Your most embarrassing habit? (parent, feelings, people, everything)

[ohhwanderlust]

What's a habit or quirk you have that sometimes can be a little embarrassing?

Mine is instinctively picking up accents from wherever I am...it comes in handy when speaking another language, but when it happens when speaking English I feel like it seems like I'm making fun of them.

Oh yes, and fidgeting. That's my ADHD though.

Your turn!

[budlight]

I have a little OCD at times. I can check to make sure my locks are enabled when I leave the house more than once. Not a big deal, but I have turned around many times after leaving the house to make sure I actually hit the remote to close the garage door. I can't tell you how many times I have done that. Not ONCE has it been left open. I am sure my neighbors find it hysterical.

[ohhwanderlust]

Originally Posted by budlight

I have a little OCD at times. I can check to make sure my locks are enabled when I leave the house more than once. Not a big deal, but I have turned around many times after leaving the house to make sure I actually hit the remote to close the garage door. I can't tell you how many times I have done that. Not ONCE has it been left open. I am sure my neighbors find it hysterical.

I am the exact same way. People rib me a bit for it, but there's a reason I've never lost anything important!

[Nicci6Squirrels]

I whistle too much. Man oh man, I kind of looooove whistling. I can do bird calls, I can whistle like an old fella meandering through the grocery store aisles, I can accompany Jethro Tull's flute-playing... and I can annoy people!
Sometimes I whistle and I don't even realize I'm doing it and then I whisper, "Eeeep!" and shut up. But then my lips start puckering again.

[oh-eve]

I am clumsy, fall over everything and lose/forget everything (but also find it again, I never lose it for good). I can wear a Tshirt inside out all day, look in the mirror 20 times and not notice.


I learned to live with it. I got tired getting mad at myself all the time, so now I find it funny. My dad is the same.

[Dragonmam]

When I'm shopping, if I see something on the wrong rack I have to put it on the right rack next to it. I fold things too. I try to act all casual about it, you know, pick up the item, pretend I was thinking of buying it, then just happen to put it back on the correct rack But what to do when more than one item is out of place...

[TabulaRasa]

I don't know if there are habits of mine that I find embarrassing, per se, but I do try to avoid being the driver if it's anybody other than me or my kids in the car. I'm not comfortable with passengers judging my driving, so I tend to avoid scenarios where I've got somebody unrelated to me riding shotgun or in the back.

[greatblueheron]

Not embarrassing but I can procrastinate quite well.

And be perfectionistic at times.

[WouldLoveTo]

I hate hate hate being interrupted.

Apparently, I at times am the one interrupting others.

My SO *and* a client pointed that out to me in the same week. I was mortified

I felt like I was adding to the conversation by sharing my experience but they felt I interrupted them so I can't deny their feelings and really try not to do it anymore!

Originally Posted by budlight

I have a little OCD at times. I can check to make sure my locks are enabled when I leave the house more than once. Not a big deal, but I have turned around many times after leaving the house to make sure I actually hit the remote to close the garage door. I can't tell you how many times I have done that. Not ONCE has it been left open. I am sure my neighbors find it hysterical.

*I* find that hysterical simply because that's what I do when I'm housesitting! I hit that remote button so automatically that I can't remember if I've done it, drive around the block, drive around the house, yep door is down <sigh>

[xPlorer48]

I talk too much, and dress like too casually, frumpstylin’ is what my daughter calls it.