Types of Weird

I am often in conversation with someone and they will make a comment that some one is "weird" "unique" or "strange." While these are great words, they don't exactly give a clear imagine. I have determined that there are different types of weird. Here they are:

1. Nerdy Weird - This person displays his or her "uniqueness" by socially integrating sci-fi, fantasy novels, video games, and computer lingo into social settings. If you can have more than a 5 minute conversation about light sabers (and in fact have done so), you may be suffering from this. You may also be in trouble if you want to name parts of your home areas from Lord of the Rings, such as calling your bedroom the Hobbit Hole.

This area also extends to the computer and video games. If you have the final song on a video game memorized word for word, you need to reevaluate your priorities. If you can also relate to one of the characters in your video games, you have also gone too far. Let's also make this clear, you should not relate your thinking ability to amount of gigs on your computer.

I once held a conversation with a person who went on a blogging date. Yes, a blogging date. The people took their computers and instead of socially talking, they blogged to each other. That is going a little too far folks. The worst part was this person was actually proud of his "uniqueness." This person suffers from a severe case of "neirdy weird."

2. Branson Missouri Weird - This person is constantly musically happy. You know the type. Them and everyone in their family knows how to play 3 or more instruments, sing, and can do some other form of entertainment at the same time. The parents in these families have strategically planned from birth who will play what instrument and how it will form an overall routine.

I'm not dissing on musically talented families. In fact many families are musically talented, and I am in awe of their talents. This gets to be too much is when the family becomes freakishly controlling through music and dancing. These people live in a surreal bubble in which the outside world cannot penetrate their inner happiness. Or at least it looks like this on the outside. There is that subtle hint of insanity in glimmering in their eyes, and you know if you push the wrong button, you may release the wrath that has been bottled up for years.

3. Polygamist weird - This person may not be a polygamist, but they are oddly secretive about things. I can't really find the words to describe this one. They are dressed to the collar bone, wrist, and ankle. They have weird and unique ideas about birthing children, schooling children, vaccinations, and socially interacting with people outside of their family.

The fact is many people are weird, but the weirdest needs to be kept to a minimum in order for a person to be socially acceptable.

If you have any other ideas of "weirdness" let me know.