Ask Me Help Desk - I'm weird, part II

I'm weird, part II

Hello:

This is a continuation of the "I'm weird" series. I'm doing it again, because I'm even weirder than I thought I was.

You see, I've got this fork and spoon. I LOVE 'em. Now, I don't care what I'm eating, I HAVE to have my fork and/or my spoon. Even though I have a drawer full of perfectly clean and serviceable silverware, I'll plow through the dirty dishes, just so I can eat with my favorite utensil. I even obsess when I can't find 'em. Food has been known to get cold here when I'm looking, and I KNOW somebody stole my favorite tea spoon just to punish me. I haven't enjoyed tea since that disappeared.

Yeah, I'm weird. You?

excon

No, nothing weird on this end. Have some foibles to deal with though. I am a clean freak in my bathroom and kitchen. I get upset when I am out of Pinsol.

I get up at 0500H every day and do the same stuff, Melitta coffee from my Cuisenart, my Toronto Star, delivered at 0400H, etc.

I guess you would say I am normal to a degree.

I don't think you are weird because of the teaspoon. You are probably just 'died in the wool' and set in your ways like the rest of us.

Good question by the way.

Tick

I'm just as strange my friend I think, my socks has to match my underwear so I pick them out the night before or else your waiting for me to wash and dry them and I can't walk on the ground in my bear feet it freaks me out big time so I've slippers in every room my nick name is cinderella cause of this :) one of my many alter egos lol

I can't eat ice cream without my little plastic spoon. I only have the one, and I refuse to eat ice cream unless it's available. It just tastes better with this little plastic spoon. The metal ones get too cold and the ice cream sticks to the spoon and ruins the taste. Ya, that's why! Really!

Uhm weird, I am not sure what to say about me. Will let you guys decide how weird I am. Create a nice little story that works and share what you think is weird about me?

This may come as a HUGE surprise to some but...
I'm a ditz! I never can remember where I park my car when I go the mall or the grocery store when I'm by myself. You'd THINK I'd remember that I don't EVER remember but NOOOOO! AND it got really bad the other day because I was given a loaner car while mine was in the shop. I was wandering aimlessly, I mean I had NO IDEA. Some poor guy took pity on me and pulled up and told me he'd go down every isle and look for it if I could tell him what kind of car it was.. I had NO CLUE... all I knew was it was silver. It was embarrassing! I always think.. when's it going to end Tess? When's it going to end?

Jesushelper, I don't know why you are weird because I don't know you well enough. BUT maybe because you were BORN in 1976 and I was Sophomore in high school. That makes you pretty much a freak to me. Ha ha just kidding. I'm just jealous. ( I'm assuming you were born in 1976?) If not, then I got nuttin... so far you seem pretty normal to me.

Also thought of something else that makes me weird. I usually spill something on me when I eat. When I worked in an office, they use to guess what I had for lunch. Tee hee... thus the name CLASSY I oooze it. Ha ha

There's nothing weird about me. Absolutely nothing. Really.

Auntie, your overly obsessive about spelling errors and proper prounounciations. Your unique not everybody is like that lol.. That would not make you weird though.

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Originally Posted by Jesushelper1976

Your unique

That should be "you're," not "your," dear little nephew. Excellence in grammar and punctuation and spelling are what make me lovable. I'm VERY lovable.

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Originally Posted by Wondergirl

That should be "you're," not "your," dear little nephew. Excellence in grammar and punctuation and spelling are what make me lovable. I'm VERY lovable.

I never abbreviate you are. I spell it out. I don't think its acceptable to type you're.

Sorry, just me, not you.

I really hate 'wanna' instead of want to.

Tick

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Originally Posted by tickle

I dont think its acceptable to type you're.

Yes, it's (it is) acceptable to type "you're." Grammarians accept many contractions, especially in informal writing. For formal writing, you would (you'd) be correct.

In the same way, "don't" would be considered unacceptable.

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Originally Posted by Jesushelper1976

Auntie, your overly obsessive about spelling errors and proper prounounciations. Your unique not everybody is like that lol.. That would not make ya weird though.

I'm an expert on a grammar site, so I guess I'm always aware of misspellings and such like. And I do make mistakes myself (and cry all night because of them). Is this what makes me weird? Hmmmm...

I have one mug.. I drink coffee from. It's my favorite.
I also put lettace on the bottom of a hamburger instead of the top.

I AYWAYS take a pack of the of the sanitized wipes with me, so I can wipe the shopping cart handles. Major Weird??

I don't care about grammarians. As a very good administrative secretary years ago, my letter writing was impecable and I would never use you're in a business letter. Anyway in Pitman shorthand (yes, we used that back then) abbreviations are just unknown, In other words, 'you are' has to be completely recognizable in Pitman shorthand because the letter you took down that way, may not be typed for a day or so. There was no room for mis-interpretation.

However, I do see what you mean.

Everyone to each his own, right ?

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Originally Posted by Kitkat22

I AYWAYS take a pack of the of the sanitized wipes with me, so I can wipe the shopping cart handles. Major Weird???

Not weird to be sanitized, Kit. As a healthcare worker I do the same, in fact I carry hand sanitizer around with me and use every time I think about it. Plus hands get washed immediately entering my house. Not an obssessive compulsive disorder just some things you have to do nowadays to keep disease away.

Tick

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Originally Posted by tickle

I dont care about grammarians. As a very good administrative secretary years ago, my letter writing was impecable and I would never use you're in a business letter.

A business letter is considered formal writing, so, yes, you are correct about not contracting "you are" in one. You were a good administrative secretary because of grammarians, so please don't throw them out without a hug.

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Originally Posted by tickle

I dont care about grammarians. As a very good administrative secretary years ago, my letter writing was impecable and I would never use you're in a business letter. Anyway in Pitman shorthand (yes, we used that back then) abbreviations are just unknown, In other words, 'you are' has to be completely recognizable in Pitman shorthand because the letter you took down that way, may not be typed for a day or so. There was no room for mis-interpretation.

However, I do see what you mean.

Everyone to each his own, right ?

Right Tickle!

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Originally Posted by Wondergirl

A business letter is considered formal writing, so, yes, you are correct about not contracting "you are" in one. You were a good administrative secretary because of grammarians, so please don't throw them out without a hug.

Well, I shouldn't have said I don't care about grammarians, Wondergirl. I would never one out !

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Originally Posted by tickle

Well, I shouldnt have said I dont care about grammarians, Wondergirl. I would never one out !

Okay I always iron my jeans... :eek:

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Originally Posted by Kitkat22

Okay I always iron my jeans...:eek:

Now that's weird. ;) :p

I like commas, a lot. :)

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Originally Posted by Altenweg

I like commas, a lot. :)

Remember Pigpen surrounded by a cloud of dirt? That's how I picture you -- but instead surrounded by a cloud of commas, multicolored and sparkly.

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Originally Posted by Wondergirl

Remember Pigpen surrounded by a cloud of dirt? That's how I picture you -- but instead surrounded by a cloud of commas, multicolored and sparkly.

I like sparkly. I could do a cloud of colorful sparkly commas.

I am much cuter then Pigpen though, and cleaner. ;)

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Originally Posted by Wondergirl

Remember Pigpen surrounded by a cloud of dirt? That's how I picture you -- but instead surrounded by a cloud of commas, multicolored and sparkly.

I always rinse the aluminum cans before I recycle.

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Originally Posted by Kitkat22

I always rinse the aluminum cans before I recycle.

Now THAT... is weird :eek:

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Originally Posted by Altenweg

I am much cuter then Pigpen though, and cleaner. ;)

I did say "but instead."

You might want to hand out commas to some of the questioners who come here and write long, unpunctuated blocks of text. Do you share your commas with others?

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Originally Posted by Kitkat22

I always rinse the aluminum cans before I recycle.

I do too. Isn't that a law?

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Originally Posted by Wondergirl

I do too. Isn't that a law?

I don't think so. I also add colorox to a load of dishes in the dishwasher every time I use it.

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Originally Posted by Kitkat22

I don't think so. I also add colorox to a load of dishes in the dishwasher every time I use it.

What's colorox? What's a dishwasher?

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Originally Posted by Wondergirl

What's colorox? What's a dishwasher?

I know you're joshing but Clorox is Bleach:p

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Originally Posted by Kitkat22

I know you're joshing but Clorox is Bleach:p

Oh, Clorox. You said colorox. My husband does all the grocery shopping now (while I stay home and wash dishes), so I thought something new had been invented.

I would eat at your house on your sanitized dishes.

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Originally Posted by Wondergirl

What's a dishwasher?

Go to your mirror WG :D

::running away::

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Originally Posted by friend4u178

Go to your mirror WG

I've never had a machine-thing dishwasher. Yup, just me as the dish washer.

Hello again,

Yup. You're (I mean you are) ALL weird.

excon

I feel pretty normal now that I've read about all of you. I thought for sure I was the only one who had to have specific utensils for eating certain things. :D

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Originally Posted by Kitkat22

Okay I always iron my jeans...:eek:

That's just crazy:eek:

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Originally Posted by Kitkat22

I always rinse the aluminum cans before I recycle.

That is normal:) You don't want to attract ants:eek:

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Originally Posted by friend4u178

go to your mirror wg :d

::running away::

:d:d:d

I can't stop doing things, but I don't have a problem with it and don't take my 'one' soup spoon that is not quite as big as the others:eek:

Some things are almost ritual in the morning. I use the same routine every morning and if I forget that ritual I know something very bad is going to happen.

I believe that my use of my punctuation incorporated in the above paragraph is good... if not then at least functional... :)

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Originally Posted by Stringer

Some things are almost ritual in the morning. I use the same routine every morning, and, if I forget that ritual, I know something very bad is going to happen.

Buy three commas from Alty, and you're ("you are," in deference to tick) good to go.