Oddly refreshing?, What are your oddities? Options

[Drie]

Okay, I was re-watching an episode of Friends the other day (The One With All the Embryoes) and the guys were listing all the funky things that the girls do. For example, Chandler told them that Monica can only eat Tic Tacks in even numbers. This got me thinking, what quirky traits do we all have?

Me, I always count the number of steps, regardless of the fact that I KNOW how many steps it takes to get to my office (16). I know this number will never change, and yet, I count them every time.

Anyone else feel like sharing?

[nome]

Well, besides the oddities that come with being obbsessive-compulsive (really and truly, although I've managed to slip past the genes with a mile case), something did come up recently...

My brother and I were talking on the phone, and he wanted to know whether the Morris Center Cafeteria was the one by my building in Deseret Towers (we were meeting for lunch), or the Cannon Center. I replied that it was the Morris Center, and that the Cannon was by Helaman Halls. His reply was "Oh, right, they're opposite." Then, chuckling to himself, he started to explain what he meant. I replied that I knew exactly what he meant -- D and C are by one another in the alphabet, so opposite meant that D was with M, which C was with H.

I had though I was the only one who categorized and memorized things that way. He was completely gobsmacked.

Then I related the story to my sister, who replied halfway through that she knew exactly what he'd meant. She does the same thing. Must be in the bloodstream.



...and for a slightly more usual oddity, I eat things really weird. Like hot dogs -- I eat them cold and raw, either eating all the skin stuff first, or biting it lengthwise and eating the insides out. Apples are slightly less disgusting, but I eat it one bite deep round the center, then around on end, then the other. Then I eat the second bite deep round one end, then all round the other, then round the center. By then there's no more apple.

And about the apples... after concluding this was a very weird oddity unique to me (this conclusion was encouraged by my brother), I remarked on it to my brother-in-law, only to learn his entire family eats them the same way.