Step into the confessional . . . . .

MrFun · November 25, 2003, 04:25

what is your habitual compulsion??

My compulsion is that whenever I get up from doing something at night, (watching TV, coming out of bathroom, studying) I HAVE to check my front door to my apartment to make sure it's lock for the night -- almost everytime I go from doing one thing to something else.

Maybe it's just that I'm afraid SlowwHand is planning to send a posse up here, have them drag me out, and then having the posse ship me to Cuba.

So, what is your compulsion -- if you have one.

orange · November 25, 2003, 04:37

I masturbate a lot.

Urban Ranger · November 25, 2003, 04:42

I pick at my scabs

connorkimbro · November 25, 2003, 04:43

whenever eating in any kind of public restaurant, when i'm using napkins to clean my hands or my mouth or whatever. . . i can only use each napkin once and then i've got to use a new one next time. it doesn't matter if the napkin didn't get dirty at all, once it's used, it's used, and i can't use it again. i usually end up going through 20-30 napkins.

Theben · November 25, 2003, 05:15

Constant washing/sanitizing of hands. All those training videos/seminars dealing with proper sanitation at work (mainly the Jack-in-the-Box horror flicks) did a number on me. Now I get chlorine burns on my hands from time to time.
OTOH, I rarely get sick.

Shi Huangdi · November 25, 2003, 05:22

I yell at people who steal the intellectual property of SuperSneak.

Theben · November 25, 2003, 05:26

Quote:

Originally posted by Shi Huangdi
I yell at people who steal the intellectual property of SuperSneak.

What's he been up to? Haven't seen him here for awhile (or hadn't noticed).

Nubclear · November 25, 2003, 06:43

I pick at my lips and suck my blood

Dis · November 25, 2003, 06:54

civ3: conquests

Paul Hanson · November 25, 2003, 07:12

I'll spend hours at my computer trying to squeeze that little extra bit of speed out of it.

Yesterday I though "f*ck it", and decided to buy a new one.

Q Classic · November 25, 2003, 07:51

i post at 'poly while at work, making it look like i'm being busy. which i am.

Alinestra Covelia · November 25, 2003, 11:32

I like to scratch along my fingers, sideways. I'll start off with a nail on either side of my cuticle, and then gently scrape down towards the knuckle.

It's hard to explain the action, and even harder to describe the feelings it gives me, but it's an almost erotic feeling. Nobody else I've talked to has experienced this phenomenon.

AgentSubversion · November 25, 2003, 11:36

I sit quietly in busy places and graph movement patterns of people in my mind, making verbal notes into my laptop. Then I interveiw people that I see and make connections between their actions in a public place and their actions and reactions in a more intimate environs. I overanalyse every situation, and manage to twist everything I see to support my political veiws, which are completely Anarchic. I demand action from people without cause that ailienates everyone I meet, and then I forget about them entirely untill months or years later.

Whaleboy · November 25, 2003, 11:42

AC: I do/have the same thing, only it just relaxes me. Any other "hands" people?

Q Classic · November 25, 2003, 11:50

i do it in church, but it's not exactly erotic. i do like the sensation though, 'cause it's almost like tickling.

Inverse Icarus · November 25, 2003, 12:17

Quote:

Originally posted by orange
I masturbate a lot.

seconded.

Mercator · November 25, 2003, 12:28

I tap my fingers/feet, bulge my cheeks (um... not sure how to describe it), "tap" my teeth together (it's not really grinding), and/or tap my fingernails (mainly the thumb) against my teeth to the rythm of the music when I'm listening to music, or simply when I have some song in my head, or just when I generally feel like it consciously or not...

I guess I should become a drummer or something.

Kropotkin · November 25, 2003, 12:30

I bite on my fingers. Disgusting habit really. Don't know when I stared, but it's really hard to stop doing it.

AgentSubversion · November 25, 2003, 12:30

I run my thumb along the front brim of any hat i'm wearing as I put it on and take it off

MrFun · November 25, 2003, 12:33

Quote:

Originally posted by Shi Huangdi
I yell at people who steal the intellectual property of SuperSneak.

Intellectual property . . . . . . . . .

Japher · November 25, 2003, 12:55

I smoke... Whenever I smoke, I spit... I think its because I use to chew and the taste of tobaco makes me.

Also, I have a bad habit of stealing SuperSneaks intellectual property..

I have a friend who's a klepto, really rather funny. The guy will steal anything that's not nailed down; he once stole a "slippery when wet" sign from Taco Bell on impulse.

Snotty · November 25, 2003, 17:56

I run my fingers in repetetive patterns over my other fingers. Like tracing a joined up X on my thumb nail. I make all sorts of patterns. Nothing too complex or pictoral, I do it when I concentrate. My girlfriend loves it when I trace patterns on her.

MrFun · November 25, 2003, 18:03

There's a lot more people who thought they could sneak in and out of the confessional without confessing.

SHOW YOURSELF!!

Ben Kenobi · November 25, 2003, 18:14

Nailbiter.

Have to buy an ice-cube tray, so I can chew ice instead.

Theben · November 25, 2003, 18:45

You know what they say about people who chew ice, don't you?

Ben Kenobi · November 25, 2003, 19:00

No...

But it worked this summer. I had nice nails for the first time in my life.

Thorn · November 25, 2003, 19:13

I intimidate people, I don't mean to, especially if I start ranting about something political.

General Ludd · November 25, 2003, 19:27

I urinate alot.

Particularily when I'm nervous or excited. I can sometimes go to the bathroom a dozen times in the span of a hour. I don't know where it all comes from.

MRT144 · November 25, 2003, 20:17

i hump my girlfriend while asleep

MrFun · November 25, 2003, 22:14

Quote:

Originally posted by Ben Kenobi
I had nice nails for the first time in my life.

So you're gay?