Automatic behavior

#1

Dis be a tred. A thread in which I’ll ask you to post about your automatic behavior, both verbal as physical. Things you just keep doing despite being inappropriate or unnecessary, but you do them anyway because they just happen automatically.

Example:
The lights in the bathrooms at work are toggled automatically. They detect movement and turn themselves on for a few minutes. But that doesn’t stop me from opening the door and trying to find the light switch on the wall before entering (and thus letting it pick up my presence).

Other example:
Whenever I’m at a restaurant and I get my food, the waiter says “Enjoy your meal, sir.”, to which I always reply “Thanks, you too.” This is generally followed by a facepalm on my behalf a few minutes later when I realize I did it again.

Go!

Edit: what the hell… I clicked the “New Topic” button in the Ladies Club, but it makes the thread in Massdebating? Could a mod move this please? :<

#2

there is this breathing thing i do

#3

I automatically respond to threads without having anything useful to say.

#4

I always have to check the fridge when I’m in the kitchen. Sometimes I just go there and open it like three times during half an hour, no matter how empty it is and how aware I am of that there isn’t anything to eat in there. I don’t have any eating disorders or anything like that, though. I’m not even fat when I think about it.

#5

I used to breathe as well, got to a point where it was just annoying, so I went to a doctor and he subscribed me some gills.

#6

when am in the bathroom and I check if the door is locked, I do it like 2 or 3 times even though I checked earlier :stuck_out_tongue:

p.s Bolteh I lol’d at your sig

#7

Yay for intercultural messaging o/

#8

it is damn funny but I noticed that there is something wrong with the general meaning of that sentence it roughly translate into : they eat Bananas daily to prevent Dinosaurs <----- but to prevent them from what ? :S

#9

In the same way as you can prevent accidents, prevent disease etc etc.

#10

So on topic… I would say that I use ellipses way too much. Where a period or even a comma suffices… I use ellipses. Why? Why do I do that?

#11

^ This

#12

I automatically spew Mac hatred out of my mouth whenever I hear of anyone trying to defend Apple computers in the slightest bit.

And I enjoy it.

#13

IRL not much on-topic, but I think I have internet OCD :

OCD reading/responding to forums (I’m doing it now :fffuuu :slight_smile:
OCD Ebaying/craigslisting for synthesizers

I’m just thankful I kicked my Digg addiction…

#14

If someone says to me “Fuck you” I respond with “Fuck you harder.”
It used to be a conscious decision, but it’s recently became an uncontrollable, automatic habit.

#15

Are we talking about habits, OCD, addictions, or conditioned responses?

I’ve seen all four so far in here.

#16

Whenever someone says “What’s up?” I respond with “The sky” automatically.

If I bump into someone in a hallway, I’ll automatically say “oops sorry” without even thinking about who I hit or why.

#17

I’m such a teenager, I always use the work “Like” in my sentances, BUT I CAN’T FRIGGEN HELP IT!

#18

Not going to talk about my addictions here, but apart from that…

When I wake up, the first thing I do is I turn on my monitors, which takes up to 5 minutes (i have lots and lots of screens). Before I fall asleep I always turn them off, but my PC stays on. :slight_smile:

Some people clean up their house, I clean up my computer, I delete the temp folders nearly every day, same with the internet cache folder and recent documents.

I always check my phone, even when I don’t need to know what time it is, I just need to make sure I didn’t miss any calls and how much battery is left, it feels weird when I forgot my phone somewhere and can’t access it for the whole day, I keep looking for it automatically.

When my mom comes into the room I jump, I dunno why I always get surprised, she always thinks I’m hiding something because of that.

I always buy the cheap version of everything at supermarkets, ever since I noticed that Lay’s chips cost 2.99$ but the same chips from another brand is like 1.50$.

#19

I automaticly shake my legs when I’m sitting down and have nothing to do.

#20

THIS. so much that people get pissed at me for being a massive penny pincher.

I do similar stuff around the house aswell, such as eat cereal out of my druinking glass so there’s not a bowl to wash. I just rinse the thing afterwards and am good to go. :smiley:

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