Do you have any foibles?

[singlecoil]

I have one- when I have a cooked meal I like it to be really hot when it arrives. I don’t mind if it cools down while I’m eating, or if there’s second helpings I don’t need those to be hot, virtually everything I eat I can enjoy lukewarm or cold, but I do like the initial plateful to be hot. Actually sizzling is fine.

[Warhavernet]

Foible: noun
plural noun: Foibles
1. A minor weakness or eccentricity in someone's character.


I prefer to go for a poo in my own facilities.

[ThingsBehindTheSun]

Warhavernet said:

I prefer to go for a poo in my own facilities.

Same, and I have trained myself to go before my shower in the morning. On the rare occasions this doesn't happen, I have to have a shower straight after.

I insist on having feather pillows, and at night I like to find the feathers that poke out and pull them out.

I have to have a spotlessly clean inside car. Every time I use it, I hoover the interior.

[DickyC]

If I aim for a treat in a dish or jar - a peanut, an olive, a pickled onion - that's the one I have to have. I'll chase it all over, it can't escape. That was the one I chose, that's the one i'm going to have.

[singlecoil]

DickyC said:

If I aim for a treat in a dish or jar - a peanut, an olive, a pickled onion - that's the one I have to have. I'll chase it all over, it can't escape. That was the one I chose, that's the one i'm going to have.

I’m the same though in my case it’s about not letting the chosen item win.

[dundarach]

Yes

Many and wide ranging!

From not enjoying a meal without clearing up the pans first, through making sure the bowl is clean as the food moves down, to never, ever stopping the volume on odd numbers.

Those kind of things?

[Trevor555]

Warhavernet said:

Foible: noun
plural noun: Foibles
1. A minor weakness or eccentricity in someone's character.

Oh no, I could write a book.

People noises.

Eating loudly
Eating whislt talking
Eating whilst on the phone to me
People whistling
Loud laughing
Loud people in general
Tapping noises. (fingenails see's me running away)
Any monotonous noises (even some songs on the radio)
Strangers touching me, or getting too close
People stirring their latte for ages lol (comes under tapping)

My daughter says I suffer from misophonia

It's been a royal headache for most of my life.

[Monkeylegend]

I am 73 and still shake my hands with my arms hanging by my side when something excites me or pleases me.

[bergclimber34]

People scraping cutlery on their teeth.

People playing with their food.

If I ht my nose it makes me genuinely mad and I have to HIT a wall or something!!

Public displays of over the top petting and snogging, hate it.

People talking loudly on their phone indoors.

Farty car exhausts alike Golf R, never has a sound so utterly made me want a car less.

[miniman]

Trevor555 said:

Oh no, I could write a book.

People noises.

Eating loudly
Eating whislt talking
Eating whilst on the phone to me
People whistling
Loud laughing
Loud people in general
Tapping noises. (fingenails see's me running away)
Any monotonous noises (even some songs on the radio)
Strangers touching me, or getting too close
People stirring their latte for ages lol (comes under tapping)

My daughter says I suffer from misophonia

It's been a royal headache for most of my life.

Although I think this thread is about one’s own foibles, rather than other people’s that drive us nuts, I’m 100% with you on this. The sound of people eating or drinking is just horrible.

One of mine - I hate using alarm clocks that are set to the correct time. I have mine set 20 minutes fast. Even after 40 odd years, I still love that momentary realisation that I’ve got another 20 minutes.

[Trevor555]

miniman said:

Although I think this thread is about one s own foibles, rather than other people s that drive us nuts, I m 100% with you on this.

Oh I see it as my problem, rather than blaming others.

And another, can't cope with pops ups on computers or phones lol

[Super Sonic]

'Foibles' are not 'Things that annoy you beyond reason'

[2 GKC]

bergclimber34 said:

People scraping cutlery on their teeth.

People playing with their food.

If I ht my nose it makes me genuinely mad and I have to HIT a wall or something!!

Public displays of over the top petting and snogging, hate it.

People talking loudly on their phone indoors.

Farty car exhausts alike Golf R, never has a sound so utterly made me want a car less.

Look up the word foible

[Doofus]

I have a tendency to confuse the phrase "Do you have any foibles?" with "Things that annoy you beyind reason"

[GadgeS3C]

singlecoil said:

I have one- when I have a cooked meal I like it to be really hot when it arrives. I don t mind if it cools down while I m eating, or if there s second helpings I don t need those to be hot, virtually everything I eat I can enjoy lukewarm or cold, but I do like the initial plateful to be hot. Actually sizzling is fine.

I like my food hot too.

Mrs Gadge insists that food is hot. Doesn't like cold food. Struggles to eat salads unless the weather is toasty. So why when we cook, can she then put the food on the table and then go and rearrange the furniture, make a drink, remember she had a letter to post, wash her hair...

Love her to bits, but I just don't understand. Maybe that's my foible

[TheAngryDog]

Yes, lots.

[Grumbler]

I nearly always knock my kitchen drawers shut with a sassy side twitch of my hip. Even without full hands.
I also tie my dressing gown belt in a weird (but excellent) way.
I generally enjoy my foibles.

[Warhavernet]

It's not a flaw in your character to find others' habits annoying.
A foible is something you do that others find odd.

Like Raymond's brother in the TV show, touching his food on his chin before eating it.

[ROTELLA]

When drivers all park like this I'll be the only one who has reversed in..........

[48k]

singlecoil said:

I have one- when I have a cooked meal I like it to be really hot when it arrives.

I'm not sure that wanting hot food to be served hot is a weakness or eccentricity is it? That seems a bit tautological.