I am suffering from the flu -- the easiest flu ever, but the flu nonetheless -- so I Googled quirk to make sure I knew what I was talking about. A peculiar trait. But what if I don't know my trait is peculiar? I asked The Husband what my quirks were and he replied, "You're crazy." That's like just one big quirk, though. Le sigh. Let's see...
3. When I go out to dinner, I straighten up the table throughout the meal. If I'm with a group and there is straw paper laying around, I tidy it up and put it in a pile. If there's an open sugar packet, I will put the straw papers IN the open sugar packet. (And I apologize if you weren't done with that sugar packet.) If there are discarded napkins or sugar packets or ketchup packets or whatever, I will put them together. At the end of the meal at a restaurant with real plates, I will stack them and put the silverware on top, and then all the trash on top of that. At a fast food meal, I will try to put as much of the trash as I can into a fry box or an empty cup. I wipe up the table, too.
2. If you eat Skittles after me, you will notice that all you have left are the orange, yellow and green ones. That's because I will have eaten all of the red and purple ones. I will have eaten them two at a time, putting a red Skittle on one side of my mouth and the purple one on the other side of my mouth, then I will have bitten down carefully so as not to move either of them from between my teeth, because they have to be crushed simultaneously for the correct flavor.
1. Okay. Y'all help me out on this one. This is from The Husband, and he thinks this is peculiar, but I think I can't be the only one who does this. I bring reading material when I go to the potty. There's more than one reason for this... Well, sometimes you might be in there for a little while longer than you expect. Also, if you're lucky and your kids leave you alone, even if you aren't necessarily actively using the potty for its designed purpose, you're getting some alone time sitting there.
Am I the only one?
*crickets chirping*
Crap. <-------- Guess I need a book. (Did I use the arrow right, MiMi?)
28 comments:
who needs a book in the potty when you have a mini computer. and a phone.
call me!
I ALWAYS bring reading material to the bathroom.
Unless I'm at work.
Because...well, I just can't stand the mocking.
Yes!! <----- Correct arrow usage. You rock.
I didn't realize the book in the can and cleaning tables were quirks. Crap. <----- I do it too. Both crap and clean.
Most of my high quality reading takes place while I am on the can. By high quality reading I mean the latest issue of People Magazine. Has it occured to your husband that he might be weird for not bringing in reading material. What does he do while he goes potty? Just sit there?
Your table manners have left me in awe... that is a whole new layer of OCD.
I love how you eat Skittles. I have a friend who did that in high school, and wrote her college entrance exams on exactly that; and she got in to Notre Dame!!!
~Elizabeth
Confessions From A Working Mom
hahaha, okay I don't take reading material to the bathroom, but I have read the back of my hairspray and lotion bottles a few times... ahahahaha, TMI? oh well =)
My husband could write a novel in the time he spends in there... i mean seriously.
OK, so 90% of men I know read on the can - so I'd say Hubby's the quirky one there. As for me, I don't read on the potty, cuz...well, I'm just in too much of a hurry for that kind of thing. If I find I have a little extra time while I'm in there, I just take a little nap. That's what that tank looking thing in the back is for, right? Isn't it a back rest?
We keep a lovely wicker basket filled with magazines in our bathroom!
My husband keeps his ESPN magazines in the bathroom so he can read them while he is on the potty. He never reads, so I had this one book that I was reading that I wanted him to read too. So, I removed his magazine, and left the book in there, and it worked! Happy Thursday!
I thought only men took reading material to the bathroom. Ha!
I love to read when I have quiet time, but I won't be doing it on the toilet.
According to my step daughters my husband had quite a collection of, erm....reading material next to the camode....he doesn't anymore..now he just does the crossword puzzle or plays with the electronic yatzee..
hmmm..I wonder...if you yell yatze whilst conducting your "business", would people think you are proud of your bathroom accomplishment, or assume you are playing a game?
I thought only men read in the bathroom? I only eat the red and purple Skittles, too. But I have to be sneaky about it because I don't want my kids to catch on that those are the best flavors.
You straighten the table at restaurants ... wait a minute- are you really my Mother in LAW- I thought she didn't have a computer??
i totally read on the toilet...it's just about the only time anyone leaves me alone...including the husband!
LOL at your potty reading material. I take a book with me when I go to take a bath or shower. B/c I pretend like it takes that long to bathe and I hide in the bathroom and read.
I did not even think about your #3 when I wrote my quirks... I DO THE SAME THINGS!!! Drives my husband nutty because I am always picking up the dropped food off the floor. He says that's their job to clean it up. I say no, they're my kids to clean up after!
We have a magazine rack in our bathroom... I sit and read sometimes just because it is quiet, just like you! Sometimes I even bring my phone with me if I want to check emails :-)
Cleaning table off..quirky.
Skittle eating...adorable.
Potty reading...completely normal. Our bathroom is nicknamed "the library."
My little one is too small to give me personal time in the potty, unfortunately. I need to take her in, with me!! But when she's old enough? I plan on taking full advantage of that.
No reading material in the potty here.
I love to clean up around the activity in the room. Constantly during fixing the meal and dinner. It drives my hubby nuts!
Reading material in the bathroom is a must. I have magazine racks in all 3 just in case ---- I figure it is the only way we are going to have time to read our magazine subscriptions!
Funny - I clean up the table too!! and I do begin all my books on the toilet that's the only place I can read without feeling too much guilt!
Love to you
Kelly
I eat M&M's a certain way. I have to crack the shell open with my teeth and kind of peal the crunchy coating off first before I eat that awesome chocolate. I eat them one at a time. I might be weird that way.
You are hilarious. I am going to follow you now.
I love Skittles, but I only like the orange and purple ones. Are we sisters by another mister?
I, too, obsessively clean up when we're out to eat (like last night). My Hubs makes fun of me. But I feel badly (esp. since we have young twins) about the mess we make and don't want someone having to clean it all up. Even though I guess that IS part of the job description....
I also clean up the table...and often with such zeal that I'm cleaning up/throwing away things that haven't been finished yet!
You so crack me up! I love how you clean the table, your busboy does too.
The Skittle thing is hilarious but I have to admit, I do that too. Not completely the same way, but same idea.
I think it's hilarious your husband finds the reading in the bathroom thing weird because men are so totally known to do that. :) I have to say though, I do it too, you are definitely not alone.
You are not alone with the reading material! ;-)
And how funny about the Skittles thing! I know people often eat specific colors, but you have really specific rules!
Sorry it took me so long to stop by.
Thanks for playing our game!
Tamara
www.theunexperiencedmom.com
www.blogconferencenewbie.com
After reading the table cleaning comment, and then the Skittles comment... I have to follow you. I do the exact same things. Thank goodness I'm not the only one. :)
1-that is interesting...but oh so nice to the wait staff/restaurant employees...and in the case of fast food...those who come after you!
2-I like the red and purple best too...why can't they just make a bad of red and purple?
3-We keep the reading material IN the bathroom! Scott gets to read...seems I rarely do. :P
~Leslie
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