Something unusual you may not know about me is...

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Fri Apr 16, 2010 3:57 am

I used to predict things more than I do now.On a school ski trip in 4th grade I knew literally seconds before we crashed that we were going to. I was at the back of the bus not looking out any windows, I just saw the roads in my head and something white was ahead. The bus hit a car and it was almost sent off the cliff.Another time, also in the winter a couple years later, the phone rang and in trying to get to the phone my computer chair tipped over, and the thought raced to me, my dad had been in accident. Sure enough, someone had not been careful on the highway and slammed into the back of his car. He was alright though.Now that I'm older more often than not things I predict happening my writing fiction or poems to pass the time, from roller coasters crashing to shoot outs. If I write them in the day, usually there's something on the news that night about it actually happening.

Barbydoll · Post by **Barbydoll** » Fri Apr 16, 2010 5:45 am

hmm.This is an interesting forum going on.Something unusual...ok...I have this sixth(?) sense that tells me if I can trust someone, whether I have known them a while or I have just met. I have never been wrong. I can tell is someone is telling the truth or blowing smoke. And my poor hubby- every time he tries to hide something- I automatically know. My teen son hates that too. Keeps them on their toes. One more thing, I have a love of jewelry and decided to do something about it and learned by myself with the help of beading catalogs how to make beaded Jewelry. Now I have enough earrings, bracelets and necklaces for everything I wear! And cuddling with a hermit crab has to be unusual for most people but Charger and I have learned to adapt to each other. She will fall asleep on my neck or under the collar of my shirt while I am reading a book or watching TV.

Crabby Abby · Post by **Crabby Abby** » Fri Apr 16, 2010 1:01 pm

I can't write on paper with a pencil. Well, I can but the feel of graphite dragging across the paper drives me crazy. I avoid pencils whenever possible.

Margaret · Post by **Margaret** » Fri Apr 16, 2010 1:44 pm

That sounds like the kind of weird quirks I have, CA. My brother had similar issues as a child, but I think he's outgrown them. I wish I had a cool extra sensory skill, but I'm pretty much "What you see is what you get." My crab-love is probably the oddest thing about me, but you guys all know that already. I do have a worm issue - I am utterly paralyzed when they are out on the sidewalk. It takes me forever to get anywhere on rainy spring days. In the dirt they don't bother me at all, but put one where I might step on it? Brrr. I've even thrown up just from thinking about it too much.I guess that's pretty weird!I also did kung fu/do karate, which you'd never know by looking at me. My karate style is kind of Gimli-esque. But I am notorious for kicking people hard and fast - no one ever expects that from someone like me!

Crabby Abby · Post by **Crabby Abby** » Sat Apr 17, 2010 12:30 am

quote:But I am notorious for kicking people hard and fast - no one ever expects that from someone like me! Ah,nothing like the element of surprise to take your attacker down. I love it.I make sure to hopscotch around worms on rainy days but I felt that same paralysis one Spring day last year when I'd been out and returned to my street to find it literally covered with hundreds of frogs. My road is probably all of 10 houses long but I swear it took 1/2 an hour as I tried to maneuver around them.

breezeetew · Post by **breezeetew** » Sat Apr 17, 2010 12:14 pm

I was a fancy rat breeder for years- blue, siamese, dumbo eared, etc... I studied the genetics and had a lot of knowledge before I started.This being said, it is very unusual to most that I have a severe reaction to mice. The ones at a petstore are cute but nothing I want to touch or take home, but a mouse on the loose in my house makes me want to move out! I was worse when pregnant with my last child but it is getting more intense as I age.Top it off with the fact I live across the road from a field and they come into houses in the fall and spring with farming going on and I am not a happy person for a few months of the year.I used to be able to live trap them and take them back outdoors but now I root for the cats when they catch one.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Sat Apr 17, 2010 12:35 pm

KaraJo -- my blog has pictures: www.crazycakemomma.blogspot.com

Crabby Abby · Post by **Crabby Abby** » Sat Apr 17, 2010 5:19 pm

Breezy you forgot about being a praying mantis stepmom. =)

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Sun Apr 18, 2010 10:22 am

i love weird phobias. I had a friend once who had a phobia of cotton balls. I myself have a phobia of caterpillars.

KittyCaller · Post by **KittyCaller** » Sun Apr 18, 2010 11:50 am

CA, I'm with you on the pencil use. I can use a nice smooth mechanical pencil, but a regular graphite one? Almost never. *shudder* Hehe, Nodda, just reading your post sent shivers up my arms and spine (And not in a good way )

Laurie LeAnn · Post by **Laurie LeAnn** » Wed Apr 21, 2010 2:07 am

hahah i taped cotton balls on everything when I was mad at my hubby cause he can't stand the feel of them or even look at them, don't get mad, get even my motto!

Shelly · Post by **Shelly** » Wed Apr 21, 2010 3:04 am

I HATE cotton balls,the feel of it..ugh...I can do the cotton rounds,you know the flat ones...as long as no one tries to pull them apart...

Laurie LeAnn · Post by **Laurie LeAnn** » Wed Apr 21, 2010 6:56 am

certain fabrics that get stuck to your hands when they are chapped gives me the willies and makes me sick to my tummy, like fleece. seeing someone with a toe nail or finger nail injury, having to fix my own boo's, watching crabs change shells bout makes me lose my lunch & the smell of deer meat in a dehydrator turning into jerky! eeewwweeewww!

eyohkay · Post by **eyohkay** » Wed Apr 21, 2010 10:48 am

Corn dog sticks are my equivalent of cotton balls. Popsicle sticks are alright for the most part, as long as they don't touch my teeth. But something about the feel of a corn dog stick... ugggggh. I have cold chills just talking about it. Gross. My mom always chews the crunchy bits left on the stick off right in my face cause it grosses me out so much.A friend of mine always threatens to built a corn dog stick box around me while I'm sleeping. Makes me feel sick to my stomach thinking about it.

breezeetew · Post by **breezeetew** » Wed Apr 21, 2010 1:23 pm

quote:Originally posted by Crabby Abby:Breezy you forgot about being a praying mantis stepmom. =) Well I almost put that up because it's unusual but you guys know about it thanks to my photo blogging it here!