A few
Mostly I prefer to wear boots over shoes.

When I do wear shoes, I will eventually speculate on an imagined higher likelihood of disabling ankle fractures. Which makes me shudder a bit. So I mostly prefer to wear boots.

I think it may have something to do with reading The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant as a teenager. Even though I'm not a leper.

I pick the skin from my lips

Sometimes until it bleeds, which is annoying at the time, but leads to more dry patches of skin that can be picked. I've done it since toddlerhood, and know it's not especially healthy or attractive. I mostly do it without thinking, especially when reading or watching an absorbing TV programme.

I have to keep my car and house keys separate

On separate keyrings, in separate pockets. My logic to myself is that if I lose my house keys, I'll still be able to drive to pick up a spare key entrusted to one of a couple of friends, my folks, etc. And if I lose my car keys, I'll still be able to get into my house when I do get home. But I've recently noticed that almost everyone I know keeps both car and house keys on the same keyring, which I find vaguely unsettling.

I always have to have some cash on me

I can leave the house without cash, if I have my cards and can get cash out as soon as I see an ATM. But leaving without cards or cash (if I forget, as I occasionally do) is deeply uncomfortable, like forgetting to wear trousers or something.

I hate wearing shorts out in hot weather, except at the beach

Shorts are fine for playing sports, or wearing around the house or garden, but going OUT?? Never.

I tell myself that Italians and Spaniards don't strip off to a pair of shorts the minute the sun comes out, but wear linen suits and both look and feel cool (rather than feeling cool and looking like a football hooligan outside a foreign bar).

But inside I know that it's because Richard Edwards called me "fatty" once in infants' school in about 1973.
( shinyshinyscalp less a man, more a way of life, Fri 2 Jul 2010, 16:45, 3 replies)

As a matter of interest...
...most car manufacturers recommend keeping your car keys on a difference keyring because the weight of most keyrings hanging sideways from the ignition tends to warp it over time and lead to faults.

When I read that you prefer to wear boots over shoes, I envisioned a very large pair of boots over shoes that were already on your feet. I see that this is not the case.
(ThomsonsPier consumes, Fri 2 Jul 2010, 17:17, closed)

I am with you
on the shorts thing. Blah.
(Melody was not PMSing on, Fri 2 Jul 2010, 19:02, closed)

omg
i had the boots thing and never related it to Thomas Covenant. weird moment there. Might have to read it again now
(DreddPirateBob has watched every scifi film ever on, Sat 3 Jul 2010, 1:37, closed)