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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsWays by which I know that I'm weird.
When the microwave package instructions read, "cut a small slit in film to vent", I plunge my knife into the plastic like I'm reenacting a scene from Psycho.
Today I removed a very real looking rubber snake from a wall sconce in my hallway so the painter coming to discuss project costs doesn't run for the hills and refuse to work for me. (I also put away my collection of fake lizards.)
I think about the fact that while there are mint-flavored toothpastes and mouthwashes and lemon-scented toilet bowl cleaners, there are no lemon-flavored mouthwashes and we currently have no means for making our toilet bowls minty fresh.
What's your tell?
Ocelot II
(120,815 posts)along with a large oil painting of an Atlantic puffin. My refrigerator magnets are realistic plastic insects. My cat has a little cat-sized fainting couch.
Collimator
(1,873 posts)Fridge magnet AND dish towel.
Cats are often drama queens, a fainting couch seems right.
Intractable
(541 posts)1) Lemon eats tooth enamel.
2) Make a peppermint spray. One part peppermint essential oil to eight parts isopropyl alcohol. Spray away. Everything now smells minty good. It's great for keeping insects away.
My weirdness is responding to non-serious posts with actual answers.
kelly1mm
(5,187 posts)and 2) since I live in a rural area I would rather them not break my door/window if they are going to steal from me.
Apparently this is weird.
PS: 23 years in a small town of 3000 people and now 6 years on rural acreage and never had anything stolen from either my vehicles, homes or outbuildings. Last time I had an issue was in the 90's in the SF bay area where I am from originally. Car broken into 3 times in 4 years .......
Sneederbunk
(15,094 posts)Scrivener7
(52,729 posts)tissue ghosts for Halloween and hanging them on the tree for 20 years. Some fall off, and they add more. Over the years they've added some bats and Christmas angels, an elf, a few Santas and a snowman. The youngest are now in college. The oldest is in his 40s. They still come for the Halloween party, and make ghosts to add to the sparse spots.
It stays up all year. It's one of my favorite things.
Skittles
(159,240 posts)Collimator
(1,873 posts)Having some form of candy for breakfast is practically de rigueur.
Skittles
(159,240 posts)Twizzlers just sounded.....weird
Collimator
(1,873 posts)Twizzlers IS more of a dog's name. . . Or maybe a ferret?
The Wandering Harper
(609 posts)one of my favorites is
my only regret in letting my five year old friend decorate my car with a crayon
is that her drawing didn't show up better
OldBaldy1701E
(6,338 posts)I guess my weirdness is I pay attention to the reality around me and I consider the consequences for my actions.
That makes me super weird in today's society.
Collimator
(1,873 posts)They may mark you as out of the ordinary and your response may indicate that you don't embrace whimsy, but I would not label you as weird.
AllaN01Bear
(23,039 posts)True Dough
(20,244 posts)Weird is Al.
Strange is Doors.
Niagara
(9,565 posts)True Dough
(20,244 posts)Niagara
(9,565 posts)I habitually talk to myself. It's a way that I get organized and to take steps to get chores done. It's most likely a soothing mechanism that I have as well.
When I receive paper money, I smooth it all out and the larger denominations bills go on the bottom and the smaller denominations go on top and all in order...(20's, 10's 5's, 1's) They have to face the same way too.
I'll say movie or television quotes randomly in conversations.
Collimator
(1,873 posts). . . I find that satisfying as well. It may spring from my experience in retail. We couldn't always keep the merchandise on the floor in its proper place, but the cash register was neat and orderly. Were you similarly trained?