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Sandettie Light Vessel Automatic tells us: "Until I pointed it out, my other half use to hang out the washing making sure that both pegs were the same colour. Now she goes out of her way to make sure they never match." Tell us about bizarre rituals, habits and OCD-like behaviour.

(, Thu 1 Jul 2010, 12:33)
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Pretty normal, really
My OCD:

- I must check I've locked the back door at least twice before I leave the house.

- In common with others, volume levels on TVs, stereos, MP3 players etc have to be even numbers.

- When listening to music, can't turn off in the middle of a track, have to let it finish - can be a problem listening to e.g. Zeit by Tangerine Dream.

- If I'm buying something in a rack, e.g. magazines, CDs, books, I have to have the third one from the front.

- There are certain mugs for tea, and certain mugs for coffee. If anyone uses a tea mug for coffee, I have to make them change it.

- Similarly, I can only drink (say) Fosters from a Fosters glass, if served it in a (say) Guiness glass it feels wrong. (Someone will inevitably say "don't drink Fosters then.")

- All CDs, books, DVDs etc in A-Z order - but that's not OCD, really, is it, just common sense.

Pretty normal, really.

Dr S
(, Fri 2 Jul 2010, 11:24, 3 replies)
Mrs SLVA sorted all our DVDs alphabetically.
However, our kids would sometimes want to take a DVD upstairs to watch in bed (the bonus of this meant they cleared off upstairs earlier, given us more time alone)
But depending on what time they went upstairs would determine the length of the film. So I hit upon the excellent plan of ordering them by running time. Genius I thought. My missus thought it was a pain in the hole and chastised me over it.

So I ordered them again by their rating according to IMDB.
(, Fri 2 Jul 2010, 11:29, closed)

don't drink Fosters then
(, Fri 2 Jul 2010, 12:27, closed)
You bastard
I was going to say that.
(, Sat 3 Jul 2010, 20:24, closed)

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