Bizarre habits

Still waiting to hear more of your bizarre habits, DB... Bet there are some corkers in there...

some probably best kept secret.......

when i lace wheels all the nipple faces have to be square to the rim.

ha, just remembered an old one.

when getting into cold water ie the ocean, where you can't just jump in, i count down in my head like they do in the thunderbirds. 5........4..........3.........2........1.....thundersbirds are go. i sometimes do this to get out of a hot shower in winter as well.

I have to do this every morning to get out of bed.... starting at 30.

Not so much a habit as some sort of Pavlovian response but the vast majority of the times I go into a bathroom to wash my hands, I feel the need to use the toilet afterwards, then need to wash my hands again.

I wank off on the tube.

Reminds me of an old joke:

While Paddy and Mick are on holiday in London they decide it would be a good idea to domate sperm. Of course it was a total disaster. Paddy missed the tube and Mick came on the bus.

Thought I'd got over this, but it happened again last night.

See Tony Blair on telly/hear him on the wireless, utter involuntary Tourettes-style "CUNT".

Have to be very careful in certain situations, like telly section of department stores.

I ride a two-wheeled self-propelled vehicular transport method as a preference.

I have lots of weird ones- most prominent is door locks, have to be opened and relocked three times, the light must be on (in my student flat-elsewhere-less important) when I do this or else it doesn't count.

I've managed to get over this for bathrooms though.

If I have a pencil in my hand, for whatever purpose, i must stroke the hair above my ear from behind the ear to the front of the ear, and then shake my head to free it up, using the point of the pencil.

When washing up I follow the exact same pattern everytime, three rotations at each level (level being 1 width of sponge) until all is covered, and only using a circular motion, and then rinse with water three times. I know this to be ecologically unfriendly, but I cannot use a bucket thingy.

Since Learning how to 'clinically' wash my hands, I must follow the six step method:

When given an exam desk, pens and pencils must line up in a sensible order with the rubber and ruler being the limiting areas for these utensils.

I'm sure there are more.

I rehearse everything i want to say, even this one :-(

I rehearse everything i want to say, even this one :-(

Yep I pretty much do the same, even retrospectively. Although that's more of a 'why the fuck did I say that?', I could have said this...

Another annoying habit is cracking knuckles. I'm making a conscious effort to stop though. I'm not sure if there are health implications, but I know it annoys the hell out of people who hear it.

mine arent nearly as weird/funny as the ones i read in here, i lol'ed now and then, A+ thread..

i cant open a door which has a metal door knob without hitting it first.
this due to the fear of getting shocked by build up static electricity

if a knife or fork has been used i cant just put it directly on the counter or table, the 'dirty' part has to stay on a plate or somerhing..

i cant stand people/something hitting my shoes, i have to rub em clean afterwards even if they didnt get dirty

I also get a kick out of the time being exactly 11.11 on the 11/11/2010 or whatever, als have this with it being 13h37 (leet hour). Or the mileage of my car hittting 77777, i even took a picture of it, wtf.

I rehearse everything i want to say, even this one :-(

Yep I pretty much do the same, even retrospectively. Although that's more of a 'why the fuck did I say that?', I could have said this...

Well what do you know, same here

typed impulsively

If I hit a tennis racket on the ground or against my shoe during a knock about I have to flip it round in my hand and hit the other side "to even it out".

If I get an email which requires a response I have to mark it as flagged first, then leave it for a bit, then respond... Some sort of neurotic mechanism to prevent stupid responses I suppose.

What is wrong with you people?

Can't respond now Will... but I've flagged it as important and will be right back to you.

What is wrong with you people?

This.

Did you ever find those cannibalkis?

if a knife or fork has been used i cant just put it directly on the counter or table, the 'dirty' part has to stay on a plate or somerhing..

i cant stand people/something hitting my shoes, i have to rub em clean afterwards even if they didnt get dirty

I do these, first one is common sense though, everyone else does it right?

Second is due to the fact that I have quite a strong attachment to my favourite shoes.

I do these, first one is common sense though, everyone else does it right?

Second is due to the fact that I have quite a strong attachment to my favourite shoes.

well apparently not cause i only noticed my obsession over it after getting in to a discussion/anger fit over a friend of mine, she kept placing the frigging fork on my counter after stirring in a pot.. fuuuuuuuuuu

and the shoes thing, yes, i'm the only one amongst friends who does this but then again i'm the only one who is a sneaker/shoe freak..

and thought of another one: i cant carry soap with me once it has opened. So on every holiday or at the end of every soccer match i have to burrow someones soap/toothpaste.. I mean, what if it were to open in my bag - the horror. I even gotten soap as a present due to this..

I love compuslive actions. Whish i had more..

Freaks!