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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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P.S. I used to purposly wear mismatched argyle socks in High School. True story.
I have to know where everything is BEFORE I can go to sleep - otherwise I am up all night looking for *it* whatever *it* is
I have to have the bills in order on my desk
I have to know the balance in the checking acct 10 times a day - I can't sleep if I don't
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(Yellow -> Orange -> Red -> Pink)
For me it's
Yellow -> Orange -> Pink -> Red
For me it's
Yellow -> Orange -> Pink -> Red
Pink --> Red ---> Orange ---> Yellow
In any lollipop or popcicle or whatever Yellow and Green (as long as it's Lime and not green apple) area always my favorite.
My husband also runs words through his head putting the letters alphabetically. Which sounds crazy to me..but so does mine.. but if he was thinking "money" he thinks in his head e-m-n-o-y..and tries to get it as fast as he can. He even got frustrated one time because he was trying to think of every four letter word that was already in alphabetical order, and I thought of one immediately that he hadn't thought of in lord knows how long he'd been thinking about it..can't even remember the word.
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Now that I have kids that would copy me, I don't do those things anymore.