How Strange Am I? (Truth is Stranger than Fiction W/O)May 12 '04 Write an essay on this topic.
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This essay is part of Krissingene's Truth is Stranger than Fiction W/O. The idea behind this write off is for us to write about the strange idiosyncracies that we all have. I do believe that I'm mostly normal, but just like everyone else, I do have a little bit of weirdness in me. So here goes..... 1. I hate onions, actually if there was a stronger term than hate, it would apply here. I even go so far as to strain jarred spaghetti sauce because even if it's just your traditional spaghetti sauce, there is still minced onion in there for flavoring. I can eat something and love it and then find an onion in it and then I can no longer eat it. Case in point, my husband had been buying these frozen meatballs at the store and they were delicious! I loved them in pasta dishes until one day I found a teeny tiny onion it one of the meatballs and now I can't eat them. If I go to anyone's house for dinner, I discretely search my meal and remove any onions in it. Now for the weird part, I love onion powder and use it often in cooking. Don't ask me to explain because I can't, that's just how it is with me. 2. Another food item......Miracle Whip.....How gross is that stuff?? In our house, it has to be Hellmann's Mayonnaise and nothing else. If I go out to lunch somewhere and order a sandwich that comes with mayo, I ask to taste the mayo first because a lot of places use Miracle Whip for mayonnaise when in fact, the 2 are completely different items. Miracle Whip is called a salad dressing while Hellmann's is called mayonnaise. This embarrasses the hell out of my husband any time I do this but I refuse to order a whole sandwich and then find it slathered in Miracle Whip because I won't eat it then and it's just a waste of money. 3. I can't stand dry skin of any kind. I hate the scratchy sound dry skin makes when it rubs up against clothing....it's like fingernails on a chalkboard to me! That's why you will never ever see me wear satin or God forbid, have satin sheets. Satin (and polyester) catch real easily on dry skin and I'm getting goosebumps just thinking about it so I'll go on to the next item. 4. Ok, my husband has the habit of snacking in bed. I can't stand crumbs in my bed so every night before I climb into bed, I spend 5 minutes running my hands over the sheet to make sure there are no crumbs on it. My husband, of course, will purposely put crumbs on the bed just to watch me go nuts. Don't worry, I get him back in other ways [evil grin!] 5. This one's not so bad but it can make the water bill high..... I must shower every day. It doesn't matter if I'm squeaky clean, I feel dirty and gross and my hair even feels greasy to me when it's clearly not. Even in the winter when we're snowed in and we haven't left the house or done anything that would remotely make us dirty, I still have to shower every day. I remember as a child my mother would give us a bath once a week. Oh, she'd wash us up every night during the summer because we'd get dirty, but a full bath was only given once a week. I find that to be so gross! I bathe my daughter every other day and couldn't imagine going a whole week without giving her a bath. My husband is the same way too so you can only imagine the amount of our water bill! 6. I have a gross sense of humor, to the point where even my husband was shocked when we first started going out. Aah, but I've converted him and turned him into one of us (my mom and sister are the same way), and now we like to see who can gross each other out the most. We, of course, don't do this until our daughter is in bed. We might be demented, but it's only fair to give Courtney a shot at being normal...... Well, I believe that's about it. These were the ones just off the top of my head, the ones I deal with every day. There may be other oddball things about me but if so, they haven't surfaced yet. Only time will tell if I can turn any stranger than I already am :-)  |
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