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Annette Curtain

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I'm fascinated by other peoples obsessions.


The more irrational the better. As a child I would go bonkers if someone opened my crisp packet 'upside down'

( it took me until I was around 40 to get over this )


A friends son won't wear a freshly ironed shirt unless he scrunches the collar up. And my youngest will only eat in a restaurant if he can 'smell' it first. We tested 3 Turkish restaurants in Green Lanes before he'd go in. ( he made a great choice btw ) My mother and my younger brother were the same but he's never met either.


They are to be celebrated and embraced, though I do feel for my neighbour who has a whole tapping-mantra he follows before he leaves the house, late or not.


So do we inherit these obsessive quirks through our DNA or are they learnt behaviors.


I'm all ears, so share your rituals-quirks-obsessions with me.




NETTE




NB. Keep your perverted and filthy fetishes to yourself ,i'm not interested in gimp suited nocturnals. Thankyou.

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Annette Curtain Wrote:

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> There's a girl so scared of what's around a

> corner, that she carries a stick with a mirror on.

> She uses it to check what's there ( or not )

> before carrying on her journey.

>

> Sounds absolutely rational to me.

>

> NETTE(tu)


Don't b'leeeeeve you.


Mirrors on sticks are for checking that something under the bed isn't drooling. Everyone knows that.

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Huguenot Wrote:

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> I had a mate with an egg problem - he craved fried

> egg whites, but if he even saw a yolk, he would

> vomit. He would ask people to prepare it for him

> whilst he stood outside the kitchen, and would

> only return after the yolk had been disposed of.


"Dear Deirdre"


"I have a mate with a problem"....yes, yes. So you don't like egg yolks.

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HAL9000 Wrote:

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> I refused to eat things on my plate if they as

> much as touched near the other things on the

> plate.

>

> You are Christopher John Francis Boone and I claim

> my five pounds.


I enjoyed reading that book too HAL but I'm afraid you're not five pounds richer.

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Otta Wrote:

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> As a kid, I didn't like a car to drive past me if

> I was "sheltered" by a parked car. To this day, I

> often find myself quickening my pace for the same

> reason.

>

> And I am so with you on the upside down crisp pack

> thing!



Upside down crisps thing was dealt with quite easily.


I gave up crisps.


NETTE:-S

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This thread has reminded me of when my son was a child. He saw a film where a lift tore away from its cables and plunged to the bottom of the shaft. We went through several years thereafter when he just refused to ride in lifts.


I definitely used to avoid the Elephant and Castle underground station I can tell you!

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El Pibe Wrote:

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> I wasn't even aware it was possible to open crisps

> upside down.

> Who would DO such a thing?!


My utterly uncaring Mother


She was the opening the crisps upside-down culprit


And she would buy me a mivi lolly to make me scream.


I hate ice cream lollies to this day.



NETTE(6)

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One of my great-aunts had to roll an orange or apple under her bed every single night to check that it came out the other side - to make sure that nobody was hiding under there.

I can't sleep in a room with a ticking watch or clock - can pick up the faintest noise and must find and remove it. Probably leaves hotel staff and B and B owners perplexed when they find the room alarm clock wrapped up in several towels in the bathroom.

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