Quirky, Strange, Or Just Plain Weird

Nothing about me seems weird or strange--to me.

Let me explain that.

Recently, one o' them meme-thingies has been going around the blogs I read where you have to tell weird or strange or quirky things about yourself. I thought and thought about what is weird or strange or quirky about me and I couldn't come up with anything because the stuff I do is all perfectly normal to me. I just don't seem weird to me. So I turned to Dave for his opinion. I asked him what was weird or quirky about me and he whipped out a list that he's been keeping for years apparently.

Here is a selection from that list:

I will often eat foods that I don't like. I do this for two reasons: The first reason is because I always want to figure out why I don't like what I don't like. The second reason is because I am of the mind that all foods that I don't like are an acquired taste. Don't laugh; I learned to love natto this way.

I don't cut my hair for long periods of time, then I hack off, like, a foot or more of hair at once. I don't think it's so unusual for women to do this. (Kelly First used to do it, too. When I met her, she had really, really long hair that she hacked off really, really short one day. When I saw her, I was actually speechless.)

(Just as a hair-related aside: I used to wear my hair so short that I didn't even own a comb. There was no point to it! Those were some good hair years.)

I will often walk on landscaping. See, I live in a desert city, where water is scarce and, in my opinion, wasting water is immoral. Landscaping wastes water, so I don't like landscaping. Wait. Let me clarify: I don't think all landscaping is a waste of water. For example, if a commercial building has a nice place with plants where people can sit and read or eat their lunch, then that is landscaping that I agree with and I leave it alone. But if there is, say, grass around a building where people can't access it or if there are, say, trees planted in parking lot medians, I don't agree with that. If I don't agree with landscaping, then I walk all over it in protest.

That said, I would never walk on someone's private landscaped yard or on someone's garden, only on commercial landscaping. I will also never walk on flowers. Those are the rules.

When in public, I will often use men's restrooms if women's restrooms are full or in use. Like tonight, I was at S'bux getting a soy latte and I needed the restroom. They have those tiny restrooms, too, so only one person at a time can use them, right? Since the women's room was being used, I just went into the men's room. No problem. But I don't restrict myself to "single" restrooms, I've used the men's room when there are rows and rows of stalls and urinals, like at the mall. That caused great consternation among the men who came in after me. (Too bad.) I'm a huge fan of unisex, single room public restrooms.

So, what's the verdict? Quirky? Strange? Weird?