Things about yourself that will shock fellow posters here...

[palitoy]

I don't collect toys, never have, never will.

[MIB41]

I have an odd curse with water ever since the day I was nodding off in middle school and my science teacher asked me to offer one aspect of water. In my delirium of coming to I said, "It runs." It's been chasing me ever since. I've had many encounters, but this is possibly the best one...

I was working in Memphis back in the mid-80's for a six week stint to help supervise an inventory assessment for a office supply branch. They kept me up at a Days Inn that was literally one parking lot over. Late one night I got up to take a leak. When I went to flush the toilet, the water line leading into the toilet inexplicably broke loose and started shooting water everywhere. No matter how hard I tried I could not get the shut off valve to turn off. I rushed into my my room to call for maintenance. The girl who answered didn't seem to understand the magnitude of my situation and quietly said, "The maintenance man won't be in until 7 o'clock sir." As she was saying this, I turned to see a huge body of water beginning to pool into my bedroom. I screamed, "This hotel will be a f*cking water ride by the time he gets here lady if you don't get someone up here NOW!" He made it there some 20 minutes later. But the damage was done. I flooded the whole side of the hotel...six floors down. When I got into work that morning, my boss looked very tired. He looked at me and said, "The weirdest sh*t happen to me last night." I said, "Oh really?" He said, "Yeah. I heard water running down my window and I thought it wasn't suppose to rain. I kept listening and it seem so loud. I decided to get up and look out the window and realized the water was streaming on my side of the window! Can you believe it? Turns out some idiot over top me let his toilet overflow and flooded me out of my room! What a hell of a night. How was yours?" ...

[johnnystorm]

Ghost dog?

Aye, a ghost dog. Back in the early 80s I had a friend who drove a beat up Dodge Omni, a little boxy thing similar to a Chevy Chevette. One night we were heading out to pick up another friend, and were taking the shortcut road, a dirt road through a rural area. It was a full moon & clear night, so it wasn't all that dark despite being in the country, and my buddy was in a hurry. We were traveling about 60 mph down this road, when all of a sudden this big white dog runs in front of the car and stops in the center up the road aways. My friend slams on the brakes and fishtails to the side, but comes to a stop before hitting the dog. I could see it clearly, looked like a German Shepherd mix of some kind, but all white. No sooner did we stop, than a deer ran across the road behind the dog, who did not chase or even seem to notice it. After the deer crossed, the dog turned and ran off toward it, and we could see the deer running through an open field on the other side, but the dog was gone, no sign of it. We realized then that had he not stopped for the dog, he would have hit that deer head on at 60 mph, not a good thing for us in that little car.
True story, so help me. Weirdest thing is we were both pretty calm about the whole episode, both during & after.

[kingdom warrior]

This should be fun....
1.I am a Conservative and i love my Guns....lol
2.I have seen a Ghost.
3.People think i was in a band called Wham in the 80's....lol
4. I like Halloween over Christmas
5.I love College Football prefer watching that over the NFL...but I still love my Giants.
6.I root for both the NY.Yankees and Pittsburgh Pirates....Dad was a Yankees fan Mom was a Pirates fan.
7. I don't care about what modern actors have to say about anything or about their private lives...just stfup and act that's what i pay to see.
8. I Drink beer socially, around my friends, NOT around my Family or my Kids.
9. even though I have a busy schedule, I try to power walk 2 hours every day to keep my heart healthy. I prefer walking over driving.
10. Basketball absolutely bores me cannot watch it at all......

[Earth 2 Chris]

I have an odd curse with water ever since the day I was nodding off in middle school and my science teacher asked me to offer one aspect of water. In my delirium of coming to I said, "It runs." It's been chasing me ever since. I've had many encounters, but this is possibly the best one...

I was working in Memphis back in the mid-80's for a six week stint to help supervise an inventory assessment for a office supply branch. They kept me up at a Days Inn that was literally one parking lot over. Late one night I got up to take a leak. When I went to flush the toilet, the water line leading into the toilet inexplicably broke loose and started shooting water everywhere. No matter how hard I tried I could not get the shut off valve to turn off. I rushed into my my room to call for maintenance. The girl who answered didn't seem to understand the magnitude of my situation and quietly said, "The maintenance man won't be in until 7 o'clock sir." As she was saying this, I turned to see a huge body of water beginning to pool into my bedroom. I screamed, "This hotel will be a f*cking water ride by the time he gets here lady if you don't get someone up here NOW!" He made it there some 20 minutes later. But the damage was done. I flooded the whole side of the hotel...six floors down. When I got into work that morning, my boss looked very tired. He looked at me and said, "The weirdest sh*t happen to me last night." I said, "Oh really?" He said, "Yeah. I heard water running down my window and I thought it wasn't suppose to rain. I kept listening and it seem so loud. I decided to get up and look out the window and realized the water was streaming on my side of the window! Can you believe it? Turns out some idiot over top me let his toilet overflow and flooded me out of my room! What a hell of a night. How was yours?" ...

Ha! Man, that's rich. Remind me to never follow you into the restroom!

Shocking things about me...hmmm...

I don't drink coffee. I hate it.

I grew up in a haunted house. All the other members of my family saw the spirit full-on, but I didn't it. I did "feel" her presence...OFTEN. We're pretty sure she was my great-grandmother. She liked to pull pranks, but other than that, was harmless. My Mom actually had conversations with her, and she was the only one who saw her. After my mother passed away, she seemed to leave my father's house.

My wife and I both saw our cat...a few weeks after we were forced to have him put down. We saw him go across the doorway of two different rooms, on two separate occasions.

I have never watched the following movies in their entirety: Godfather Trilogy, The Exorcist, The Omen, Gone with the Wind, Fight Club, Usual Suspects.

I've never been on an airplane, and don't really care to try it. I have pretty severe acrophobia, but it really gets me when I can't control when I go up or down.

Chris

[bettyrocker01]

What a fun topic...and what a scary group this is!

Actually a lot of Hector's weirdness is similar to mine for instance...

I am a classic heavy metal chick/nu metal chick but I too love ABBA...and Donna Summer and the Bee Gees

I am a thrill seeker of sorts but petrified of heights

I too have seen a ghost, a UFO and believe I astral project quite often.

I prefer books, dolls/toys and animals to people.

I like to go fishing but hate the taste of fish.

I always dream about tornadoes and my teeth falling out

[Godzilla]

My father is an ex-Catholic priest and my mother is an ex-Catholic nun.

I think I got all my weirdness out right there.

[mikeMc6]

This thread is freaky rich!

[mvanis]

I'm pretty weird all around, most of them fit right in with the nerd habit with a few outliers... but here's a few

I LOVE me some video games
I watch Teen Mom with my wife and sometimes enjoy it (yikes)
I'm currently training for my first ultramarathon (maybe the one that gets the most reaction given my overall nerdiness)

[GordoCrisp]

I read poetry.

(p.s. ABBA was and is great)

[VinMan]

I always make faces in the mirror while alone in the bathroom. ALWAYS.

I love chocolate milk. I mean really love it.

I wear capes as frequently as I can (and not just to entertain my kids)

I love surprises to an abnormal level

I love to "wait" on things. (I never open a package the day it comes. I like to savor it and know its there to open at the house. Waiting for me)

I love cereal. I mean LOVE it. Favorite kind - Cocoa Pebbles!

[RickD]

My main passions are Sports and Health having a degree in sports medicine and law enforcement. Both careers I do now.

I drink a pot of coffee a day and a gallon of water a day.

I was a competitive bodybuilder and powerlifter (Highest placings were second in powerlift competition of 1200 pounds for leg press. I took Second and third in my first bodybuilding competition. My last competition I took
5th in the heavy weights. A year later training for my next competition, I blew out my back deadlifting 450 pounds. Ending my career in competitions

I love firearms and the outdoors.

I've never seen the Harry Potter movies or care to.

My favorite movie of all time is "Heat" with Al pacino and Robert Deniro.

The only way I eat my pancakes is with globs of Peanut butter and Syrup.

[Mikey]

My grandparents died of the 1918 flu pandemic and are buried in a mass grave

[mvanis]

I drink a pot of coffee a day and a gallon of water a day.

Also why he carries a second gallon jug around all day - just in case there isn't a bathroom close...

[dee T.]

I like fishing, but I won't eat the fish I catch.
I love animals but own none
I only like getting things or something special on Saturdays and ONLY Saturdays. If I get something in the mail I'll wait till Saturday to open it.
When I young, I once struck out all of my neighborhood friends in a game of baseball
I like comic books too - my favorites are DC and Love and Rockets