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• 1. -R-  |  January 26th, 2012 at 11:23 pm

  At least in my case, I think the grudge holding is less intense. It’s not like your quick rage but for a long time. It’s a much lower level of anger, but permanent. And sometimes it’s not even anger, it’s just that I write the person off.

  Ok, now you know my inner mind workings. Kind of.

• 2. The Tutugirl  |  January 26th, 2012 at 11:25 pm

  Oh, I can barely even begin to scratch the surface of all my quirks. Sleeping requires an eye mask, two pillows and a bed that was made (I will make the bed right before I get in it just for that feel). Any light when I’m trying to sleep drives me completely batty, even with the mask. Things have to be put away in their place before sleep because waking up to any sort of mess can ruin an entire morning for me sometimes. Oh, and I tend to fall asleep and wake up at the same times as my 80 year old grandmother. Your sleep preparations sound totally normal to me.

• 3. Jesabes  |  January 26th, 2012 at 11:38 pm

  I also have a pattern of left-side, right-side flopping I cannot fall asleep without. It’s very annoying if a kid ends up in bed with us, because they always freak out when I turn my back to them. I sometimes end up laying awake for an hour or more, until I can finally roll the correct way.

  I love laundry, too. I am so insane I have been known to say I wish there were more laundry because I don’t want to be done. I haven’t said it much since having a second kid and potty training the first. We seem to have laundry coming out of our ears now. But I still think it every now and again. The bonus is the laundry coming out of my ears doesn’t really bother me. The kitchen, though. That place usually has me in a constant state of annoyance. It is ALWAYS messy and gross and I just want to light it on fire and leave.

  I guess I’m you.

• 4. Nicole  |  January 27th, 2012 at 12:12 am

  I *love* that we are calling my OCD “quirks” now. Um, I have to bathe or shower twice every day and I have to shave my legs (and armpits) both times. I HAVE to go to sleep clean with smooth legs. The night after delivering my first at 7:30 p.m., I BEGGED for a shower. They declined, but it was the first thing I did the next morning. Yeah, yeah, lovely baby- can I shower now?

  I only like to eat dessert right before bed, not after dinner, and I have to read for at least 20 min or so before I drop off. Even when I was a swinging single, bringing home men I maybe didn’t know that well, I would be like “Um, excuse me, but I’m going to have to turn the light on and read for a bit”.

  It goes without saying that the house must be clean before I go to bed, right? And if I wear something even for an hour, I have to wash it. But if you got in my car, you would be totally repulsed. It’s where I apparently let it all my latent messiness out. There’s rotting food, maybe dirty diapers, god knows what else. I cannot seem to care about the car, and that was the same pre-kids, so I can’t even blame them.

  I could go on, but I always enjoy hearing about other people’s.

• 5. Michelle  |  January 27th, 2012 at 12:29 am

  When someone doesn’t rinse ketchup off a plate, it sends me into a freaking tizzy. Especially if I don’t catch it and it sits until morning. Vom. Plus, I wear rubber gloves when doing dishes OR loading the dishwasher because I can’t stand touching anything with stuff on it in the sink.

• 6. Amy K  |  January 27th, 2012 at 12:41 am

  I used to sleep on either side, but the tendonitis I developed in my left shoulder during pregnancy still feels…odd…(or maybe it’s all in my head now) three years later so I can only sleep on my right shoulder now. No back, no stomach, no left shoulder. There has to be some kind of white noise in the background. And for the love of God, unless it’s sexy time, don’t invade my half of the bed. How couples sleep in beds smaller than king is beyond me.

  I have bizarre tactile and aural issues, so my main problem with doing dishes is having to touch squeaky-clean glass. It nauseates me. (So does the feeling of chalk on my hands and hearing styrofoam rub together.) My husband refers to that ganky water in flipped cups as “chum.”

• 7. Heather  |  January 27th, 2012 at 2:24 am

  I have to have all cds/dvds in their cover the correct way up.

  I cant stand other people handing me utensils I’m about to eat off.

  I too, love laundry and hate dishes (this seems pretty common!).

  At bed time, all I need is a dark room. The slightest noise and I will wake up, I have an alarm clock that plays cds but when it spins the cd to speed (before it starts playing), I wake up.

• 8. JMH  |  January 27th, 2012 at 5:43 am

  Well, I am the opposite…I HATE to do laundry. It makes me crazy….especially the folding! and matching the socks!! UGH! Thankfully, my husband took over the laundry duties when I had a massive meltdown/freakout about it while I was pregnant with our 2nd child. I also HATE to go grocery shopping. I don’t mind doing the dishes or emptying the dishwasher. I also don’t mind shoveling the snow or raking the leaves. I love to organize and clean out clutter (when I have time) yet, I tend to leave piles of “stuff” everywhere which creates the clutter……..and I can’t seem to stop.
  As for sleeping, I MUST read before I can drift off. My Kindle was the best gift I think I have ever received

• 9. Elissa  |  January 27th, 2012 at 8:27 am

  Just so you know, my personal policy is that paper plates (and disposable silverware) are encouraged for the first two months postpartum. Getting everyone fed is the priority, not doing the dishes

  My going-to-bed ritual is pretty run-of-the-mill, but the ritual for my almost 3-year-old boy? Insane. Before he can get in the bath he has to throw each article of clothing over my head into the corner of the bathroom. After bath he spends some naked time in his bedroom dancing around in front of the mirror. Then he picks a pair of underwear, is lifted high in the air by my husband so that he can “jump” into his socks, and puts on his pajamas “like a fireman.” After stories he points to the outlet where the nightlight goes, sits in his bed while I throw him his stuffed animals from across the room (in the order he prescribes), and then has an elaborate routine for getting his animals “settled” before we sing a song and say goodnight. Phew, I’m exhausted just typing it out.

• 10. Elizabeth  |  January 27th, 2012 at 8:43 am

  First of all, Jackopierce! Forgot about them since college – thanks for the reminder! And…I’m a champion grudge-holder. Like, WILL NOT EVER let go of a perceived wrong. Kudos to you for getting over things quickly, because it’s a talent IMO.

  There’s not a whole lot I won’t do to get out of dishes. Laundry I’ll do all day long. A nasty dishwasher or, worse, a sink of dirty dishes? I’ll just move out, thanks.

• 11. Raven  |  January 27th, 2012 at 8:50 am

  I am half fine with laundry. I can sort, load into the washer and into the dryer just fine but folding and putting away? ANNOY.

  I have so many other quirks that I’ll have to do a post to contain them all.

• 12. jive turkey  |  January 27th, 2012 at 8:56 am

  Ha! Oh, man, I also love laundry and HAAAAAAATE it when something flips over in the dishwasher and fills with–ugh–nasty dishwasher water. I LIT-rally cannot dump it out without screaming. I also cannot squish a bug without screaming/cursing.

  I would also much rather clean a dirty bathroom than a dirty kitchen. Something about touching old food/dirty dishes squicks me out something fierce.

  Other things I cannot abide: a smelly trashcan (esp. if there are onions within), or a fridge that smells like food (good or bad) when you open it.

  It’s becoming apparent to me that I might have a lot of food-related issues. Yowza.

• 13. Ris  |  January 27th, 2012 at 9:05 am

  I LOVE laundry. Love it. It’s like getting new clothes!! I love the feeling of starting over, with everything in the entire house clean (this doesn’t happen very often). On the other hand, I can hardly go to the grocery store. I have to, every week, or we won’t get the right things for the right prices (control freak much?), but I bring my bf with me every time for moral support. It’s just so bright and loud and overwhelming. I absolutely hate it. Also, I have to have a full glass of water next to my bed before I can go to sleep. Once I was staying with a friend who didn’t allow water on the hardwood floors (?) and I had serious nightmares about being too thirsty and dying from dehydration. Cut to me drinking from the bathroom sink in the middle of the night. I’m a freak.

• 14. bessie.viola  |  January 27th, 2012 at 9:16 am

  I have more quirks than I could ever go into here… and bedtime? Ach, forget about it. There is some serious ritual-usage there.

  But you stopped me dead with one thing here – HEADPHONES. What headphones does Adam use? Honestly, this may save my marriage. I want QUIET to sleep and my husband wants the TV and OH… we’ve been debating over this for nearly 7 years, now.

• 15. jonniker  |  January 27th, 2012 at 9:19 am

  Oh, BESSIE. These are MARRIAGE-CHANGING:

  http://www.amazon.com/Sennheiser-RS120-Wireless-Headphones-Charging/dp/B0001FTVEK/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1327673857&sr=8-1

  Also, Ris, I’m switching to home delivery from our grocery store. I AM EXCITED. Bringing a toddler to a grocery store is hell. Is that an option for you?

• 16. the grumbles  |  January 27th, 2012 at 9:26 am

  DOWN WITH DISHES.

  I am not a grudge holder, particularly, but if you get on my bad side there’s pretty much no hope of ever coming back. My husband calls it, “making the turn.”

• 17. Saly  |  January 27th, 2012 at 10:03 am

  I get upset very easily, and my go-to reaction for being upset is tears. Like you though, I get over things almost immediately. This can be confusing for the people around me. From being near hysterical to perfectly fine and over it in a matter of minutes. I am a unique snowflake!!

  In the way of quirks: I set, check, unset, check and then reset my alarm clock every night. 5 times. My pillows have to be arranged a certain way, along with my body pillow. Hub and I have completely separate sets of blankets. We cannot share.

  Non-bedroom quirks? There can never be any sort of flashing light in my line of vision. If my phone is blinking, if the clock is blinking, whatever it is—I need to make it stop. The same goes for loud/obnoxious repetitive noises. The dinging when the car door is open, people clicking pens, computer dings. I can’t deal with them. When I worked in an office with direct reports, all of their computers had to be on mute because I could not handle all the various dings.

• 18. Kate  |  January 27th, 2012 at 10:32 am

  I’ll refrain from saying that these are my favorite kinds of posts because I mostly love all of your posts. I love these, though, because they make me feel so NORMAL. Hey, we’re all crazy! Hooray!

  I am a champion, long-term grudge holder. You’re right–it’s exhausting. I think I’ve shown slight improvement in the last few years, but that only applies to recent grudges. I still hold significant grudges from high school. Ridiculous but true.

  In terms of sleep weirdness, I have a double pillow, white noise, turning from side-to-side thing. But only in the middle of the night. How much fun is that? Good thing I can move to another room to save my spouse from it.

  And the other stuff–so many quirks. But, thankfully, I’m rarely grossed out by dishes or dried on food. One thing I do hate–having to reach down under the cold water to empty the sink to fill it up with hot water. Gross.

• 19. Jane  |  January 27th, 2012 at 10:34 am

  I held a grudge against a family member for almost 33 years. Then someone said, “How about you just forgive him?” and I was like, “HUH. That’s an interesting idea.” So I did. And it wasn’t that big a deal and I was disappointed. I’m like, “Shouldn’t there be some sort of big HEALING moment or music or something?” But it was just, “Hm. Okay, he was an asshole 33 years ago, but he’s okay now so I guess I’ll get over it.” My point: I think we must define grudges differently. Because there’s no way I was that mad for 33 years.

• 20. agirlandaboy  |  January 27th, 2012 at 10:42 am

  No quirks here. I am completely rational in every way.

• 21. Cherie Beyond  |  January 27th, 2012 at 10:44 am

  If there was a TV in my bedroom, I would never sleep. I am such a light sleeper that the slightest thing wakes me up (last night it was a smell. The damper on the woodstove needed to be opened and the smell of smoldering wood woke me up). There is no way I could sleep with flickering television lights, headphones or no.

  I must always, always read before bed, even if I only read one page, laying down, with one eye opened.

  I must eat breakfast within 10 minutes of waking. I do not understand breakfast delayers. If I am up, I must be eating. When I had babies, I always kept muffins on hand so I could eat while I nursed because waiting? Nope.

  I’m a compulsive to-do list maker. Yes, I have been known to write down things I’ve already done so I can cross them off.

  I do not hold grudges and I am pretty understanding of human frailty, but there are certain Lines that cannot be crossed. Once you cross them, my perception of you is forever altered and you cannot cross back. Adultery is the biggest one, but there are others.

• 22. PinkieBling  |  January 27th, 2012 at 11:38 am

  I hate dishes worse than any other household chore, hands down. HAAATE them. Love laundry!

  I am also hot-tempered but quick to cool. I can be quite cutting when pushed, but I’m nearly always first to apologize after a “skirmish,” and I usually forgive easily.

  I have TERRIBLE road rage. Zero patience on the road, plus a zippy little car, so I’m kind of a dick driver. Trying to dial that back.

  I have an *extremely* sensitive gag reflex. Bite wing x-rays at the dentist are my kryptonite, and I can’t wear turtlenecks or scarves because the sensation on my neck makes me gag. Cold weather makes me cough, then gag. Don’t get me started on actual gag-worthy things, like vomit. I am SO SCREWED if I have kids.

  I can fall asleep nearly anywhere and sleep through nearly anything. I’m known for my 4-6 hour weekend “naps.” Again – SO SCREWED with kids.

  I’m super clumsy, and I am the loudest person on the planet when I’m getting ready. I knock things over, drop them, walk into them, etc. I constantly have bruises I have no recollection of getting.

• 23. Rebecca (Bearca)  |  January 27th, 2012 at 11:47 am

  I’m much like you. Quick to get annoyed, quick to let it go, not much of a grudge-holder. I also love laundry and hate dishes, and I haaaaaaate emptying the dishwasher. OMG HATE.

  Here is one of my odd quirks. I can’t stand biting into an apple. It gives me the chills. Anytime I tell someone that, they look at me as if I have three heads. I know, it’s crazy, but it’s a sensory experience that I just can’t deal with. Now, I can usually eat cut-up apples no problem, but I cannot just bite into a whole apple. It’s stressing me out to think about it.

  Yes, I am a total freak. CRAY.

• 24. Molly  |  January 27th, 2012 at 12:14 pm

  I would rather do dishes over laundry any day. How I hate the laundry.

• 25. Carrie  |  January 27th, 2012 at 1:07 pm

  I am like you and do not hold grudges and was just having a convo with a friend about how I am so thankful that I am also a half-glass-full person about most everything in life. Like everyone, I have my days, but overall I am a Pollyanna sunshine who will find the good in most things. This conversation came about because I work with a woman who is SO NEGATIVE, she finds the bad even in the most positive situation. Case in point: She recently had a baby and was complaining to me about the awful people who SMILE AND TELL HER HOW BEAUTIFUL HER BABY IS. Her: “It’s like they’ve never seen a baby before! “. It’s emotionally draining to be around her, so I cannot even imagine what it is like to BE HER.

  I hate laundry, especially the folding and putting away part. I am also with you on the flip cup thing – ewwww.. However I love to vacuum and nothing gives me a greater sense of satisfaction than a newly vacuumed floor with symmetrical vacuum lines. I also love to grocery shop. I find walking up and down the aisles, reading labels and selecting the food RELAXING (only when I shop without the kids, OBVS. With them, it is a horrible stressful experience – ha!).

  I am a tv sleeper like your husband. Flipping on a tv show is what allows my brain to turn off real-life and fall asleep. My husband is the opposite – he needs complete silence and darkness. Our solution is that I head up to bed a few minutes before him so I am usually asleep when he arrives and he just turns off the tv.

• 26. Carrie  |  January 27th, 2012 at 1:33 pm

  I LOVE to do laundry. I HATE folding it and putting it away. I keep attempting to get my husband and three children to put their OWN laundry away, but it hasn’t happened yet–and the stacks of clothes then gets to me so that I break down and do it myself, cursing the whole time. Apparently, I am an enabler.

  I am very, very interested in hearing about your “recipe” for homemade laundry soap.

  I must read before I go to sleep. I used to be a belly sleeper until all the pregnancy/nursing years. It took me almost six years after my last pregnancy before I remembered that I could sleep on my belly again–and then I got pregnant again. Now it’s driving me nuts that I can’t sleep on my belly again!

  I don’t mind hand-washing dishes every once in a while. I do get some enjoyment out of washing them. But I HATE doing dishes after I’ve cooked (in other words, EVERY NIGHT). I HATE loading/unloading the dishwasher. Oftentimes, I leave the dishes and then have to do them before I cook the next day because I CAN’T cook unless the kitchen is clean. I’ve been trying to get the kids to do the dishes more often, but it’s difficult sometimes to get it into their/our busy schedule. I wish I could afford a maid.

  I LOVE to pop/snap my gum, but it irritates the bejesus out of my husband, so I have been snap-free for 20 years now. NOW it irritates ME when other people do it!

  I love to go to the grocery store–SANS children. Interestingly, my grocery store provides a daycare for children three to nine and yet I’ve hardly every utilized it. Probably because anytime I’ve stepped in there with the kids it’s a quick milk and bread run and NOT worth the effort of dropping them off.

  I could just go on and on and on….

• 27. jonniker  |  January 27th, 2012 at 1:39 pm

  Carrie. CARRIE. DAYCARE AT THE STORE?!

  Also, here’s the recipe I use. If you need to make a liquid, you can totally Google that pretty easily too.

  http://www.stylelushblog.com/2011/12/how-to-make-your-own-laundry-detergent.html

• 28. Artemisia  |  January 27th, 2012 at 1:46 pm

  Three of us in a boat! Jackopierce! Excuse me a moment, I am a junior in college again.

  I am back. I love quirks. Quirks are super fun secrets.

  Um, I cannot open up a can of soda or beer or whatever without first tapping the top of the can a few times with my fingernail.

  I have no idea why I do this. Perhaps someone once told me it kept the cans from exploding when you open them? I do not know. All I know is that it is physically impossible for me to open a soda without first tapping it.

• 29. Artemisia  |  January 27th, 2012 at 1:51 pm

  Also – if I smell anything off-putting at all, whether it be in the bathroom, bedroom, laundry but most especially the KITCHEN – I must seek it out and eliminate it. It usually involves copious amounts of bleach. I cannot go to sleep if I know there is “a smell out there somewhere.”

  According to my partner, I have an amazingly over-sensitive schnoz. You will see me wandering around the house, sniffing, guided by my nose as if it were a dowsing rod.

• 30. EmilysHollow  |  January 27th, 2012 at 1:52 pm

  Washing dishes? I do not mind. Unloading the dishwasher? UGH. Just kill me. Same with laundry. I’ll wash anything, iron anything, whatever. But folding and putting the clothes away? WHYYYYYY.

  I am a pretty drama free, even keel sorta gal. But when I’m overly tired, or if Xander has woken me up multiple nights in a row, I am the most dramatic person ever. I don’t ever remember doing so, but JS tells me I swear like a sailor, stamping around, whining that “this always happens all the time, I never get to sleep.” (Note, I do not swear at or stamp at my baby. Not LOUDLY, anyway.)

  I also leave the produce stickers on random household items because I never throw them away when I take them off fruit.

• 31. Carrie  |  January 27th, 2012 at 2:38 pm

  Thanks for the recipe!

  And yes, Wegmans is BE-AWESOME!

• 32. Carmen  |  January 27th, 2012 at 2:40 pm

  I’m not a huge fan of laundry or dishes, to be honest. Well, actually, I don’t mind folding and putting the laundry away, it’s the sorting before that I really hate and the lugging of the basket down to the machine.

  I am not a grudge holder either. I holler & then I’m done, as is the case in my family (mostly). Leo’s family never ever yells, so the first time I yelled at him….whoa. The look on his face was like I’d just killed his puppy or something.

  My sister-in-law is a champion grudge-holder. She hasn’t spoken to me since Dec 2007. She’s never acknowledged the birth of my second child. I gather from my brother that she’s mad about something innocuous that I said lo, those 4 years ago, but sheesh. That’s a long time to hold a grudge.

  My SIL also doesn’t speak to my mom and holds a years-long grudge against my mom for reasons like: 1) my mom had them over for dinner and spent too long in the kitchen; and 2) when my brother was fighting cancer and was spending months in the hospital, including two stem-cell transplants or hours-long abdominal surgery, my mom didn’t call her often enough with updates. (My parents were here with my brother at the hospital every day and my SIL was at home, 1500 km away, taking care of her dog.) I’ll let you be the judge as to whether either of those things are grudge worthy.

  But yes, I can’t imagine holding a grudge for that long. If Leo and I have a fight about something, and I think that I’ll try to hold grudge for a while (maybe engage in some mature silent-treatment or something), it lasts all of about 20 minutes before I’m chatting away like nothing happened.

• 33. Anne  |  January 27th, 2012 at 2:43 pm

  Bed quirk:
  -I cannot deal with being “breathed at/on” by Teryn. If she’s facing me I have to face the other way, which is fine if that shoulder isn’t sore yet, or face her but build a wall of blankets between our faces so she isn’t breathing at me.
  Cleaning quirk:
  -I hire a housekeeper purely to avoid having to clean the shower, which is BY FAR my least favorite chore ever. Everything else is fine, but the shower/bathtub? HATE.
  Food quirk(s):
  -I will only eat grilled cheese at slightly warmer than room temperature, and it has to cool “venting” on either a wire rack or the grill things over our gas burners so the bottom stays perfectly crisp. I do that with toast, too.
  -When I eat popcorn I nibble all the crunchy/hull parts of each individual piece (one at a time), then save the “puffy” parts in a bowl and eat the bowl of “puffies” last. I have never met anyone else who does this regularly, but anyone who has tried it (a few) does agree that eating the bowl of puffies at the end is pretty great. (Yes, I know I’m insane.)

• 34. H  |  January 27th, 2012 at 2:43 pm

  I love reading these!

  I enjoy doing dishes and laundry, and get great satisfaction from any completed chore. I love an empty dishwasher, a clean counter, an empty hamper, a freshly mowed lawn and things like that. My most hated job is dusting because it seems to reappear as soon as I finish. I think we need our ducts cleaned, but then I don’t trust the duct cleaners after that 20/20 episode! I love lists and I, too, sometimes put a completed chore on the list just so I can cross it off.

  I have several routines as well and I must have a particular level of neatness in the house before I can go to bed. I don’t think my requirements are extreme, but I have them nonetheless. When my husband travels, I love to set things out (like my breakfast dishes, vitamins, etc.) for the morning because I’m not a morning person and I’m much happier if all I have to do is microwave my oatmeal in the morning.

  I hold grudges for larger offenses, but they are low-grade grudges for the most part. They don’t consume me, but I don’t forget easily. I also assume others hold grudges so this opened my eyes a little. I need to remember that some people forgive ME sooner than I might think.

• 35. HereWeGoAJen  |  January 27th, 2012 at 3:01 pm

  The bedtime quirks- yes, most definitely. We must go to bed and watch one show to wind down. Then we put on a DVD of a television show (approved shows are Seinfeld, Arrested Development, sometimes Friends or Modern Family) and I turn over on my right side. Wait, before I turn over, I kiss Matt goodnight and then build the wall of pillows between our heads. (Matt’s sleeping quirk is that he must have a fan blowing on him to provide moving air, my quirk is that if there is moving air on me I will throw the fan out the window. Hence the wall of pillows.) I wrap the blanket around my wrist (the purpose of this is twofold- it prevents Matt from stealing the blankets in our sleep and I have bad wrists and they hurt if I sleep with them bent.) Rhen I put my other hand under my pillow and move my head back on my pillow enough so that the light from the monitor screen doesn’t shine in my eyes. Then I can sleep. But nothing can touch me while I am sleeping either. The dog has been kicked out of our room because he kept sneaking over and sleeping against me.

• 36. Life of a Doctor's Wife  |  January 27th, 2012 at 3:08 pm

  I just have to say that dealing with WET FOOD is horrific and to be avoided at ALL COSTS.

  Most of quirks are food related. For one thing, I CANNOT STAND the smell of cold leftovers. If I need to reheat some pasta with meat sauce, I will not breathe through my nose until it’s cooked through and the dish is washed/put back in the fridge.

  Likewise, I refuse to eat cold leftovers. Ugh.

  I am sure I have other quirks, but I’m so grossed out by all this talk of cold food that I can’t think straight.

• 37. K  |  January 27th, 2012 at 3:44 pm

  Ahh, quirks. I mostly think my husband is a saint for being tolerant of the ones I have.

  Food: I won’t eat leftovers. Reheated food with congealed bits heebs me out.

  Bed: If it’s cold enough to need pants, I can only sleep in leggings–not jammie bottoms that get all twisty and bunched up.

  House: I vacuum or Swiffer almost every day. My love of vacuuming and my hatred for crumbies makes me a piece of work. I recognize this.

• 38. Ginger  |  January 27th, 2012 at 3:59 pm

  This has been the most entertaining way to spend my lunch hour EVER. (Ok, maybe one of my quirks is a tendency to over exaggerate a little).

  I must make the bed before I go to bed–I don’t even bother during the day because it will just get messed up before bed and then I’d have to do it twice.

  I will delete an entire sentence I just typed just to fix a typo WAY BACK THERE. I don’t know why I do this, it’s so much more work.

  Sodas should be in glasses filled to the brim with ice. Everyone gives me grief about the 32 ounce sodas I get, but in reality, they usually end up with only about 12 ounces of soda and the rest is ice. But it’s the only correct way to drink a fountain soda.

  Even when I lived in colder climates, there are no socks or pants in bed. But especially socks. Socks ruin bedtime.

• 39. Linnea  |  January 27th, 2012 at 4:15 pm

  I, like Jen, cannot stand the feeling of moving air on me as I sleep. My husband, also, loves having moving air at all times. ALL TIMES. ugh. I want the air to be a pleasant temperature, but mostly still, unless I’m actively sweating. Then it is ok for moving air to touch me.

  Most of my food-related pickiness is related to the texture of foods. Water chestnuts? Nope, they crunch weird. Same with baby corn. Capers look too much like rodent droppings to be eaten. Spinach gets slimy once it’s cooked, so raw only please!

  My biggest one is about pants. As a child, a very contrary child, I heard the phrase “he puts his pants on one leg at a time” and decided that I wouldn’t. I now sit down to put my pants on BOTH legs at a time. Not EVERY time, but at least 90% of the time. Still. To this day. Because I’m contrary.

• 40. Sarah  |  January 27th, 2012 at 5:18 pm

  I’m glad I’m not the only person who hates dishes so much. For about two months straight during the worst of the morning sickness this time around, Jim did about 90% of the dish washing chores in our house because I literally couldn’t get near the sink without retching. It’s still rough some days, and we even have a dishwasher, so it’s not like this all consuming thing.

• 41. SwingCheese  |  January 27th, 2012 at 6:39 pm

  I can’t stand getting up in the morning and having dirty dishes. They can be clean and sitting in the dishes holder, but if they are in the sink, piled up, first thing in the morning, it drives me INSANE. Like, I start slamming things around. I have been known to drunkenly do dishes after party guests have left, at 1 am, in order not to be faced with dirty dishes in the morning. Or, or…I have left in the middle of the party, to do the dishes. I am A WHOLE LOT OF FUN, clearly. There are levels – a small amount of dishes doesn’t bother me. Like if my husband eats something after I go to bed, that doesn’t bother me. But if there are pots and/or pans from dinner, plus the dinner dishes, plus other, random dishes from late night snacking around….INSANE!!! Other things that bother me: glass rings on the table. And crumbs on the living room rug. And laundry that has been folded, but is sitting in stacks around our bedroom, not put away. And when my husband doesn’t close the garage door (the small one that leads to the backyard, not the big one). Hello, I’m Monica, from Friends.

  But dust really never bothers me. I swear, it could be an inch thick, and I’d never notice.

• 42. MaggyD  |  January 27th, 2012 at 11:05 pm

  Ooh, quirks! My husband says that I must have been an easy target for my older brother’s teasing since I have so many quirks. Oh, no, I tell him. Lots of these developed since college.
  For example, I hate having wet hands. In a tub (or hot tub), I will keep my hands out of the water the whole time. If I have to hand wash dishes, I wear rubber gloves. I will bring rubber gloves to family gatherings so I can help with the dishes afterward. There are days I attempt to shower and wash my hair without getting my fingers wet. I wish I had taken a class in ceramics before I developed this aversion. The feeling of slip or fire but yet unglazed clay sends shivers down my spine. Also, nothing is allowed to touch my toes. I’m persnickety about socks and shoes, don’t wear thong shoes, and have never had a pedicure. I try not to yell at my kids, but I have found myself using my harsh voice with them more than once. “Do NOT touch Mama’s feet!”
  My brother did torment me with boogers/snot, which still grosses me out. If I think about boogers too much I will gag (like right now). I’m an RN, I work in pediatrics, I deal with a lot of snot. And I don’t gag at work. Usually.

• 43. Elsha  |  January 28th, 2012 at 12:54 am

  Bedtime quirks: I always sleep with a full body pillow (pregnant or not.) I cannot STAND sleeping in socks. And really, less clothing=better for sleeping. I can’t sleep with the TV on. I have to have a clock available to me, even if it’s just my phone.

  Other quirks: I ALWAYS eat breakfast. The sooner after waking up the better- and there is no such thing as too early for breakfast. I won’t drink milk if I’m eating eggs. I like laundry, and I don’t mind dishes, but I hate sweeping/mopping floors. I feel like I never get them clean! Fortunately Brian is good at it and doesn’t mind doing them. I don’t like having my face touched. This is not great since my 3 year old loves to touch my face.

  I’m with you- not a grudge holder unless someone does something to a person I love. My sister’s “friends” who all ditched out on her dinner party at the last minute for another offer? Yeah, I still hold that against them. Happened in high school.

• 44. mar  |  January 28th, 2012 at 8:23 am

  There are less than half a dozen things that I’ve held grudges over lo these many years. As a redhead, I’m the stereotypical quick to anger type, but I don’t let it smolder.
  And I’m just full of quirks. It’s a wonder I ever found someone to put up with me! A few seem common among your commenters: making lists and putting stuff on it just to cross it off, hating to put away laundry (unfortunately neither of us like this & I will find an entire cllean basket dumped across the bed when I go up to sleep because he was looking for something. That does induce RAGE!), draining cold dishwater because I forgot I was soaking something. Squick!
  I’m really not Afraid of bugs, but I can’t stand feeling their exoskeletons crunch when you squish them, so I need a massive tissue barrier.
  Hate things touching the front of my neck, Def wouldn’t be into autoerotic asphyxiation.
  I cannot deal with being in the car when the fan, heater or AC, is on high. It gives me an awful headache.
  Those are just a few. Oh, and we started sleeping with separate comforters a few months ago (apparently this is a Scandinavian thing?) and I am getting much better sleep except when the dogs crowd me.

• 45. Mrs. Wilson  |  January 28th, 2012 at 10:12 am

  I hate dishes, too. HATE THEM. Which is why I’m thankful that my husband always does them. Except when my 10-year-old does them because having a 10-year-old means that I NEVER HAVE TO DO DISHES AGAIN.

  I also have a specific requirement for pajamas and particular sleeping/night time underwear. And I dream of sleeping through the night again.

• 46. Kris Taylor  |  January 28th, 2012 at 11:37 am

  I don’t mind dishes or laundry but cleaning the bathroom, ugh cannot stand it. (I do , of course because well yeah) but oooohh I hate every moment. I also hate cold food (except milk, milk MUST be cold). K knows if he is making himself a deli sandwich not to offer to make me one because the meat must come to room temperature before I even consider it. I will not take a bath,very hot showers only because ugh why would you want to sit in a soup of your own ick/dirt?…There are so many more but those are the top three. Yes, I have issues.

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