 basic positions to sleep on... back, stomach, two sides. I need a fifth, because none of those four are comfortable for me.

I don't like sleeping on my back, because my neck gets stiff, and, more importantly, my feet are pointing up – That feels horribly unnatural. I tend to like sleeping on my stomach, because that puts my feet in a "pointing towards the end of the bed" position, which feels good, because it stretches the shin and relaxes the calves. However, I have a really big problem with sleeping on my stomach, because I can't sleep like that when my arms are at my sides – I have to put them underneath my pillow, because if they're at my sides, my collar bone feels awkward. But, if I do that, I usually end up cutting off part of the blood flow to my arms (since my head's weight is right on them), which isn't exactly healthy, and they become ridiculously numb and lifeless in the morning. And I hate sleeping on my sides, because that puts too much weight on my shoulders.

Thus, as you can imagine, I toss and turn a lot before I get comfortable and fall asleep. Actually, I don't even truly get comfortable... right before I'm just about to actually go into a real sleep, I turn to a new position, so that I won't feel its ill effects until the morning.
 
On the topic of computer desktops I always have it so I can read folder text on the background. Even if I like the wallpaper, I'll change it if I can't see my folder text.

I always arange my money so the big bills when folded are in the middle with small bills on the outside.

I always double check that the doors are locked on anything I leave and that I have the keys to get back in if needed.

I always turn lights off in the house even if someone leaves for a couple of minutes.

My room must be completely dark and quiet to go to sleep. If there's any noise coming from outside my room, I close the door and put a blanket between the crack and the floor. I have to be laying face first with my head covered by my blanket or in between pillows to sleep.

There's lots more but that's all I can think of.
 
Yeah, my room has to be basically as dark as possible. I used to sleep on my stomache, kind of hugging my pillow, but that became uncomfortable. If all else fails, I can always get to sleep on my back.

I forgot a biggie. Chalkboards. I can't stand it when somebody misses a spot when erasing a chalkboard, be it on the side, middle or anywhere really. It irks me to no end.
 
It drives me absolutely nuts when someone leaves the room and doesn't close the door behind them.
 
I eat 2 cups of pudding(the pre-made ones in the little plastic containers) and rinse and dry the spoon inbetween.
I back my 323 into nearly every spot I park in, sometimes regardless of the angled spots' direction.

That's all I can come up with as a 8 hr day of work with cars in the 100+ heat index approaches.
 
I always put my gear shift in first if I'm going uphill, and reverse if I'm going downhill. I don't point the wheels towards the curb, though.

If I have a cigarette I am constantly flicking it in my hand; if I don't, I constantly flick something similar, such as a pen.

If I'm in a conversation that I really don't want to be in, I avoid eye contact as much as possible. I also don't give much eye contact even when conversing with my closest friends. It's a horrible habit and I've gotten in trouble for it quite a few times.
 
My biggest problem is im the complete opposite of most of you guys. When it come to things like parking my car, I just don't give a ****. Sometime I park it perfectly straight, but most of the time im way off to the side where im taking up two parking places or I'm parked at such an angle I'll take up two sometimes three parking places. Also I always leave my windows down so when getting out of my car, I have to reinsert the key in the ignition and turn it backward on accessory to put the windows up becuase I have power windows. I sometimes don't even put the car in park and get pissed when I can't get my key back then I realize when and shift into park. My money is just crammed into my wallet all wrinkled and out of order. My clothes are also crammed into my dresser, or just stacked on my camping chair i use while liostening to my sterio or playing the PS2. There are other things to that I don't feel like typing out. But basically, I live my life disorganized with no rhyme or reason.
 
Attila_Da_Hun
My biggest problem is im the complete opposite of most of you guys. When it come to things like parking my car, I just don't give a ****. Sometime I park it perfectly straight, but most of the time im way off to the side where im taking up two parking places or I'm parked at such an angle I'll take up two sometimes three parking places. Also I always leave my windows down so when getting out of my car, I have to reinsert the key in the ignition and turn it backward on accessory to put the windows up becuase I have power windows. I sometimes don't even put the car in park and get pissed when I can't get my key back then I realize when and shift into park. My money is just crammed into my wallet all wrinkled and out of order. My clothes are also crammed into my dresser, or just stacked on my camping chair i use while liostening to my sterio or playing the PS2. There are other things to that I don't feel like typing out. But basically, I live my life disorganized with no rhyme or reason.
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heh, we're exactly the same there...except for the fact that I know how to park and you don't :p
 
sn00pie
If I bite on a mint, instead of sucking on it, everyone I know will die.
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I'm the same, except with popsicles – I absolutely, cannot, to save my life, bite into a popsicle. My dad, on the other hand, chomps on them. :crazy:
 
i found one - I absolutely can not stand it when my glasses are the slightest bit crooked. Even IF it's so little that it's unnoticeable by anyone else, I can feel it and see it when I look up. Then I try to adjust it but that makes it really crooked to me so then i end up fiddling with my glasses for 5 to 10 minutes to make them perfectly level
 
emad
heh, we're exactly the same there...except for the fact that I know how to park and you don't :p
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Hey hey, I know how to park. I just don't put the effort into it cause im lazy. Its much easier to pull up and park at the angle you entered at then to pull in then reverse to straighten out then pull up again.
 
I always have to listen to volume, on stereo or TV, on an even number. It sucks when you need it quiet cause you can never get the perfect level! :dunce:
 
I fold all my money in half from smallest bill on the outside to largest bill on the inside and it has to be in the right side of my wallet. . .

I am a CD jewel case whore, not only must they be in the cases, but properly arranged. . .

I know I have a ton more, but I don't have much time on lunch to figure them out. . . .
 

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