What's your quirk?

[Eupher]

Mexicans?

The only ones I've ever seen were made of bronze. Brass and bronze ain't the same thing.

Bitchslapped for not knowing the difference.

[IassaFTots]

I hear she has hairy toe knuckles.

You heard wrong bubba, and that wouldn't be a quirk anyway, that would be a deformity. 

[Eupher]

You heard wrong bubba, and that wouldn't be a quirk anyway, that would be a deformity. 

Not if you're kinda partial to hairy toe knuckles. 

[IassaFTots]

That - in and of itself - would be considered a quirk, if it were true. 

Well, I most certainly do not think furries are cool, and I don't speak Klingon.   I wish I did have a quirk.  I just have a scootch of the OCD.  That doesn't count.

[mamacags]

I have to have 4 pillows to sleep.
I always travel with a sound machine, toothpicks, earplugs, and vicks vaporub.  That is really all I need on a trip.
Chalk, cardboard, and wool yard gross me out when it touches my fingers.
I hate reading paperback books.
If someone is chewing near me and I can hear it I put in earplugs.  Listening to chewing makes me want to kill people.
I have a vicious urge to beat the living crap out of people who don't pay attention during our National Anthem.
If someone sits next to me at the movies I will move.
I have more issues than National Geographic.

[IassaFTots]

I have to have 4 pillows to sleep.
I always travel with a sound machine, toothpicks, earplugs, and vicks vaporub.  That is really all I need on a trip.
Chalk, cardboard, and wool yard gross me out when it touches my fingers.
I hate reading paperback books.
If someone is chewing near me and I can hear it I put in earplugs.  Listening to chewing makes me want to kill people.
I have a vicious urge to beat the living crap out of people who don't pay attention during our National Anthem.
If someone sits next to me at the movies I will move.
I have more issues than National Geographic.

Ok.  I guess I do have a few. 

I won't drive in the middle lane. 
I do not want anyone to put dishes in my dishwasher, or be in my kitchen, at all.  Ever. 
I don't eat chicken at any eating establishment, except for Popeye's Spicy Chicken Strips, or Buffalo Wild Wings.  But, I'll eat steak tartare and sushi almost anywhere.   

And I share your urge to smack people into another chain of consciousness if they don't pay respect to the National Anthem.

[Evil_Conservative]

I have to have 4 pillows to sleep.
I always travel with a sound machine, toothpicks, earplugs, and vicks vaporub.  That is really all I need on a trip.
Chalk, cardboard, and wool yard gross me out when it touches my fingers.
I hate reading paperback books.
If someone is chewing near me and I can hear it I put in earplugs.  Listening to chewing makes me want to kill people.
I have a vicious urge to beat the living crap out of people who don't pay attention during our National Anthem.
If someone sits next to me at the movies I will move.
I have more issues than National Geographic.

And we still love you!!

[vesta111]

  Quirks----Oh MY.

I am all ways early for any appointment, job or the theater, reservations or to a party. 

I spell Phonically and read too much of stuff over my head.

My favorite job would be to work in a book store.

I am a people watcher, and have been known to chase down strangers on the street to inquire about their Tattoos----so far I have yet to meet anyone that objected, all have been flattered I admired their body art.

I really enjoy speaking to the senior citizens about their past lives,    speaking to the woman in their 80's asking them about their favorite recipes from their childhood.  I have 3 notebooks full of recipes from well over 100 years ago that span most any culture that I run across.

My children are now adults and I expect them to handle their own problems, raise their own children and visit when it is convenient for ME.

I love the smell of leather, the sea coast at low tide and raspberry's.

I really enjoy visuals such as the above, me in a leather bed covered in seaweed with raspberry's scattered about waiting for a boy toy.

[franksolich]

My quirk, according to people who know me in real life, is apparently my taste in women.

I appreciate all women of all shapes and sizes and colors--for their cerebrality, their wit, their insight.

But when it comes to pure carnal sexual attraction, I won't give redheads or blondes the time of the day.

My thing's always been for women with dark brown hair and distinctively Hebraic features.

I dunno why, but there you have it.

Also, for some unknown subconscious reason, I really despite those "twist-tie" things that close up loaves of bread.  I'm so antagonistic towards them that when I get home from the grocery store, I immediately untwist them and toss them into the trash.

I dunno why, but that's the way it is.

And there's the way I hold a cigarette in my fingers that causes people to stare and stare.

I dunno why, but there it is.

[formerlurker]

Oh, let's see:

• I speak fluent Klingon, and catalog my journal entries by 'Stardate';
  
• Not only will I not jump out of a perfectly good aircraft, I prefer flying the airplane(s) that I have designed and built on my own (designed, built, flown and sold one, working on my second and third at the moment);
  
• I'll try out interesting dishes at restaurants, just so I can get a good feel for how to make it myself at home;
  
• Telling me that I can't do something is the surest way to get me to do it.

H5

[formerlurker]

  Quirks----Oh MY.

I am all ways early for any appointment, job or the theater, reservations or to a party. 

I spell Phonically and read too much of stuff over my head.

My favorite job would be to work in a book store.

I am a people watcher, and have been known to chase down strangers on the street to inquire about their Tattoos----so far I have yet to meet anyone that objected, all have been flattered I admired their body art.

I really enjoy speaking to the senior citizens about their past lives,    speaking to the woman in their 80's asking them about their favorite recipes from their childhood.  I have 3 notebooks full of recipes from well over 100 years ago that span most any culture that I run across.

My children are now adults and I expect them to handle their own problems, raise their own children and visit when it is convenient for ME.

I love the smell of leather, the sea coast at low tide and raspberry's.

I really enjoy visuals such as the above, me in a leather bed covered in seaweed with raspberry's scattered about waiting for a boy toy.

God bless you Vesta -- your best post here to date.

[Wineslob]

You got a bitchslap for furries. Ya, that's MY quirk.

[Rebel]

Mamacags is my friend

Ouch.

I also like the smell of gun oil. 

[Ballygrl]

My quirk, according to people who know me in real life, is apparently my taste in women.

I appreciate all women of all shapes and sizes and colors--for their cerebrality, their wit, their insight.

But when it comes to pure carnal sexual attraction, I won't give redheads or blondes the time of the day.

My thing's always been for women with dark brown hair and distinctively Hebraic features.

I dunno why, but there you have it.

Also, for some unknown subconscious reason, I really despite those "twist-tie" things that close up loaves of bread.  I'm so antagonistic towards them that when I get home from the grocery store, I immediately untwist them and toss them into the trash.

I dunno why, but that's the way it is.

And there's the way I hold a cigarette in my fingers that causes people to stare and stare.

I dunno why, but there it is.

No wonder I think frank is so adorable, I'm a brunette and I totally despise the twist ties and everyone in my house gets mad that I throw them out all the time. Another quirk of mine, I love gay men, hubby says that I walk into a place and zoom right over to the guy who happens to be gay, for some reason I love talking to them and love hanging out with them. We went on a bus trip last year and stopped for dinner and yes we ended up sitting with a gay man on the trip with a relative of his and had so much fun.

[debk]

I'm a wee bit OCD.

I hate really crowded places, or to be sitting in a restaurant or at a bar, and have someone "looming" over me, or getting in "my space"....

I organize my grocery cart, and how I put groceries on the conveyor belt at the checkout. That's not OCD...just  makes them easier to put away.

As much as I love food, I'm very picky about its preparation and combinations of things I like separately but not mixed together.

If I'm riding in a car and sitting in the passenger seat....the seat has to be pushed back as far as possible.

[VivisMom]

Most of my quirks are food related:

I will not eat a cookie or a brownie if it has nuts in it.
I will not eat cake that has any sort of fruit in it.
All frosting on cake must be buttercream. 
I will not eat food that is oddly colored, specifically orange or blue (exception: candy like M&Ms, since they are chocolate and not oddly flavored.)
I hate it when food touches on my plate and my SIL has gone so far as to buy me those plates with the separate compartments like you get for kids. (I'm a hoot at holiday dinners.)

 

[Evil_Conservative]

I hate it when food touches on my plate and my SIL has gone so far as to buy me those plates with the separate compartments like you get for kids. (I'm a hoot at holiday dinners.)

Don't like that either.  Corn in the mashed potatoes and gravy?  Not having it.  I won't even put bacon on my plate if there is syrup on it.  Bacon covered syrup... not my thing.

[Texacon]

If I answer this it is going straight to the Short Bus.  I don't think you wanna go there.

KC

[Gina]

Don't like that either.  Corn in the mashed potatoes and gravy?  Not having it.  I won't even put bacon on my plate if there is syrup on it.  Bacon covered syrup... not my thing.

Yall are crazy!!!  nothing like a heaping fork of mashed potatoes then sticking it in your corn pile.   

[The Hollywood NeoCon]

The only time I go barefoot is in the shower, in bed, or at the beach. Everyplace else, I'm wearing socks and some manner of footwear.
I speak fluent Arabic, and know the entire Islamic prayer.
I also know the words to just about every sitcom theme song from the 70's and 80's, and I don't know why.
I drink Coca-Cola in the morning, and sometimes have a Whopper and onion rings for breakfast.
I have over 1900 albums in my iTunes library, including Sinatra, Brubeck, Tool, Johnny Cash, Hatebreed, Eminem, the Doors, the Mars Volta and Gregorian Chant.
I've broken up with women for hanging the toilet paper in the wrong direction.
I keep a pair of drumsticks in the car so I can play on the steering wheel during really shitty traffic.
I don't smoke pot anymore, but if they ever legalized it, I can't say with certainty that I wouldn't indulge again from time to time. Sorry, but I sometimes really miss it.

[Texacon]

I speak fluent Arabic, and know the entire Islamic prayer.

I drink Coca-Cola in the morning, and sometimes have a Whopper and onion rings for breakfast.

Ok, I gotta ask.  Why do you know Arabic?

HOW do you have a Whopper and Onion Rings for breakfast.  I gotta know the answer to this!!  I MUST!!  Seriously.  Do you just call lunch breakfast?  Do you have an inside track??  Do you buy it the day before and reheat for your indulgence?

I don't do BK but your secret would probably work at other fast food establishments.

KC

[The Hollywood NeoCon]

Ok, I gotta ask.  Why do you know Arabic?

HOW do you have a Whopper and Onion Rings for breakfast.  I gotta know the answer to this!!  I MUST!!  Seriously.  Do you just call lunch breakfast?  Do you have an inside track??  Do you buy it the day before and reheat for your indulgence?

I don't do BK but your secret would probably work at other fast food establishments.

KC

I learned Arabic after 9/11. I harbored some secret pipe dream of going to work for the CIA Clandestine Services. I actually started the application process, but with my career Army brother already waiting to head to Iraq at that time, my family was terrified at the prospect of having both of us in the war, so they were none too pleased to learn I had applied once they started getting the "inquiries." As you may know, you're instructed not to tell anyone you've applied, so the fact that they didn't hear it from me first only made matters worse for them. I've always had a knack for picking up languages quickly, and Arabic is a relative breeze, compared to Russian and Chinese (neither of which I've had much success with, BTW).

As for Burger King, as far as I know, they've been selling burgers and such at breakfast for a few years now. At least out here in SoCal. McDonald's are the only hardasses I know that still insist you buy their worthless, heavy breakfast crap.

[Texacon]

I learned Arabic after 9/11. I harbored some secret pipe dream of going to work for the CIA Clandestine Services. I actually started the application process, but with my career Army brother already waiting to head to Iraq at that time, my family was terrified at the prospect of having both of us in the war, so they were none too pleased to learn I had applied once they started getting the "inquiries." As you may know, you're instructed not to tell anyone you've applied, so the fact that they didn't hear it from me first only made matters worse for them. I've always had a knack for picking up languages quickly, and Arabic is a relative breeze, compared to Russian and Chinese (neither of which I've had much success with, BTW).

As for Burger King, as far as I know, they've been selling burgers and such at breakfast for a few years now. At least out here in SoCal. McDonald's are the only hardasses I know that still insist you buy their worthless, heavy breakfast crap.

^5 for seeing the 'dream' through.  That is admirable.

I don't know if BK serves breakfast here or not.  It's 30 miles in any direction for me to get to any fast food joint.

KC

[Janice]

Hmm ... quirks ..

I learned to read, write and speak Koiné Greek. Its the language spoken when Jesus was here. Also the new testament was written in it. But its a dead language now.

I can solve the rubiks cube. Not fast. Takes me a few minutes. But its fun to do when waiting for those long stop lights (driving bores me). I dont know anybody else btw who can do it.

I work 6 - 7 days a week. Usually about 60 - 70 hours a week. Sometimes I get a day off. Then I have another job (fixing computers). But sometimes when I get a day off I will have a few martinis in the morning. I will get a bit inebriated. I dont drink much (I have to get up too early and work too late most of the time) but sometimes I gotta just dont give a crap and by golly Im just gonna enjoy a little time to myself. (My hubby doesnt drink) It doesnt have to be martinis. I have other favorites too.

Im sure Ive got other quirks... just cant think of them now. Gotta get ready for work tomorrow.

[Ballygrl]

I have no problem with my food touching and have been known to totally mix pork chops, mashed potatoes, peas and gravy together.