A weird fact about yourself

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I'll occasionally fall asleep with my shoes on cause I don't go bare footed much.
 
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Back when burning CDs was a thing I would make the most schizophrenic mix tapes ever without knowing it.

It could go from Coldplay to Jay Z to AC/DC to Queen to Eminem to Alabama in matter of 10 songs .

We would be in my car ready to go out on Cumberland Ave listening to OutKast and then “Tiny Dancer” would start playing and people would ask what was wrong with me .
I’d try to justify it by saying whatever was playing was a good song. Party Killer.
 
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RDU VOL#14 said:
Back when burning CDs was a thing I would make the most schizophrenic mix tapes ever without knowing it.

It could go from Coldplay to Jay Z to AC/DC to Queen to Eminem to Alabama in matter of 10 songs .

We would be in my car ready to go out on Cumberland Ave listening to OutKast and then “Tiny Dancer” would start playing and people would ask what was wrong with me .
I’d try to justify it by saying whatever was playing was a good song. Party Killer.
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Throw in some Philip Glass.
 
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vols_fan_68 said:
I take Pantoprazole daily, the specialist said that's all he could do for now, considering it's a somewhat new discovery.
He also said there's no telling how many people are misdiagnosed with acid reflux vs this.
Just avoid dense food, reprogram yourself to chew food more thoroughly.
I think it's food allergy related as well, I can eat pineapple and it gets lodged in my throat, it's very scary, you just have to remain calm til it makes it's way down.
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Have you had an upper endoscopy? During mine, they removed a ring of tissue from my esophagus that had caused swallowing problems for years just like yours. Fixed the problem.
 
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FallCreekVols said:
Have you had an upper endoscopy? During mine, they removed a ring of tissue from my esophagus that had caused swallowing problems for years just like yours. Fixed the problem.
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Yes, I've had 3 in the last 10 years, no issues (with the plumbing) each time.
EE is a white blood cell disorder, it was explained to me as follows... When you are swallowing food the normal white blood cell count to assist the swallowing is 20, my count is 75 or more, which leads to my esophagus overreacting, it clamps down on the food being swallowed.
Two of those endoscopies were an emergency situation, when it happens I try to remain calm but after food is lodged in your throat for over 4 hours anxiety sets in, and off to the ER I go.
 
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FallCreekVols said:
Have you had an upper endoscopy? During mine, they removed a ring of tissue from my esophagus that had caused swallowing problems for years just like yours. Fixed the problem.
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4 in the past year. Week and a half ago have and another scheduled within the month. They aren’t that bad, just after the fact and I pretty much can only have no sodium chicken broth by itself. If you get the chance to have it. Don’t
 
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LouderVol said:
Ever since college I have become partially OCD when it comes to patterns on the payment. If I see the pattern and notice how my feet land vs the pattern I subconsciously keep it up. Even skipping steps, long steps, short steps, whatever. Even if I notice I do it it's hard to break off. So if I step on the crack with my left foot I have to step on every crack with my left foot. Never had the issue as a kid, I guess architecture school broke me somehow.

If the pattern is broken, change of pavement or whatever, I dont feel the urge to keep doing it.
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Adrian? Is that you Monk?
 
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RavinDave said:
Whatever's on my plate that I like the best, I save it for the last bite.
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One of my dad's college buddies was like that with pie. Would eat all around and leave the center bite for last. Without fail, he never got that last bite. Either my dad, or one of the other two would wait till he got right down to it and reach over and stab it off his plate and eat it.
 
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I have a ton of strange ones.

- Can close each eye independently of the other
- When I read something on a computer by myself, I click and drag a lot through the text to highlight it for no reason in particular. Not to highlight a particular point to another person, not with the intention of copying it and pasting it, or anything. I'll double click in a paragraph to highlight the whole thing, highlight individual rows or words as I'm reading them, etc. Nervous habit.
- Cuticle biting/picking, but I don't bite nails. Another nervous habit.
- The sound of a knife or fork being dragged against a plate (like a ceramic plate, not a paper one) drives me absolutely insane to the point where I'll physically wince and get up from the table and make some remark about how spine-tingling it was. My wife tells me I'm way too dramatic about it, but I absolutely hate that noise.
- When I come across a song I like, especially at work, I'm liable to listen to that song on repeat while at work for days at a time. I mean like 4-6 hours at a time. I'll probably listen to that song 200-300 times over a span of a few days.
- Like @utvolpj said I count and add a lot of stuff that I see. Lane markers on the road. I'll count the number of lines or marks it takes to make up a letter of a word, and I add up all those marks.
- Ever since I was a kid, I've always liked maps and knowing where cities are located. When on a road trip as a passenger and I notice a license plate with a county I don't know where it is, or the city on the side of an 18-wheeler showing where the company is located, I'll Google it and look it up.
- I'm a nervous flier. Among lots of other things, one of things I do when flying is look on FlightAware right before takeoff I'll check the airport I'm leaving and the airport I'm flying into and see which ways the runways are turned around at that particular moment. I want to know which way we're taking off and which way we'll be approaching the airport and landing, so none of the turns are unexpected. They can always turn the airport around while your flight is in route, especially if it is a long flight, but it usually ends up being the way you think.
 
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I go to youtube & watch old music videos from the 80s & 90s each day. But lately, I've become obsessive with Robin Thicke's 2013 music video "Blurred Lines". Not only do I love this song but I can't get enough of Emily Ratajkowski......she's the oh so hot brunette in the video.. I must see her each day somehow in this video.
 
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05_never_again said:
- Ever since I was a kid, I've always liked maps and knowing where cities are located. When on a road trip as a passenger and I notice a license plate with a county I don't know where it is, or the city on the side of an 18-wheeler showing where the company is located, I'll Google it and look it up.
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I do that as well. Or if I'm watching a TV show and they are set in some place I don't know I'll look it up. Or if I read a news story about somewhere I don't know, I'll look it up, etc.
 
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When I'm drinking from a water fountain, I always count the seconds in my head. My little league football coach only allowed us a ten count during breaks in practice and somehow the counting stuck.
 
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Geez. I'm worried. How insane is it in the real world away from all you normal people on VN?!
 
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BRTiger said:
I do that as well. Or if I'm watching a TV show and they are set in some place I don't know I'll look it up. Or if I read a news story about somewhere I don't know, I'll look it up, etc.
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Ditto on that one. I just like knowing where I'm going or where I've been. Take interest in that. Don't really think that one is all that quirky though.

It's more like I have a map in my head. I can pretty much find my way around even if I've never been there. I found several eateries in St. Augustine on my honeymoon just by the name of the place and it sounded like it'd be a certain direction. One place was out on the edge of the marsh off the bypass. can't remember the name but if I go back I'd be able to find it. Over 30 years later. Once I've been somewhere, I'm good. I think mostly cause I know North South East and West, and I can read road signs.
 
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