Seen this several places of late, most recently at DOF and Les:
Given, of course, that much of my behavior appears to be weird, if not to myself, than to bystanders, this must perforce be a selective list …
- I am rarely without reading material. And I am rarely not reading. About the only activities where it’s not likely to be happening is when driving, bathing (these days; I used to read in the shower when I was a kid), when chatting with others (if they can see me), or when Margie has seized my undivided attention in some fashion.
To that end, I almost always have multiple books around in varying stages of reading — in the bathroom, downstairs, on the nightstand, in my closet, in my car (for reading after I’ve arrived someplace), in my briefcase, in my office, etc. It’s a big reason why I stopped tracking on my blog what book (singular) I was reading.
- I have a terrible time getting rid of t-shirts. I usually choose t-shirts very carefully for their message and imagery, and I am loathe to get rid of them even at the extreme. I have t-shirts from college that I refuse to let loose from (or, for their own safety, wear).
- I greatly enjoy tomatoes in a variety of forms except raw, in which state they make me gag. (Les mentioned this one, too, which endears him to me even further.)
Indeed, I don’t care for most raw fruits, either because of the taste, the variability in quality, or because I really don’t like getting my hands sticky (or combinations thereof). I particularly dislike avocados and bananas, in all their incarnations. I am, thus, very sympathetic to others who have food idiosyncrasies.
- For someone who seems to live in a state of perpetual messiness, I extraordinarily picky about neatness and arrangement of things when guests come to visit. If things aren’t just so, I will fret terribly.
- I have a tendency to wince over embarrassing things I did years, if not decades ago. They are not necessarily awful things, or shameful things, or major things, and it is highly probably that anyone I did them in front of has completely forgotten them, or even me. Nevertheless, having them called to mind by a similar situation will cause me literally to tense up, wince, cringe, and berate myself for being such an idiot (and then berate myself for being such an idiot for berating myself).
Perhaps unsurprisingly, I’m with you on most of these.
1. It’s especially important to have a book with me when going to an appointment, as I am a bit overly concerned with punctuality and endeavor to arrive at least twenty minutes early for everything.
2. Unfortunately, moving 1200 miles away meant I was forced to make some hard decisions, and lots of Star Trek and Star Wars tees that I haven’t been able to wear in over a decade wound up at Goodwill. 🙁
3. Well, sure, but you know I hate everything that hasn’t been processed into utter unrecognizability, whether meats, produce, or cereals.
4. Nah. If I know them well enough to invite them over, they must know me well enough to see how I really live.
5. I don’t wince over them, but obsess and let them eat away at me. This includes things as far back as first grade, which was 41 years ago. It ain’t fun lemme tell ya!
If you’d like to expand your list, Dave, I could add a few things for you… {evil grin}
Maybe that’s how I should have framed it.
Hey, folks — anyone who wants to post 1-5 things (let’s keep it within the bound of politeness here) they think is weird about me, feel free.
Ok…the food things…that is very wierd. ;P
But then this comes from someone that prefers all his veggies and fruit Raw…or lightly cooked….or in a soup.
I hate squash. I just do….I can take some squash if it is deep fried or lighly Grilled. Way too many Zuccini Boats growing up to even deal with squash.
and Brussle spouts. They taste like sucking on an overly salty tin can.
We have 1 and 5 in common.
Now that sounds like a challenge BD. I have several Zuc. dishes that may get by your squash aversion and the key to brussel sprouts is freshness.
I use to say that there were only two foods I didn’t like Okra and Eggplant. I’ve changed my mind about eggplant and will eat okra to be polite. The only foods on my list now are processed foods – “juice” drink that don’t taste like juice and anything with a fake cherry flavor. I’m sure there are more but none that are common, heck I would even eat sea cucumber again.
I like to think that Margie somehow balances the “food preferences karma” in our household.
*laughs*
I am fine with Okra in things like Gumbo. Now deep fried Okra is like deep fried snot with chunks. Not the flavor sensation that I am looking for.
Now I have had several Mediterranain dishes with Eggplant that I like.
Canned turtle soup
Octopus (too tough)
“Fresh” oysters
To my mind, there’s nothing worse than seafood gone wrong. I don’t know what kind of food karma that gives me, but there you go.
Lessee…
Five unusual things about ***Dave:
1. The way he will dash into his dining room, pick up a fork, say, “The fork has been lifted,” and dash out again, because someone at the table may have had a shadow of an inkling of possibly deciding to wait for him to actually sit down.
2. Prediliction for catwomen. I don’t know whether or not this includes “Catwoman.”
3. Has a tendency to tell embarrassing stories about himself, despite the fact that they obviously embarrass him.
4. Has a room that seems to be primarily dedicated to comic books.
5. Manages to pack his house with STUFF without making it feel crowded, stuffy, or just plain tasteless. More of a talent than an unusual quality, but it always strikes me.