(Mostly tomato) cans are usually filled with other metal e.g. lids of glass jars - subject to availability.
I often spend some time matriosking glass jars (anchovies in the olives in the pickles, soy sauce in the jam USW)
Yes, nowadays they are annoyingly loud and penetrating. And rightly so.
But I got that habit ingrained since times when seat belt did not come with a warning sound, and weren’t even mandated by law.
My car is smart enough to give you a grace period and does not sound if you go under ~10 km/h, but once started, it won’t stop if you slow down.
I’ve never enjoyed bright light. People love to run around in the sunshine, but my enjoyment fades quickly unless I have a hat or some shade. As a kid, I constantly had to push back against people who couldn’t understand why I preferred to work in dark, quiet environments. Now, I act like Gizmo in Gremlins to make them stop.
My school play episode was a surprise. A parent of one of the lead actors decided to tape the play on opening night and set up additional lighting right in front of the stage. The rest of the cast had no clue. The set backdrop was a floor to ceiling wall, with a door in the middle, through which each character entered. When it was my turn, I felt like this…
I do this to an extent, I associate the habit with my Dad, an engineer, and his tendency towards efficiency. I guess it’s what people did before Tetris.
My browsers have turned into a ongoing display of mental distraction. Yes, browsers. There are two constantly in use on my laptop, and another two on my phone. All of them have multiple tabs open, reflecting subjects I was researching, interesting tech innovations, troubleshooting, etc. So many tangential thoughts and long-term problems with procrastination have led me to this point…
Oh definitely not. My browsers are a mess of things I’m doing for work, the BBS, other forums, random research, articles I want to read, etc.
I use a tab organizer on my desktop to keep things somewhat calm, although the new trend of have two distinct desktops means I can stash some browser clusters out of sight. My phone, though, is a disaster of stuff I’ve been meaning to look at for four years.
I’m the same, though my work PC just crashed and rebooted and I elected not to restore the tabs on relaunching. Quite a few unread tabs that have been there a while, but I figure I’ve had my chance and didn’t take it.
I get motion sickness from scrolling on the phone. Part of the reason interfaces like twitter and tiktok are instantly unusable to me. Sometimes it’s the content that makes me want to puke but more often it’s just literally the motion of scrolling. I consider this one of those evolutionary traits that turns out to have an unanticipated utility though.
A lot of games give me motion sickness too. I have to turn off any head bob for one thing. I also have to turn off controller vibrations because it gives me trigger thumb after a while. Fast pace FPS are ok usually but the slow explorer type games that I want to like as chill-out games are sometimes completely unplayable because I just can’t look at them for more than five or ten minutes without needing to take an actual walk.
Damn… the more I think about it the more grateful I am to get motion sickness so easily.
Yep… I’m not a gamer, but anytime I’ve seen game play that’s POV, it can trigger it… Also, any POV films or all those found footage films. Could not watch that movie Tr0ll or the first Cloverfield movie. I literally puked after seeing the first Blair Witch movie in the theater…
Now, I act like 
Am I just weird?
