Little-known Things About You?

cosmonutcosmonut
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in General Discussion edited January 2014
What are some things in your life that hardly anyone knows about you but you feel really are significant little quirks or routines?



For me:
  • I can't walk down stairs without looking at them or holding onto a railing. My sense of spacial reasoning sucks enough that I'd probably kill myself if I didn't have these safeguards.

  • I almost always carry around a Chap Stick with me. I can't stand for my lips to go dry, and if I would slowly go crazy if I had no relief immediately available. Some of my closest friends have gotten to the point of asking me, "Can I use your Chap Stick?" because they know I have one very near me at all times.

  • Even though I'm a 24 year-old white male, I watch "The Young and The Restless" (a soap opera). My mom hooked me on it during the summers off of school when I was a kid, and I've followed it ever since.

  • When eating Oreos, I don't twist the halves apart. I simply completely submerge the cookie (with my fingers partially in the milk) to let it soak a bit and then eat it.

So let's hear about you!
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  • Reply 1 of 52
    magicfingersmagicfingers Posts: 703member
    I am with you on the chap stick thing, and I really don't like any other brand of lip moisturizer.

    Other than that I would just be bragging about myself, so I'll stop at that.

    Randy
  • Reply 2 of 52
    messiahtoshmessiahtosh Posts: 1,754member
    I wash my hair more than two times a day, sometimes not even taking a shower, just washing the hair.



    I only listen to slow music while doing my homework.



    Sometimes I just write for the hell of it, I have hundreds of files of poetry and editorials in my documents folder. Some of it has never been seen by anyone but me. I also write in a notebook.



    I am a toiletries fanatic, I have sooo many pomades, gels, toothpastes, soaps, deoderants...etc.



    I sleep with 2 pillows.



    I dont like jeans but I wear them because everyone else does, I admit to conformity on that one!
  • Reply 3 of 52
    xenuxenu Posts: 204member
    I can wiggle the little toe on my right foot.
  • Reply 4 of 52
    akumulatorakumulator Posts: 1,111member
    I can fly.
  • Reply 5 of 52
    cooopcooop Posts: 390member
    My real name is Jason.
  • Reply 6 of 52
    billybobskybillybobsky Posts: 1,914member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by Akumulator

    I can fly.



    and i can touch the sky.



    or rather is it touching me.



    I dont like when the sky touched me.
  • Reply 7 of 52
    discocowdiscocow Posts: 603member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by billybobsky

    I dont like when the sky touched me.



    I was raped by the sky when I was four.
  • Reply 8 of 52
    trumptmantrumptman Posts: 16,464member
    In high school I was on the football AND in the marching band. I started for 3.5 years and up until I was a junior, I would play the entire frosh-soft game, then put on a band uniform and go march the half-time show during the Varsity game.



    I was an extra on a Power Rangers episode.



    I marched in the Hollywood Christmas Parade.
  • Reply 9 of 52
    willoughbywilloughby Posts: 1,457member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by DiscoCow

    I was raped by the sky when I was four.



    George Lucas raped my childhood.
  • Reply 10 of 52
    logan calelogan cale Posts: 1,281member
    I've been on two magazine covers.



    I talk to my imaginary friends. And I answer myself back.



    I also take chapstick everywhere.



    I wrote an AI so I could have a friend.



    Um...probably lots of stuff.
  • Reply 11 of 52
    nebulousnebulous Posts: 193member
    I am afraid of fungus. Really, I don't know why... perhaps I was a tree in a past life. It started when I would mow the lawn back home. There was this giant patch of mushrooms that made me really uncomfortable. Eventually there was a 12 foot radius of really tall grass around them. I get chills just thinking about it!



    I have 2 tear ducts in my left eye. The optometrist noticed it a few years ago. It makes sense - if I cry, the tears fall from that eye faster than from the other one.



    I still really enjoy reading children's books. Sometimes I'd just rather read about Curious George than do any of my school assigned reading.



    Whenever I doodle in my class notes, I almost always draw eyes. It is also almost always a left eye.
  • Reply 12 of 52
    scottscott Posts: 7,431member
    I can wiggle my ears independently.
  • Reply 13 of 52
    carol acarol a Posts: 1,043member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by CosmoNut

    What are some things in your life that hardly anyone knows about you but you feel really are significant little quirks or routines?



    For me:[list][*]I can't walk down stairs without looking at them or holding onto a railing. My sense of spacial reasoning sucks enough that I'd probably kill myself if I didn't have these safeguards. [*]I almost always carry around a Chap Stick with me. I can't stand for my lips to go dry, and if I would slowly go crazy if I had no relief immediately available. Some of my closest friends have gotten to the point of asking me, "Can I use your Chap Stick?" because they know I have one very near me at all times.[list]

    So let's hear about you!



    I go to the movies with friends on weekends. But every springtime, I get the hankering to go by myself on Wednesdays.



    Wednesdays because it's free popcorn day at AMC for *moviewatcher* card holders.



    But I have a routine. I leave directly from school, drive clear across town (on the freeway) to a mall that I think is architecturally well-designed and charmingly landscaped. There's sort of a tunnel of trees one has to walk through, and in the springtime, those trees are covered with fragrant yellow flowers. It's beautiful, and makes me happy to see such loveliness.



    First, I buy my ticket. Then I buy a newspaper and go upstairs to the food court, to the Cajun Grill, and order their fantastic bourbon chicken. This chicken is sublimely yummy. I eat and read the paper. Then I go downstairs to Starbucks and have a Venti Mocha, and read the paper some more. Then I go to the movie and get my free popcorn, which I save till later during the film, 'cause I'm too full right then; and 'cause coffee and popcorn are not especially complementary.



    So, that's my Wednesday movie routine during springtime. Weird, I guess. But after a day with 140 thirteen-year-olds, I am ready for some time on my own.



    I also have the chapstick thing. I can't bear for my lips to be dry. I have chapstick everywhere. In fact, I just put some on two seconds ago. I have hand lotion everywhere, too. I like for my hands to be nice and soft, and not dry.



    Two years ago, my system got really low on iron, as it turned out. I was really, really lacking in iron. And because of that, for about three or four weeks, I became obsessed with chewing ice. I would think about chewing ice during the work day when no ice was available, and I would crave it desperately.



    I eventually learned who had the best ice 'for chewing' at all the convenience stores and fast-food drive-thru's in the vicinity. I became an ice specialist.



    It was so strange. And it was all because I was so low on iron. Weird, huh? As soon as I started taking iron supplements, the whole craving vanished within a few days.



    Btw, can anyone explain how being low on iron could make someone want to chew ice? I really don't understand it at all.
  • Reply 14 of 52
    piwozniakpiwozniak Posts: 815member
    i always have to have something to drink when smoking.



    pop, water, juice, whatever.



    i smoke about 4-5 butts/day and newer smoked one without a drink, and belive you me i have tried...



  • Reply 15 of 52
    piwozniakpiwozniak Posts: 815member
    Nebulous, can use this: "i am afraid of fungus" in my sig?



    man, that's hilarious.



  • Reply 16 of 52
    discocowdiscocow Posts: 603member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by Willoughby

    George Lucas raped my childhood.



    My childhood was raped by the ravages of capitalism. And super-repressive use-head-as-butt-plug Christianity. And hippies, beatniks, drunks, crackwhores, mono, Gypsies, carnival midgets, hunger, refined sugar, sex, violence, weather rocks, 60-watt light bulbs, chairs, wild bores, and an overactive imagination.







    Some of that was actually true. My life sucks.
  • Reply 17 of 52
    dmband0026dmband0026 Posts: 2,345member
    I'm amazed by fire trucks. I don't know what it is, but something about the flashing lights, loud sirens, and total awesomeness just captivates me. I'm 18 years old and I'm as fascinated by them as when I was 6 years old. Good thing too, because I'm going to be a fire fighter when I get older (notice I said, "get older" not grow up ) Ambulances are sweet too, so I guess the paramedic in me will have something to get excited over too.

    I have been to over 15 Dave Matthews Band concerts.

    I want to go see Phish.

    I have a secret love for Murbot.
  • Reply 18 of 52
    nebulousnebulous Posts: 193member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by piwozniak

    Nebulous, can use this: "i am afraid of fungus" in my sig?



    man, that's hilarious.













    Be my guest!



    My friends and family torment me about this. I have come home to find graphic pictures of mushrooms on my door. For my birthday this year, my parents got me candy shaped like mushrooms. I freaked out! They thought it was all in good fun, but I don't think they really understand...
  • Reply 19 of 52
    ast3r3xast3r3x Posts: 5,012member
    I figured this was a Carol A thread until I saw it wasn't her who created it!
  • Reply 20 of 52
    carol acarol a Posts: 1,043member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by Nebulous

    I am afraid of fungus. Really, I don't know why... perhaps I was a tree in a past life. It started when I would mow the lawn back home. There was this giant patch of mushrooms that made me really uncomfortable. Eventually there was a 12 foot radius of really tall grass around them. I get chills just thinking about it!





    I'm sorry, but this made me laugh so hard....especially the chills part.



    I apologize for laughing, but it's so funny the way you described it.
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