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posted 22 days ago by Corryveckan45 (168)
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Hi Everyone,

I'm watching the end of this episode on the Pluto Channel, and it made me wonder. As fans know, the plot of this episode centers around Lucy and Ricky and Fred and Ethel being driven to distraction by each others' grating physical habit/tick: Ricky drums his fingers, Lucy constantly stirs her tea, Fred jingles his keys/change in his pocket and Ethel makes too much noise when eating candy (and probably other food as well).

My question: if it were you, of the four possibilities, which "habit" would annoy you the most?

For me, I think it would be Ethel making all that noise while eating. I don't mean to bash poor Ethel (who gets plenty of bashing from the other characters in this episode), but there's something particularly crude and slovenly about the way she sucks and smacks and slurps while eating the candies she's enjoying, and, of course, she talks about food all the time.

[–] steven1660 (144) 17 days ago

I agree with you! I think the loud chewing would drive me nuts. But close second would have to be Ricky's tapping lol. That would be annoying haha.

[–] Corryveckan45 (168) 15 days ago

That would probably be my number 2 choice, too.

Even if I found Lucy's constant stirring her coffee annoying, she wasn't always drinking coffee or tea. Ricky could start drumming his fingers any time he got nervous or edgy.

[–] jcnyclv (1557) 17 days ago

Definitely Ethel's noisy eating habits. I wouldn't be able to stand that!

[–] Corryveckan45 (168) 15 days ago

Me neither. Just watching her do it in that episode sort of turns my stomach!

[–] [email protected] (5854) 17 days ago

Loud eating bugs me too. I had a boyfriend who ate like it was his last meal. And he never learned how to hold a fork properly. He would grasp it like a two year old who was just learning to feed himself.

But the one habit I encountered at home was our father’s coin jangling in his pocket. And I never noticed it until that ILL episode.😁

[–] Corryveckan45 (168) 15 days ago

That's funny, PJ.

But I think Fred's jingling habit was probably the least annoying of the quartet's, so I'm not completely surprised that you didn't pick up on your Dad's habit.

[–] [email protected] (5854) 12 days ago

It ‘s funny that the habit that started the whole ball rolling was the newspaper story about knuckle cracking.

I used to do that a lot when I was younger. I think I outgrew it. Nobody in the family seemed to mind. My littlest sister had the weird habit of yelling out. It was like she was just testing out her voice and she would yell something like, “Aaaayo”. Just a weird kid.

My other sister liked to make a loud smacking noise just for fun. My mom was always telling her to knock it off.

I guess everyone has an odd habit or two.

[–] Corryveckan45 (168) 11 days ago

I have a friend who used to make an odd sound running his tongue against his upper teeth when we were kids. It sounded sort of like a very soft grunt of a piglet. I have no idea how he did it, and he couldn't explain how he did it. Like you, he eventually outgrew it.

You're right. I think everyone has an odd habit or two.

To quote Gladys Kravitz after she's zapped by the Purenthians' "N Gun" on Bewitched: "None of us is perfect, you know."

"In Palm Springs" Question **POTENTIAL SPOILERS**

"In Palm Springs" Question POTENTIAL SPOILERS