It's come to my attention that I'm really odd about the most trivial of things. At the moment, I'm talking about, as the title might suggest, the Cool People's Head Nod. You know the one, where you see someone you know walking down the hall, but you're obviously too cool to say "Hi." So, of course, you give them a slight jerk upwards of the head as if to silently say, "'Sup?" Now, here's where my weirdness comes in. Most people would answer a silent "'Sup?" with a similarly silent "'Sup?" signal. However, I recognize that it's not the best of manners to answer a question with a question. Therefore, I generally reciprocate with the opposite gesture, a slight downwards nod, as if to say, "'Sall good." The mental image of someone lobbing something off of the top of their head and me catching it on the top of mine usually comes to mind. I assume I overthink things like this.
Am I weird? Probably. My pet peeves are similarly strange, too. Of course, they include classics like people coming into my room when my door is closed and leaving it open when they leave, but the others aren't nearly as normal. Things like people reading my t-shirts (which are almost always shirts with funny pictures or messages on them) out loud, people asking me questions to which the answers are obvious ("Did you get a haircut?", "Oh, you can't find your pencil? Where'd you put it?", etc.), and people changing the volume on my mom's van's radio to a number that isn't either a multiple of five or 43 (43 because that's the sweet spot in my mom's van, multiples of five because... I'm not sure, I think they just feel like fulfilling numbers). So, I think it's safe to say that I'm an oddball. But I suppose that's better than being an evenball.
