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Idiosyncrasy - 1

Icecream eating procedure. Cones are not allowed. Take a cup with one scoop of icecream. Wait for it to start melting. Then eat the melted portions first. As you proceed slowly from the sides of the scoop, the rest will also melt. Reason You will catch a cold otherwise. By eating only the melted portions your chances of getting a cold are less. Caution Never think about the pleasure you might get out of icecream melting in your mouth.

Idiosyncrasy - Intro

The number of people I have come across in my life is very less when compared to many people. Yet, every one of them has managed to reveal an idiosyncrasy of some sort. I have noticed that there is a thin line that separates the ones that are humourous from the ones that frustrate people around. The thin line is defined by the term "People around". Follow this experiment with every one of the quirk that I intend to write about. Read it first as though it is your parent/wife/any close person who often irritates you. Then take a step backwards. Read it again as though it were your 2 yr old child who is behaving in this manner. Shucks!! Thats easily said or in this case read than done!! I hope to write atleast two in a week. The order in which I write is representative of my memory and not of any gradation that I may attribute to it. As far as I see, each and every quirk is wonderful in its own way and one cannot be judged better or worse than the other. If you wish to contribu