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Originally posted by dinobeast:
I can't eat a sandwich unless it's cut on the diagonal. It it's two rectangles, rather than two triangles, I don't know where to start eating.

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hee hee hee! That one tickled my funny bone.

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Originally posted by Lorelei_Lee:
I name vehicles. If your car doesn't have a name, I will find the perfect name for it and use it.

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I like the lid to be down on the toilet. Girls should not complain about it because I'm a guy, I have to look where I'm going in the dark, too. The lid down is best for sanitary purposes.

My real pet peeve is people who do not flush. I don't care if it's only pee in there. Don't tell me you're trying to conserve water, either. That's baloney. Keep my toilet clean! Unless you're going to offer to scrub the toilet for me every few days. I understand if you forget to flush. I do that once in a blue moon and I always kick myself when I do. But if it's a habit, I'm sending you to obedience school.

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Originally posted by Gilly:
I used to be incredibly anal about the TP roll. The flap HAD to come over the top. Then, 5 years ago, I got a cat. He found the idea of piling the whole roll TP on the floor humorous. So, now the flap has to hang down the back or I end up with the whole roll in a pile on the floor.

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exactly. my cat used to do this all the time. so toilet paper MUCH be down the back. also, I hate it when the end of the paper drags on the floor, and if it's hanging down the back, all you have to do is give the front a smack and it rolls itself up - no dragging.

other than that - god knows. too many to count, I'm sure. I've agreed with a lot on here, but I don't feel like typing it all out :P

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Originally posted by aellis:
[Edited because there's no such place as the Belly Button Observatory]

[This message has been edited by aellis (edited December 06, 2000).]

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Originally posted by Ms. Brooks:
when i'm eating a meal, i have to eat everything in order. like ok, let's say i have some chicken, vegetables, and rice and milk. i have to eat the chicken first and i can't like take a bite of the chicken and then eat some vegetables. no. i have to do it one at a time.

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I have a habit of keeping quotes from friends when they say something remarkable. My friend Cynthia lives by the rules you described above. Mind you, she looks just like Rachel Hunter. Several Thanksgivings ago, while eating the holiday meal at our house, she shrieked, put both of her hands on her head in pulling her hair, and said "My God I can't stand it!!! The cauliflower is touching my turkey!!!!!" She wasn't kidding.

Ain't the brain an amazing organ?

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Originally posted by Fluid_Darkness:
Hey Lorelei, would you mind naming my Jeep? I want to see what you'd come up with. (Note: I've added a white decal on the top of the windshield stating "Jeep" since the picture.)

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Again, it's hard to get the perfect name without knowing someone's quirks and how the car behaves, but I'll try.

Looks like a "Samuel L. Jeepster" to me. Sort of a Pulp Fiction / ultra cool / rock 'n' roll vibe going there. (I toyed with "Vincent Vega" but rejected it.) But you shouldn't call him "Sammy". He's a "Samuel". He has big wheels. He demands respect and a middle initial. Will kick your ass, yo, if you get fresh.

I admit the white "Hello, My Name Is JEEP" windscreen sticker thing you allude to did throw me off a bit.

(I can't see Shaft wearing a "Hi, I'm SHAFT" sticker on his suit. I'm just sayin'.)

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Originally posted by Lorelei_Lee:
(I can't see Shaft wearing a "Hi, I'm SHAFT" sticker on his suit.)

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Maybe on the slacks.....

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Originally posted by dwinslow:
Maybe on the slacks.....

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I'm in denial.

Shaft don't wear no pansy-ass sticker, yo. If you don't know who Shaft is, you a sucka.

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Originally posted by Fluid_Darkness:
Hehehe... Samuel L. Jeepster it is.

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*pleased to have been helpful*

P.S. I didn't say SAMUEL wouldn't wear a sticker.

Just talkin' 'bout SHAFT.

Don't worry, Hiro, they always say pretty much the same thing:

You have [good quality here]. Embrace [good quality], reject [potential bad character trait] and you will be one with the Great Tao.

The smileys come standard. However, you may have eaten 400 winning lottery number combinations.

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Originally posted by Anna Beth:
Yes! The worst I've found: Gap (and all their other companies). You can try on the same size all day and never get the same fit. Buying khakis in there is a real bitch.

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Oh, you are SO right! People always look at me funny when I take about 10 pairs of jeans in the dressing room with me, but they all fit differently. Some of them don't fit at all.

But if you're gonna pay that much for a pair of jeans, then goshdarnit they had just better fit...

1. turn off alarm
2. immediately get out of bed
3. put in contacts (right, then left)
4. shower
5. get dressed (bottom, then top)
6. turn on computer
7. brush teeth
8. wash face
9. makeup, if I bother (which I usually don't)
10. sit around on computer for a bit while hair dries a little more
11. dry hair

I have long since realized how scary this is. I have really awful days if something changes.

And toilet paper must hang down the back, yo. I hate it when it's over the top! Seriously...if you yank on it to tear it, more just comes off. It's so much easier the other way around.

I don't bother correcting...I honestly don't care -that- much...

-WD, the Lazoid

[edited to fix some pretty funny spelling errors]

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Originally posted by Emily:
I used to obsessively count syllables on my fingers.. like tap my finger against my thumb (like making an OK sign) and then the middle finger against my thumb and then ring finger, and then pinkie, and then back to pointer. To count syllables. I don't understand it, but I'm glad I don't do it anymore.

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Did you ever write poetry or songs? That's a trait that a lot of writers who have to work with meter and syllables do. I've done it myself.

I'm on over the top girl, too. Thanks, Mom.

I have my presets from lowest to highest and I have to go through them all every time.

In my 200 CD changer, all the CDs are alphabetized.....plus, I couldn't imagine parting with all the cases, so they are alphabetized, as well. But the CDs I don't have room for in my changer are alphabetized in a section all their own. Oh...and I typed up a list. Scary, yes.

I put my left contact in first. Every. Time.

My towels are to be folded a certain way. If anyone volunteers to fold them, I try to discourage them because no matter how many times I try, no one but my mother can fold them how I like 'em. Thanks again, mom.

My closet is organized by types of clothing and colors. Short sleeve t-shirts grouped together, long sleeve tshirts together, you get the gist.

My shoes are still in their original boxes. They are sorted by style. My ex made fun of all my shoes and the fact that they are in boxes.

Notice I said EX.

heh.

TP goes on top of the toilet. If it's on the spindle the cat unrolls that whole roll.

My list of "things"

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Originally posted by christie:
I christen everything and everyone with nicknames. My SUV is named bullet, because it's silver.

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Toilet paper *must* got over the top.

I count everything. Telephones poles while driving, tiles on floors, lines in a poem... *EVERYTHING*

I see numbers as shades of gray. You tell me a number and I can tell you if it's a dark, light or medium gray. These gray shades never change and they are ever present in my mind whenever I see/read/hear a number. If you gave me black paint and white paint, and gave me some numbers, I could mix up their *exact* gray shade. Somebody who was in a semiotics class once told me that some insanely small percentage of people associate numbers like this.

My right contact *must* go in forst and come out first.

I must always have a paintbrush, a set of needlenose pliers and my cigarettes in my purse. At. All. Times.

I can not sleep with a top sheet. I have a bottom sheet and a comforter, but I can NOT have that top sheet in between my comforter and myself, because it gets tangled up and is never the same length as my comforter and it Drives. Me. Nuts.

I must always be covered by something, even on the hottest days of the summer. If the sheet (I use only a top sheet in the summer, so the comforter thing doesn't apply) is only covering my butt and my tummy, that's ok, but it must at least be covering those areas.

Dishes in the sink must be done. I am extremely anal about this and will never put even a spoon in the sink to be washed later. It's done right there.

I must have reading material everywhere. If I am in the bathroom with no magazines, even if I am only there briefly, I read lotion bottles or shampoo bottles or whatever.

I must always have my stuffed horse to sleep with. She's my second pillow and is the perfect flatness. My other pillow must be relatively flat as well. I can not just sleep with one pillow that is the smae thickness as my horse and my other pillow, though. Must. Be. Exact.

Mayonnaise must always be put on the bread. Mustard can NEVER be put on the bread, it must go ON the hotdog or deli meat or hamburger.

I can not eat the following foods because of their texture alone, although I love their flavor: all fish (besides smoked salmon, tuna and sushi), onions, cooked mushrooms, jello and some pudding.

Hmmm. That's all I can think of right now.

[edited to say that ketchup must never go on the bread either and can NEVER be spelled 'catsup'-drives me crazy]

However:

CDs must be alphabetized or I cannot sleep.

Clothes must be washed in Tide and dried with Bounce, or they're just not right. (Oddly, I developed this behavior independent of my upbringing, my mother has always gone with whatever was cheapest.)

If there is old tape left on any surface (this is a big issue in cubicle farms), I will stand there and peel it all off, no matter what else I have to do, this must be done NOW.

No ragged edges on paper. I'll break out the scissors if I have to.

I compulsively fold or compartmentalize my trash when eating out (wrappers, napkins, etc.) until I have one tidy unit that takes the staff less than 2 seconds to dispose of.

If you ever put so much as a single bite mark on my pen, I get to bitch slap you. It's part of the pen-loaning agreement.

If I have to remind you more than three times to use spellcheck, I have your computer taken away. I don't want any more memos from the likes of you.

If you're going to use big words to sound good, look them up first to make sure you really understand what they mean. You don't want me chasing you down the hall flinging Merriam-Websters at you.

I have a morning routine as well. Wake up, take a shower, get dressed, eat toast and tea, and then watch Bewitched as I blow dry my hair, brush my teeth, and generally get myself ready. This morning, however, stupid flatmate was already in the kitchen and I couldn't prop the door open to watch Bewitched like I usually do. Pfft. She shouldn't have skipped class, yo. She was wrecking my routine.

This is making me realize that people all have their individual little "things" that they *have* to have/do. It makes me wonder how uncomfortable my guests are when they stay at my house... things are different than they are in their normal routine... and it sounds like that can really drive some people mad!

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Originally posted by Riley:
Presets on all radios must be in order from left to right, the lowest spot on the dial to the highest.

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Originally posted by Lorelei_Lee:
Just talkin' 'bout SHAFT.

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Shut yo' mouth!

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Originally posted by dinobeast:
Shut yo' mouth!

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He's a complicated man
But no one understands him but his woman
JOHN SHAFT!

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Originally posted by cricket:
I can not sleep with a top sheet. I have a bottom sheet and a comforter, but I can NOT have that top sheet in between my comforter and myself, because it gets tangled up and is never the same length as my comforter and it Drives. Me. Nuts.

I must always be covered by something, even on the hottest days of the summer. If the sheet (I use only a top sheet in the summer, so the comforter thing doesn't apply) is only covering my butt and my tummy, that's ok, but it must at least be covering those areas.

I must have reading material everywhere. If I am in the bathroom with no magazines, even if I am only there briefly, I read lotion bottles or shampoo bottles or whatever.

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I can relate to all of these.

Except I'm so bizarre, I sleep under a lighter comforter during the summer and aim a fan at myself.

In general, I make the bed up as per normal, but instead of pulling down the top sheet (which is all nicely hospital-folded at the corners and arranged to that if you did pull it down, the pattern would show and match the fitted sheet), I sleep on top of it. On the "wrong" side. Under a comforter.

When I had a BF, he liked the top sheet, so I adjusted, but suddenly realized why most people don't make their beds every day. If you have left your sheets alone, flicking the comforter up makes the bed. If not, you have to untangle this wad of sheets and comfoter and so on and really make a production out of it.

I also read compulsively. I"m the only person I know who--as an example--has read the TSS warning and "how to" sheets that come in Tampax boxes. Well, only person to read it more than once, surely. And I read shampoo bottles, ingredient labels, footnotes, liner notes, clothing labels--anything I can.

I can't eat a meal by myself without something to read. I can't even just eat and watch TV alone, I must have readingmaterial.

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Originally posted by Lorelei_Lee:
I can't even just eat and watch TV alone, I must have reading material.

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Meant to add "...so I turn on the Closed Captioning and my roommate gets annoyed because she hates it."

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Originally posted by Kinipela6:
This is making me realize that people all have their individual little "things" that they *have* to have/do.

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Actually, I don't. I mean I have habits, like how I put the TP on (over the top) and my contacts in (right first) but it doesn't freak me out if I can't have it that way. In fact, I've been getting a wee bit freaked out by some of the stuff I'm reading on this thread, hehe.

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Originally posted by Lorelei_Lee:
I also read compulsively. I"m the only person I know who--as an example--has read the TSS warning and "how to" sheets that come in Tampax boxes. Well, only person to read it more than once, surely.

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No you're not. I read it every time I get a new box. This may also explain my irrational TSS fear.