Monkishness

After taking this test to see how Monkish I am I shared with Adrian that it says I am “a little bit Monkish”. I was relieved because sometimes I worry about myself. Adrian shared some of his quirks so I said I would share mine (I know it’s a little overdue).

• When I buy magazines I must read them first. I absolutely hate anyone reading my magazines before me though I don’t mind with books.
• My daily reading of the newspaper in the morning needs to be done in an orderly fashion. I have to read the newspaper sections in order which tends to slow me down on Sunday mornings when for some reason, they sometimes rearrange the sections in their attempt to minimize the folding or rolling size of the entire thing.
• When standing or sitting near a collection of items, e.g. glasses, bottles etc. I often find myself lining them up or placing them in nice symmetrical patterns like squares or diamonds. Triangle or pyramid shapes are also possible tho rare.
• If I get a stick of gum, one of those nice (hygienic) individually wrapped bits, after unwrapping it and popping it in my mouth, I will inevitably neatly fold the wrapper in a symmetrical fashion into as small a package as possible and put it in my pocket until I am ready to dispose of the gum. Not sure what I do when I have no pockets.

Now for some reason I have a lot of food/kitchen-related idiosyncrasies:

• When serving out food into my plate, I need to have my meat on the right-hand side of my plate, with the rice on the left and any sides (corn, salad, etc) toward the top. This always has me doing some serious plate spinning when being served by someone else, especially in a buffet line.
• I always eat away from me in the plate, leaving space closest to me to rest my knife and fork. I think I get this one from my mother cause she does the same thing.
• If I am washing the dishes, then I will make sure to keep the cutlery types separated when in drying rack. So all the forks in one compartment, all the knives together etc.
• In the cutlery tray in the drawer, I like to ensure that the forks are grouped by size in their compartment. There are some forks with shorter tines which I will always place on the left with the longer tined ones on the right. Don’t even ask. It really bugs me when they are all mixed up.

I have no doubt there are more but this were the first ones that occurred to me. No need to say a word. I know, I am special.