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Date: 09 May 2006 22:02:15
1. I travel around in the same way as a woodlouse. Let me explain. I learned that woodlice like to balance the amount of left turns they take with the amount of right turns, apparantly. So, if a woodlouse has turned right twice recently and left only once, and is given the opportunity to turn either way, it will go left. I reckon that my 'louse gene' is the reason that, on coming out of a shop, I will often go back the way I came without meaning to.
2. I have a 'rabbit in the headlights' tendency. As an exception to the common rule that women can multi-task, I can get so focused on something that catches my attention that I block all other things out. Only Husband will tell you of my wont to follow butterflies, how I floated in basically the same place when snorkelling over a tropical reef on honeymoon and the way that an article on TV can transfix me en-route through the lounge. Don't know why this is, but it has been so as long as I can remember. My family used to call me 'The Absent Minded Professor.'
3. If I am wearing a coat with pockets, I have to have my purse in the right one, my mobile and keys in the left and the only other allowable item is a pair of gloves. If anything else gets in there, even as simple as a till receipt or sweet wrapper, it must be jettisoned into a bin asap.
4. I am fond of composing pointless poems, sometimes putting them to music.
5. I have an automatic pun reflex. If there is a possibility of taking something in more than one way, I will almost inevitably take the opportunity to deliberately 'misunderstand'. Can cause hilarity, occasionally confusion and, most often, groans of discomfort.
6. When hanging mugs on a mug tree, they must all face the same way. Husband deliberately placed one the wrong way once, I had to turn it round.
So, there you have it, I am basically vague, anal and weird. Nothing you didn't already know, really.