Personal idiosyncracies

[Zwinmar]

I'm relativly comfortable living in the open air of the mid west, however, when ever I head back east into the eastern woodlands I feel more relaxed. Maybe its just because I like the woods and hills.

Ive been in all types of terrain however, includeing the open ocean, which I like because the stars are visible

[Dartzap]

In my experience, the closer you get to London, the more selfish and assholish people seem to be. An example of this would be my brother, who lives on the Isle of Wight and works in Southampton, and every time he's up and we go shopping, he always notices how people will do small things like pull trolleys out the way for you after making eye contact or let you go first at a checkout because you're only buying a plant or whatever.

Yep, down 'ere in Devon, its the same, everyone is very polite. even car drivers will slow down to let someone cross the road and the like.

I cant say I've noticed that much rudeness when I've been to London, really. Paris was worse for the arrogance.

[Andrew J.]

I've got a ton, most of them probably related to Asperger's Syndrome. There are three watch-related idiosyncrasies alone:

1. I don't like to wear watches, period. I'll endure it during the day, usually, but I'll take it off as soon as I get home and feel tremendously relieved that the feeling of it on my wrist is gone.

2. I wear it higher on my arm than most people (related to the first one; that part is less sensitive and it bugs me less if the watch is up there).

3. I wear it on my dominant side, when wearing the watch on the weak side is standard.

[andrewgpaul]

You know those light switches that let you control one bulb from two different switches? I have been known to fiddle them so that both switches are in the correct position for 'off'. I also occasionally straighten store displays when I'm shopping, too.

[Tsyroc]

You know those light switches that let you control one bulb from two different switches? I have been known to fiddle them so that both switches are in the correct position for 'off'. I also occasionally straighten store displays when I'm shopping, too.

I do both of those too.

I don't like having a light switch in the up position with the light off. "Off" is supposed to be the down position and "On" the up position.

The straightening displays comes somewhat from doing that a lot as part of my job when I worked in a store. Sometimes I "face" things at the store now to encourage other people to buy things that I like that are somewhat on the fringe popularity wise. For example if I buy a bunch of a certain type of canned good that I like I will move the cans that are in the back of the shelf to the front to fill the spot the ones I am purchasing were in. In that regard I guess I've gotten used to things I like going away because not enough other people like them.

[Lord Woodlouse]

I have a fairly acute sense of privacy. I get slightly irritable if I'm eating and other people aren't but are trying to talk to me.

I tend to get a bit wide-eyed in big cities, finding things like the London Underground rather freaky. But it's more entertaining than alarming.

[Phantasee]

I love exploring places that normal people don't give a second glance to. Back alleys, empty parking lots in downtown, the rooftops of the downtown core, the Legislature gardens, the river valley. I can't help it sometimes, if I'm within walking distance of a place like that, I start walking and don't check the time until sunset, and that's just habit of checking if my watch agrees with the newspaper's sunset time. Or, in some cases, sunrise.

Conversely, I hate the suburbs. I live in an area where there's stuff to look at all the time, but the commercial areas being built nearby are anfortunately big box stores (Home Depot and Staples seem to love opening together). So I end up driving around, to see new places, and sometimes pulling over and just leaving my car parked so I can go walk about.

I have two sorts of environments I love: seaside, when the horizon is the endless water, and here in Alberta, where the horizon is the endless parkland/prairies. Mountains are cool to visit, but I couldn't live in an area dominated by mountains, unless I was living high enough and close enough to the edge that I could still see the horizon over the smaller mountains.

[aerius]

When I masturbate with lube, I use my left hand, when I wank it without lube, I use my right hand. Other than that I can't think of anything.