Strange Addictions
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From: Bixby, OK
I always count anything and everything.. when I'm a passenger in a car I count other cars, even on long trips. If i'm the driver then I count the white lines. I constantly am making things with numbers, when looking at license plates I figure out a way to make all the numbers equal one another and if they don't, I figure in the letters, and how many numbers up the letters is, like the letter H is 8, and I is 9.. and so on.
I also like everything to be equal, if I have M&M's, I'll split them up by color and if they don't all have the same amount, I'll eat some to make each color have the same amount, and then I eat one of each color at a time when they all equal eachother. Also, whenever I do something with one hand, I have to do it with the other. Or if I start out walking with one foot, the next time that I start walking, I start with the other foot.
I know I'm weird.
I also like everything to be equal, if I have M&M's, I'll split them up by color and if they don't all have the same amount, I'll eat some to make each color have the same amount, and then I eat one of each color at a time when they all equal eachother. Also, whenever I do something with one hand, I have to do it with the other. Or if I start out walking with one foot, the next time that I start walking, I start with the other foot.
I know I'm weird.
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From: The Big, Oregon
Ok, when I walk on the sidewalk, each crack or gap MUST fall into the gap between the sole and heel of my boots. Also, I count lug nuts. Every vehicle I walk by, or when somebody pulls up next to me at a light, I count the lug nuts on their vehicle. When I walk in the same direction as the crane tracks in the yard, one foot on the rail, the other on the cement next to the rail. My tv always must be at the quietest level I can comfortably hear it at, but the stereo/ surround sound system must be loud enough the neighbors can hear it.
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Joined: Jan 2005
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From: Logan, UT
Im the same way as ford_six on a couple of things. The sidewalk crack thing only works for a few strides and you get out of step, that bugs the crap out of me and sometimes i will jump to set myself right again. And the lug nut thing, i dont know what my facination is with bolt patterns.
The Pacifier
Joined: Jan 2003
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From: Cloverdale, BC
Geez, what a bunch of weirdos.
Just kidding.
When going up stairs, I try to take 2 steps at a time and arrive at the landing on my right foot. If I forget at the start, I still, somehow, arrive at the landing with my right foot.
On the bathroom thing, it's brush teeth, take a seat, shower, then shave, in that order.
When I eat packaged cookies, I hate when the row is off. The row has to be either full or empty. So I usually end up eating 9 cookies at a time. (Ask me how I know there's 9.) Oreo's are eaten in 2 or 3 bites. 50-50 for 2 bites, or 50-25-25 for 5 bites. And I never split them to eat the filling first.
When I watch tv, I surf the channels in a particular order. Like 42, 34, 55, 57, 39, 45, and 54, then I start pressing the down arrow. If I don't find anything, I start the whole thing over. This annoys my wife to no end, since her channels are 11 to 16 and 21.
I have to clean my pop cans with hot tap water before I return them for my deposit. Well, I don't have to, but I hate handling sticky pop and beer cans. I don't know why I use hot tap water.
All our paid bills get filed away in a filing box, except credit card bills. Those get burned in our fireplace with our bank statements.
I'm sure there's more, but we'll have to see what someone else comes up with to trigger my memory.
Just kidding.
When going up stairs, I try to take 2 steps at a time and arrive at the landing on my right foot. If I forget at the start, I still, somehow, arrive at the landing with my right foot.
On the bathroom thing, it's brush teeth, take a seat, shower, then shave, in that order.
When I eat packaged cookies, I hate when the row is off. The row has to be either full or empty. So I usually end up eating 9 cookies at a time. (Ask me how I know there's 9.) Oreo's are eaten in 2 or 3 bites. 50-50 for 2 bites, or 50-25-25 for 5 bites. And I never split them to eat the filling first.
When I watch tv, I surf the channels in a particular order. Like 42, 34, 55, 57, 39, 45, and 54, then I start pressing the down arrow. If I don't find anything, I start the whole thing over. This annoys my wife to no end, since her channels are 11 to 16 and 21.
I have to clean my pop cans with hot tap water before I return them for my deposit. Well, I don't have to, but I hate handling sticky pop and beer cans. I don't know why I use hot tap water.
All our paid bills get filed away in a filing box, except credit card bills. Those get burned in our fireplace with our bank statements.
I'm sure there's more, but we'll have to see what someone else comes up with to trigger my memory.
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Originally Posted by wyomingaggie
Loud trucks...I'm almost getting to the age where I'd look a lot more sensible in a vehicle with stock exhaust, but right now I own a straight-piped PSD and a '70 Cst-10 with dual glass packs coming straight back from the headers, and I know if I buy another diesel I'm going to cut the muffler off as soon as I get it home. I can see myself in 40 years, a 64 year-old woman in a straight piped diesel...I just can't seem to stop it!
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Chess-I am addicted to chess. I never played the game, not even once the first 30 years of my life. For the past 5 years the game has had it hold on me. Thank God for internet chess cause my wife won't play chess with me anymore. I always beat her even though she plays a good game and is always a challenge. I play chess, go to chess club, read chess magazines. I even freak out when a commercial has people playing chess in it. My birthday cakes are chess boards with plastic pieces on top. I have a huge collection of chess books, boards and software.
My other addiction is list making. I am a compulsive list maker. I must have a to-do list. Even if I have done something I write it on a list just to cross it off.
My other addiction is list making. I am a compulsive list maker. I must have a to-do list. Even if I have done something I write it on a list just to cross it off.
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From: Cincinnati Ohio
Originally Posted by stu37d
I count things... Like the steps I'm traveling up (or down). I knew how many steps there were on every ladder on the ship. I also count the steps between cracks in the sidewalk. Things like that. I, too, wondered if it was a compulsion, but I don't really think so, because I don't have to start over if I lose count, or anything really weird like that.
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From: inver grove heights MN
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From: Perkasie, Pa.
I'm was addicted to the video game Diablo 2 for a while. Boy that thing had a grip on me for a while. Lost alot of sleep at the keyboard with that game. I'm over it now. Only play it once in a while, until the sequal comes out.
