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rumple
2,527 posts
20 months
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The wife says I make funny straining noises sometimes, worryingly I don't know I'm doing this, I did catch someone staring at me like I was loopy the other week........wonder if I'm doing it now.
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Stu R
19,536 posts
84 months
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Another 'walker' here. I'm terrible for it when I'm on the phone.
I also have to ensure there's order to the pattern left on the carpet by vacuum cleaners rather than a mess of chaotic lines all over the room, have to put my right shoe on before the left, and remove the middle bit of bun from big macs. I think that's about as weird as I get on a daily basis.
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Zwolf
22,321 posts
75 months
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I have a Pavlovian reaction to my phone ringing, which is to immediately tell it to f  k off, immediately prior to answering the call. Note it, not the caller. OK, sometimes the caller for disturbing my peace. 
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dontdropthesoap
35 posts
40 months
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For me it's stuff like having the volume on the tv/radio on an even number.
When on my computer at work, outlook has to be first on the task bar. If I close it down by mistake,
Everything else has to be shut down so I can reopen outlook first.
I also count steps. I know how many steps are on each staircase at work. By the end of my first day on holiday, I know
How many steps it is to my room from reception etc.
I think I'm a bit weird.
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miniman
16,015 posts
131 months
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Zwolf said: I have a Pavlovian reaction to my phone ringing, which is to immediately tell it to f k off, immediately prior to answering the call. Note it, not the caller. OK, sometimes the caller for disturbing my peace. I have this reaction to noise in general, but especially phones and things being dropped.
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Zwolf
22,321 posts
75 months
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miniman said: I have this reaction to noise in general, but especially phones and things being dropped. It does also extend to things being dropped on the wooden floors at home. Usually a remote control, by the wife. Every single day.
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Kermit power
Original Poster
14,883 posts
82 months
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0a said: Out walking if there is a stile and a gate I always use the stile no matter how inconvenient.
I have NEVER used the gate when a stile is available. I feel something very bad would happen if I did. That "something bad will happen" feeling!!!!! When I was at uni, a couple of mates and I decided it would be a great idea to watch The Wall whilst we enjoyed a few spliffs and a bag of mushrooms. About half way through, we decided we really didn't want to carry on watching it in the state we were in by then, but somehow, seemingly without any discussion on the matter, we all decided that if we didn't see it through right to the very, very end, then The World WouldEnd!! In the interest of the continued existence off all of you lot (amongst others) we therefore selflessly scared ourselves witless watching it all, right up to the point where the video started rewinding itself. We did the credits, the black bit after the credits, everything. Just in cas. At that point, my flatmate and I set off back to our place. It is difficult to explain just how much the quiet Liverpool suburb of Aigburth feels like the World Has Ended when you're tripping at 3am on a Monday morning!  Surprisingly, the minicab dispatcher at Lark Lane taxis gave the impression that students hugging him in relief that the world hadn't in fact ended was a regular occurrence. 
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nagsheadwarrior
935 posts
48 months
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dontdropthesoap said: For me it's stuff like having the volume on the tv/radio on an even number.
When on my computer at work, outlook has to be first on the task bar. If I close it down by mistake,
Everything else has to be shut down so I can reopen outlook first.
I also count steps. I know how many steps are on each staircase at work. By the end of my first day on holiday, I know
How many steps it is to my room from reception etc.
I think I'm a bit weird. Im the same with the volume number,has to be even or it does me head in, same with even numbers of reps and resistance levels on the machines at the gym,very annoying having to go 2 levels harder not one! Whenever I park I have to have the last movement as a forward one, this doesnt work well when lining up the forecourt at work so I do the lining up now and someone else does the driving!
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Meoricin
2,323 posts
38 months
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dontdropthesoap said: For me it's stuff like having the volume on the tv/radio on an even number.
When on my computer at work, outlook has to be first on the task bar. If I close it down by mistake,
Everything else has to be shut down so I can reopen outlook first.
I also count steps. I know how many steps are on each staircase at work. By the end of my first day on holiday, I know
How many steps it is to my room from reception etc.
I think I'm a bit weird. Can't you rearrange the window order by just dragging it along the bar?
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FIK
280 posts
26 months
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dontdropthesoap said: For me it's stuff like having the volume on the tv/radio on an even number.
When on my computer at work, outlook has to be first on the task bar. If I close it down by mistake,
Everything else has to be shut down so I can reopen outlook first.
I also count steps. I know how many steps are on each staircase at work. By the end of my first day on holiday, I know
How many steps it is to my room from reception etc.
I think I'm a bit weird. That is a bit odd!!!! OCD maybe?
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SirBlade
496 posts
61 months
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Kermit power said: I figured out this afternoon that whenever I'm on a conference call, I have to have something wandering.
Ideally, I'll do it on my mobile and then I can just wander around the office. I can asure you, some of your peers hate you like you wouldn't believe. I used to work with a guy who did that and I wanted to stab him in the face.
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SirBlade
496 posts
61 months
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miniman said: Are you one of our telemarketers? They are utterly unable to make a call without striding round with their little Plantronics headset on. Yeah, that's the one. Everytime I see a tool (almost always low end sales type) with a headset I think of the Dork Catch and Release program. You see the headset is actually a track and release tag.
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Gorilla Boy
7,348 posts
42 months
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redtwin said: Bed sheets have to be smoothed before I get in.
Hate when people show concern for me, e.g stub toe or cut hand etc. I cry out in pain, then get really annoyed if anyone asks if I am OK or offers to look at injury. A that moment I just want to be left alone and ignored. I do the same thing with regards to concern, really confuses the OH! 
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boobles
12,163 posts
84 months
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I crack vertually every single bone in my body & it drives the gf crazy especially when I wake up during the night let rip. I can literally crack my bones up to 30 times in one sitting!
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TwigtheWonderkid
6,093 posts
19 months
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Brought up by grandparents, my grandmother had 2 very annoying traits re holidays.
1. you had to be dressed in your very best clothes to travel.
2. You had to pack as soon as you booked the holiday, even if this was months before departure. As a kid, from March to August I had nothing to wear, because it was in my suitcase ready to go away. The only think I had apart from school uniform was a suit, but I couldn't wear that because it had to be kept smart for the journey to our holiday destination!
As a result of this madness, I now have 2 bad habits.
1. I always travel like a tramp, much to the despair of my wife and kids, who pretend not to know me.
2. I don't pack until the taxi to the airport is coming down the drive, thus I forget most of what I need and drive my wife potty. I have been known to "accidentally" fall in the pool fully clothed to wash the one T shirt, pair of pants and socks I have with me.
But it's not my fault...I've been mentally scarred!
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dontdropthesoap
35 posts
40 months
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Meoricin said: Can't you rearrange the window order by just dragging it along the bar? Not with my version of windows. Most others in the office can though. They all know how much it winds me up as well.
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HarveyM
107 posts
42 months
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I'm also a wanderer when I'm on the phone. We're open plan so I do head off for a quiet corner. The stairwell is a favourite, but first-come, first-served, and often there's a swarm of people passing through looking for their own quiet spot. I once made myself dizzy and sick on a long conference call by walking round a table non-stop. Not good!
Volume must always be set in multiples of 2 or 5. Odd numbers and prime numbers are evil things and a bad omen.
Items with straight edges must always be lined up. Parallel lines matter; the TV and PVR remote controls are perfectly aligned to the edge of the coffee table.
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Vocal Minority
2,107 posts
21 months
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Whenever I sit by a table or desk, off comes the watch, clasp closed, placed to my right. No reason, don't realise I do it half the time. Often glance at a blank wrist in consternation only to see my watch 2 ft away with.no idea how it hot there
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eltax91
4,313 posts
75 months
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Vocal Minority said: Whenever I sit by a table or desk, off comes the watch, clasp closed, placed to my right. No reason, don't realise I do it half the time. Often glance at a blank wrist in consternation only to see my watch 2 ft away with.no idea how it hot there This. And my ever so delightful colleagues have spotted this with me and now start to hide the watch! It's funny that moment you grasp at your wrist and feel strangely naked without your watch.
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Kermit power
Original Poster
14,883 posts
82 months
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SirBlade said: I can asure you, some of your peers hate you like you wouldn't believe.
I used to work with a guy who did that and I wanted to stab him in the face. If they do - which I doubt - then it has nothing to do with my telephone habits. I suspect they reserve their hatred for people who sit in the open plan area on conference calls rather than booking an office or walking around an area of the office without desks in it.
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