peculiar ways of doing things

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Lately I’ve been paying greater attention to everything I do and others do in an attempt to compare and contrast. I figure this way I might be able to avoid creating socially awkward situations through some behavior or comment. I’m not grossly awkward but I find my word choice to be pretty atypical and a lot of things don’t really seem to flow (flow seems to come from a pre-constructed mental framework generated through previous experience (I seem to have less of this than average and so I often see situations from a blank slate)) which leaves a lot of the information to be calculated on the fly. This “on the fly” interpretation of events, often leads me to produce a method that works or is adequate but isn’t necessarily the easiest way to do things or the typical way to do things.

I’ll give a recent example, which makes me feel pretty dumb but similar things happen frequently. So, just the other day I was helping one of my roommates tenants move into the adjacent apartment from theirs. I was given the task of disassembling a bed set that the tenant had. I quickly gauged the situation and began removing a total of 8 nuts that would free everything up for smooth transport. I called for an assist on the move and when we relocated the bed to the other apartment my roommate pointed out to me that the bed has a sliding mechanism that releases the frame of the bed allowing for vertical movement but not horizontal. So, basically I could have just slid the frame out instead of going through the laborious process of removing the nuts. This is a pretty trivial example and I have more but I figured for simplicities sake id give this account rather than explain how this applies to social situation which is far more complicated.

Basically I just find myself doing things in what would seem to be peculiar ways and it happens quite often, like almost daily. I was just curious if anybody else experiences this and if there’s time to spare an account of a particular instance when this type of thing happened; It might ease my stress of feeling like a goof all the time to hear that I’m not alone =).

I can't trust a man who has never applied himself in a sincere manner to a weird solution to a problem.

In programming, this is called job security.

Seriously, this is the story of my husbands life. We just read this and it hits so close to home because this is where alot of his problems at work stem from. HIs job is all "taking apart the bed" type stuff and he messes up alot and beats himself up over it. I feel bad for him that I cant help him.

He said he constantly does stuff like... He has his arms full of stuff and he needs to get out the door and kicks it and knees it and moves around trying to open it. Instead he should just set the stuff down and open the door and pick it back up but he doesnt think like that.