Ways by which I know that I'm weird.

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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]

1. There is a real, 6' long airplane propeller in my living room

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.

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2. Love the plastic insects.

Fridge magnet AND dish towel.




Cats are often drama queens, a fainting couch seems right.

[Intractable]

3. "no lemon-flavored mouthwashes and we currently have no means for making our toilet bowls minty fresh"

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]

4. I don't lock anything up. My reasoning is 1) it is not my job to keep someone from stealing from me,

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]

5. I believe you have hit the nail on the head.

[Scrivener7]

6. I have a little 2-foot tree on my mantle piece. My nieces and nephews have been making

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]

7. I had Twizzlers and cheese puffs for breakfast

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9. Your user name is "Skittles"

Having some form of candy for breakfast is practically de rigueur.

[Skittles]

10. my cat was named Skittles

Twizzlers just sounded.....weird

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13. "Twizzlers just sounded.....weird" [for a cat]

Twizzlers IS more of a dog's name. . . Or maybe a ferret?

[The Wandering Harper]

8. too many to name

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]

11. Yep. Weird.

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.

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15. Those traits don't strike me as establishing you as weird.

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]

12. i second that motion . being wierd.

[True Dough]

14. I prefer "strange" to "weird"

Weird is Al.

Strange is Doors.

[Niagara]

17. Nicely played, True!

[True Dough]

20. When the shoe fits...

[Niagara]

16. A few strange and unusual habits that I have:

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.

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19. Paper money kept tidy and organized. . .

. . . 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?

[UTUSN]

18. I post erratic things in DU Lounge sometimes.