Habits that you've kept from your childhood.

[Otta]

When I have Cottage / Shepherds pie (in private), I still mash all the mince & potato in to one big thing of baby food. Always find it difficult to not do this in company!

Oh, and I still don't step on the cracks of the pavement.

[srisky]

Can't walk across 3 drains.

Sometimes this involves obstinantly sticking to one side of the pavement and forcing the oncoming person to step quickly aside - this can cause brief havoc on crowded/busy pavements e.g. Oxford St. Very sorry to anyone who has been subjected to this but I just can't do it. If I am with the buggy on the narrow pavements of ED I let the buggy go over the drains whilst I shuffle round them - I figure my daughter has not superstitions (as yet) and is therefore, immune from potential bad luck.

Also have to salute and spit if I seen a solitary magpie and say 'hello Mr/Mrs Magpie, how are you and your family'

I try and do this very subtly when out and about as i) spitting in public is abhorent ii)it is embarassing to be seen saluting and talking to a magpie.

[Otta]

My wife salutes magpies, but never seen her spit.

I do the 3 drain thing, although I will walk on them, so long as my foot doesn't touch down on the third drain.

[srisky]

Yes, I do bend the rules in dire situations and step on one or two of the 3 drains. Sometimes I have to do a hop skip and a jump to avoid walking on the third drain!

[DJKillaQueen]

Habits that I kept from my childhood......hmmm.......how long have you got?

[katie1997]

:-$ I still try to keep my feet from dangling over the edge of the bed in case, of erm, monsters.

(Calvin & Hobbes style ... Something Under The Bed Is Drooling!! ARghhhhhhhhh)

[a bloke]

I still ride a

Chopper.

[PeckhamRose]

A distrust of most adults.

[Ridgley]

Never chew gum mum would say it not lady like and only Cows chew.

[steveo]

Masturbation

[WoolWitch]

I don't understand the three drain thing - I happily trample on drains. Explain please! But I do check in the wardrobe (for witches), when I am on my own at night.

[srisky]

WoolWitch Wrote:

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> I don't understand the three drain thing - I

> happily trample on drains. Explain please! But I

> do check in the wardrobe (for witches), when I am

> on my own at night.

There's nothing to explain, it's irrational. I know it but still avoid them!

[Tarot]

Guiness and tonic.

[helena handbasket]

I have this totally freakish need to do the horror movie run up the stairs at night, like someone is chasing me. If I'm the last downstairs, I have to go upstairs, turn all of the hall lights on, and THEN go back down and turn off the downstairs lights. Then the stair run for life. I really do know that nobody is chasing me.

It's worse with basements; have been caught by my husband doing the shameful run/scream/look back as I go up the basement stairs. There's really nothing you can say once you've been seen doing that. Not much of a problem in the UK obviously.

I grew up with one of those really grumbly "Home Alone" type old basement furnaces. I blame that.

[northlondoner]

Can't sleep with a wardrobe or bedroom door open. In case of apparitions.

[Mick Mac]

Tarot Wrote:

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> Guiness and tonic.

Guinness.....

[Huguenot]

Ton eeeeeeek!

Picking your nose and wiping it on the wall? ;-)

[LuLu Too]

Bedwetting

[LuLu Too]

Not really, the alarmed electric shock undersheet cured me...

[DulwichFox]

One Habit I have kept from Childhood is I just cannot stop getting Older.

[LadyDeliah]

DulwichFox Wrote:

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> One Habit I have kept from Childhood is I just

> cannot stop getting Older.

Lol, that's a coincidence, me too!