Quirky and OCD tendencies..... Anyone else have them?

teejk · Jan 16, 2018

Now truth be told (dunno where that expression came from) the stair counting might have stemmed from sneaking into your house in the middle of the night...just saying.

teejk · Jan 16, 2018

k0ua said:
Wow!. Screws in receptacle covers etc! I have never even heard of these things. I have seen people line up things on their desk, just so and things like that, but boy I haven't heard of some of these things... Jeez. I guess I am just a slop bucket. Some order and tidiness in a persons environment is a good thing, but PEOPLE!, some of you are carrying this a bit to far don't you think?

I worked with a woman that did the paper-clip thing (she had other more serious "issues" as well). We had some true "jack-asses" in the office that would mess them up (the same guys that would do all kinds of stupid stuff to anybody...some of it funny (like the infamous "pizza file"...a slice of pizza placed in a co-worker's file cabinet and allowed to sit there for weeks until found)...some dangerous (like cutting the 120v cord on an adding machine behind a metal desk).

quicksandfarmer · Jan 16, 2018

kcflhrc said:
I thought my counting stairs was weird. But making sure screws in a receptacle or switch being horizontal or vertical is kinda wacky. I just make sure they are tight enough without cracking the plastic.

The worst part is when you have to go a quarter turn past tight to get it horizontal and crack the plastic. I remember once trying to explain to my wife -- after she admonished me for cracking the wall plate -- that it was a bum plate anyway. A half turn looser and it rattled. There was no way to get the screw horizontal without cracking it. So it needed to be replaced anyway.

quicksandfarmer · Jan 16, 2018

When I see a group of objects I like to count them. Then I'll take the number and factor its primes.

When I look out the window I like to line things up outside with the frame of the window. If a branch is nearly horizontal, vertical or diagonal -- and doesn't line up with the window -- it bothers me.

kcflhrc · Jan 16, 2018

Man, us rural folks are a bunch of wacks aren't we?

buckeyefarmer · Jan 16, 2018

teejk said:
Now truth be told (dunno where that expression came from) the stair counting might have stemmed from sneaking into your house in the middle of the night...just saying.

When i was young, I fell down the stairs in the middle of the night. I must have counted the thuds on the way down.

k0ua · Jan 16, 2018

kcflhrc said:
Man, us rural folks are a bunch of wacks aren't we?

Well, I wasn't going to say anything... but.. since you mentioned it..:laughing:.

jbrumberg · Jan 16, 2018

Cabin fever can set in early out here in the boonies. With some people it sets in really early.

:wink:

I had to think about this. Except when grabbing stuff I keep my eyes closed while showering. When I planted my pet fruit trees they were 19' on center with only a 3" variance; boulders were moved rather than break variance. I plant the garden with a tape measure and map it on graph paper to scale.

Rock Crawler · Jan 16, 2018

I have so many that you would need to ask my wife to get the full list.

The light switch thing, yep.
Underwear boxers folded and stacked by color.
Socks tied, grouped by color.
BDU Pants rolled, grouped by color.
Shower gets squeegee and towel dried every day as I'm getting out.
Urinate sitting down because urine splashes back on your legs, the floor and the wall when you stand to piss like some sort of animal in a field

I also have rituals/systems for almost everything. It drives my wife and close friends crazy, but I have to follow the system as designed or I get uneasy... Everything has a system, tweaks that I have made to daily activities that increase efficiency, prevent mistakes, prevent me from forgetting things, prevent me from misplacing things. If a single thing happens to knock me out of my pattern, often I will mess up other things that were precluded by that set or series of motions.
I'm very irritated by anyone doing things that is not the way I do it.
I have more micro mental problems than anyone I know, sort of a joke but my family compares Sheldon Cooper to me very regularly... But he's less severe.