Thread: Silly habits, annoying habits & bizarre habits.

My O/H is fair skinned, chances are, when we are on a sunbed slob-out holiday, that no matter how well he slaps on the factor 30, he will mildly burn. When his skin starts to peel, I cannot leave it alone. I have to see how much I can peel of his shoulders without breaking the skin. How sad is that? Or, are you the same?
Here's a wierd paradox: Why do I get some sort of theraputic satisfaction popping the air bubbles on a piece of bubble-wrap, yet get annoyed when hubby pops chewing gum, by sucking the bubble inwards, making the 'pop' sound more like a loud bang inside his mouth?
As a child, for some reason that escapes me, it was bad luck, or some other superstition to tread on a cracked paving slab. I still do that, avoid cracked slabs.
Tell me I'm sad, or tell me I'm not alone.
Warren, picking badger hairs off your suit is a silly habit, picking anything else off the badger is censored. OK?

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Oh I have loads of weird habits.

I have to eat food in a certain order.
If I have a route I walk regularly (eg to uni) I have to go the EXACT same way each time, even down to wear I cross the road.
I make a poppy sound with my lips like a goldfish.
I meep loudly in alarm.
I pick at my nails.
I can't walk on three drains.
I have to be the first one to read a magazine I've bought- it really really irritates me if someone else reads it first. Even flicking through. I got that from my mum.

I probably have more.

You are not alone! On another forum I'm a member of there was a very very long thread on this exact subject not too long ago. And the things some people mentioned were far more weird than what you've said!

My weirdest habit was probably something I had when I was a child: I had to do things symmetrically. I couldn't stand it if I'd scratched my head with my right hand (for example) and not scratched the same spot on the other side of my head with my left hand (even though I would obviously only be itchy on the one spot). It mainly concerned my hands and feet, but my limbs and occasionally, the rest of my body could also 'have it'. I wondered where this came from for years, though luckily it faded over time and I don't have it at all now (though I can still very much remember what it felt like).

Only a year ago or so I told my mum this and she had the explanation! As a young child I spent a lot of time at my grandparents', as both my parents worked full time. My grandfather was born left handed and back when he was in school, they would force you to use your right hand (he stayed a right handed writer all his life after this). I don't know what they did to make him use his right hand but apparently he was pretty traumatised by the experience . Now I was born right handed, but as a baby/young child whenever I picked up something with my left hand and my grandfather saw it, he'd put it in my right hand. This was, according to my mother, due to his trauma. I think she even explained to him that I must be right handed as I sucked my right thumb, but he'd still say "no, no, she HAS to use her right hand! No one should go through what I went through!" (I really should ask my mum if she knows any more details on this)

It may seem a little odd to develop a weird habit out of this like I did (I must've been very young too, I can't remember this behaviour by my granddad at all!) but there you go! It IS pretty weird isn't it?

My dad had a similar experience . He's Danish.
Although a natural left-hander he too was forced to write with his right hand at school. As a result his handwiting is still appalling and he does EVERYTHING else (except write) with his left hand.
As Holland is close to Denmark maybe it was a regional 'thing'. My dad would have been at school in the 50's so not too long ago really.

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PixieParasol

Ahh, I just assumed it was the standard procedure 'back in the day', but it may well have been a regional thing (although I'm not sure where my granddad lived was closer to Denmark than to the UK for example, actually, haha). When talking about his school days I think we're looking at the late twenties/early thirties. I should also really ask my mum whether this kind of thing still went on in the fifties when she was in school!

My granddad had a very legible handwriting, but it was a little strange at times. I think he would write some letters the wrong way around (for example, the bottom half of his 'j' and 'g' would swing to the right rather than the left).

I just thought of a weird habit I have nowadays: when I see something on TV that I find highly embarrassing (think of auditions for shows such as X-factor... they can be VERY embarrassing) I start making weird noises and if it gets really bad, I start running through the room! How odd is that! It doesn't even concern me but I feel so embarrassed for these people (especially if they don't realise how embarrassed they should really be) that I physically feel embarrassed myself!!

Originally Posted by Anna Petrovia

I don't know what they did to make him use his right hand but apparently he was pretty traumatised by the experience .

If it was anything like my grandad, it involved tieing his left hand to the back of his school chair, vicious bullying for the entire of his school days (because it had the taint of evil) and the occasional clout round the head on a good day.

Torture and violence for being a southpaw. Glad it's not like that nowadays...

Miss.
Left handed.

My god, that sounds terrible! I think it must've been something equally horrible they did to my grandad since he still had issues with it about sixty years later (when I was little).

i don't think i have any out of the ordinary habits but, when im in college i have to sit at the same computer or i feel as though im not working as well as i can yesterday a new guy came in and he sat in my seat and it made me feel quite odd lol!

when i brush my teeth i kind of do this strange thing were i twirl about on the spot, don't know why i do it but ive done it as long as i can remember.

as for the forcing lefties to write with their right hand my friends mum forced her to write with her right hand and that was only in the 80's! what is the big deal with being lefthanded?

Hmmmmmmmmmm, as I am a CD, when I dress I put my tights or stockings on first, then bra then knickers....Always have done it that way....

What else.........

Sucking Louises toes.....(severe foot fetish I am afraid!)

Buying tools I don't need.

Buying multicoloured fishing floats that I don't need or use.

Buying different size screws "Just in case".

Buying Ink Sticks for my Chinese painting when I have enough to stock a shop, same with brushes and paper!

Buying millions more water colour paint than I really need coz I like to look at the pretty tubes and pans in the box.......sad, yes, I know.

I fixate on one subject or hobby to the exclusion of everything else till I either learn it or get pissed of with it. (this came from Louise, it is my WORST fault, been like it for about 20 years now)

Buying recharable batteries..........By the dozen! Just incase..........

When I was doing film photography I would buy at least 2 dozen 36 exposure 35mm Fuji Velvia films from Ebey every week...............Now, that IS stoopid!

And, if I get something in the post what is wrapped in the BIG bubble wrap...........I have to dance on the bubbles to music till they are all burst.................TRY IT some time!!! It's brill!

Nope the left hand thing is not a regional thing. Here in the South, if you were left hande, as early as the 50's, you were touched by the devil. Bless thier puritanical hearts. In some of the more rual areas the sigma still clings. But a least in the schools they let lefties be lefties.

I too cannot leave a bubble unpopped, much to the annoyance of my S/O.

But I think my weirdest habit is I have to break my bread into pieces and roll each peice into a ball before eating it..................sandwitches annoy me.