10 Weird Things About Me
8 Comments Published by Tom Gara on Monday, March 12 at Monday, March 12, 2007.
I got tagged over email with the "Ten Weird Things..." meme, and I thought I might as well put the reply up for all to see. Anyone who wants to do their own, leave the link in comments.
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1. I cannot sit still when talking on the phone - I need to get up and pace backwards and forward. This goes for landlines and mobiles.
2. I have never, ever, purchased a towel.
3. My passport is so fucked that I was almost denied entry into Portugal last week - it has been rapidly deteriorating for about 6 months but i just can't afford to replace it. I can see a seriously unpleasant passport-related incident going down in the near future...
4. I always keep my eyes open when I am kissing - which I thought was normal but is apparently quite weird.
5. I wear odd socks every day, without exception.
6. I recently found out that for the 18 months that I have lived in Egypt, I have been using an incredibly innapropriate Arabic expression all the time, thinking that it is normal. Basically, I have been calling men - taxi drivers, shopkeepers, doormen etc - the equivelant of "my darling" or perhaps "sweetheart". I thought it meant "my friend". None of them have ever complained or told me of the error of my ways....
7. My current beard is the largest beard I have ever grown, and it may be the largest beard that I will ever have. Last week we had a test where i wanted to see how many cigarettes I could hold in the confines of my beard. I got about 20 in there before we ran out of cigarettes.
8. I have never been in a fight, or anything even approaching something close to a fight. I have never thrown a punch. My lack of fighting instinct is massive, and I would probably get my ass kicked by a 15 year old girl if she knew how to rumble.
9. I am really good at untying knots, and quite enjoy the challenge of dealing with a particularly complicated one. I am also really good at rotating couches and furniture in order to get it through narrow doorways - a legacy of moving house so much I guess.
9. I can watch terrible graphical depictions of violence, cruelty, rape, gore etc in film - but I always look away when someone injects drugs. I actually feel slightly queasy even thinking about it right now...
10. When I was a little kid, I was given a piece of grapefruit to eat - it was horribly bitter and sour for my immature little-kid palate, and I spat it out in disgust. At the same time, someone in the room said the word "Mango" as part of a different conversation. This primeval binding of unrelated word and taste fixed itself in my consciousness. I refused to try mango again until I was 17, thinking it was this disgusting sour bitter demon fruit. Ironically, by the age of 15 or so, I was happily eating grapefruit, which I thought was delicious.
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1. I cannot sit still when talking on the phone - I need to get up and pace backwards and forward. This goes for landlines and mobiles.
2. I have never, ever, purchased a towel.
3. My passport is so fucked that I was almost denied entry into Portugal last week - it has been rapidly deteriorating for about 6 months but i just can't afford to replace it. I can see a seriously unpleasant passport-related incident going down in the near future...
4. I always keep my eyes open when I am kissing - which I thought was normal but is apparently quite weird.
5. I wear odd socks every day, without exception.
6. I recently found out that for the 18 months that I have lived in Egypt, I have been using an incredibly innapropriate Arabic expression all the time, thinking that it is normal. Basically, I have been calling men - taxi drivers, shopkeepers, doormen etc - the equivelant of "my darling" or perhaps "sweetheart". I thought it meant "my friend". None of them have ever complained or told me of the error of my ways....
7. My current beard is the largest beard I have ever grown, and it may be the largest beard that I will ever have. Last week we had a test where i wanted to see how many cigarettes I could hold in the confines of my beard. I got about 20 in there before we ran out of cigarettes.
8. I have never been in a fight, or anything even approaching something close to a fight. I have never thrown a punch. My lack of fighting instinct is massive, and I would probably get my ass kicked by a 15 year old girl if she knew how to rumble.
9. I am really good at untying knots, and quite enjoy the challenge of dealing with a particularly complicated one. I am also really good at rotating couches and furniture in order to get it through narrow doorways - a legacy of moving house so much I guess.
9. I can watch terrible graphical depictions of violence, cruelty, rape, gore etc in film - but I always look away when someone injects drugs. I actually feel slightly queasy even thinking about it right now...
10. When I was a little kid, I was given a piece of grapefruit to eat - it was horribly bitter and sour for my immature little-kid palate, and I spat it out in disgust. At the same time, someone in the room said the word "Mango" as part of a different conversation. This primeval binding of unrelated word and taste fixed itself in my consciousness. I refused to try mango again until I was 17, thinking it was this disgusting sour bitter demon fruit. Ironically, by the age of 15 or so, I was happily eating grapefruit, which I thought was delicious.
Do the same while kissing, indeed I always thought it was normal but it seems it is not, or that is what my last boyfriend said.
Oh and on random eating habits, I overcome everyone, we can have sometime soon a catch up on odd habits and manias hahaha
i noticed the socks thing
1- i always have to play with something in my hand - i cannot keep them still, and apparently that's a trait of a smoker which is am not
2- i wash my hands a lot, after i blow my nose even
3- i used to suck my two middle fingers on my right hand, until now i am so used to them stuck together that i sweat between them and i move them usually as if they were just one finger
4- if i am ever grossed out by something i would never let those two fingers touch it, i associate them with going to my mouth - so i keep them clean, eventhough i have stopped sucking them since i was 16
5- i have never tasted lamb meat or kidneys, and i never ever will
6- i like puttin potato chips (crisps for you british) in my sandwich
7- if i am eating a variety of things on one plate i have to eat them in order, one mouthful of each item after the other over and over again and take a sip of water/drink between each round - it's very obvious when i eat mcdonnalds, bite, fries, sip, bite, fries, sip
8-i do not own a single skirt
9-usually i can only go to sleep on the hour or on the half an hour. So i go to bed at either 11 or 11:30 for example - hardly ever 11:20 or 11:45
10-i like to plan what i will eat a day in advance and i can select what i will dream of in the night before i sleep
hahaah :) awesome.
i love wearing odd socks..its freakishly liberating...
and i know what you mean by the injecting drugs scene (i think my natural fear comes from having watched that horrific scene from requiem for a dream where that kid injects into that insane infection)...
*shudder*
ha. hilarious. glad to see you're writing - they're fun reads.
i want beard photos.
dhruv - the requiem for a dream scene is right up there as one of the most horrible things i have ever seen. Although you could say that about a lot of scenes in Requiem for a Dream...
sarah - be careful what you wish for....
haha I do the sock thing too...it kinda bothered one of the girls on my team though...so for her sake I am making an effort these days ;)
That's funny shit. Great post.
It should be titled 11 weird things about me though.
I found a skit from MadTV that I think you might enjoy. I'm going to post of the main page.
very interesting. i noticed the socks thing also and i find number 10 to be incredibly funny!