silly things that you do?

[shootthebandit]

Once again im making a light hearted thread after all the misery and repetition weve had lately

At the minute I live in a hotel and I obviously have to use the lift (elevator) on a daily basis. Everytime i get in the lift I pretend to use the force to open/close the doors. I know its a really silly thing but I find it fun

what silly things like this do you guys do regularly. Do you open automatic doors with the force? do you pretend your james bond when you open your car with the central locking (you spin around and point the key like a gun before pressing the button)?

 

[DefunctTheory]

When I go down escalators I slide change down the middle, hoping they'll reach the bottom with enough force to shoot off and hit some poor, confused individual in the knee.

 

[SirDerpy]

^Likewise, I've got an escalator habit (two, actually) of

A). Using those bristles on the side to polish away at the side of my shoes.
B). Hanging on the rail and using my foot to "row" along the unmoving shoulder of the escalator.

And who doesn't walk forwards and backwards on those flat escalators (whatever they call them) at the airport?

 

[Aerosteam]

Did anyone else want to be a ninja as a kid and now as an adult it has now transcended into always trying to make your footsteps as quietly as possible? No? Oh...

 

[Barbas]

Did anyone else want to be a ninja as a kid and now as an adult it has now transcended into always trying to make your footsteps as quietly as possible? No? Oh...

On the contrary, I enjoy sledding down the stairs on my knees. Spiral staircases are the most difficult and thus the most rewarding. Trying to be as quiet as possible just isn't half as much fun as that.

OT: Sometimes I pretend I'm an android, which is different to what I used to pretend to be - a dinosaur. I can't remember whether it was a tyrannosaurus or a raptor. Both are cool.

Oh, and pointless combat rolls. Why? Because you never fucking know.

 

[shootthebandit]

Did anyone else want to be a ninja as a kid and now as an adult it has now transcended into always trying to make your footsteps as quietly as possible? No? Oh...

When your drunk and your trying not to wake your flatmates/parents up but your attempts at being a silent ninja assassin sound like a herd of startled elephants

 

[Someone Depressing]

Whenever I'm about to sit on a folding chair, I'll always fold it, unfold it, then pretend to drop it and arouse sympathy and help from my peers, the chair-unfolding bitches.

I also roll myself up in a rug long enough to layer itself about 3 times around me, then try to walk around like that. It's very fun.

 

[Bofus Teefus]

I dance to my ringtone whenever it goes off. My ringtone uses a good clip of this song.

 

[Jacco]

I have this weird habit (or compulsion, maybe?) where I like to take the hem of a shirt, pillow case, blanket, etc, fold it and stick it under my finger nails. If I don't have fabric handy, I use whatever I have available. I'm not sure why. I've done it since I was little little and my finger nails feel weird for a while until I do it. Even if I have really short nails. Idk. Never found anyone else who does it.

 

[Heronblade]

Much like the op, I Jedi hand wave automatic sliding doors open. Its gotten to be habit enough that I don't really think about it anymore.

 

[Scarim Coral]

Well I used to outstrech my arm (punch) just to look at my watch, you know what the Rangers did when they went to Morphin Time (Power Rangers)! Granted I only do that when I'm wearing a coat and the watch is inside it since pulling your coat sleeve to see your watch are for ordinary people!
Now I said used to since I'm not waring a coat in the summer!

 

[Guffe]

Well...
The JediElevator thing sometimes.

When I go to the toilet when I'm home alone, I usually leave the door open when urinating, but when I go for number2/a shit/a poo I have to have the door closed. No idea why :/

 

[Randoman01]

Sometimes while I am going throughout the day I pretend that I am talking to a time traveler.

 

[SoranMBane]

Everything. Almost everything I do is silly. For example, I went with my boyfriend and his mom while they were shoe shopping yesterday. You know how shoe stores have those boxes of nylon stockings for people to use while they're trying on shoes? Well, I took one of those and used it to cover the face of the little fox plushie I like to keep in my pocket (whose name is Tod, by the way) so he would look like the world's most adorable bank robber.

I do things like this all the time. I'm ten days away from turning 22.

 

[Padwolf]

My toes wiggle when I'm happy, kind of like a dogs tail. It's embarrassing, but I can't really stop it. They do it of their own accord. Also if I'm ever running in my head it's a dramatic scene and I'm running for my life, or I'm running for some world saving event.

 

[Something Amyss]

I have a bunch of tics that come specifically from OCD, but I'm not sure those count as silly, so I'll stick to silly.

I actually Jedi Handwave in conversation. Picked up from years and years of RPGing.
I air guitar, but since I'm a (shitty) guitarist, I actually air guitar fairly accurately. I also air keyboard, air drum, air sax (only instrument I don't know how to play on some level), and air tambourine. >.>
I used to dance in public. Well, flail around like an idiot in public. Now, my back sucks too much.
I cock my head a lot in a way that's been compared to a dog.

Also if I'm ever running in my head it's a dramatic scene and I'm running for my life, or I'm running for some world saving event.

Music included? Tell me you've got a soundtrack going.

 

[Jolly Co-operator]

If I'm stuck doing something boring, I'll try to contextualize events as if I were in an RPG. For example, I recently started a job helping out a local school district tech team for a few weeks. It's a pretty good job, but at times it gets tedious to the point of nearly boring me to sleep. So, when another member of the tech team who hadn't been there the first day joined us on the second, I thought "new party member added". We also spend a lot of time setting up wifi access points in the district's schools, so I call upon my experience with Persona 3 and imagine that each school is a level of Tartarus.

That's just one example, and I'm not sure if I'm exactly explaining it well. It's silly, but at least it helps to make what I'm doing seem less monotonous.

 

[Slenn]

Any time I'm on a bike going to the grocery store, there's a path going down hill and into an intersection that divides this downhill path and the straightaway that comes after it. I'll try to gun it every time to see if I can beat the clock on the countdown timer for pedestrians without looking like a jackass.

Another thing that I do is that I replay scenes from Star Wars during my time on a bike and edit them in my head as if they applied to biking. Like for example:
"Stabilize your rear deflectors. Watch for incoming traffic!"

I also make a gun-cocking sound any time I stock up on pencils before an exam. Any time I drop a pencil because it's dull I pretend that I've expended my clip.

 

[Mithcha]

I blow air into my ear using a bent straw. Fuck knows why, it's not enjoyable. Boredom I guess.

I also seem to have a long running story about my dog having a bulldog ex who ran off with a doberman, who also happened to by the village bicycle. Originally started to make my mum laugh, but now it just seems to get a new chapter every other day (verbally, it's not written down or anything).

Tend to bellow "stand on the right!" on escalators...mostly because you should stand on the right and walk on the bloody left, it's how it works. Stop fucking the system up by standing where you should be walking and walking where you should be standing.
Really that exists only on the london underground (far as I know) but it WILL be enforced everywhere damn it, no matter how small the escalator.

 

[Zhukov]

Basically this:

When jogging, I'll often slow to a walk to catch my breath and wait for the light-headedness to go away. (Yes, I'm unfit. Sue me.)

Unless there's another jogger or a pedestrian nearby. Then I'll speed up no matter how exhausted or sore I am. "What, out of breath? Me? Never!"