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what is something silly you do for no other reason than its just normal for you?

I recently saw an ad for biscoff and I was surprised that people would eat them randomly. The only time I ever eat biscoff is on a plane when the flight attendant gives me some. Don't get me wrong I absolutely love them but I rarely think about it as something I can just go buy in a store. Seeing the ad was so jarring because to me it doesn't feel like something I should eat a lower altitudes

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When I pour Pepsi into a glass I put my nose over it and feel the bubbles fizz on my nose. I’ve done this since I was about 7 years old.
- Coke is better than Pepsi but somehow the effervescence coming off of a Pepsi wins that battle.

I like to grab door handles with my just my index and pinky fingers. I don't know why. I've been doing it since I was a kid. It just amuses me a little. I think I started doing it pretending to be an alien.
- Like devil horns style?
  
  Yeah

Pick some fresh berries from my balcony planter. Do a little happy dance while eating them.
I'm a 50+ y/o man.
- I love this for you. What kind of plant is it? I'm slowly building my own balcony garden.
  
  Wild strawberries grow small and give very tasty little fruits. They are easy to grow on a balcony though quite dramatic and need plenty of water when there is sun and heat. First year they didn't give almost any fruit but second year on I have a handful of harvest daily all of late summer. Very satisfying.
  I've tried having small bushes of goose berries but they got hit with mildew, probably because there wasn't enough exchange of air.
  Try different things, see what works where you are.

When browsing through used books, I try to guess which year the book was published based on typefaces, graphics, etc. and check with the copyright date on one of the front pages. For books published after ~1960, my guess is usually good to within 4 years.
- I do this too, usually because I've run across an odd word choice or turn of phrase. I am way less accurate though.

My dad's and I both occasional partake in a specific ritual that goes as follows:
Crack open an ice cold Coke Zero (also works with coke. And probably other colas).
Take a few sips while you either pull fresh from the garden or out of the fridge:
Radishes
Wash them up. You can slice, quarter or leave whole.
Get snacking.
Enjoy your fresh, slightly spicy (or really spicy depending!) radishes with your cold bubbly coke.
Wait.
Burp
Transcend this mortal plane, bask in the glory of the radish and coke burps that follow.
Fin
- I have to try this now.

I like barking and do it well enough that some dogs bark back to me. Most won't, but some also have funny reactions.

I blow on the top of soda cans before opening them.
When I was very young I’d ride to and from school and it took me past my grandparents. During summer I’d stop in on the way home to grab a soda and because they kept them in a shed out back they’d get dusty before getting put in the fridge. So I’d blow the dust off and make sure the top is clean, fast forward 25 years and I still do it.
- I tap them three times on top. My gf from high school did it, and she rubbed off on me
- TW: spiders
  I do this too, because my parents did it. I made it a conscious habit after I found a tiny spider skeleton right under the opening of a can I'd already started drinking out of. Now I at least check, usually blow, sometimes rinse.
- I actually do the same thing. A lot of cans that I get from convenience stores are covered it dirt and gunk. I'll usually blow on the top or rinse the can.

Any volume adjustment that gives a numerical value needs to end in a 0, 2, 5, or 8.
Don't ask, I couldn't explain other than those numbers make me feel better.
If my wife changes it to something other than ending with those numbers I need to change it.
- Same. It needs to be an even number, but 5 feels more even than 4 or 6.
- 5 or 0 for me. It's a little annoying. So if someone wants to change to another volume, I close my eyes and it's OK. Under 10, all numbers become acceptable.

It's more of a stupid habit, but I always lock my car twice. I know pressing the button once locks every door, but I can't stop myself.
- It's not stupid. Most cars will signal whether or not they are locked properly on the second press.
  
  That's true, that's a really good point. I just never see anyone else do it but me.
- If you've driven fords for a while it's second nature, second click deadlocks the car or something.
  
  See, then pressing it twice would make sense. I've checked and I know that pressing it once locks all the doors. I do tend to double check my house locks so it could be a peace of mind thing. It could also be muscle memory from unlocking the door which actually does need two clicks to unlock the rear doors.
- Mine locks on the first press, then beeps to confirm on the second (within a timer). I press it twice because every once in a while I'll mix up the buttons and actually hit unlock, which has a different confirmation beep.

Tapping the top of a beer can before opening it.
- It's polite to knock first.
  
  Hah, that's good. Thank you for that 🍻

While lounging, I will interlink my big toes. I honestly didn't know I did it until my wife saw it and with a look of horror asked what I was doing 😆
- I feel the same horror reading this. You animal.
  
  😆

A few years ago I decided I wanted to improve my hand flute skills and began consciously practicing daily. Since then, I have developed the habit of playing the hand flute automatically when my hands are not busy.
- Let me introduce you to the flesh flute

Biscoff and tea pair well!

I'm not superstitious, but when I'm walking on sidewalks or tile floors I have tended to try to avoid cracks or lines. It's an easy but engaging puzzle to try to do it while maintaining a normal gait, like the ambulatory equivalent of Sudoku.
Then, one day, my high school geometry teacher taught us about angle bisectors and the game changed permanently. Now, in addition to visible lines, any line intersections now produce invisible bisector rays that must also be avoided. I made a picture to show where you can't step on a sidewalk. It has been decades since high school geometry and I still try to avoid bisector lines any time I'm on a suitable floor. I have never added another rule to the game since, and it wasn't til this post that I thought about how strange that is.

I love Biscoff cookies, but had never had them outside of a snack on a plane either. First time I realized they sold them at stores was when my local Costco started carrying them in giant boxes, which is a little like being Sir Gallahad the Chaste, and stumbling into the castle Anthrax.
Aldi has a pretty goof knockoff version in normal size packages if you have problems with moderation 😉
But to answer your question, a long time ago, my wife and I did the "Love you", "Love you too", "Love you.... three?" thing, and apparently got up to 5 before we decided it was silly. Many years later, "Love you five" is the normal response to "Love you".
- that is so cute tho lol

All square snacks must be flipped into the mouth. Bite edge of snack, flip it (somehow, I got no idea. that's my mouths job), chew. Repeat.
Eat chips and crackers normally. Square though? Must flip!

When I become aware of my hands, I need to position them so that my fingers wouldn't interfere with each other if they were ten times their length. I think something happened to me when I watched Edward Scissorhands.

I don't know, everything I do could be silly, but it's normal to me

I also in addition to counting stairs i count sandwich bites.
A standard sandwich is 9 bites

I count stairs,
There's 15 steps on my staircase at home 105 to the top of a machine i work on. 22 at the airport
My wife knows this and I don't talk when I'm on stairs my brain is occupied by counting the steps.
I think it's very strange but I have to do it
- I do this too, but I usually can't remember the numbers for a stair I use regularly unless I'm actually at the stair.
  I have also tried not counting and I can still tell there's a part of my brain still stubbornly counting.
  
  Glad I'm not the only one haha

I do what I can only describe as parkour around the house 😂 my room has a bed and computer and i kinda have to walk around the bed to get to my computer so instead I'll leap onto my bed, hit the bed, rotate and then hop on my computer. i'll also do this side strafe/hop thing to get to a room quicker. i don't know what started it but I've been like that since I was a kid pretty much lol
edit: basically like this (video) the one at 1:58 is how I get past my bed

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