QUIRKY, COMPULSIVE OR WEIRD?

By Dan Miller 

October 2, 2008 

There's a little thing I do when writing on my computer here at the television station. 

Actually, I had never even noticed it until somebody stuck his head in my office and pointed it out to me.

Whenever I get to the very bottom of a page of script, I always hit the little arrow that scrolls the page down.

It's hard to explain, but if there's nothing else on the page, a little bell rings.It rings, I suppose, to let me know that very fact.... that there's nothing else written on that particular page. 

Well, it turns out, I always hit the little arrow three times, so that the bell rings three times... 

Not two times.... not four times.... but always three times. 

It also turns out -- since I keep the volume on my computer turned up fairly high -- people outside my office can hear the bell. 

After the person so abruptly pointed out to me that I had this little "typing quirk"... I actually tried to adjust.

I'm a fairly fast typist, but trying to avoid hitting that little arrow at the bottom of each page slowed me down.... 

It made me feel clumsy.... 

I found I desperately needed to hit that key three times.... 

I needed to hear that little bell.... 

And I needed it to be at full volume. 

I might seem odd to you.... but at least I don't separate my M&Ms into color categories.... 

And I don't worry about stepping on cracks in the sidewalk.... 

And black cats don't concern me. 

OK, that's all for now.Ding, Ding, Ding.

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