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I don't have many rituals, but I very easily fall into routines for mundane things so I don't have to think about them.
The only real ritual I do have is not letting anything touch my wrists - I always roll my sleeves up (unless it's cold, in which case I pull my sleeves over my hands), I never wear watches, bracelets, charity bands or anything like that.
No idea why, and it isn't something I started doing until I was in my 20's, but now I just can't have things touching my wrists ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I used to think I was forgetting to lock the door when I left because I'd come home and it would be unlocked.
Turns out, the dog (a beagle) unlocks the door for us about 3-5 minutes before he can sense we'll be home.
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damn, smart beagle!
I salute every ghost bike I see, for that could easily be myself one day.
What's a ghost bike?
damn, smart beagle!I used to think I was forgetting to lock the door when I left because I'd come home and it would be unlocked.
Turns out, the dog (a beagle) unlocks the door for us about 3-5 minutes before he can sense we'll be home.
BBC: "Can dogs tell the time?"
While it isn't the same as unlocking the door, I've seen some cats figure out how to open the lever-style handles of doors.
He's also trained to track down our kids and has done so up to a mile and a half away. Just don't expect him to catch an animal, he's cartoonishly inept. :-)
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I salute every ghost bike I see, for that could easily be myself one day.What's a ghost bike?
Ghost bikes (warning: sad)
damn, smart beagle!I used to think I was forgetting to lock the door when I left because I'd come home and it would be unlocked.
Turns out, the dog (a beagle) unlocks the door for us about 3-5 minutes before he can sense we'll be home.
BBC: "Can dogs tell the time?"
While it isn't the same as unlocking the door, I've seen some cats figure out how to open the lever-style handles of doors.
There's one on Hulu that says the reason dogs and humans get each other and get along so well, is because we use the same facial expressions and body language.
I have a cat who can open cupboards, knows when food is put out (despite being deaf so she can't actually hear it hit the bowl), and somehow opens dresser drawers, and comes when called (still, deaf, so telepathic cat mayhaps)?
You should rent you beagle out to daycares to keep the kids in one place, sort of like a toddler herding service, LOL.
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I have a cat who can open cupboards, knows when food is put out (despite being deaf so she can't actually hear it hit the bowl), and somehow opens dresser drawers, and comes when called (still, deaf, so telepathic cat mayhaps)?
I'm guessing their whiskers can feel the soundwaves in the air. Cat whiskers are awesome.
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My mom's cat likes water. He even knows how to turn on faucets he doesn't however see any great need to turn them off.
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I have a cat who can open cupboards, knows when food is put out (despite being deaf so she can't actually hear it hit the bowl), and somehow opens dresser drawers...
On the way out yesterday, I closed the bedroom door so the cats wouldn't go in there and sharpen their claws on the mattress. One of them looked at me, walked up to the door, reared up and hit the handle hard enough to turn it and make the door swing slightly open, and looked at me again, as if to say, "Daddy, we're not STUPID!"
Does sleep count? Maybe preparing for sleep. Meditation could be a ritual.
Actually good call, I bet the deaf white cat (Zoe) is using her whiskers even more than most cats, she even ambushes our other cats, despite being deaf and white (white ninjas sort of stand out, not the stealthiest color)
May be time to start the "amazing, hilarious, and obnoxious stuff my cat does" thread.
I'd post in that thread....
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Many of us are familiar with the little "gifts" we get from our cats. Ahhh, the joys of discovering a mouse intestinal package beside the bed in the morning...
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there now exists The Official "crazy, hilarious, annoying, and amazing stuff my cat does" thread, post your best cat tails :) (see what I did there)
My first cat many many years ago would always leave me animal bodies sans their heads by our back door, very thoughtful of him.
I was reminded of another of mine just this morning.
When it's foggy out, and I have to drive, I put on Silent Hill music and secretly hope that I'll end up somewhere other than where I'm going. (Ravenloft would be as acceptable as Silent Hill.)
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O_o
You WANT to go to Ravenloft and/or Silent Hill??
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You WANT to go to Ravenloft and/or Silent Hill??
It would be really interesting to see a place twisted to reflect my psychological issues and dark feelings. Silent Hill might allow me the chance to overcome them, and Ravenloft might offer me the chance to wallow in them. Either one would beat going home to nap for a few hours before driving back to work.
Edit: I also answer a Tornado Warning with "has my ticket to Oz arrived?", so it's not just horror settings.
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O_o
You WANT to go to Ravenloft and/or Silent Hill??
the former no, the latter HELL YES.
Silent Hill is neat, excepting the supremely annoying birds. And maybe pyramid head, though he's sort of sexy. And mannequin leg monsters. And evil nurses... hmmm... I'll have to think about this.
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Some of my own quirks are already listed.
Always choose left in a game when given a choice of directions.
Always the same pockets for wallet and keys, and always pat both to make sure they are there, before leaving.
Always stop the microwave (or alarm) before it beeps.
And some odder ones;
Always wave at the automatic door sensor before walking through it (unless arms are full or pushing a cart). I suppose it might trigger the motion sensor a half-second earlier and save me from having to slow down, but that's not why I do it.
Always avoid being touched by plants. Going on hikes up here in New England, friends are amused by the contortions I'll go through to avoid a branch touching me. They don't have chiggers/redbugs or ticks up here, but I still remember those bastards.
Always wave at the automatic door sensor before walking through it (unless arms are full or pushing a cart). I suppose it might trigger the motion sensor a half-second earlier and save me from having to slow down, but that's not why I do it.
I think I should try to remember to do that from now on (for reasons).
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Always wave at the automatic door sensor before walking through it (unless arms are full or pushing a cart). I suppose it might trigger the motion sensor a half-second earlier and save me from having to slow down, but that's not why I do it.
So it feels like you're opening the door with telekinesis/the force? I used to do that.
if you pee on your hand you have to touch something metal within 5 seconds.
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@ Set, I knew it, I am not the only person who does the "always go left".
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if you pee on your hand you have to touch something metal within 5 seconds.
that's usually a sign that I need to wash my hands.
Always go left? Kender always go left! I always go in any direction but left. Left is a last resort.
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goblin babies believe two wrongs don't make a right, but three lefts do.
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Tammy went left.
I listen to records with the lights off. It is a little ritualistic but not super unique. Uniquely, I hang cloths to dry in my abode. I reside in an apartment building built in the 60's of some professionally employed residents, though there is a mixture with some working class.
I only listen to the radio when there's a power outage at night. Not for news either, but classical or college radio.
When I eat poached or fried eggs, I must thoroughly mash them up with a fork and stir them before eating. Yes, I know I could just make scrambled eggs from the start, but I like my mushed eggs.
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When the sugar I added to my beverage doesn't dissolve fast enough, I can feel it as I stir, grittily scrapping between the spoon-tip and the mug surface. The tactile sensations are extremely irritating. (Oddly though, nails on a chalkboard don't bother me at all.)
(Oddly though, nails on a chalkboard don't bother me at all.)
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@ Set, I knew it, I am not the only person who does the "always go left".
That is the standard in one of the groups I play with (we call it the Left Hand Rule...). I have since spread it to all groups I play with or run for.
i'm left handed.
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i'm left handed.
How sinister!
i'm left handed.
As am I....
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I knew there was a reason you two were shifty and untrustworthy! =)
Also artistic, even if I'm at my best with chop saws and chainsaws (I work with stone, patios, fountains, walls, and mosaics) the chainsaws are just because I like demolition.
Also a big fan of axes, picks, and 20 pound mauls.
I very much relate to dwarves.
Except the being grumpy a$@$$*+s part, no fun being a grumpy a!+&~*$, for me at least, ymmv.
Personal rituals:
At home, I play a CD of something soothing (no metal/rap/etc) to help me get to sleep.
When I'm in a hotel and I'm packing up, I move all my stuff to one location and pack it, then take a sweep of the room outside of the area to see if I've missed anything.
When I'm flying out somewhere on vacation, I pay for a shoeshine. It may not last the weekend, but I started that over two decades ago and a vacation just isn't the same without it.
When I'm on vacation, it's not a vacation until I've had Eggs Benedict at least once.
A state doesn't count on my 'visited' list until I've handled certain biological matters in said state. Thus I've been *through* Delaware four times, but I've never *been* there. Same deal with New Jersey.
When I go through Security at an airport, if they only have the full-body (backspatter) scanners available, I'll politely step to the side and inform one of the nice TSA people that I need a 'pat-down'.
If I ever have to open a locker, I knock twice first with my knuckle.
If I know that there's a spider in my room, I can't sleep. Not because I'm scared of spiders, but because I still remember that time I woke up in the middle of the night, and it was sitting on my pillow, right next to my head, staring at me with it's beady little eyes.
If conversations are happening around me and I'm not part of one, I quietly sing the Red Dwarf opening theme. I could never work out why I do that. I don't like singing.
If anyone mentions the best Star Wars movie, I have to mention that it's the Holiday Special.
If faced with a left or right decision and the party expects me to decide, I will insist on sitting at the crossroads and waiting for the plot to come to us.
If faced with a left or right decision and the party expects me to decide, I will insist on sitting at the crossroads and waiting for the plot to come to us.
I follow a slightly different school of thought.
Take the left path until the first 'stop' spot (door, wall, etc), then go back to the right path until the same, then go past the stop spot on the right until the 'next stop spot', then go back to the left (keeping up yet?) The creatures lying in ambush will surely be put off-guard by this strange pattern.
My other method for left/right decisions is to say I'm going right, look at the GM's face very carefully, and decide based on his grin.
My third method (Which only applies if I'm playing most kinds of caster), is to cast detect poison and detect magic, and go down whichever corridor is non poisonous and non magical.
I drink chamomile tea in the evening and throughout the night. I boil a pot of water, toss in 2 tea bags and put the lid on. I've a ladle and a white mug I use.
My mother is left handed... or rather she is ambidextrous. Because every time she tried to write with her left hand the teacher would smack it with a ruler. So she learned to write with both.
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My mother is left handed... or rather she is ambidextrous. Because every time she tried to write with her left hand the teacher would smack it with a ruler. So she learned to write with both.
Kinda the same here. I was left-handed, but nuns with rulers smacked that inclination out of me. Now, living in a much different part of the country, I bang elbows with my (entirely left-handed) family when we get together for Thanksgiving or Easter dinners.
(While it's funner to suggest that the nuns whacked me into right-handedness out of some superstitious rubbish about the left-hand path of the debbil and the 'dex sinister,' the banal truth is more likely that they were too cheap to buy desks and scissors for lefties...)
A state doesn't count on my 'visited' list until I've handled certain biological matters in said state. Thus I've been *through* Delaware four times, but I've never *been* there. Same deal with New Jersey.
In my head, I've translated 'handled certain biological materials' as 'laid pipe.'
And with that, your never having 'been' to New Jersey makes even more sense.
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have to have my keps in my hand before closing the door to the house. They cannot be in my pocket, and even when my partner is with me and has keys to the house, I need to have mine, in my hand, before the door closes.
The other rituals are spirituality based, but they are not dictated by any organized religeon. They are things my spirit guides have instructed me to do.
