Weirdo!

I've been tagged by Lemon Blossom to list down 6 weird things about me, or even weird experiences that I've had. I gave it quite a bit of thought, and holy cow, I realized that it wasn't all that difficult to come up with the list! Man, am I weird or what!?!

I guess the most obvious one for me is the fact that I have a lot, lot, lot of metal inside me! I fell down and broke my left arm just above the elbow, almost 2 years back. What's weird is that it happened when I ran on the corridor of the hotel we were staying in, while on my honeymoon! :-/ Needless to say, the rest of the honeymoon was spent in surgery, and then, at the hospital! As a consequence, I have 2 rectangular plates, a couple wires, and an umpteen number of screws inside my left arm! They're supposed to be removed sometime this year; a prospective surgery I'm not looking forward to at all! :-/

So, now I'm scared to run. Yup, I'm dead scared to run! I even imagine I'll fall down the stairs every time I go up or down a staircase! Add to it, the number of accidents I've had, both trivial and serious; and I don't think my fear of running is going anywhere, anytime soon!

When I study, I almost always sit on my bed and rock to and fro, like what my aunt calls, a goods train! There is no other way anything I learn, gets into my head! When I was in school, I used to prance around the whole room, with the book in my hand. I used to even jump from one couch/chair to another, all in the name of being better able to study, while being continuously on the move! My mom still talks about this; she's glad though that now I've restricted myself to only rocking on my bottom, rather than jumping all around the house! Neither can I sit or stand still; I keep tapping my feet, or rocking. Even now, while typing this, I'm rocking to and fro on my chair! Even while lying down, my feet keep swaying from left to right, and then from right to left, and yet again, from left to right, and so on and on and on!

When I'm nervous, worried or engrossed, invariably, I run my thumb over my lower lip, back and forth, back and forth, time and again, till everyone around me goes crazy! No, it doesn't matter which thumb it is!

I have a disorder; and an obsessively compulsive one at that! I have to push a locked door a certain number of times to ensure that it has been locked, run my finger over a switch a certain number of times to ensure that it has been switched off for sure, and pull on my wardrobe handle a good many times to ensure that it is locked for certain!

I almost always choke while having tablets of any kind! When I was a kid, I used to refuse to have pills, preferring to have tonics or syrups instead; when I grew up some more and was told in no uncertain terms that at times, I just needed to swallow tablets, I would have to stand right under the fan in my room, and then only would I consent to put the medicine down my throat; now, thankfully, I don't that, but I still haven't mastered the art of swallowing a pill without choking on it!

Well, there's my list! Hopefully, I won't lose my readership after this!

Also, I tag Big B (do this one at least!), Aditi, Sumi, Mush, Miss Iyer and Dharmabum. Ah! Six in all!