Silly Habits
 

you're all going to hate me for this. . .

when i'm at a store, if i decide i don't want something. . . i put it where it doesn't belong ToT i can't help myself.

As someone who's job it used to be to pick up all that misplaced crud, I am of two minds on the topic. One the one side, if it's busy and I'm running aisles, seeing that stuff is like "aaaaaarg!" and I try to keep mental tally of where stuff is if I can't fit it all into my arms. Other days it's like "cool! casual work!" and I can browse the stuff while I'm searching for out of place things.

Now I just hang onto things and ditch them at the till.

On the retail train, when I'm shopping by myself I still start to chat with the merchandise, or argue with it if I'm not finding what I want, or shuffle through dance steps, etc. It's sort of like the sillies I get when I'm focused on my homework.

And sound effects. I make sound effects.

Thanks to way too many years of retail, I often will straighten items on the shelves or in the checkout lanes while I wait or look for stuff. Just kind of subconsciously it's so ingrained in me that I can't help it.

I can't honestly think of much that I really do. I'm pretty self-conscious, so I'm pretty self-aware of pretty much everything I do because I don't want people to think I'm weird.

Oh! I do actually randomly whistle tunes at my one job because we don't have any kind of radio like most retail stores do. Sometimes Christmas songs, sometimes showtunes, just anything that pops into my head...

I try to put stuff back where I got it if I change my mind about getting it. *shrug* Just makes sense to me.

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This is more of an anxiety/autism thing, but when I'm upset/having a bad reaction to something stressful, it helps if I can mess with a little hot wheels car. the texture is soothing.

Eh, I do that too, but that's because I organized and shelved books at the local library for years.

Like, barefoot outside? Inside? Both?
Because I almost never wear socks or shoes unless I have to go outside. In my hometown, I would also go barefoot outside. But where I live now, the sidewalks and streets are pretty gross and I'm too worried about getting sick or stepping un something gross.

I imagine my favourite book store hates me as will start yanking books out of shelves if I see they are packed too tightly the the spines are at risk of warping.

I used to mangle the paper bus transfers when I got them, usually buy rolling them into a ball between my hands, and then straightening them out again, until they would disintegrate. The newer transfers are made of thicker paper so I took that as a challenge.

I get obsessed with symmetry sometimes, like if I step on a division between sidewalk slabs with one foot, I must then do it with other foot or the difference in sensation between my feet bothers me. I grew out of it for the most part, I think. A lot of members in my family display OCD behavior to varying degrees, but I think it's only been a real problem in a couple of cases.

I wonder if some if it wasn't childhood exposure. My mom likes to arranged things in tidy, symmetrical piles, like a stack of magazines being perfectly aligned and square, but not the rest of the items on the table. My brother and I do it too, like we might have picked it up by observation as kids. My sister in law likes to poke the little 'arrangements' and see how long it takes one of us to come by and fix it.

This goes with the merchandise thing mentioned earlier but I talk to inanimate objects a lot, to the point where my uni room mates would check if I was talking to them or the kettle, if they heard me say something.

Talking to animals is a given.

If I like a song, I put it on repeat until I get sick of it, and can't enjoy it anymore. 8D

I was just playing music for my nephew. Apparently he likes Tenacious D. Unfortunately, he just picked up a few words he probably shouldn't have. Oops.

I'm the opposite.... I almost never play the same song twice in a row, hahaha. I guess that could be my silly habit? I just.... can't. I can replay albums, and a small group of songs, but I just can't listen to the same thing twice in a row for whatever reason. :p

Also I like... get obsessions in short bursts. Like I'll be super into something for weeks or months and then I completely lose all interest. It's kinda annoying actually, lol.

I have that issue where I forget that I'm listening to a song, get mad that I missed the good part, repeat the song, and then do it again.

Though I did once put "Open Arms" by Journey on loop while I napped. Good song. :)

I have that problem too, haha. Hooray for ADHD....

Need to say a little more than that, MissK. ;)