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We've got a big cupboard in the kitchen for food and we tend to buy some stuff in bulk from Costco (soup, beans, etc) - all the tins have to be stacked the right way up with the labels facing forwards - looks nice!
Mate is a psychologist and thinks I'm a bit odd, but he goes round unplugging everything before bed!
Well from left to right we've got one tall slot then three shorter ones with a transverse slot underneath.
Tall slot contains sharp knives and random things, then it's knives forks and desert spoons. the transverse slot contains teaspoons, latte spoons and soup spoons.
I also can't abide eating soup with a normal spoon.
You own latte spoons? That's more concerning than the OCD 😉
Right - so your cutlery is put into the tray in a different order to how it's laid on the table as well. LOL - at least it's not me.
As for the brown sauce and FF sarnie comment - it is the only way. My OH uses a mix of red and brown - which is wrong. My ex used only red - she was SO wrong she is now my ex.
Ordinary sliced bread, marg or butter, 4 fish fingers, brown sauce. If you're feeling creative a bowl of mushy peas to dip the sandwich in is acceptable.
Oh, and all of my tins are correctly oriented in the cupboard too. All upright, labels facing out. Same with the wine rack.
That's just orderly though.
I find that I have to put the corpses through the chipper in even numbered pieces and make sure that I clean the blades in the lower part of the dishwasher facing west to east if possible.
Also I like the barrels and patio slabs to colour match.
This thread is great!
I cannot eat a packet of crisps without folding the bag and tying it into a knot.
I add up numbers such as reg. plates, phone nos. etc. until I get to one digit.
I cannot sit in a cafe, conference etc. with my back to the room.
I write significant words from a conversation with my left-big toe inside my shoe! 😯 WTF???
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I cannot eat a packet of crisps without folding the bag and tying it into a knot
My missus always does that!
Tries to do it so tight it can't be undone
I write significant words from a conversation with my left-big toe inside my shoe! WTF???
Oh dear i recognize that one!
xcgb...really???
Sometimes I do it with my right toe at the same time but the right toe has to do mirror writing!
AND...I'm now going to have to start checking under the loo-seat for spiders...thanks a chuffin' lot sor!!!! 😉
In a pub / restaurant, I like to sit facing the door. That's not OCD, it's because secretly I imagine I'm a secret agent and you need to be able to see who's coming in, incase they're an assassin.
Like the salt / crocodiles, up to this point I have never been taken unawares by a silent assassin, ergo it must be working.
Foxy yes
I was laughing at all the weirdos until you said that!
significant words? Like: weirdo, for instance... 😀
nickc...your name has just been written by both my toes. Joined up writing...one going left to right, and other right to left. 😆
I underline mine too!
Now that's just way weird!!
WEIRDO!!! 😕
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This has been the funniest thread for ages
I feel quite normal now.
😯
I long ago realised my good days are when the people who have voodoo dolls of me cancel each other out....
Dear god Dr S****!!!! I'm sorry but a fish finger butty is cheap crappy white bread, marg, fish fingers, tomato sauce and a cheese single.
Brown sauce? BROWN SAUCE?!!!! What kind of a monster are you? Brown sauce is for sausage butties.
I think my OCD dictates that we now have to discuss the perfect sausage butty. Shall we start another thread? 😉
xcgb, PLEASE put a full-stop at the end of that sentence while you can.
Yep, my punctuation has to be correct even when sending texts. 🙄
Should be a space after a comma!
I notice there are 3 stops after yep and punctuation, interesting hmmm..........
nothing ot add amusing and some very odd behaviour on here
I have to fill the car up to an round number. Sometimes I've ended up putting in far more than intended because I've gone over by 1 or 2p, and had to carry on!
I do that too. I think it goes back to the days when I liked to round it up to a note, but now I pay by credit card it really shouldn't matter! I have tried to leave it a few pence over but it just feels so wrong!
Ps. I have never heard of ANYONE putting brown sauce on a fish finger sandwich, bacon maybe, but fish fingers has to be tomato sauce. 🙂
LOL!
... is another of my compulsions.
If I am ever banned from here and return under a new name my ... will give me away within 2 posts.
...absolutely
any of you lot do this one ? Seems like reverse OCD to me :
A mate used to ALWAYS leave one food item on his plate (1 pea, 1 chip, whatever) You couldn't make him eat it no matter how much pisstaking
(now my wife seems to have started 😯 )
scaredypants. I do that. I have no idea why
I have a mate who always leaves one ciggie in the pack! would never give it to anyone
Ooh I don't know FoxyChick..... I can hardly write a sentence without a drawn out pause. Even do it in text messages....
Thats superstition not OCD, although the two may be related.
TSF...but I can only use 3 dots...you have used 5 the first time and 4 the second!!!! 👿
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If I set an alarm it can't be on a normal kinda number eg 7am or 7:15 its got to be like 703 or 727.
This is the only one I recognise in me, I do it so that these numbers don't feel left out. Everyone sets their alarm for 7am, 7:30am - especially you guys it seems. I also do the same with cooking times. 20 minutes becomes 19minutes and a leisurely trip to the oven etc.
However, I have to have CDs and DVDs put into their cases facing properly up and down. Doesn't matter which way the cases fit into the drawer, but the actual disc must be properly aligned inside the box. Also doesn't matter if they shift around once I've put them away - they must start straight.
Computer folders must have capitals. Filenames must NOT have capitals.
And I laugh at my wife, and how easy it is to make her re-check things. "Are you sure you locked the door" 🙂 She also has to press the 'stop request' button on the bus as soon as it has left the previous stop, gets really agitated if she can't.
Sorry FC....... I'm all over the place with 'em. Depends on how long the ol' sausage finger rests on the keyboard.
I do the round up to a number with petrol as well. Just seems neater that way 😆
As for brown sauce in a fish finger sandwich, wtf indeed. It has to be tomato and sometimes mayo if I feel like it. Brown sauce is reserved for bacon, sausage or potato waffle sandwiches.
I remember watching a program about people with OCD and one of the girls with handwashing compulsion etc went to a CBT session where the doctor dipped a crisp in the toilet and ate it to demostrate that you don't have to worry about cleanliness so much! Made my stomach turn that did!
I do the round up to a number with petrol as well.
So do I, to the extent that diesel will be pissing on the floor but I've still rounded it up! I almost resent the 5p/litre off vouchers as they make my bank statements look messy.
Had a bit of a mad moment earlier. I need two new tubes. I have two new tyres and the bike has two wheels. Could I order two tubes? Could I? Could I?
Five tubes are in the post.
Five is my number.
One
Two
Three
Four
Five
Mmmm ... I love an ellipsis ... and, yes, I punctuate text messages too !
Does anyone have the toilet paper on the inside,down the wall? Its so wrong just having it flapping there wildly,on the outside... must be neat on the wall
Im currently lining up my office spider plant leaves with the wind turbine blades in the middle distance..breeze has picked up however so my head is rotating ever quicker trying to keep up.. getting odd looks
I cannot eat a packet of crisps without folding the bag and tying it into a knot.
+ me
Fugging hell... STW needs a psychoanalysis sub-forum. "The Couch", perhaps?
Foxychick:
I cannot eat a packet of crisps without folding the bag and tying it into a knot. Tick
I add up numbers such as reg. plates, phone nos. etc. until I get to one digit. Tick
I cannot sit in a cafe, conference etc. with my back to the room.
Tick
And texts must be punctuated properly - Tick
However, this thread is very intriguing otherwise as it's made me realise how different my complusions are to most; I can't abide order and symmetry and will deliberately unstraighten things, randomly place things in the cutlery drawer, random jars - all on different shelves, and if ever I found my CDs in alphabetical order.....deep breath trying not to combust.....I'd self-combust!
Oh yes and definitely odd pairs of socks.
Has that horrified enough of you?!
A mate used to ALWAYS leave one food item on his plate (1 pea, 1 chip, whatever)
There was a time in polite English society, when leaving a bit of food on your plate like that was considered very good manners. As leaving your plate sparkling clean was considered to be glutinous, and also suggested that your host hadn't provided you with enough food.
I have no idea whether it is still the correct protocol, as I spend very little time in polite English society. None at all actually.
In many other societies, including continental ones, the opposite is true, ie, leaving food on the plate is considered very bad manners - it suggests dissatisfaction with what your host has provided. I spend a lot more time in that sort of society. And in the case of my elder sister's ridiculously large portions, I always end up having to apologise most profusely.
I remember IanB of these parts getting cashback to make his total sped at the supermarket a nice round number.
So he'd end up asking for say £19.83 cashback. The poor cashiers would get very confused... 🙂