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#280231 3-Dec-2020 11:13

What is something that you find yourself doing on a regular basis that is a bit strange?

For me, I tend to find myself looking at car registration labels when I'm walking along the street looking out for expired labels. Just something that I've probably been doing now for about 15 or so years. Maybe I was a parking warden in another life?

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#2615471 3-Dec-2020 11:28

I compare prices for everything vs price of pint of beer (my guess is always ~$10 nzd).

example: does these jeans worth 5/6/7/ect pints. :)

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#2615486 3-Dec-2020 11:55

When in a car, find myself reading car regos and trying to remember them..... former traffic cop to go with your parking warden ?

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#2615487 3-Dec-2020 11:56

Being an Asperger person I have too many to list.

Some:

Food and drink must always be served in the cup or plate on the right hand side of the two on offer.

Tea in some mugs, coffee in others. Down the sink and start again if it’s wrong.

If I don’t know when something in the fridge was opened and this how long it’s been there Etc then I won’t eat it. For example there are three identical jars of jam in the fridge. I only opened one of them so my wife has to eat the other two. I mark the lids when I open them in case she tries to pull a fast one. The labels too in case she thinks swapping the lids will work.

Fried eggs with broken yolk go in the dog.

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#2615510 3-Dec-2020 12:17

I can’t hang clothes on the washing line without matching the peg colours.

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#2615512 3-Dec-2020 12:17

Not something I've done in a while...

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#2615524 3-Dec-2020 12:27

Senecio: I can’t hang clothes on the washing line without matching the peg colours.

That sounds like something that should annoy me, but doesn't.

If I get a new piece of equipment and hang onto the box (e.g. if it's something I'm likely to want to sell in the future) then all the various bits of packaging, like the twist tie around the power cord, need to go back in their proper 'compartments' in that box.

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#2615551 3-Dec-2020 13:01

I tend to match peg colours and types too.

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#2615552 3-Dec-2020 13:04

kiwiharry:

For me, I tend to find myself looking at car registration labels when I'm walking along the street looking out for expired labels. Just something that I've probably been doing now for about 15 or so years. Maybe I was a parking warden in another life?

I do that too. And I so want to have little cards printed that say "Your rego has expired! Get it renewed!" that I can put on their windscreen, but so far I've refrained from going that far.

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#2615554 3-Dec-2020 13:05

When listening to stuff in the car, the volume has to be set to something that ends in 5 or 0.

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#2615564 3-Dec-2020 13:09

I used to be that way on my HT receiver. Thanks fully my car only has a bar to indicate volume without numbers.

I always put my left sock on first followed by right sock, left shoe, right shoe. Always done it in that order, I have no idea why it's not a superstition.

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#2615567 3-Dec-2020 13:13

xpd:

When in a car, find myself reading car regos and trying to remember them..... former traffic cop to go with your parking warden ?

I look at them and try to figure out what number plate a brand-new car would get today.

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#2615593 3-Dec-2020 13:48

I can't have different food touching on my plate - they must be separatre at all times. Which of course means I tend to eat them separately as well. eg steak, fries and salad - the fries are always first, followed by the steak, and finally the salad. If the steak juice starts to run around the plate, I either need to build a steak dam to stop it touching the chips/salad, or mop it up before it touches anything.

Beer labels must always be facing forward in the fridge, but I don't seem to give a crap about other food or beverage labels in the same fridge.

Cheese on toast must have precisely the right amount of cheese and have perfect coverage. If the bread is not completely square, I will trim or add wedges to the pieces of cheese accordingly.

When refuelling the car, it must be topped off to a full dollar amount - if it stops filling at $87.21 I must try to get $88 (or preferably $90 if I feel in a risky mood)

I'm sure there are more - these are just the ones that come to mind.

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#2615602 3-Dec-2020 14:09

Senecio: I can’t hang clothes on the washing line without matching the peg colours.

Handsomedan: I tend to match peg colours and types too.

I'm exactly the same with matching of colours and types. I also only use certain colours for certain clothes and people. Bugs my wife which makes me all the more determined to continue.