The silly little things that we do

Dirk Diggler

Dirk Diggler

Dirk Diggler

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I've just realised how ridiculously silly my sense of humour is at times. Our IE at work defaults to Bing, and I always do a search for Google then proceed from there. I could easily bookmark it, but I get a little glow at the thought of it.

Also, when the TV is on I might not be watching it (background noise) but when something like Eastenders comes on I'll make sure I switch it over as I don't want to contribute to the viewing figures.

Any confessions from you lot?
 
I always and I mean always no matter be it at home, hotel, friends house etc have to make sure the curtains are closed with the left one over lapping the right one before I can go to sleep. All drawers and closet doors must be closed too.

On honeymoon a few years back we stayed in a hotel for 4 nights in a place called Contis Plage in France that only had shutters. The only sleep I got was on night 3 when I basically passed out from exhaustion!!

I have other 'special' idiosyncrasies!
 
Thekwango said:
On honeymoon a few years back we stayed in a hotel for 4 nights in a place called Contis Plage in France that only had shutters. The only sleep I got was on night 3 when I basically passed out from exhaustion!!
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This reminded me of a time in the mid to late 80s, I was involved with an American girl, and I was in Wildwood N.J., visiting with her, when one morning she said, “Jean, are you getting all Righteous Brothers on my ass?”
I said, “Give me a break, I’m just a poor Limey, what does that mean?”, and she said “last night we were making love, and you went to sleep while I was on top, are you ‘Losing that Loving Feeling’?”
 
I generally walk about on auto pilot.

Few years ago finished work in early hours & decided not to head to the pub for once (my regular has a 24 hour licence, kicks folk out at 0200 unless members, if staff were inclined to stay serving. Have left as late as 0800-0900 at times :D ), so to make sure I didn't nip in, I took a longer diversion back to the house.

Walking down one street I heard someone shout my name & say "You had the same idea I did then? Quick pint or three."

Looked up, saw a mate. Then looked around & realised I'd diverted from my diversion & had auto piloted back towards the pub.

Ah welp, already en route, be rude not to ;)
 
Fishbait said:
I generally walk about on auto pilot.

Few years ago finished work in early hours & decided not to head to the pub for once (my regular has a 24 hour licence, kicks folk out at 0200 unless members, if staff were inclined to stay serving. Have left as late as 0800-0900 at times :D ), so to make sure I didn't nip in, I took a longer diversion back to the house.

Walking down one street I heard someone shout my name & say "You had the same idea I did then? Quick pint or three."

Looked up, saw a mate. Then looked around & realised I'd diverted from my diversion & had auto piloted back towards the pub.

Ah welp, already en route, be rude not to ;)
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Hahaha I've done this :D
 
terley said:
If i am standing still i rock side to side.. dunno why, i just do..
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I have always been a bit weird but have noticed that as one gets older, I am in my 60's that this increases at an alarming rate.
 
When placing shopping on the checkout conveyor belt I always start with items that go in the fridge. Specifically main meal items that have a general rectangular shape. It used to drive my wife mad as I would hunt the trolley for all these items first and get irritated if anything else went on. She now knows the routine.

I'm trying to order the items as I see in my mind how they will sit best in the bags for life and also group the like items for optimum unpacking once home. I will frequently move the order of items my wife is putting on the belt not because they are the wrong type but because I can see how they will fit together more optimally once they go from horizontal to vertical in the bag.

After all the standard shaped fridge items are on the belt I follow with irregular shaped fridge items such as bagged vegetables but keeping an eye for shape and order opportunities.

Bag one should now be ordered correctly and its onto item's for Bag two. This bag contains non fridge items but again must start with anything boxed such as cereal or anything with regular solid shapes that can lock together.

Then I race to the end to start packing and I'm literally playing 3D Tetris, layering items up in the bag trying to leave zero gaps and get a perfect vertical pack.

Certain checkout people will give you the items in the order you placed them on the belt which is awesome. Other checkout people reach over and give you say an irregular shaped item from further back first! This is annoying and you have to decide if there is an opportunity to pack that item now without throwing the whole bag out of whack, or if it must be held back till it can be placed into the bag at it's optimal intended time.

Sometimes the items will slot in just perfectly I get an amazing foundation going and it all just stacks incredibly uniform in the bags. It's incredibly satisfying and I will sometimes comment "That is a really good pack" to the wife if it's a particularly good one. I then get a second buzz when unpacking the bags once home. If it was done correctly all like items are together and go into the fridge layer by layer on their intended shelves.

Everyone I'm sure does this to a degree but it is like an obsession for me. I'm not really like this with anything else in life. I've no idea why I am so obsessive over this.
 
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I have to make sure that the downstairs and upstairs hallway double switches line up. They both have to be pointing in the downwards or upwards position when switched off. If they are out of sync then i cant stop thinking about it until it have sorted them.

I also have to make sure that the bathroom door is closed every night. If it is open I wont sleep.
 
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