What are some weird habits/rules that you have?

[Talvezout]

Title says all really. What are some odd rules and/habits that you have. And, if you wish, why do you have them? Was it something you developed during childhood? Did an event happen to you sometime in life that made you question how you acted and you saw the world? Or did you develop them out of sheer habit?

For example, mine are:
- I have a tendency to drink a lot of water when nervous/stressed/bored
- When eating, I always tend to eat in segments (e.g, burger first, then fries...)
- When the volume has a number, I always try to end it in a number divisible by five

So, NSG, what are some weird rules and habits you abide by?

Yes, this is inspired by a AskReddit thread.

[Mushet]

I play NationStates and post on their forums.

[MERIZoC]

It's weird that I manage to follow the rules and refrain from habitually flaming select members of this site.

[Nioya]

My written laughs have levels

First is "hahahaha" or "heehehehehe". Simple laugh, used when I found something amusing but didn't audibly laugh.

Second is "lol". Lol elicits a snicker from me. Shows that I really did find something notably funny.

LMAO refers to a great deal of laughter. It means not only did I laugh out loud, but also laughed for a substantial period of time.

[The East Marches]

Shiny boots, my boots have to be shiny. It really annoys me when I see other people with unshined boots. Also walking on the grass instead of a path triggers me.

[Nioya]

I always order my cheeseburger plain with ketchum. I have done this since I was 4 I believe.

[United Marxist Nations]

I have OCD, so I will type out a post in a bit explaining some of the strange things that I do that might get a few laughs.

[Barboneia]

I never use emojis/smilies on forums or social media because I think they're stupid.

[Ariasteppe]

I can't seem to stop knotting and pulling my hair out. It feels really damn good, but often I'm not even aware I'm doing it, and it's hella disasterous for maintaining long hair. It's an awful habit that tbh I could do without.

[United Marxist Nations]

>carry around a golf club when home by myself because if I don't something bad will happen to me
>if I hear a buzzing noise, smack around my back to make sure that a horsefly or wasp didn't land on me
>rock back and forth a lot
>walk in circles endlessly for hours on-end
>wash hands after touching anything, including my own body
>pick at imperfections (be them bodily, architecturally, anything) with my fingernails until they come off
>used to part my dogs' fur so that I could look at their skin so that I could make sure there weren't any abnormalities on the skin underneath their fur
>when walking in the aforementioned circles, I will shift my weight around on my legs and change direction of walking because my parents used to joke that if I walked in one direction for too long, one leg would end up being longer than the other
>walk to the tune of old Napoleonic marching songs

[The New Sea Territory]

I play NationStates and post on their forums.

^^^

[USS Monitor]

I absolutely HATE letting food go bad, especially meat. If you buy food and don't eat it before it goes bad, you're basically throwing your money away, and if it's meat, then some animal suffered and died for no purpose.

I'm also very conscientious about turning things off to save electricity for environmentalist reasons, and it annoys me when other people leave lights on.

And I have a thing about which pockets I carry things in because I got pick-pocketed when I lived in China -- so I really prefer to wear jackets with inside pockets and use those, or if not an inside pocket, then at least a chest pocket. I'm not extremely strict about this when I'm in New England, but I still use inside or chest pockets if I have them, and I am more careful about it when traveling far from home.

[Lupolska]

i like to be a right winger on nsg

:^)

[Senkaku]

- I post on NSG
- I bring a water bottle with me everywhere (I mean like everywhere)
- I never leave the house without making sure I'm showered and dressed and whatnot? Idk if that's weird, it's more just a personal hangup/vanity
- I always turn a fan on at night for reasons I don't totally understand (white noise + breeze?), even in the winter when my room gets cold bc our house has shitty heating
- At night I sneak outside and sacrifice small rodents to the gods of my native star system by lathering them in vaseline and incinerating them

[Zubatman]

I wait until my NSG account is beginning to gain notoriety and some measure of respect, and then scrap it and make a new nation.

[Napkiraly]

I used to pull out my hair. Ended up giving myself a big bald spot for awhile.

[The Serbian Empire]

I have an obsession with even numbers, particularly #30.
I tend to store wallets on my right side and Nintendo DS on the left.
Always eat my food in segments.
I also have a tendency to put tights on right leg first. Always.

[Mushet]

I know I share my first post with all of you, let's see what else.

I absolutely HATE letting food go bad, especially meat. If you buy food and don't eat it before it goes bad, you're basically throwing your money away, and if it's meat, then some animal suffered and died for no purpose.

I'm also very conscientious about turning things off to save electricity for environmentalist reasons, and it annoys me when other people leave lights on.

And I have a thing about which pockets I carry things in because I got pick-pocketed when I lived in China -- so I really prefer to wear jackets with inside pockets and use those, or if not an inside pocket, then at least a chest pocket. I'm not extremely strict about this when I'm in New England, but I still use inside or chest pockets if I have them, and I am more careful about it when traveling far from home.

I also hate wasting food, sometimes when my eyes were bigger than my stomach this has caused me to overeat by finishing my plate and then I end up wasting it anyway by vomiting it.

I used to do that, my cousin does that and it bothers me sometimes, such a little brat about it.I've had too many roaches crawling into my glass to be comfortable eating or drinking with the lights off. You'd think if they saw two of their friends dead and floating in a glass of coke they would figure going for a swim wasn't a good idea. Then again there are much worse ways to die.

I do that too, keep certain things in each pocket, check my pockets by padding them when I get up, I try to keep it all on me at all times. I sleep with my pockets full because when I didn't things would get stolen. This had caused me to accumulate a lot of small change at times and sometimes I wake up with quarters spread all over my bed.

>carry around a golf club when home by myself because if I don't something bad will happen to me
>if I hear a buzzing noise, smack around my back to make sure that a horsefly or wasp didn't land on me
>rock back and forth a lot
>walk in circles endlessly for hours on-end
>wash hands after touching anything, including my own body
>pick at imperfections (be them bodily, architecturally, anything) with my fingernails until they come off
>used to part my dogs' fur so that I could look at their skin so that I could make sure there weren't any abnormalities on the skin underneath their fur
>when walking in the aforementioned circles, I will shift my weight around on my legs and change direction of walking because my parents used to joke that if I walked in one direction for too long, one leg would end up being longer than the other
>walk to the tune of old Napoleonic marching songs

I walk around a lot too, some people stand when they're waiting or thinking, me I walk, often in circles usually to stay in a limited area. I prefer to keep moving. I've had it that in order to avoid waiting a long time for the bus when I knew it would be a while I'd just walk to the next stop, again and again, and sometimes walk a long way and actually miss several busses, up 'til the last one, but I just plain do not like standing around. People think I'm lost or confused or suspicious with my walking but really it's just a quirk. I got some drama with a crazy lady at a bus stop once because she thought I was plotting to jack her or something.

Some other things I'l add:

I often prefer to sit cross legged on chairs and when it's viable prefer to sit on the ground. This benign thing can be seen as super weird.

I mumble to myself often, not really talking to myself more like thinking aloud quietly, this along woth the walking in circles cause people to really think I'm deranged. Also I never had an ipod so I'll recite lyrics I memorized to myself also making it look like I'm talking to myself.

[USS Monitor]

I used to do that, my cousin does that and it bothers me sometimes, such a little brat about it.I've had too many roaches crawling into my glass to be comfortable eating or drinking with the lights off. You'd think if they saw two of their friends dead and floating in a glass of coke they would figure going for a swim wasn't a good idea. Then again there are much worse ways to die.

If you're in the room, there's nothing wrong with having the lights on. It just bothers me when people leave them on in rooms that they're not even in.

[Silverakia]

I prefer to sit cross legged in chairs.

I like fanfiction, but only good ones. Which is like, only 100. The rest of the 1,000,000 are crap.

[Ole Wisconsin]

Uh................. shoot, I know I have plenty...... can't of any right now......... uh............... well, I do sometimes talk to cars and trucks like they're people, if that counts. And I pick things off the ground that I deem to be of value. Which is a lotta things, really. Coins. Well, who wouldn't pick coins up? Wheel weights. I love finding wheel weights. Found 9 within 1 day once. Down in Atlanta, Georgia. Uh... things like screws and hex nuts and washers. Y'know, they just might come in handy one day. So I pick them up. Got a good collection going. If I ever needed some sorta hardware in the future, I'd probably just have to go and look in the box and try to find the right thing. Find some random other parts. Car parts especially. I like finding lug nuts. I don't find too many of those though. Probably since they're screwed on and they ain't gonna come off easy. Oh, I got another thing..... I often come up with odd nicknames for people and things. For example, I've been calling my little sister Fat Joseph for about 3 years now. My cousin, who's 36 right now I think, has a little fluffy white dog. Named Mei-Mei. Y'know, like the Chinese word for little sister. So I've never actually called the dog by that name. Always referred to it as "The Dog". And recently, I've come up with a new name. "Me-I-Me-I." Like y'know, uh... the 1st person pronouns "me" and "I". Yep, those combined together. And 2 of them. Spells out the dog's real name, hehe. So right now, I switch up the names, depending on which one I feel like saying at the moment. Whew....... that is a whole lotta sentences........

[The Alexanderians]

My written laughs have levels

First is "hahahaha" or "heehehehehe". Simple laugh, used when I found something amusing but didn't audibly laugh.

Second is "lol". Lol elicits a snicker from me. Shows that I really did find something notably funny.

LMAO refers to a great deal of laughter. It means not only did I laugh out loud, but also laughed for a substantial period of time.

I feel this on a spiritual level

[Ole Wisconsin]

Oh, another one. I check the vending machines at school(10 of them) for any loose change or food that people have left behind. As well as money that's just lying on the floor. I've generated over 100 dollars over the 2 years I've been in high school, including 7 dollar bills. As well as an unusually large amount of free food. You'd be surprised what there is to find. Once, I found 3 dollar bills in 1 day. All on the floor, in plain sight. Another time, I got 3 bags of chips for free. 3 bags. All stuck in the same machine. Another time, I walked up to a vending machine, pushed the button, and a dollar bill popped out, as well as another dollar in change dropping into the coin return slot. But almost all days ain't like this. Most days, I'll probably get a few cents. But it all adds up over time. And hey, free money!

[Sack Jackpot Winners]

I always check behind the back seat and shower curtain for serial killers and clowns.

[Isyrannaea]

When I'm totally stoned I listen to stoner metal.