Do You Have Any Quirks?

AlexC

By quirks, I just mean things that could be considered little peculiarities.
My main three would be - 
1) I have to write with a fountain pen. Done this since I was about 17. If I’m somewhere where they hand me a biro I can use it, of course... but I’ll usually have a fountain pen with me.
2) Same with instant coffee. I drink filter and will often decline instant - which tastes like a completely different drink to me.
3) If I listen to an album then I listen to it from start to finish. That’s probably because I’m from the vinyl generation. A right pain to isolate tracks. So I’ve just got in the habit of playing an album through. If the phone rings I get really buzzed off.
So, there’s quite a bunch of possible quirky people on here... Do tell!

Lestratcaster

I’m an Arsenal fan and if we’ve lost on the weekend I will not watch Match of the day that same evening. If it’s a draw I will only watch if we’ve come back from a losing position.

If playing a show I have to eat 2 hours before stage time. No less. 

I don’t call numbers back that I missed the call I don’t know or haven’t left a message. If it’s that important they’ll try again.

I can’t listen to a song stop start, it has to be from start to finish. I am so obsessed with the composition, harmonic and rhythmical value I get too analytical.
I also get really irritated when others cut songs halfway through if they’ve put it on Spotify.

ICBM

Where to start...?

goldtop

Any meal with mashed potato, cannot have a watery sauce/gravy. Because the moment it touches the mash, the whole thing is ruined. (You'd think this is widely known, but it appears not.)

Funkfingers

goldtop said:

Any meal with mashed potato, cannot have a watery sauce/gravy. Because the moment it touches the mash, the whole thing is ruined. (You'd think this is widely known, but it appears not.)

Right. Quite right. You're bloody well right.

57Deluxe

Pauline

AlexC

57Deluxe said:

Pauline

This may need some clarification! 

stickyfiddle

goldtop said:

Any meal with mashed potato, cannot have a watery sauce/gravy. Because the moment it touches the mash, the whole thing is ruined. (You'd think this is widely known, but it appears not.)

What?! A good creamy sauce on mash is HEAVEN!

guitarfishbay

Always eat any cooked veg first before eating the rest of meal. But it’s not weird, cold peas are rubbish 

mart

AlexC said:

57Deluxe said:

Pauline

This may need some clarification! 

He’s just boasting that he’s had Pauline Quirk.

stickyfiddle

I do have one for meat & 2 veg type meals. I always serve the food and lay the plate so meat is at 11 o'clock, potatoes at 2-ish and veg at 7ish. I don't know why, but anything else feels weird.

Phil_aka_Pip

I eat the green veg first before going on to the root veg, leaving the potatoes or yorkshire pud to eat with the meat at the end.

I can't stand DJs talking over records, whether it be the intro, the outros or worse still the guitar solo, or them cutting a track off before it's done. This includes Desert Island Discs.

I probably have other quirks but I'm not going to admit to them in public.

VimFuego

on advice from counsel I decline to answer the question. 

Jaycee

When I put a CD back in the case it has to be the correct way up.

The opening on an inner LP sleeve has to face the top of the cover, (which stops it rolling out if handled incorrectly )

earwighoney

ICBM said:

Where to start...?

+1

slacker

I dont think that I have quirks but I do have preferences and causes of rage...

I have specific requirements for breakfast sauces, eggs and bacon must have tomato ketchup and sausage, beans and black pudding must have brown sauce. However although sausages must have brown, sausage rolls must have red. 

Anyone who puts brown sauce in a bacon sandwich is almost as bad as a middle lane hog...

Talking of which, I hate people hogging the middle lane. Then there's the ones who think the slip road has right of way. 

I also really have a problem with people who jam up a photocopier and leave it. Or leave the company coffee maker with the grounds draw full or the milk container empty. Last week someone got a coffee in front of me, saw the flashing empty milk sign in front of a fridge full of milk. left it and walked away saying sorted. What exactly did he sort? Me restraining myself because I dont want to go to HR again?

However there was a good one at a hotel lobby. There were two machines and one had the flashing grounds drawer sign. The preferred action was to not report it but have a queue of 20 people on the other machine. There was one woman trying to fix it. So I went up to her emptied the grounds draw, got her a coffee and one for myself (didnt want it but it would be rude not to ) and smiled sweetly at the assorted morons. Small victories. 



 

p90fool

No. 

usedtobe

If I have a Sunday dinner type meal, if there’s Yorkshire puddings, I have to eat it/them first. When I was a kid, it was always served separately, as a starter.
If there’s roast potatoes, I have to eat them first, or after the Yorkshires, so they don’t get soggy from the gravy. Then I eat the veg, and then I eat the mash and meat together, at the end.

 I can only watch a football match, if I see it from the kickoff, and watch the entire game. If I miss the kickoff, or any part of the game, I can’t get into it properly.

Kilgore

Well, there are the bodies under the patio, I'm not sure if that counts.

scrumhalf

As I have said before I have no quirks, it's everyone else that ranges from odd to completely fucking nuts.

Nitefly

Imelda.