About freakisms.

[brinshannara]

So I was watching Sex and the City tonight (Bravo Canada airs three old episodes every Monday night. We're still getting through season one. The crappy thing is that they're not showing them IN ORDER. Like, WTF.), and Carrie was pondering the fact that if there's a guy in Manhattan, over 30, who's single, there's something wrong about him, he must be a freak in SOME fashion.

A friend and I were talking on the phone after the show, and were talking about the freakish part, in particular.

So I'm curious. What's your freakish thing? Most everyone has one, or more, of these freakish things that make other people go "Huh, wha?!"

I'm not talking about biting your nails, unless you bite your toenails like Dave Lister. Nor am I talking about actual psychological disorders. I'm talking about your "normal" freakish thing.

My first girlfriend, for instance, had many things that could be considered freakish, but I'll pick one as an example. She used to pick at the skin around her fingernails constantly. Pick, pick, pick. Bite, bite, bite. Pick. Bite. Pick, pick. Drove me violently insane, even when I was in love with her, and after I fell out of love with her, it grew intolerable.

I'm turning off IP logging, feel free to post anonymously. So comment here and tell me what YOUR freakish thing is!

Comments

[tapdancinghippo.livejournal.com]

I do the same thing with my fingers. I also bite/chew on my lip and scratch my head obsessively. I only do it when I'm around other people, so I think it's safe to assume that they're nervous habits. Either that, or my skin is tasty and I have dandruff.

[tapdancinghippo.livejournal.com]

I just re-read the paragraph that says you're not talking about psychological things. Oops?

[brinshannara]

<giggles> Yeah, like, that ex also had serious issues with public washrooms. She claimed to have "shy bladder". I don't believe she DID, but her issues were a strange quirk, which seemed to be based with her own psychological issues. A nervous habit would be the same sort of thing.

(She would do the picking all. the. time. Nervous or not, bored or not, it was a constant.)

[tapdancinghippo.livejournal.com]

Bleh. I don't like public bathrooms, either, but if I have to pee, I'm going to pee. Er, unless I can race home in time. I don't like going to the bathroom at other people's houses, either. I'm sure there's some psychological diagnosis for that, too. There seems to be one for everything.

I'm sure you, and everyone else, wanted to know about my excretory habits.

[brinshannara]

Personally, I think public bathrooms are gross. You'd think women wouldn't PEE ALL OVER THE SEAT, but you'd be wrong. Ulgh. Don't get me started on the library bathrooms, which were HORRIFIC.

Also, the bathrooms at Pentagon City Mall in Virginia. Really. Very. Putrid.

I don't especially enjoy using the facilities at a friend's place, but at least it's bound to be cleaner than a public bathroom...