What are YOUR oddball mannerisms?

[Emperorpeng]

if there are store displays of children toys that move and/or speak and it has a "demo/try me" button, I have to hit every one if I cant get them all to activate at once..... I will hide the spare ones. the Only coins I carry are quarters, I once received a dollar in dimes because the cashier was out of quarters, so I handed them back and told the cashier "I hate dimes they are shifty." and walked out of the store without another word. When listening to songs while driving I have to constantly adjust the bass and treble of the stereo, if I am in a car to where I cant do so, I don't listen to music *even on a 2 hour drive*. every morning I have to "pose" my gundam wing endless waltz models in new poses, and they MUST remain in those poses until next morning. my computers desktop is NOT allowed to have any Icons other than "My Computer" if it does, I have to defrag the registry the hard drive, and scan for viruses. when standing still for more than 1 min, I must swing side to side at a tempo of c minor with out moving my feet, if not allowed too, I will sit down *even if its on the ground* the only books allowed on my book shelf are Hitch Hikers Guide To The Galaxy, and Dirk Gently novels, every other book is in my dresser drawers. I will not have 2 dollar bills in my wallet, if I get one, I ask the cashier's for 2 ones, if they don't have ones, I will ask for quarters. I always have a knife on me when I leave the house, if I don't I will go home immediately and get one. any coins on a table or desk must all be on heads or tails, NO MATTER WHAT!!

Good Lord Almighty...


On Topic: I grind my teeth and perform repetitive actions when bored (as in: I wore the skin off one of the knuckles on my middle finger by rubbing it with my thumb consantly)

I assume it's anxiety-related.

 

[similar.squirrel]

I hate my skin showing, so sleeves must be pulled down at all times.
I also use bowls to eat anything, if at all possible.

This.
I also never look anyone in the eye unless they are very meaningful in my life, I can't let anyone see my phone (if I had one >.>) or ipod, I hate large crowds of people, I never accept/respond to compliments because I usually feel they are lies, I find myself thinking people will do things they never will. I can't really think of anything else right now.

This is creepy. You're like a mental carbon-copy of me. Probably better-looking. Still. My condolences.

 

[The Kind Cannibal]

I can't find things if the area surrounding it is 'clean'. When my quarters are messy, I know where things are cause I but it there. I'm like an anti-neatfreak.

 

[Aunel]

if my cat does something stupid I feel like curb stomping him.
I hate it if people steal my quotes.
I always feel like I need my swiss army knife/pliers. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f1/Victorinox_Multitool.jpg
I like red.

 

[BehattedWanderer]

I look people in the eye, and if I catch their gaze, I immediately acknowledge them with a greeting.
Alarm clocks and microwaves are never to be set with a number ending in 0 or 5.
There must be some kind of sound--Television, music, some person tapping with their pencil, anything.
My eye will twitch at every noticed spelling and grammar mistake, which makes me want to criticize them most frevently.
I have to have a hat on when in public. Just has to happen.
I smile for no reason, and laugh at anything that's funny to me, especially if I find something ironically familiar or if I have an intrapersonal joke concering it.
If someone starts trying to discuss chemistry an they are wrong, I will go into a tirade until they know better.

 

[Monkfish Acc.]

I talk to everything, as long as I think I am alone.

I cannot stand things not being divisable by five. I will settle for even numbers, but numbers divisable by five are better.

Whenever I am eating coloured sweets of any sort, I will always eat them in order of colour.

I am constanly cracking my neck and knuckles. I used to pop my wrists as well, but I learned to stop.

I bite my nails constantly.

I will force myself to bark a laugh even when something isn't funny, just to acknowledge that I know the speaker was joking.

I have to wear a jacket or coat of some sort at all times.

If I am going out again at some point, I will not change clothes. Even if it is like twelve and I am leaving at eight.

My glasses must remain in an exact position on my face. If they slide even slightly, I will push them back up.

Uh... I'm sure I have more, but I cannot remember them right now.

 

[Johnn Johnston]

I can't find things if the area surrounding it is 'clean'. When my quarters are messy, I know where things are cause I but it there. I'm like an anti-neatfreak.

*gasp*

I thought I was the only one...

 

[Dr Ampersand]

When eating things are eaten one at a time e.g first fish then all of the chips etc. Also I always eat quick which stems from my childhood of whoever eats quickest gets to play on the pc/console. When finding a penny on the ground, if I ever drop it, it must be left alone. Also I have little bits of metal that I bend back and forth until metal fatigue causes them to break.

 

[HateDread]

When I'm really upset, I rock back and forth, and bite the backs of my hands, and fingers. Haven't drawn blood, thank god. I also giggle before that (I get hysterical easily).

 

[Charisma]

I am constanly cracking my neck and knuckles. I used to pop my wrists as well, but I learned to stop.

My glasses must remain in an exact position on my face. If they slide even slightly, I will push them back up.

I do these too. I used to crack my jaw, too, but that seemed a lot more harmful than cracking knuckles so I made myself stop.

 

[Monkfish Acc.]

I am constanly cracking my neck and knuckles. I used to pop my wrists as well, but I learned to stop.

My glasses must remain in an exact position on my face. If they slide even slightly, I will push them back up.

I do these too. I used to crack my jaw, too, but that seemed a lot more harmful than cracking knuckles so I made myself stop.

Aye, I also used to crack my jaw. And my ankles. And my shoulders.
I stopped all of them because they made me look silly.

 

[Conveant0]

Before going to bed I have to turn off EVERY plug socket off at the wall.

I talk to myself occassionally, though I don't actually listen to it...

I used to blink everytime we drove past a lamp post (Stopped now, you couldn't believe how mad it made you look on motorways).

 

[mjw1988]

I only have a couple of weird ones that i can think of so here goes
1. I have to put my finger on the microwave door release button before the timer reaches zero, otherwise the world might end =p
2. I have to set the TV Volume to an Even number and when i set the sleep timer if im watching tv while i go to sleep it has to be set to 120 mins.

I'm sure i have more quirks but those are the only 2 worth mentioning

 

[DoctorWhat]

Piles of paper etc. must be straightened out.
The volume on my TV or radio should always be a multiple of 5.
I have to check in a dictionary or something if I can't remember how to spell something I'm typing/writing. I hate misspellings in my work.

 

[BardSeed]

I always have the volume on my tv set to an even number or a multiple of five.
So five is fine, but seven is not etc.

I have the same thing. My T.V doesn't have numbers for the volume, so I just do it with my hi-fi.

 

[Not Carl]

I talk to myself whenever I ride my bike. Fortunately, it's not a conversation-with-yourself crazy type of talk, more like an unpracticed monologue.

Also, whenever I walk down the street and see a stranger or a group of strangers I like to make up stories about their lives, like what they did before going out and where they're going to and what they're going to do tonight and stuff like that. It's more to just keep me occupied than because I'm insane (I hope)

 

[slevin8989]

I talk to myself i can't stay still too long i have to keep on the move

 

[Charisma]

I talk to myself whenever I ride my bike. Fortunately, it's not a conversation-with-yourself crazy type of talk, more like an unpracticed monologue.

I do this too, only it can be anytime I feel I have an issue to discuss and don't care to ruin it by having someone else nearby to taint my thoughts with their different opinions and valid counterpoints.

I am super narcissistic.

 

[No one knows]

I used to do this thing when I was about 8-9 years old where if I did something one way, I would have to do it again in the opposite direction. Just say I did three clockwise spins on the spot, then I would have to do three anti-clockwise spins on the spot.

Sorta like reeling myself in then reeling myself out because I always imagined a rope around me when I did it.

I would always get annoyed with myself when I did it because it wasn't on purpose either.

I used to do this too, I'd try to stop doing it but I'd get this feeling in my stomach as if I was doing something really wrong until I did.

I also hate odd numbers, not as much as others on this forum... Except for the number four, I hate the number four with a passion, oh yeah and I don't mind five, five is good. For instance, if I'm choosing volume settings on something, it has to be 5, 10, 12, 15, 20, 25, 28 and then multiples of five from then on. I also despise the number 13, almost as much as I hate 4, for example, if some music is playing and I'm watching the timer for how far through the song is, when it comes to 13 I have to look away.

I can't stand cracking my knuckles or any other body part, I start to worry whenever I do.

I have trouble trusting people, especially with secrets, I don't tell my family or my friends many things. This could be to do with confidence issues though as I rarely speak when I'm introduced to new people but if I decide I like them the next time I see them I will speak to them as if I've known them for a long time.

Oh yeah, and in case you haven't noticed, I don't like mixing different topics during a conversation, you might have been able to tell because, while I was posting this I seperated all the seperate parts of my "OCD" or whatever you may think I have.

 

[Andsre]

When I'm not wearing shoes, my heels never connect with the ground. When I stand upright or walk, I'll bend my knees slightly (to compensate for my "new" height) giving me a satyr-like posture.
Still don't know why :/

This is pretty weird. I used to do something like this when I was young and still living at home, because my mom hardly ever cleans and it just minimized the skin contact with the dirty ground.

But as soon as I was on my own I quit doing it.

That could be explain it, but I often wear socks and with me sometimes running outside and jumping on the grass (another oddball thing) I useally don't have the cleanest feet.