Mammen Mania

6 Quirks Tag
1. Link the Person who Tagged you. My wife, I started reading hers after she posted it, then when I got to the bottom I asked her how she would know who were the first six people to read it. She replied that she wouldn't know who the remaining five are, but that I was the first person to read it, so here I am.
2. Mention rules on your blog.
3. Tell about 6 quirks of yours.
4. Tag 6 fellow bloggers to do the same.
5. Comment on their blog to let them know or leave a list of names at the bottom of the post.


Kyle's Six Quirks

1. I have a weird thing about toothpaste. I can only use toothpastes that have stripes in them. My preference is Colgate Total, but I'll use pretty much any kind that has a stripe. As far as I'm concerned, once the it gets low or all squished up to the point that it no longer has a stripe, it is worthless and time to be thrown out, even if it is still halfway full. Seriously, if one of the kids plays will a mostly full tube of toothpaste and destroys the stripe, I can't use it anymore. Because of this, I am very methodical in my approach to using toothpaste. I only squeeze from the back, I periodically flatten out the used portion (I'm a flattener, not a roller), and I'll usually clean the cap two or three time before the tube is empty to make sure that no dried crusty bit of toothpaste destroys the stripe as it comes out. I can keep a perfectly clean stripe in a tube of toothpaste until the very last squeeze.

2. I get frustrated whenever I drive a car that hasn't had its trip odometer reset the last time it was refueled. With my own car I'm even more particular. I have stopped using lube and oil centers that have reset my trip odometer after an oil change. There was one time when I've filled up my car, drove a few miles before getting to the lube and oil place, then they reset my newly reset trip odometer! GRRR! I had to go to a gas station and refill my car even though I only needed to buy about 1/3 gallon to top it off.

3. I can't use computers with disorganized desktops. Whenever I have to use a computer whose owner likes to throw their favorite files all over the place, it takes all of my self control to not start filing and organizing them.

4. I'm a nail biter. Yes I know it is gross and unsanitary, but I can't help it. I'm not the kind of person who nibbles them down to the nub, but I do like to scratch off rough edges and bite off edges that fray.

5. It only happens a few times a year, but every so often I get hit with the need to go on a cleaning rampage. This is no ordinary need to straighten up, vacuum, or clean surfaces, this is an uncontrollable need to clean every thing in sight to a level only found in clean rooms. I can't stand anything even slightly out of place, and I can't stop to eat, sleep, etc. when I get hit by one of these moods. Just to illustrate how strong the compulsion is, LAURA usually has to tell ME to stop.

6. I hate stacks of papers. Once the incoming mail pile exceeds about two inches it starts to cause me a bit of stress to look at it. It is not so much their existence that bothers me, so much as their visible presence. I have yet to find the perfect mail holding device that can disguise the huge volume of mail that we have to deal with in today's society.

I refuse to tag anyone. I'd rather incur the bad luck than annoy anybody; I figure it is a wash that way.