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OCD Me!
June 27, 2006 at
09:59 PM
Time to 'fess up...
We all have strange habits/superstitions/compulsions. Give it up--let's hear yours.
Here are a couple of mine. I have a strange distaste for odd numbers. If I can control something and I have a choice between even or odd--for example, my home theater receiver volume displays in digits--I will always choose an even number.
I also "write" phrases with my finger on any surface (the arm of my chair, the car door, my thigh) that I hear on the television, radio, etc. I alternate between cursive and print, and sometimes I try to keep up with whomever I'm copying. For example, if the news is on and the anchor says "a shocking double murder in the District this evening," I will be scribbling this phrase on the couch cushion to my right.
I've also practiced wiping my butt with my left hand in case my right hand gets cut off or mangled in some horrible accident.
Your turn.
We all have strange habits/superstitions/compulsions. Give it up--let's hear yours.
Here are a couple of mine. I have a strange distaste for odd numbers. If I can control something and I have a choice between even or odd--for example, my home theater receiver volume displays in digits--I will always choose an even number.
I also "write" phrases with my finger on any surface (the arm of my chair, the car door, my thigh) that I hear on the television, radio, etc. I alternate between cursive and print, and sometimes I try to keep up with whomever I'm copying. For example, if the news is on and the anchor says "a shocking double murder in the District this evening," I will be scribbling this phrase on the couch cushion to my right.
I've also practiced wiping my butt with my left hand in case my right hand gets cut off or mangled in some horrible accident.
Your turn.
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How can we expect government to reduce spending when they can't even reduce fractions?
This one bugged me until they changed it...
This one bugged me until they changed it...
Did they change it to put "Exit 5 miles" on the second line???
Or is there no longer a dog track there?
Did they change it to put "Exit 5 miles" on the second line???
Or is there no longer a dog track there?
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I don't get it either. Is it because the numbers are 4, 5, then 4, 6?
the only thing that gives me comfort is my proclivities don't interfere with my life or relationships. the guy i punched for the soda was in the shoulder and only because he was goading me in front of a group. i don't freak out when people walk across my freshly-vacuumed carpet (i just silently die a little inside). most people don't notice: when i recently told my coworkers about my preference toward the number four, a few said that explained some of the system designs i'd submitted, but they didn't peg me for a neurotic.
on what are those estimates built, anyway? is someone watching video feeds, are there radar guns checking speeds, are they pre-programmed?
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You are weird?