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Jun. 23rd, 2010 06:35 pmIn the mail today from some amazon dealer: Admit It, You're Crazy! Quirks, Idiosyncrasies, and Irrational Behavior by Judy Reiser. I got her first book And I Thought I Was Crazy years ago and it's one of my favorite books. Both books just list quirky things people do. A random sample:
"I have two types of wire hangers in my closet: metal ones and white ones. If I've worn a shirt more than once, I'll put it on the white hanger so I'll know that after I wear it one more time, it goes into the laundry. In the summer I'll wear a shirt twice and in the winter maybe three times. this enables me to differentiate those shirts that have been worn more than once by the color of the hanger. My pants go on wooden hangers and there's no specific number of wearings for a pair of pants." - word processor, male, 64.
"When I'm walking down the street with a long, pointy umbrella, I can't help but put it into the cracks in the sidewalk and dig it in there. Frequently, it gets stuck and slips out of my hand and when I walk back to retrieve it, its' standing up straight in between the sidewalk squares. I don't allow myself to miss a single crack without digging it in there. If I miss one it ruins the whole walk."
JR: "It must take a long time to get to your destination."
"Definitely." - advertising salesperson, internet industry, male, 26.
What I love is that if you start reading through it, at first you're laughing and saying to yourself, "boy, is that nuts." But then at some point somebody describes how they stack their pocket change or something and you find yourself thinking "That's wrong - it should be stacked so it adds up to a dollar, not by height" and you realize that you've got the same kind of quirks. I showed the first book to a friend who said it was interesting but that he doesn't have any habits like this. Since I know him well, I laughed and laughed.
"I have two types of wire hangers in my closet: metal ones and white ones. If I've worn a shirt more than once, I'll put it on the white hanger so I'll know that after I wear it one more time, it goes into the laundry. In the summer I'll wear a shirt twice and in the winter maybe three times. this enables me to differentiate those shirts that have been worn more than once by the color of the hanger. My pants go on wooden hangers and there's no specific number of wearings for a pair of pants." - word processor, male, 64.
"When I'm walking down the street with a long, pointy umbrella, I can't help but put it into the cracks in the sidewalk and dig it in there. Frequently, it gets stuck and slips out of my hand and when I walk back to retrieve it, its' standing up straight in between the sidewalk squares. I don't allow myself to miss a single crack without digging it in there. If I miss one it ruins the whole walk."
JR: "It must take a long time to get to your destination."
"Definitely." - advertising salesperson, internet industry, male, 26.
What I love is that if you start reading through it, at first you're laughing and saying to yourself, "boy, is that nuts." But then at some point somebody describes how they stack their pocket change or something and you find yourself thinking "That's wrong - it should be stacked so it adds up to a dollar, not by height" and you realize that you've got the same kind of quirks. I showed the first book to a friend who said it was interesting but that he doesn't have any habits like this. Since I know him well, I laughed and laughed.
