Quirky

Have you ever stopped to think about your own quirks?

I mean really examined them...dug down deep into them...sat with them.

Quirks are easy to love and acknowledge in our loved ones. Yet, our own...or maybe just my own seem to be annoying.

I am thinking about this because not too long ago I was walking into the ladies room at work. A normal occurrence for anyone at work or school, not a big deal. I was particularly alert and present when I pushed the door and walked in to my stall. As I reached for the door I was keenly aware that with my other hand was already unbuttoning my pants. I walked into the stall and my pants were unbuttoned and unzipped as I was clicking the lock in place. I went about my business with a bit of a giggle.

Do I always do this? Why do I do this? Where did this come from? Why? Wow, good thing no one was in the ladies room when I walked in, you know!?!?

For the last few weeks I have been paying attention to this action. It takes me forever to get up from my desk to go to the bathroom. I am talking serious pee pee dancing in the seat some days. I started to notice that I needed to take care of this before it got serious. Maybe the prep was happening because I delayed getting up for so long. But then I realized it happens all the time! So really it was deeper than just the need to get to it faster.

I started to really examine this. And realized that it goes back to me as a little kid! All the way back to the house where I grew up and where we had one, ONE, bathroom for the whole house!

I felt like I was back in Ohio in the blue house on Anderson Avenue doing the pee pee dance that so many little kids do. For me what was different was that I was doing the dance and prepping for my turn. And 30 years later I am now left to ponder my quirky nature with this as I walk into the bathroom at work!

It makes me laugh. It makes me fondly reminisce on the life I had growing up and sharing a little bathroom with my family. Fighting over the bathroom with my sister and then sisters. What makes those quirks stick? Why do I think about it now after all this time?

What are your quirks? Feel free to share here or if you are too shy feel free to email me.

My little quirk that I have examined now took me all the way back to childhood to find it's roots. Where will yours take you?