Quirks.

[B E C K]

Feel free to share your own or someone else's.

Merla mentioned she saw Finding Dory and apparently missed the tag at the end.  I then mentioned how I have to stay until the end of the movie.  Tag or no tag.  The movie is not "complete" until I've seen the logos at the end.  I've been this way as far as I can remember.  I still remember seeing the movie Congo in the theater and my mom making me walk out before the credits were over.  That was twenty years ago.  I'm STILL salty.    I recall the same thing happening with the Super Mario Bros and that one was even further back.

[Rodent of Unusual Size]

I highlight text on the computer as I read it. Sometimes I'll repeatedly do it as I read...just hold the left button down and mouse over it while scanning. Drives people crazy when they decide to look over my shoulder to see what I'm doing, which is a fringe benefit.

Those websites that won't let you highlight text (since they think that will stop someone from cutting and pasting info) are a boil on the internet's ass. I immediately close the tab and go back to whatever I was looking at before.

Coincidentally, I hate it when I edit comments, and I get the Last Edit line at the bottom. I just did it with this post when I changed how something read. So I copied the post, deleted it, and entered a whole new one. Because I'm a total dork.

[jonhammstein]

I've always done this, but I didn't realize until I had it pointed out to me recently.

Anytime I'm about to criticize someone, I'll open with,"I don't mean to be an asshole, but..."

And this was at a family dinner, all the third generation cousins, and my one cousin, she stops me and says,"Man, I think it's about time for you to accept that you ARE an asshole."

Everyone busts out laughing, me harder than anyone, so hard that I was practically crying.

I really am an asshole.

[B E C K]

Coincidentally, I hate it when I edit comments, and I get the Last Edit line at the bottom. I just did it with this post when I changed how something read. So I copied the post, deleted it, and entered a whole new one. Because I'm a total dork.

I'm surprised I don't do this now that I think about it.  I totally get the need for a new post but I've always edited instead.  Sometimes I'll edit three or four times in a row.  I had to remind myself that it's not that vital to have a "perfect post" or whatever.

One thing I've had to break myself out of is spending too much time on my replies to things.  Whether it's a message board, an email, whatever.  I've had to mentally train myself to try and let shit go more often.  Because eighteen or whatever years ago, I could spend hours on a reply post.  Especially if I was arguing with someone.

I've always done this, but I didn't realize until I had it pointed out to me recently.

Anytime I'm about to criticize someone, I'll open with,"I don't mean to be an asshole, but..."

And this was at a family dinner, all the third generation cousins, and my one cousin, she stops me and says,"Man, I think it's about time for you to accept that you ARE an asshole."

Everyone busts out laughing, me harder than anyone, so hard that I was practically crying.

I really am an asshole.

  That's sorta another thing I'm trying to do: curbing my use of the word "but."  It's, like, the one useful thing I gleamed from that hack Dr. Phil.  Like if you say "I don't mean to be racist but..." or "I don't mean to be sexist but..." or  "I'm not trying to offend you but..." it usually means ignore everything after the word "but" because if you don't mean to be x there's no reason to say so.

[Rodent of Unusual Size]

I'm surprised I don't do this now that I think about it.  I totally get the need for a new post but I've always edited instead.  Sometimes I'll edit three or four times in a row.  I had to remind myself that it's not that vital to have a "perfect post" or whatever.

I've always been a smidge of a perfectionist with writing, whether it's correcting grammar, realizing I faux pas'd on a logical point, or whatever.

I've always done this, but I didn't realize until I had it pointed out to me recently.

Anytime I'm about to criticize someone, I'll open with,"I don't mean to be an asshole, but..."

My brother does this. "I hate to mention this, but..." He really actually enjoys mentioning it. "Are you open to a suggestion?" He's saying, "let me tell you how not to look stupid."

I realize this is something like the second time I've bitched about my brother on this forum in the past day, but he actually is an exceptionally intelligent and considerate yet unremittingly cynical person.

[Rama]

I can attest to the having to sit through till the end of the credits. Course in a world of Marvel Movies I've been trained to do the same thing, so I stay till the of movies even if they aren't Marvel.

I have two major quirks. I'm sure I have a shit ton of minor ones too, but these are the two people actually ask me about.

Number 1. I get super Gung Ho about something suddenly and then just as suddenly drop it. Now I'm not talking like people. I don't go "Oh you are my best friend and....and....You know. I think maybe we shouldn't hang out anymore." Nothing like this. It mainly focuses on Hobbies. Like I'll give you the latest example. I really got into Super Sentai for some reason AKA Japanese powet rangers. I was downloading all the shows and watching them, I was buying merch directly from Japan. I mean I was into it...and then one day not. I haven't watched a show in like a year and I'm planning on selling all that Merch to try to make some of my money back. I don't know the why of all of this, but it something I've always done. People are always saying "But you were so into that and now you are just going to sell all this stuff?" and the answer is yes. I have limited budget and limited space and I have to move on to the next thing. So out it goes. But it made me happy for that short amount of time and I think that is all that really mattered there.

Number 2. I take a long time to do thing. And I don't mean like I move slow, but more in things I actually do in life. And that's because I plan everything, and then replan that. I don't make a move without thinking of the possible outcomes of that action before I do it. Now this rubs people the wrong way sometimes because they see it as inaction. I will tell them I will do something, but I don't do it as quickly as they think I should and get upset with me. They think I never had any intention of doing what I said. Which isn't true. I just don't jump into situations on a wing and prayer like a lot of people do. I always do what I say I'm gonna do, unless you tell me not to.

And this doesn't apply to all things. Like say you turned me and said "Let's go to the movies." then I'd be "ok". But if you turn to me and go "Let's go to New York." then you have just opened up a whole can of worms that will consist of a 6 month money saving plan, research on the cheapest hotels and flights, and when the best time of year to go that will cause the least amount of headaches. Most people would just go ok and slap down a credit card and worry about it later, and I'm just not that person.

Another example is I'm in the process of trying to put in a house on land my family owns. The person I was talking to about buying the house keep emailing me asking about if I still want to do this....and what can they do to help...and the answer is Yes I do still want to do this. See most people just go "Yes! I want it make it happen NOOOOOOOW!!!" and then go "Oh shit what have I got myself into" later and I don't do that. Since I've looked out the house I've been in contact with Surveyors and Title companies about having the land changed over to my name. I've been talking to local contractors about major site prep for the house, and I've been actually doing minor site prep on the land myself when I have time off work. So I'm not idle, I just don't walk into things unprepared.

[Rodent of Unusual Size]

Masters of the Universe sold me on sitting through credits a long, long time ago. Ha, I just watched that movie for the first time in years just last night! Langella really had fun with that one, despite the uniform crappiness of what was going on all around him.

As for your #1, I'm the total opposite. I still love indulging in my greatest hobbies: A) MOTU, B) Transformers, C) Camaros, D) classic anime, E) apologetics, and F) guns, and I probably always will. Parting with any piece of the flotsam that I've accumulated in the pursuit (for example, A) old card art, B) technical specifications, C) car mags, D) VHS tapes, E) pamphlets, or F) holsters) fill me with dread and an irrational sense of loss that is unexplainable aside from me imparting anthropomorphic traits to these items.

Regarding #2, while I tend towards procrastination, I don't do a lot to which I haven't already given a reasonable amount of thought. I'll still do things on impulse from time to time, but only when I don't see it mattering beyond the moment. Yet it's not like I have five year plans or what have you.

[Rama]

There are exceptions to quirk 1 for me. Mainly SW, G.I.Joe, Transformers, and Spider-Man comics. But even then I'll lose my fire for one of those and not collect anything from it for months or years. But I don't sell off what I have, because I know I will come back to it at some point. Like I haven't bought anything SW for almost a year now, and G.I. Joe for almost two.

[B E C K]

I guess it goes hand-in-hand with the KMing (a.k.a. that Marie Kondo Japanese cleaning mathingy) that I've been doing already, but I pretty much have gotten rid of most of the things I ever used to collect.  Not that I was ever a major collector to begin with but most of my anime merch and most of my media (CDs, DVDs, comic books, VHSeseses, cassette tapes) are gone.  I think it created a new quirk where I just get pissed off at clutter.

Here's another one: receipt saving.  I save receipts to everything.  Like, for the tank of gas I bought for my sister's car or the burger I ate five months ago.  One time when I was cleaning I went through like five years of receipts I had stashed in twenty different places.  I've just started (again with the KMing) training myself to let the receipts go.  That's still a work in progress though.  The other day, I bought two sweet teas from Dunkin Donuts and left the counter before the girl could even ask if I wanted the receipt.  I don't do things like that.  And I was all "ho ho ho, you devil, you."  I don't know how people can do that all the time.  Leaving receiptless like that.  It felt kinda naughty.

[Rodent of Unusual Size]

I keep receipts, but only for certain things like electronics or gun shit...the former in case I have to make a return, and the latter because I probably have a S&M streak that likes the feeling of self-loathing I get when I see how much I've spent on bullets and accessories since the start of the year. At least its cheaper than dope and hooch. I also tend to use receipts as a bookmark for the book (or magazine or whatever) that happens to appear on the receipt.

[Faye Valentine]

This might be more OCD than just a "quirk" but if I eat something I have to eat it 3 times or up to an irregular number. Like I eat three peanuts, then one more, shit I have to eat one more so it can be 5 or 3 more so it can be 7. 
If I watch a movie and then find out it has a sequel, prequel or more , I HAVE to watch them all. Have to. Same with series (including anime). Thats why I was pissed as fuck when I finished watching Kamisama Hajimemashita and found out the fuckers had just stopped after the "second season" . I know now they have release ovas but I have to finish first CYE and RHOBH.