Tell about a quirk

[Tigger&Belle]

I'm wearing socks with small holes, but couldn't throw them away when I put them on this morning and saw the holes, because I don't like to throw away clean socks or undies. The problem is, I will likely forget to throw them away when I take them off later, will wash them, and will then again not want to throw them away.

Have I mentioned that I hate wearing socks with holes?

 

[Cantw8]

OK, I don't like any of the food on my plate to touch. I have built little paper towel dams around applesauce and brocolli with cheese sauce just so it wouldn't leak into any of my meat or other veggies

 

[Tigger&Belle]

OK, I don't like any of the food on my plate to touch. I have built little paper towel dams around applesauce and brocolli with cheese sauce just so it wouldn't leak into any of my meat or other veggies

One day 3 of us DISers met for lunch at a Mexican restaurant (and of course Mex restaurants are famous for touching food)...DISer 1 got her plate of food and immediately separated everything. No paper towel dams , but there were definite piles of food. DISer 2 all but put her food in a blender and mixed it up. I was sitting there watching these 2 wackadoodles , wondering how bad they must be if I was beginning to think that I was the normal one. And seriously, I don't think that either extreme is too uncommon.

Now to see if DISer 1 and 2 identifies themselves if and when they read this.

 

[apirateslifeforme]

My quirk is that I can't stand if someone touches my ears! I flip out on people if they do, and I've gone so far as to ask the doctor's office to please use an oral thermometer when I visit.

 

[lisadr]

I can't touch chalk. *shudder* I don't even want to think about it

 

[Bluestars]

My quirk is that I check to see if the doors are locked and the garage doors are down multiple times before I go to bed. Checking once is not enough. But in my defense, there have been several times when I checked the garage door and it was down only to check again later and find it up. That is because my husband will go outside to get something and forget to close it.

 

[imabrat]

I can only sleep in shorts. If I wear pants, the legs will roll up and bother me all night.

 

[Diva of Dragons]

I have an aversion to metal. I can't stand the smell of it, the feel of it etc... Brass, copper and aluminum are the worst. Just the thought of the feel or sound of metal on metal makes me go . When people bite their forks while eating, I can actually gag. I only eat off plasticware at home (and some of our friend's houses). I do eat off metal silverware in restaurants but I can't let it touch my teeth.

OH! I just thought of a new diet.......install all stainless steel appliances in my kitchen. I'd never wander in there for random snackage ever again!!!

 

[Diznotyzed]

I don't like to leave magazines with head shots of people on the cover face up in a room I'm sleeping in. It feels like those large faces are looking at me.

 

[OK!]

I can't stand onions on hamburgers or pizza or things like that, but I love onion rings.

 

[JB111107]

I can't stand onions on hamburgers or pizza or things like that, but I love onion rings.

That would be me! DH thinks I'm crazy, but onion rings are the ONLY way I like onions.

I have aversions to some foods, and I've never tasted some of them, but I can't overcome their appearance. Okra would be one of those. The fuzziness of them literally turns my stomach. Guacamole, which is fabulous, I cant eat if I look at it. All kinds of fish/seafood-but then I had a traumatic experience with shrimp and fish as a teenager and being an exchange student in a foreign country. I can't touch the stuff, no matter how good it might be.

 

[Dax]

Cannot sleep in a room with open closets...Doors MUST be shut...tight...

I also will not eat certain foods, because of the texture of it.

 

[JoyG]

I cannot swallow pills.

Every meal I eat goes down just fine, but if you ask me to swallow a pill it lodges in my throat. Even the tiny ones. I have to bite them once and swallow the pieces. I would prefer to have a needle than swallow a pill.

 

[Sinderelli]

While grocery shopping, I NEVER take the first item in a row. I always reach in the back for the milk, or the cans of soup, etc. I do this for everything! It drives me crazy, because I know someone else probably did the same thing and I am actually getting the item that was FIRST in line but.....I can't help myself.

 

[disneymcgraw]

I can't have a wet kitchen sink. I must dry it out so that there are no spots. I like it to be spotless.

We vacation with friends in the summer and they know of my quirk. They got quite a few laughs over it. Everyone has that one thing that drives them batty.

 

[Mouse House Mama]

I am a counter. I count almost everything I do and it has to be a certain number depending on the task. The funny part is that I am really bad at math!

 

[MomToARedhead]

Chalk also creeps me out, too. When I was a child, I hated gettin called to the chalkboard to do a math problem.

I don't like to sleep with pillows under my head. I like to use them as a body pillow, but I like my head flat on the bed with a pillow over my forehead, to keep my hair from blowing into my face from the fan that I can't sleep without, even in the dead of winter.

 

[Missy1961]

One of my quirks is one of my tags ("can't travel in old underwear & socks") and came from a thread like this!

I always have to drink water after I eat ice cream. I blame that one on my father because when I was a kid I noticed he did it, so I had to do it too.

 

[Missy1961]

Another quirk of mine--I hate killing threads!

 

[chrisw127]

When I go into someone's house, I always notice if their baseboards are dusty or not. It's terribly OCD. What's worse is I kind of want to clean them.

In case you're wondering, most people have dirty baseboards.