OCD
I think that this QOTW has finally unlocked the reason for my OCD... My family (and there's only Mam, Dad and Me) have so many bizarre rituals, I can only list a few without spending a few days on it. Selected highlights include:

1) Shouting "LYNX!" every time we see a Lynx delivery van (this was because Blue Peter used them for an appeal one year, so to my child-mind they were a "celebrity" company.).
2) Multicuddle: A group hug with its very own chant, which I can't possibly reveal without humiliating myself and my good parents due to smooshiness.
3) Saying "Good Morning Viet-mam" every time I see mother dearest before midday.
4) Camping Out, which involved all three of us sleeping in the living room on a Friday night when I was a kid, and renting a video to watch - possibly staying up till *gosh* half past ten.
5)Me waking up on Christmas morning at stupid o'clock and yelling "has he been yet?". Depending on earliness, the reply is always either "No! Go back to sleep!" or "He's been!". This still happens, despite the fact that tragically, I am now 28.

I can't go on, but I can think of at least eight more. How upsetting. I wonder if I should tell my therapist?
( MissHobart, Thu 20 Nov 2008, 21:12, 5 replies)

It sounds like you had a wonderful childhood.
Or was it one of those 'you loved me too much and now Im depressed' childhoods?
(i should have joined myspace, Thu 20 Nov 2008, 21:16, closed)

It was a belter...
...of a childhood: My parents are amazing. I'm not miserable, I just take far too much interest in things like switching lights on and off, making peoples' faces into triangles and counting to six in my head. :)

Right, I need to stop with the sentimentality. I'm in danger of invalidating my Misanthropes Anonymous membership.
( MissHobart, Fri 21 Nov 2008, 18:30, closed)

Blue Peter Appeal lorries
When I were a lad, they used to use Roadline for their appeals, which is a long-defunct company. Having the Roadline logo on Blue Peter week after week clearly made an impression because last time I went along the M6 I saw the remains of one sitting in a scrapyard, and actually felt a bit of a sad twinge. Memories of childhood and all that . Such a recognisable logo even after all these years.

I've just a quick google, and actually found a picture of that very lorry: www.autoshite.com/first-id-102.htm . (And I learn that they actually live on in Lynx, which is nice.)
(richardm, Fri 21 Nov 2008, 11:05, closed)

How strange.
I wonder if the BBC realise the potency of their subtle advertisements?
( MissHobart, Fri 21 Nov 2008, 18:31, closed)

'He's been!'
We still do this now!
(Fuckarma was masturbating into your handbag, Fri 21 Nov 2008, 12:02, closed)