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Following up on Killer Bee's post about bad quirks, I figured we should all find good things about ourselves to post.  We may need it after listing all that negativity.  :drink:

First off, I feel I am a pretty good father and husband.  My family always comes first to me and I always do my best to treat them right.  Secondly, I truly enjoy making people laugh.    Its one of those things I've enjoyed since I was a kid. Moving on, I do my best to eat healthy and live a mostly clean lifestyle.  Lastly, I think I'm pretty kind to animals.  I leave bird food out, spend time with the stray cats in the neighborhood, etc. 

I'm no saint as stated in the counter post to this one but at least I can look at these things with pride.   :thumbup:

No smokes, no alcohol, no drugs (aside from medication). I'm proud of myself for never caving in to any pressures to do that stuff just to fit in better. Of course not doing any of these things saves me some cash too. I know I'm a good friend to those who treat me well and I have a strong sense of right and wrong.

Don't drink, don't smoke, don't do drugs beyond the occasional "herbal supplement". I don't point out peoples' stupidity. I always help out anyone who asks for it so long as I can provide it (i.e. I'll give directions but I don't/can't give people cigarettes), and if you're one of the few people I call friend I'll bend over backwards to help you out. Oh yeah, and I'm generous in the bedroom... heh.  :wink:

Uhh...
I've been told I have a beutiful radio voice... Albeit, my stage voice sucks

Anubis, I gave you Karma for that line by the way.  :cheers:

I have found a hilarious balance of clean and gross, wash my hands till they're red, sneeze into my sleeve. :twirl:

Sorry, forgot about how I am dedicated to bringing old topics up on the forum, check out the zombie survival guide in entertainment.

Sorry DS, it takes more than a simple karma point to see how generous I am in the bedroom...  :wink:

I'd rather not see how generous you are so I'll take your word for it old friend.    :wink:

Well...dam...I dunno...I love little baby ducks, calling people shmucks, playing on people's fear...and beer.... ...and IIIII loooove youuuuuu too...

 Waitaminnit...that ain't right... :question: I'm confused...
..uh...I dunno.

I like making people smile, be it with a dumb joke, a goofy gesture, or just saying a kind word to someone who is sad.


I also married my childhood sweetheart from second grade onward, and we've ben together for 23 (mostly) happy years.

Some of my friends tend to tell me I'm a good listener, & bug me about becoming a peer councilor.
Thing is, I'd hafta' go to school for that, & well, you know, school's what made me all flakey in the first place.

I haven't killed or fired anyone this week ... so far, but it's only hump day.

Okay, after much puzzling and pondering, here goes:

I love my son and I'm a very understanding mother.  I treat him like a rational, decent human being and he has responded in kind.  And because of all the bad relationships I've had with d!ckheads, I've taught him how to be the kind of man women appreciate.  And because he's followed what I've said, the girls at school love him.   :thumbup:

I'm an excellent knitter and seamstress and I've spent many hours making beautiful things which I've given away (at my own expense).  I really love the look of happiness and shock on people's faces when they comment how beautiful the item is and that I'm happy to give it to them for nothing.

I don't take illegal drugs, or smoke or gamble nor am I an alcoholic (although I do enjoy a good drink every few months).  And even though I've been a sole parent most of my life, I've never had a revolving door on my bedroom.  So my son has grown up thinking of me as a woman who has self respect instead of being the town's bike.

I pay my bills and never cheat anybody. I've always provided a safe and stable home and there's always been food on the table even if I've had to go without.  I'm also a good employee and I work hard in any job I've ever had, whether it was waitressing or being an office manager.

I'm a loyal friend and I will always open to my home to someone who is less fortunate than me and try to help them get back on their feet.  And to people who appreciate my efforts, I will be generous and helpful with no thought of expecting anything in return.

I am honest to a fault.  If a store clerk gives me too much change, I'll give it back.  If they forget to charge me for something, I'll go back to pay for it.  I don't like it when they tell me, "oh no, it's okay.  Our mistake, you can have it" if it is something cheap (they usually don't say that if it is something expensive).

Recently at an amusement park, a goof-up of some sort made it where my wife and son got split up from my daughter and I...we had to ride the ride at separate times even though we all had our passes to ride together.  They gave us a pass to avoid the (long) line at the next ride.

When we went to use that ticket, the initial collector did not take it...we could have used it again.  I refused to even try to use it again, which drove my sister nuts.  She could not believe I would NOT use that ticket again just because on the front it said "for one free pass."

Another quirk I have is that I will go out of my way to do something nice for a stranger - even if it's only something very small.  Often, this is the one person no one else around wants anything to do with.  I've actually met some pretty interesting people this way.  I try to remember: we can all have a bad day, and we don't have to try make each other's days worse.  (I forget this WAY too often, though).

I'm extremely loyal to my friends.  I cannot say I've been too loyal to too many 'causes,' but to my friends...yep.  Absolutedly-dootly.

Dunno if these things make me a "good" person or not, but at least I can say I think they are good traits.

I'm the same way. A couple of times I've gone to get a newspaper out of one of those machines, found it already open, no one around. So I closed it, put in my money, and got my paper. Then I made sure it was closed before I left.

I'm also nice. Probably too nice. Little old ladies tend to love me because, according to a friend, I've got an "old soul." In other words, I probably fit in with the values and manners of the generation or two (or three or four) before me (but I don't go back quite as far as the Victorians). If my wife should die before me, I could be a big hit in the nursing home...

I recently switched career tracks, going from teaching (although I may still do that part time) and graphic arts to massage therapy, and apparently I'm a good therapist. I don't go in for all the New Age mysticism that surrounds massage, but several people have claimed that I'm a healer. I just pay attention to what's going on under my fingers and try to make the muscles relax. It's nice to make people feel better and to help them get over their physical pain. It's also kind of strange that I enjoy the job so much since I am pretty anti-social. Maybe I've also got multiple personalities or something, but I'm not sure if that's a good quirk or a bad quirk.

I have a old soul too, but it likely goes back the the dark ages of barbarians, I'm sure my wife would agree.

There's a flip side to my cheapness.
I can also be quite generous if I have the extra $$.

Case in point...
After I won that $25,000 prize a few years ago, I bought all of my friends something.
One of my friends needed a new stereo receiver for his entertainment center because his old one broke.  So I got him a brand new Sony receiver.
Another friend is a big time biking enthusiast so i got him a cool MP3 player that straps to the side of the arm (around the bicep) while riding.

My family had a very nice Christmas that year.
I think I spent close to $500 on gifts for my parents, sister and grandpa.

And let's not forget the cool contest I had here on this forum!
Shadow, Derf and RC all got cool Sony items...free of charge
Between the three of them, those items added up to almost $300.

So yes, I can be generous when I have money.   :smile:

Well, I was kidding in the other thread about the napkins...   :wink:   
Your post suggests to me that I should update one of my "Bad" quirks: I'm a generous spendthrift.  Now that I'm facing changed circumstances, I've tightened my belt quite a bit and realize I picked up the tab too often.   :bluesad:  I can't stand nickel and dime (that isn't to say there aren't people hangin' 'round like vultures waiting for a sucker like me to clip a buck or two with their nickel and dime...)

I do think I have a good quirk, as Ulthar put it: I'm honest to a fault, particularly when asked for an opinion.   The thing about perpetual honesty is, one needs to also learn reticence.  Holding one's tongue is a good "quirk"  when people may not want to hear what you might have to say. 

People say that my jokes are what make me a "good" person.

I might on a rare occassion go through a drive-thru and order through a speaker and after placing the order mention that I'd like that "to go". You have to be careful doing this because they might tamper with your food if they take it the wrong way. One time I asked for no pickles on my hamburger and they gave me 7 pickles instead.

Or go to the supermarket and tell people while waiting at check out that "Tommorrow is free food day at __________".

Or may suggest to someone that I'm an anarchist and that I spend my days off slowing down the economy by driving purposely below the speed limit causing deliveries nationally to be delayed which would cause a slow down in the economy and potentially a reccession. While also stating that this is why they have increased the speed limit to 65 mph in many place to boost the economy. I'd say this with a straight face. People don't know how to take it till I snicker for a moment. Then they realise I'm joking.

When ever someone drops something which can be anything from a dropping a pen or breaking something like a drinking glass. I will sharply and sometimes casually but not overly loud say "Telephone" as if the phone is ringing. Just try it and watch peoples reactions. There is something about peoples urgency to answer a telephone. This one is always lots of fun. This also works great when someone blows their car horn real loud and you have people in the car with you and you say "telephone" right after an irrate horn blast. The reaction is usually a bewildered pause and then laughter.

Another thing I like to do when someone is near and usually mentally preocuppied with something else is to start physically handing them things/objects by hand with a slight motion or quite verbal request until they have their arms full and they can't figure out what is going on. Suddenly they wake up and say "What in the world am I doing". Picture them standing there completely confused holding an array of things in their arms. It's always self indulgent entertainment.

After paying for my groceries at the store I like to ask the cashier directly for just one more question even though I have not asked any questions as of yet saying "I have just one more question. Do you know where I parked?". It's really unique to my new grocery store since we moved as we have two distant exits. I'll say  "I have just one more question. Which way did I park?" I always get a good gaffaw from my audience.

Sometimes I'll tell someone in the meat section of the grocery store who's looking to buy some meat "I wish the store would put sound effects at each meat section of the department when you entered the area so you can identify each item with an associated sound. When approaching the beef section you would hear from the speaker a "moo, moo.....moooooooo" sound, chicken section would "cluck, cluck, cluck", and the pork section would "Oink........oink..oink", and the cash registar would have an exaggerated "Ka Ching".

This is why people hang out with me.

When I'm exihibiting humor people usually say "What just happened?".

I've been thinking this topic over for the last two days and have yet to come up with anything. I guess I am just inherently bad. :teddyr: Oh, well...lemme take a stab at this.

Um...I like animals, especially dogs. I take care not to harm any animals I come across.

I am somewhat green. I make sure we recycle everything that we can. I will even keep empty soda cans from my lunch or when I'm out, in order to bring them home and recycle them rather than just toss them in the garbage somewhere.

Like others, I am generous when I have the money to lavish on others. One holiday season there were eight family members exchanging gifts, so I had seven people to shop for. I went all out and as a result, out of the seven, six of them said my gift to them was their favorite. I've also loaned my in-laws thousands of dollars over the years, knowing it was highly unlikely that I would ever get it back. Still, I had it, they were in bad shape, so I gave it to them.

Despite having a collection of scotch, I really don't drink that much. The last time I had a beer was about five years ago and I think I've sampled my scotch maybe once or twice in the last three years.

I've never once yelled at, said anything hateful to or gotten into a physical altercation with any woman I have ever dated. I think it is cowardly for a man to hit a woman (even though some ladies these days can seriously kick your ass) or disrespect her in any way. Accordingly, I have never cheated on any woman.

I'm very considerate of others to the point that its almost a inconvince to me. I had a 2 squatter punks stay over my apt. for a couple of days that I just met. and Very generous again up to a point that I might be over my head.

 :smile:

I'm actually a pretty strange guy really: born during a war in what what was then Rhodesia in 1967, survived that and child abuse both as a child and as an adolescent and p**sed off all the nay-sayers in my life who said that I couldn't do this and that, etc, etc. Their words still make me angry 30 years later.

People (mostly adults) who meet me for the first time see my eyes (green with some strange flecks in them) and take an involuntary step back, as if to say "Where did this guy come from?"  :buggedout:

But.........People who know me well (especially children) know that my apparent coldness and gruffness is a mask: under that mask is a basically good person who is ever in search of the great mystery of life: clean underpants.  :teddyr:

I like children, animals and am generous with whatever I can help with.

I am a conflict and abuse survivor: the words and actions of my tormentors are the main spring that drives me daily and keeps me level headed.

If I have to meet any of you one day, don't be surprised if I give you a hug.  :cheers:

As long as you find clean underpants, a hug is fine   :teddyr:

I uh....hmmm...let's see...I.....ummmm....forget it!