Peculiarities!

[Palustris]

Funny thing about reading newspapers from the back. when I started teaching hundreds of years ago, I could not understand why so many of the children started their exercise books at the back. It took a long time to relise that they were used to seeing the only reading material in the house, being read from the back, ie. the newspaper where the Racing pages were.
As for my own 'oddities'? Have to ask my wife and like Shortie, the answer would probably be everything I do and say.
Now when we go past Cows I shout 'Horseradish sauce" then "Mint Sauce" for sheep and of course "Apple sauce" at pigs. Odd really for someone who rarely eats meat!

[Waffler]

Ooh! A fellow teacher Palustris! Or have you since come to your senses??

[IanP]

I can't pass a field of sheep without saying "baaaaa" to them...

[MissyMoo]

Oooh Oooh toilet paper....it must be hanging from the back!!!!

And my sister holds her breath when passing cemeteries.

[Lesley Jay]

I have always called the grapevine a mad house..................

[Slug]

Toilet roll from the back - most definitely...! I can't stand loo roll that hangs from the front. Just realised how dodgy that could sound...!

I would be known to have the odd 'moo' or two at the cows in the field. Recently while out blackberry picking we were out picking from the hedge bordering a field of cows. The cows got a bit interested and gave a few moos, so I mooed back.... I got a chorus of moos in return. My mum mooed - and they went completely mental!!! Must have either strongly agreed or disagreed with what she had to say!!

Anyway.... got off the topic a little but still....

I would hop in and out of a magazine depending on what I want to read. I would not read religiously from front to back, or back to front.

My mum would see that a magazine that was read before she could get to it was 'tainted'. For example... she brings home a mag... I browse through it (not knowing it's brand new) and Mum goes bonkers!

Apparently the magazine isn't the same if anyone has read it before her - even just a few lines! She loses interest in said magazine pretty quickly!

[SueA]

I stand at the fence when passing fields of cows/cattle & tell them how beautiful they are & 'baby talk' to them until my O.H. drags me away before the men in white coats arrive (I don't eat meat). I'm also a 'buy things from the back of the shelf' girl as that's where the least out of date stock should be & the paperback books haven't all been opened & mauled by everyone. Newspapers though I'm strictly a start at the front person & my O.H. drives me mad by reading 'back-to-front', I'm sure it's noisier when you turn the pages over that way round!

[dexterdoglancashire]

I hadn't realised that so many Grapes would admit to their "little oddities"! I'm glad it's not just me - have to admit I've been having a giggle reading everyones replies! DDL
PS my OH is a "toilet roll on the spool the right way round" type as well and he HATES it when I just put it on whatever way it happens to go!

[Snadger]

I hadn't realised that so many Grapes would admit to their "little oddities"! I'm glad it's not just me - have to admit I've been having a giggle reading everyones replies! DDL
PS my OH is a "toilet roll on the spool the right way round" type as well and he HATES it when I just put it on whatever way it happens to go!

Must be the right colour as well...........to match the decor!

[nick the grief]

I have always called the grapevine a mad house..................

Yes they're not all sane like me and you.......... and I'm not sure about you

[Lesley Jay]

You cheeky sod Nick!

[Snadger]

You cheeky sod Nick!

Tried to work it out but I can't solve this anagram LJ

[lyndap]

Def loo paper to the front! Always items from back of shop shelves.If purchasing new book or magazine,cant have any marks or creases(drives my family mad if they are shopping with me!)Also drives me mad when pay visit to bathroom if toilet seat left up!!!!It has to be down at all times(unless using loo of cause!)

[Snadger]

How about, going to the supermaket by car but parking as far away as I can in the carpark to give me some excercise???

[dexterdoglancashire]

Do you need the exercise Snadger? DDL