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6rant6's avatar

What do you and you alone do?

Asked by 6rant6 (13700points) January 10th, 2010

Do you have any habits or behaviors that you think no one else in the world shares?

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holden's avatar

Yes. I eat dirt. is that bad?

Jude's avatar

GQ. I’m going to follow this thread.

I’ve got nothin’.

deepdivercwa55m's avatar

yes i have but am not telling you lol

delirium's avatar

Statistically unlikely.

AstroChuck's avatar

Deliver the mail accurately.

tinyfaery's avatar

No such thing.

tedibear's avatar

No, I don’t think that I do. I have some quirky things that I do, but I would bet that others do them too. Or something similar in any case.

Spinel's avatar

Wonder out like my friend is so strange, why that acquaintances has that quirky habit, why that cohort obsesses on that…

Basically I wonder why other people do strange things when I have by myself time.

poisonedantidote's avatar

hahahaha, i spent about 5 minutes thinking on all my strange little habits, and now that i have finally come up with something i used to do as a child i’m 100% sure its not for sharing.

6rant6's avatar

Wow, the myth of fingerprints not holding water here. I thought for sure people would at least wonder if what they do is unique.

When I have trouble going to sleep, I think what the next number i n the series 2,3,5… might be. Mostly it’s 2,3,5,12 that puts me to sleep. I think maybe I’m the only one.

AstroChuck's avatar

Sleep with Parrothead.

At least I’d better be.

ccrow's avatar

I doubt I am so unique as to be the only person doing any particular thing.

Michael_Huntington's avatar

I feel like I’m the only person on this site who is comfortable having Rap and Death metal on his iPod. In other words, I like both.
Just don’t fuse it together…

stemnyjones's avatar

@holden Yes.

I don’t think there’s anything I do that no one else in the entire world does.

nikipedia's avatar

I am hoping that I am the only person in the world working on the exact research projects I’m doing. Otherwise, I’m screwed.

babaji's avatar

Walk in my shoes.

downtide's avatar

I hope I’m the only person in the world who has sex with my partner…

holden's avatar

Normally I resist the temptation to eat it, but the smell of dirt is strangely appetitive to me. So is laundry and dishwashing detergent, but I’ve never eaten that.

nebule's avatar

It’s not necessarily something I do…but rather something that happens to me…and that is

as I’m lying in bed trying to fall asleep, whilst thinking about a variety of things like what I’m going to do the next day, or whether I’m ever going to be happy, how to do things better… I get these really vivid and odd images pop into my mind, clear as day… and it will be a specific place, person, scenario….that I’ve never met before, never seen before…nothing associative… and sometimes quite scary or banal…but very very specific… like… a photograph that I’ve never seen before with aura and smell and colour and other feelings that travel with it…very very unlike a dream…it’s just an image about to…anyway…I may just be bonkers… or it might just be those neurons firing again but I should would like to know if it happens to anyone else!

nebule's avatar

oh… and I have been known occasionally to chip my teeth when biting my toenails…lol!

denidowi's avatar

Answering your emboldened Q, you have really opened the door nowLOL!!!
The Foil art I invented 17 years ago.
Explain the principle of the (flying) Magnacraft I conceptually invented many years ago.
Run Grappleball (sports) games I invented 11 years ago.
Explain the discovery I made 12 years ago that snakes and Man are exact functional Opposites and how that supports the Biblical Adam and Eve who were opposed by the snake in the Garden of Eden.

I am also the only husband of my wife and the only living brother of my younger brother.
I am the only father of my 7 children, adn the only oldest child of my parents!
Does that count??

rooeytoo's avatar

I am the one and only in the whole wide world who is owned by The Town Dog!

@AstroChuck – I see Parrothead is a great fan of Jimmy Buffet, me too! I love his music, books and he has without a doubt the greatest smile on earth!

sliceswiththings's avatar

Sometimes when I’m walking I imagine a string is trailing behind me, and I’m connecting wherever the string starts to wherever I’m going. It can’t get tangled, so I’m really careful to avoid telephone poles, railings, etc. I’ve done this since I was a kid, and can’t seem to shake it.

Trance24's avatar

This is something I did as a child, I would love to know if anyone else did this. This is also somewhat embarrassing, but hey its Fluther so here goes. Every time I had sunny side up eggs or a Spit in the Eye , I always pretended in my mind that is that my knife and fork were enemies. I always had two eggs or two spit in the eyes, so my fork was assigned to one and my knife the other. They were only enemies because one always thought the other destroyed their castle (the egg). When really they were controlled by an evil force (that being my hands!). So every time one egg was destroyed either knife or fork would go after the other egg. This then lead to a battle to where my breakfast was nicely cut up ready for consumption.

YEA I AM WEIRD! WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO ABOUT IT?!

P.S- Did I mention I was like 9?

jamielynn2328's avatar

I don’t have anything. But my sister used to sneak out of the house and go back into the woods with a plastic bag and poop in it. Pretty sure that’s not too popular of a thing to do.

Trance24's avatar

@jamielynn2328 How on Earth did you even figure that out?

jamielynn2328's avatar

@Trance24 She is 25 now and just recently told me. I guess she did it often and was surprised I never caught her.

tinyfaery's avatar

@Blondesjon That might be the only feasible answer.

wundayatta's avatar

As far as I can tell, there’s no one thing that distinguishes me from everyone. Many people share all of the aspects of me—some one aspect and others, other aspects. However, I’m the only one who uniquely puts together all that I am. I am what I do, so that’s unique, I guess. Of course, while my particular expression is unique, I am not unique in being unique. We all are. So what’s the point of this question?

VohuManah's avatar

I am probably the only person in Idaho who can point to America on a map, and the only Idahoan who can read analog clocks. I can also make a deformed pirate bunny sailor out of three napkins and a straw.

AstroChuck's avatar

@daloon- I don’t know about that. No one else paints a map of the world on their ass so beautifully. I’m assuming you do it yourself.

6rant6's avatar

@daloon I write. Details from the lives of real people are interesting jumping off points for characters.

wundayatta's avatar

@6rant6 Ohhhh. Why didn’t you say so. “What is the most interesting trait you have that you would give to a character.” Now that I could have done something with. Oh yes, indeedy.

6rant6's avatar

@daloon Well, if that’s what I’d wanted, that’s what I’d have asked. Not every question pertains to every Flutherite, IMHO.

wundayatta's avatar

@6rant6 Color me confused. You didn’t want colorful jumping off points for characters? I mean, you did say that was the point of the question—or so I thought. Well, I never claimed to be the biggest raisin in the pudding.

6rant6's avatar

@daloon I’ve learned over the years that asking people to help you write is asking them to write. And most poeple aren’t nearly as concerned with doing it well as I am. So asking them for ideas may mean they repeat what they thought was a good idea someone else had, or they give the kernel without the context.

I want the detail to filter through, not the stuff they think is worthwhile. In particular, the detail I find most interesting is often something that they see as matter of fact. That’s why I ask these questions the way I do.

wundayatta's avatar

@6rant6 Makes sense. Doesn’t work on me, because it only makes me want to sabotage the question by giving a non-answer answer. But there’s different theories of question formulation, and I suppose they all work for different kinds of people. Good luck with that.

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