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Walking a quarter of a mile out of my way to avoid walking past people a couple of nights back. Again.

It's tough to pick the one weirdness which rises above the rest.

Let us suppose a Cartesian plane of eccentricity. The positive Y axis corresponds to hyper-intellectual oddness: something bizarre done due to one's beliefs. The negative Y axis corresponds to hypo-intellectual oddness: something bizarre done out of sheer animalistic pleasure. The positive X axis corresponds to social oddness: something weird only in relation to social context. The negative X axis corresponds to asocial oddness: something odd done alone.

Some examples would help.

Quadrant I contains weird things one does out of beliefs, in public (or involving other people). This can include such things as spitting whenever saying the name of John Foster Dulles, carrying an umbrella to prove the universe really is out to get you, or speaking Lojban to store clerks.

Quadrant II contains weird things done alone out of conviction. This can include such things as teaching one's cat to recognize zombies, learning everything possible about Welsh history, or practicing Christopher Walken impersonation Just In Case.

Quadrant III contains weird things done alone, out of the sensory pleasure they provide. This can include such things as always wearing socks in the shower, juggling stuff while walking around, or using a bearskin rug draped over a hammock as a bed.

Quadrant IV contains weird things done, in public, for the sheer pleasure of doing them. This can include such things as speaking in Cockney rhyming slang or Clockwork Orange argot, walking about with a ferret curled around one's neck, or always wearing a skintight catsuit (note that if the catsuit is in case one encounters the opportunity to catburgle, this falls into Quadrant I).

Having made these distinctions, I can list my top eccentricity in each quadrant.

I. I once tried communicating only via mumbles, just to see how much communication is possible. Quite a bit; mumbles carry just as much information as enunciated smalltalk.

II. I have a machete under my bed for when zombies arrive.

III. I often babble tala bols to my cats. ("terikitatadadinDHA")

IV. I once wore pijama pants to a wedding reception.

I kissed a spider once, when I was 13 and a friend that I had at the time was 12. She named the spider, Ryan after a boy that she had a crush on and kissed it. I kissed it after she did.

Does quoting lines from an ep of Fresh Prince Of Bel Air while watching it last night count I know that's very typical Aspie

I was in a job interview and suddenly told the interviewer I didn't think I was right for the job and left.

I was standing there with one lace untied and one tied and some big boss type guy (that had the potential to really mess my life up) came up to me. He told me my shoes looked untidy and then very unwisely said i was to either tie up the untied lace or untie the tied lace. Needless to say i untied my tied up lace and made the two match, two untied laces. A good 5-8 people were watching and burst out laughing, the big boss's face just turned a deep red and he walked off.

I don't know if this is eccentric, but its slightly odd.
I like buying things in specific numbers / quantities. I can get one, three, or seven, or any multiple of three or seven there after. So whenever I really like a dress / jacket / shoes I always buy 3, unless its not enough, so I get seven.
People at stores always think I work at movies doing wardrobe, I get asked the oddest questions / looks. Hehe.

I once drove across three states just so I could eat at a specific fast food restaurant (it was a Sonic Drive In I believe).

I sat in a moving car, while sticking my head out the window.

...While wearing a gas mask.

Some of the reactions are amazing.

I walk around the house naked when nobody else is home.

I got my friend to ride his bike around his neighbourhood in a fursuit/\/\/\::/\/\/\
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So yeah, while I wasn't the perpetrator, I was the mastermind behind it. We were really bored.

I talk to myself. Not all the time, but at inopportune times. It is usually for motivational in nature, but I usually get caught in the act. For example, I will be running on a trail and see a hill or be dragging at a slower pace than normal and I will demand that I get going by announcing "Boy you're a big wooze."

Sometimes, I will change clothes in my car after a workout. It is usually at breakneck speed so I don't get caught. I recently changed in low light conditions and then went to the store and figured that I had my printed T on backwards.

Ran into a pole with our SUV.

Another eccentric thing I do is staring at my shelf of DVDs and video games. I don't really do it for any reason other than just to look at each individual case. Sometimes I really like the boxart of these cases and like to imagin how I have such a variety of games and movies that are each similar to each other in some way or another.