Let Your Freak Flag Fly

[snarlingcoyote]

When I leave the house in the morning, I absolutely MUST:

1. Check the bed. Unmade is fine, but nothing else can be on the bed.
2. Check my flat iron. It cannot just be off, it must be unplugged. (The clothes iron and the hair dryer can stay plugged in however.)
3. Check to be sure no cat is stuck in the spare bedroom all day with no access to litter, food or water.
3. Check to make sure the second baby gate that keeps the GSD from simply walking over the 1st baby gate and going over to the cat side of the house is up while DH and I are away earning everyone their kibbles.
4. Kick the dogs' water reservoir to make sure they aren't going to run out during the day.
5. Make sure the doggie door is open and not locked.
6. Make sure the door latches and is closed.
7. Make sure I have my laptop.

If I haven't done every single one of these things, I have to return home, no matter how far away I am, because otherwise I'll worry about it all day.

 

[MiniGirl]

I must wear long pants or jeans to the dentist's office.

 

[TaraLee4]

My food absolutely can not touch each other on my plate. Unless it's chinese food.

feet don't bother me, but I HATE wearing shoes. Hate hate hate it! Unless I'm at work, or there's snow on the ground and no path shoveled, I wear flip flops or go barefoot. Yes, that means I wear flip flops in January. yes, I live in New York.

I also need to be covered up with some sort of blanket/sheet to fall asleep. it could be 150 out, and i'd need a blanket

The rest of my house can get as messy as it wants, but my bathroom is ALWAYS spotless. How can you clean yourself it's NOT?!

 

[cindermomma]

One thing I have to do is I when I grab a pop from the fridge - it has to be the 2nd one back (ours is always stocked in lines). I cannot drink that first pop. If DH gets me a pop, I have to ask to make sure it isn't the first one.

I also HATE feet. Cannot stand looking at them. The sound of feet walking at the pool is repulsive to me. My mom use to tease me and wave her feet in the air with her toes pointed. I still think about it and get upset.


I also load the groceries on the belt my own way. Meats together, milks together, canned, breads, ect. Easier for me to unpack.


I have to eat my m&m's in groups. I seperate all the colors then eat the smallest group to largest in that order. If there are two groups with the same number, I will eat the group of the color I like the least first.


I love the smell of my DS's hair. To me he still smells like my little baby (he is 9)


I have to drink all pop's with a straw.


I have to put on chapstick every night before bed. Can't sleep without it.


If I am nervous, I mess around with my eyelashes. Sometimes without even noticing I am doing it.


I have to put my deodorant on in multiples of 5 strokes under each arm and the same number of strokes for each under arm. (5 if in a hurry - up to 15 if not in a hurry)

I have to have my slippers to wear right after I get out of the shower. Then I wear my pajama "coat" (tinkerbell flannel shirt worn like a coat) over my bed shirt.

There are some of my freak flag things. Feels good to share and to see that I am not alone!!!

 

[C.Ann]

I can't stand when things are crooked.. If someone sets something down (on the table for instance) or pushes the chair in crooked, I have to straighten it out or it will bug the heck out of me until I do..

I have to wash my dishes in a certain order.. DD calls it my "Dewey Dish System".. LOL..

My bed has to be made before I'll get into it.. Can't deal with a rumpled, unmade bed..

The only time I can drink soda without it killing my stomach (the carbonation) is if I'm eating a hot dog at the same time.. And the soda has to be orange - no other flavor..

The only "food" I can eat - with coffee as my beverage instead of milk - is a tuna fish sandwich (and it has to be made with Miracle Whip - not mayo)..

Yes.. "Freaky.."

 

[charming23]

I have to sort out skittles by color and then only eat one color at a time.

I too need to be covered up when sleeping, even if it is hot outside.

I hate sleeping barefoot so I always wear socks even if I have been barefoot all day I have to put on socks to sleep.

I have to put groceries a certain way in my cart, grouped by like items. And they need to be put on the belt in the same fashion.

My plain colored tops are sorted out by color in my drawer but the ones with design do not have to be.

 

[maslex]

A few of mine have been mentioned before...

1--Can't sleep unless one leg is sticking out from the blankets

2--I also hate feet (unless they're baby feet and then they're the cutest things ever!!! But don't even THINK of coming near me and touching my foot. I'll scream, kick, cry and probably end up in jail if you touch them. LOL And I will not touch anyone else's feet. ***shivers***

3--I am a magazine fanatic (you know the ones at the checkout counter) Well, I will buy 3-4 a week and bring them to work (I drive bus) So if I am sitting at the table and one of my friends grabs a magazine to flip through, I go berserk. You cannot read it before me and then start telling us about an article. I HATE when you tell me what it's about before I get a chance to read it. AND DO NOT BEND ANY PAGES IN THEM. DRIVES ME UP A WALL Don't know why....

4--I hate an open cabinet or an open closet door. My friend does this all the time and if I'm over there, I need to shut them. She thinks it's funny.

5--Someone else mentioned leaving some marshmellows in their cereal bowl while eating Lucky Charms. I do the same, except I leave ALL the marshmellows for last. Same goes with the berries in Crunch Berries

6--When I hang the hand towel over the oven door handle, I need to hold it up straight & make sure the tag is on the bottom facing towards me. Then I slide it behind the handle and then I can fold it over.

7--Throughout the week, I'll jot things down on my grocery list. Then on Sunday morning (when I do my shopping) I have to re-write the list and organize it into groups. All produce in one section, HBA in another, cleaning supplies, paper products, etc. I have this thing about lists, DH makes fun of me all the time "make sure you have your LIIIIIISSSSSTTTTT" I could bash him!!! LOL Like right now we have 16 days before leaving for our cruise and I'm about to start making a list of everything we need (I need to make one for each family member) but the thing is....I will RE-WRITE the damn thing a million times before we leave. And if I make a mistake or don't like my handwriting, it warrants another copy. I remember being like this in school though...always re-doing my homework if it wasn't written perfectly...

I'm sure there are many and I'll list them as they come to me.

One other thing my dad does....he HAS to make sure that when he butters his bread or spreads mayo/mustard on his bread, that it's on the right side. Apparently one side of the bread is larger than the other. He butters it on the small side. LOL

 

[wilma-bride]

Where do I start?

I can't bear to have the supermarket assistants pack my groceries for me. Here in the UK, we often have guide or scout groups who offer to pack your shopping bags to raise money for charity. I always give them some money and tell them to leave my groceries alone

I am another one who has to have the covers on me, even if it is only one leg that is covered. I cannot stand to sleep completely 'bare'.

I count the stairs in our house every single time I walk up them but never coming down

If I say the same thing at the same time as someone else I always have to say 'jinx' and touch wood.

I have to have the toilet roll on the hanger so that the paper hangs 'forward' and not against the wall.

If I am eating a meal that has meat and potatoes (be it chips, baked or mash), I cannot carry on eating the meat if I have no potato left. Once I run out of potato I have to leave the rest of my meal. Unless it is fast food, like a burger and fries and then I have to eat the fries first and the burger second.

I cannot put a book down/stop reading until I get to a point where the end of the page also is the end of a sentence, i.e. the end of a chapter or a new sentence starts on the next page.

OK, that's enough for now - I'm starting to scare myself

 

[DeniseinNS]

-I cannot sleep with a top sheet on my bed because it makes me feel trapped and I don't want to get tangled in it LOL. We don't have ANY top sheets in our house on any of the beds.

-I love the taste from onions but will not eat the onions themselves. I get alot of weird looks when I'm out with someone and order a burger with onions and then scrape them off.

-Open closet door and cupboards doors/drawers irritate me.

-I don't like when something is put back in the wrong spot in the fridge or cupboards, if I see that it's wrong then I need to fix it.

-I cannot bathe before doing my housework, it has to be afterwards because I feel dirty from cleaning.

-I HATE feet, I think they are ugly. Baby feet are ok though.

-I love plucking my eyebrows

-I don't like my groceries being bagged by anyone other then myself so I always try to use self checkouts. If someone else bags them I have to fix anything that looks wrong before I leave.

-I have to have socks on when I first get in bed (not in the summer though)and end up taking them off within a few minutes.

-I am scared to death of cats and if I see one outside I will not go out.

Yikes, I'm pretty odd LOL.

 

[cteddiesgirl]

I have to put on chapstick every night before bed. Can't sleep without it.

I do this too.

I also get upset if my movies are out of order. I have over 3000 titles. When people come over, they are welcome to watch whatever I have. But, if they get them out of order, I pitch a fit. One day my Goddaughters were going through the Disney dvds and right before they left, I noticed that a number of them were out of order. I threw a fit and ended up having to apologize to them for practically yelling at them about it. Of course, the 10 yr old asked what's the difference. I had to tell her that if they're out of order, I can't find anything.
Yes, I also have a spreadsheet on my computer with every title on it and where it can be found. It's updated regularly.

I can only drink certain spring water. Some bottled water that says spring on it still tastes like it's been run through a filter. So there are only certain brands I drink unless I have no other choice. Then I'll usually choose Sprite instead.

No one can see any part of my bra when I'm outside of my home. That means if I'm wearing a tank top, I'm wearing something over it. Any fabric that is even partly see-through (even if it's only in bright sun), I have to wear something under or over it. I feel indecent if someone can see any part of my bra. But, I don't mind showing a lot of cleavage.

 

[pixiefairy]

I see a lot of us have the need to sleep with a foot hanging out of the covers...I wonder why we are like that? Maybe we were the babies that didn't like to be swaddled???

I hate wearing shoes and socks. I love summer because I can be barefoot most of the time.

I can't sleep with socks on. Even if it's super cold and I go to sleep with socks..somehow in my sleep, I pull them off.

I have my night time ritual - take out contacts (right then left), remove eye make up, wash face, brush teeth, apply lotion. My dh makes fun of me because it has to be in that order.

I am paranoid about leaving doors open or unlocked or the garage door open. If I think we forgot, I'll drive around the block to check. And at work, when I lock up the store...I recheck the doors 3 or 4 times, then drive back to the doors and check again. (glad I do this because an associate forgot to lock one side a few months ago and had I not checked, it would have been BAD).

If I'm alone...I HAVE to have something to read while I'm eating. I can't stand not having something to look at if I have no one to talk to.

I can't clean the fridge...it makes me sick.

In the summer months..I MUST wear an ankle bracelet on my left ankle. If I forget it, I feel naked. I'm similarly strange with the need to have a necklace, earrings, bracelet, ring on my right hand on before going anywhere.

I never leave the house without make up - like a pp...I gave birth to all my kids in full make up. Not heavy....but there. Similarly...when I was in labor with my five year old...my dh ran into a store for munchies while I sat in the car, calmly applying make up between contractions.

 

[illuminationsfanatic]

I do many of the "freakish" things already listed Another one of mine is that I have to sleep with 2 pillows and when I'm lying in bed, the openings of the pillow cases have to be facing the left. I'm convinced I have bad dreams if they're any other way

 

[r1lissa]

Weird how so many of us have the same feet aversion and grocery grouping "problems".
Hmmm....birds of a feather...

 

[Liberty Belle]

I don't say "God" in vain, such as in "Oh my God" (I realize I just typed it ) not because I'm religious (because I'm not whatsoever) but because I know it offends others. Often, however, people think I am when I say "Oh my goodness".

I drench my hot dogs in ketchup.

If I ever get a drink with ice to go, I make sure it comes in a paper cup because I'm convinced that the ice melts faster when it's in a plastic cup.

I NEVER blow dry my hair, it takes at least 5 hours to fully dry... so I usually take showers at night.

I like the smell of gas.

My clocks are set to a 24 hour clock for no reason other than I feel like it.

I NEED individual time while on vacation. Not because I dislike the person I am with but because I like to explore things alone in order to take in the most of it and to do things at my own pace.

I wash my sheets 3-4 times a week. Not because they're dirty, I just think they are.

Hmm...I wonder if that's true. It would be a good science experiment!

 

[Liberty Belle]

I have some synesthesia. It's not too bad, but all numbers and letters are colored. When I see them/read them/hear them, they automatically pop up in my head (visually) and they're colored. Different colors for each (1 is a pale yellow, two is navy blue, three is bright yellow, four is brown...)

 

[Scoobmuzic]

I remember a similar thread to this quite a while ago and that’s where the tag fairy got me. LOL I seriously can’t stand a fork that is not curved properly, I just can’t eat with a flat fork. If I am at a restaurant, I will ask the server for another fork.

The thing that drives my DH the most batty is that I have to cut everything into small bite size pieces before I will eat it, he claims it means my food will be cold before I’m done but I don’t care, everything must be bite sized. Everything also has to have the label facing forward in the pantry; I think this quirk comes from when I worked in a grocery store.

The bed doesn’t have to be made when I leave the house but the covers have to be at least pulled to the top, if DH was still in bed when I left in the morning, I do it when I get home, even if it’s late.

I know there are more but I can't think of them right now.

 

[maslex]

I do many of the "freakish" things already listed Another one of mine is that I have to sleep with 2 pillows and when I'm lying in bed, the openings of the pillow cases have to be facing the left. I'm convinced I have bad dreams if they're any other way

O...M...G... I do this too!!! I don't know what it is but....maybe because I lay on my left side and can't stand to have the open part toward my face? But yeah, that's a good one!!!

 

[laracroft]

So many of you are like me!!!

*** No feet touching at all. Don't touch my feet, don't touch me anywhere with your feet, baby feet are adorable.

***Liver makes me gag, literally the smell, texture or taste and I will hurl.

***I eat Skittles by color, least favorite first, and always end with lemon.

***I have to go to sleep on the right side with a pillow between my legs and one foot out.

***I don't let anyone else put any groceries away because I do it a certain way.

***When I get up first thing I have to do is go straight to the coffee pot and turn it on, even if my bladder is about to burst, coffee 1st.

*** No one can touch my plate once I have my food on it. And don't ask for a bite. Don't reach over and "try" a bite.

***I only eat condiments on one side of the bread, always the top. I can't eat anything on the bottom of hamburgers or sandwiches.

 

[natcat117]

--I also hate feet. I don't like to touch my feet with other people. It creeps me out. I also have to see a guy's feet before I decide I can like him (he can't have ugly feet).

--I don't like to be the last person standing in a single-file line, especially in enclosed spaces. I'm afraid someone will come up and scare / grab me. Space Mountain, for example, freaks me out like crazy because I'm often in the back.

--Sometimes when I read something like a billboard, I have to read all of it. No skimming or skipping lines or words. It's the same way with the labels on canned food or cereal boxes.

--I'm afraid of tiny holes in clusters. It's called "trypophobia".

--I get paranoid if I don't have a chapstick or lip balm with me at all times.

--No matter how hot it is, if I'm lying on a bed, I need to have something covering me.

 

[DVC-Don]

You people are nuts!

Some folks think vegetarians, in general, are freaks.

YES!

My cousins wife is what we call a part time vegetarian. When she is in "veggie mode" she is rabid about it, but then out of the blue she'll be eating steak and meat like crazy for months. Although when we she is at a restaurant she'll be constantly sending her meat back for various reasons. She is also anti microwave. Does not have one in her house, will not eat anything microwaved. If she is at someones house and they use theirs, she will go outside till it's done. She used to be a 1st grade school teacher, but would not hold a baby until she had hers (at age 40). She just signed her son up for a school where he will not have to learn anything until he asks to.

I also had a friend who did not like his food to touch on the plate and would only eat the food one at a time. After a hitch in the US Marines this phobia was gone.