- You fold anything you can get your hands on when waiting in the bus or something (that includes your shirt, pants and ears )
- You scour your recycle bin for draft paper
- You see a random pattern in a square and think it's a CP
@dinogami : I did exactly the same when I was younger. Once in my math class, my teacher came up to me and said : «The next time I see you fold something, you'll have to bring me 300 of those origamis the next morning.» Now that I think about it, I should've continued folding to challenge her, seeing as I already had more than 300 folds at home...
instead of telling your girlfriend I like your figure you blurt out
I like your crease pattern
or you see a tye dye shirt and think that crease pattern is like a very bad floderer
@dinogami : I did exactly the same when I was younger. Once in my math class, my teacher came up to me and said : «The next time I see you fold something, you'll have to bring me 300 of those origamis the next morning.» Now that I think about it, I should've continued folding to challenge her, seeing as I already had more than 300 folds at home...
I was once folding in class and my discipline master caught me...
I was punished quite badly, but I don't think he knew I was folding but rather doing something to distract the class or such...
- you're late for work or school because you just have to finish that model!
- you fold the tip into dollar origami before leaving the restaurant.
- there is a giant pile of experimental origami in the middle of your room, because if you throw anything away you might forget how to fold it again.
- there is a paper cutter on your desk at all times.
- it deeply bothers you when you get a pamphlet from anywhere and it hasn't been folded precisely (and consequently, you re-fold it).
- Your school timetable made from fairly thick card has been carefully sculpted into an Eric Joisel mask so many times that it's starting to split along the crease lines and fall apart.
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You are unable to walk down the street without seeing origami bases and models in crumpled litter, or cracks in the pavement etc.
Fallen leaves seem particularly prone to taking on origami-esque shapes...
Right now a cloud is drifting by the window (well, up in the sky, outside the window) and it looks almost exactly like Hideo Komatsu's Fox
Also, the reflections of 2 cars in one set of windows look like the eyes of Hojyo Takashi's skull, with another row of of windows as the mouth, and the shape of the building the bones.
The profile of the air vent on another building looks suspiciously like Robert Langs horseshoe crab from Origami Sea life (very specifically that one, not another origami horseshoe crab, or even a real horeshoe crab), with a pipe as the tail
And on...
And on...
And on...
I get reminded of something from origami a couple of times a minute or so.
- when you spend an abnormally long time browsing the gift wrapper section of your local bookstore or stationary shop and for each sheet you look at, you ask yourself, can I fold an Ancient Dragon with this one?
...when your teacher asks you to draw a grid and you end up folding it using the haga theorem
... when your teacher asks you to cut a paper into small squares and you end up tearing it instead
...when you wake up in the middle of the night with a paper crane in your hand and think to yourself"where the hell did this come from"
... when you see a dreamcatcher and think "chris palmer!!!"
...if you understand all of these jokes
..you keep all sales slips you can get (even from friends or strangers) to fold them later.
.. and your speculate wich is the most complex model you can fold it into
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