5 weird habits
1. I kind of avoid stepping on cracks. I don't have to do it, but if I find myself walking on a sidewalk I will sometimes change my gait so as to miss the seams. Also, a lot of time when I'm on the senior walks I'll walk to the far edge or in the middle where I'm not stepping on peoples names. I do not have problems with walking on things like mosaic tile and bricks or anything a la As Good As It Gets and Monk (although sometimes if the stones are large enough I'll lazily try to keep inside them) and I don't give it a second thought when I do step on a crack...but I still kind of try not to. There is no logical reason for this, I don't think some superstitious thing will happen if I do. I think it's left over from the games I used to play when walking to grade school by myself and got bored (I lived 3 blocks away). I forget I'm doing it most of the time.
2. You know when there are two lights to a room and you turn the lights on with one and off with the other and it changes to down being "on" and up being "off?" I hate that. There are three rooms in my apartment with the double light switch set up. I'm constantly trying to make sure that up is on...even if it means I don't turn on the light when going down my stairs of doom in the pitch black.
3. I don't like the pointy bits of knives and forks to face me. I think this stems back to the same childhood injury that I think caused my blood phobia. Wee small Alex + slippery exacto knife + Alex's left-hand fingers + too much blood = NO GOOD! I didn't scar up too bad and my fingernails all grew back and eventually I was okay using a knife again (I made my parents cut my food for a week or so), but it still scared the crap out of me - I totally hyperventilated for the first time. I will subtlety attempt to nudge said sharp objects from facing me or avoid being in their line of site, even from across the room, when I can.
4. I used to not be able to use public bathrooms if there was another person in there. Three years of living in the dorm have mostly cured me of that. However, if the mood is right, I'll sometimes go to the upstairs bathroom if people are downstairs and to the downstairs one if people are upstairs.
5. Lots of people already know this, but I have a super active imagination/ability to suspend disbelief so I tend to avoid horror movies. For days/weeks after seeing a movie I'll have nightmares about said evil creatures and get a wee bit paranoid in the shower/drying my hair (because I can't hear my surroundings as well). I used to get freaked out about b-movie horror, but I'm getting over that (when I was little Killer Klowns from Outer Space had me sleeping under the covers for a month...and Tremors 2 had me paranoid to leave the bathroom after my shower). Zombies tend to freak me out the most. I had nightmares about being chased by them after just hearing about the new Dawn of the Dead. I don't necessarily lock my doors at night because of real threats.
I tag...YOU, that person on friends list who hasn't done it yet. It's time to indulge your oddities. NOW!
2. You know when there are two lights to a room and you turn the lights on with one and off with the other and it changes to down being "on" and up being "off?" I hate that. There are three rooms in my apartment with the double light switch set up. I'm constantly trying to make sure that up is on...even if it means I don't turn on the light when going down my stairs of doom in the pitch black.
3. I don't like the pointy bits of knives and forks to face me. I think this stems back to the same childhood injury that I think caused my blood phobia. Wee small Alex + slippery exacto knife + Alex's left-hand fingers + too much blood = NO GOOD! I didn't scar up too bad and my fingernails all grew back and eventually I was okay using a knife again (I made my parents cut my food for a week or so), but it still scared the crap out of me - I totally hyperventilated for the first time. I will subtlety attempt to nudge said sharp objects from facing me or avoid being in their line of site, even from across the room, when I can.
4. I used to not be able to use public bathrooms if there was another person in there. Three years of living in the dorm have mostly cured me of that. However, if the mood is right, I'll sometimes go to the upstairs bathroom if people are downstairs and to the downstairs one if people are upstairs.
5. Lots of people already know this, but I have a super active imagination/ability to suspend disbelief so I tend to avoid horror movies. For days/weeks after seeing a movie I'll have nightmares about said evil creatures and get a wee bit paranoid in the shower/drying my hair (because I can't hear my surroundings as well). I used to get freaked out about b-movie horror, but I'm getting over that (when I was little Killer Klowns from Outer Space had me sleeping under the covers for a month...and Tremors 2 had me paranoid to leave the bathroom after my shower). Zombies tend to freak me out the most. I had nightmares about being chased by them after just hearing about the new Dawn of the Dead. I don't necessarily lock my doors at night because of real threats.
I tag...YOU, that person on friends list who hasn't done it yet. It's time to indulge your oddities. NOW!