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When I say goodbye to somebody, I always wave. Even when I'm talking to them on the phone. It's just automatic. People around me when this happens seem to think it's hilarious.

What habbits/behaviours do you have that make people laugh or cause you to be the subject of good-natured teasing?

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  • ... whenever i have to leave a message on voicemail, i ask the person "ok?" before i say good-bye, as if they are going to answer - "yeah, good idea!" or "sure, i'll consider that" (or "yes! great message!").

    of course, noticing this has made me wonder if i do this when speaking live, asking "ok? but not expecting a response. what if it is not "ok"?
  • i stamp my feet. Yes, really. if i'm talking about something and i'm particularly emphatic, one little foot goes "stamp" on the ground.

    also, when i sneeze (i'm a squeaky sneezer) it's usually enough to make me stop in my tracks and fly backwards briefly. it's apparently quite a funny sight. *sigh*
    • When I was in college, we had some serious ping pong games. I've walked into the SAC (Student Activity Center) and seen over $200 stuck under the net of a ping pong table. I was probably 3rd best in the school, and there was this Russian guy that I played a lot. He could have been better, but he had a noticable "tell"... whenever he was going to do backspin, he stamped his foot. I always knew to counter the spin when the foot stamped. :-)
    • also, when i sneeze (i'm a squeaky sneezer) it's usually enough to make me stop in my tracks and fly backwards briefly.

      The whole office knows when I sneeze...it echoes back and forth for a bit. Sometimes, someone will come in to make sure my head hasn't exploded as a result. :-)

  • "This is David" - I use it at work as my standard intro. It works, in a professional setting. Speedy, lets the other person immediately get to business. I do a lot of phone work, essentially being backline support for our desktop technicians in the field / at the client's desk. But it is such a habit, I do it at home, too. Really throws off all those people that expect a friendly "hello!" "hello! This is so-and-so. May I speak to such-and-such?" "Sure, hang on while I get 'em."

    Instead, the person gets this

  • Because my dad and I never got along too well, and in fact we still don't (I tend to cringe at some of his more obnoxious habits in public), my wife loves to point out little ticks I have picked up from him.

    Like the way, when he doesn't quite hear something the first time someone says it, he jerks his hand up to his ear, turns his head slightly, squints with one eye and mouths a "Wha?" all at the same time. (I apparently do this, too.)

    Or the way he, when telling a story or whatever, won't let anything d

    • "long shorts?"

      Do I even want to know? I guess not.

      Awesome testimonial, btw. Just wait until I have thought of something sufficiently clever in response. Estimated time until I think of something clever: Long, but then I have a long trip to America ahead of me next week, maybe I can think of something then...

    • Like the way, when he doesn't quite hear something the first time someone says it, he jerks his hand up to his ear, turns his head slightly, squints with one eye and mouths a "Wha?" all at the same time. (I apparently do this, too.)

      I don't understand. Is that considered rude? I ask because I can't hear very well. I don't say, "Wha?", but I do turn my head a bit, sometimes cup my ear, & then say, "Would you repeat that, please? I didn't catch what you were saying. I can't hear very well.".

      Seriously; is

      • Seriously; is it rude?

        No, not at all. It's just my dad has a particular way of doing it that I apparently also do -- and because it's a good way to taunt me a little, my wife likes to point out that similarity. ;-)

        I hate it when people eat loudly @ the table. I don't mind people burping, as long as they do it as quietly as possible. It's 1 of those things that I don't want to stop people from doing, because not burping seems pretty uncomfortable to me. I'm open to other thoughts on this, though.

        I'm t

      • Another habit that I have is smiling out of the blue. People mention that to me. I didn't think that it was so serious. I know that I smile because my mind wanders & I'm thinking of stuff that are funny to me.

        I frequently do that, and it's usually something that would not be funny to anyone I had to explain it to, and something completely unrelated to the situation at hand. Sometimes I get dangerously close to entering the dreaded Giggle Loop. [bbcamerica.com]

    • And now you are a Dad. I think that experience is where we really start to realize how much we act like our parents.
  • After getting a solution or figuring a particularly nasty quandry out my own form of "Eureka" is clapping my hands loudly and exclaiming "Aha!". When I'm in close proximity with my coworkers it can sometimes startle them when I'm absolutely silent in contemplation for a long period of time typing a few keys but generally remaining quiet. After frightening my coworkers a few times I have resorted to laughing maniacally and rubbing my palms together, but every once in a while it slips and I scare the crap o
  • I say ribbit and than execuse me about 90% of the time, my grandfather taught this to me when I was very young and he died shortly after my mother would never correct me and now look at me.
  • I tend to repeat people, I've run into, in a sarcastic way.

    For instance, I was once up at Washington DC in the White House. An asian woman pushed me and my girlfriend to the side and said, "Scuse I need to see the White House"

    I say that even now when I want to be in the front of the line - only my close friends know what the heck it means. It always gets a laugh.

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