What are you OCD about?

[BayBuck]

Padiddles. Those damn padiddles.

 

[Mr Monk]

Padiddles. Those damn padiddles.

Yes! Yes! Those damn padiddles! That's what I'm talking about. Somebody should put those people in jail and take their cars away. You can't have one headlight. There's two of them! Don't they understand? It's lopsided to one side!

It feels good to talk about this.

 

[bucks4me]

i'm compulsive and obsessive about some/many things, but i do not suffer from any true ocd tics.

Dryden is in this category I think. He just has to keep everything of "his" neat and orderly. It used to be that he had to keep the entire house clean. Now that he has a wife and 3 kids he has given up on any semblance of order for the rest of the house.

I find our almost 4 year old daughter very interesting when it comes to OCD like tendencies. She tends to have certain situations where she wants things to happen in a specific order and god forbid if you do something out of order or not in the correct way. For 6 months she had to have her bedtime routine the exact same way every single night. If you deviated from the routine she went crazy throwing tantrums. Her routine wasn't something as simple as: bath, brush, read, bed. It was: get her own step stool to push to the wall to turn on light. She had to turn on the light. She had to move the step stool to the counter to brush her teeth. Brush teeth and drink water. If the water level in the cup was too high or too low you had to empty it until you got it right (couldn't just put more in or dump just a little, you had to empty the entire cup). She would then get down and dry her hands. Step stool to the wall....etc. Continue on in that vein until you finally manage to get her to go to bed.

Oh, and she sleeps with about 6 blankets and 6 stuffed animals. Can't go to sleep without all of them there.

 

[BayBuck]

Dryden is in this category I think. He just has to keep everything of "his" neat and orderly. It used to be that he had to keep the entire house clean. Now that he has a wife and 3 kids he has given up on any semblance of order for the rest of the house.

I find our almost 4 year old daughter very interesting when it comes to OCD like tendencies. She tends to have certain situations where she wants things to happen in a specific order and god forbid if you do something out of order or not in the correct way. For 6 months she had to have her bedtime routine the exact same way every single night. If you deviated from the routine she went crazy throwing tantrums. Her routine wasn't something as simple as: bath, brush, read, bed. It was: get her own step stool to push to the wall to turn on light. She had to turn on the light. She had to move the step stool to the counter to brush her teeth. Brush teeth and drink water. If the water level in the cup was too high or too low you had to empty it until you got it right (couldn't just put more in or dump just a little, you had to empty the entire cup). She would then get down and dry her hands. Step stool to the wall....etc. Continue on in that vein until you finally manage to get her to go to bed.

Oh, and she sleeps with about 6 blankets and 6 stuffed animals. Can't go to sleep without all of them there.

Toddlers are definitely OCD about all their little routines. I'm sure Monk would agree it's a gift and a curse for us as parents. Sometimes it's great to be able to follow all those little steps and know bedtime will be a breeze, and other times I'm digging around under the bed for the elusive "chicken chair" or the lid to teapot #3.

 

[Deety]

Toddlers are definitely OCD about all their little routines. I'm sure Monk would agree it's a gift and a curse for us as parents. Sometimes it's great to be able to follow all those little steps and know bedtime will be a breeze, and other times I'm digging around under the bed for the elusive "chicken chair" or the lid to teapot #3.

That's good to know. I was a little worried when I saw the routine my niece and nephew had worked out a few years back - he would dump toys all over the floor and she would sort them all by size or color and freak out until they were right. I remember looking over from our Thanksgiving meal to find that she had silently stacked every pot and pan in the house - both kid-size and regular - neatly on top of the kids' table and was starting on all the dishes she could reach. Couldn't figure out how in the world she could be related to my brother.

 

[Fungo Squiggly]

That's good to know. I was a little worried when I saw the routine my niece and nephew had worked out a few years back - he would dump toys all over the floor and she would sort them all by size or color and freak out until they were right. I remember looking over from our Thanksgiving meal to find that she had silently stacked every pot and pan in the house - both kid-size and regular - neatly on top of the kids' table and was starting on all the dishes she could reach. Couldn't figure out how in the world she could be related to my brother.

She's not.

 

[MililaniBuckeye]

I'm OCD about left-lane driving. Even if I'm not trying to pass someone, if someone is just in the left-lane putt'n along, I get pissed off. Has bothered me ever since I started driving. Get in the fucking right lane unless you're passing someone you jackasses!

Coming in to work this morning, I was in the next-to-left-most lane (left-most lane here is the HOV lane for two or more people in the mornings...there was only me in my car). The speed limit is 55, but of course I'm doing 65 since it's essentially the default fast lane for non-HOV traffic. Sure as shit, some old fuck with a Capn' Jack gray sailor beard decides he needs to switch lanes from lane #2 (second from right) into my lane right in front of me and not speed up from his 50 MPH pace. As I pass this clown he's totally oblivious and has his pinky two knuckles deep up his nose. After I passed him and went back into my origianl lane, I kept tabs on him in the mirror to see if he would indeed speed up to match traffic...he never did. Fucks like that should not be allowed to drive.

 

[Mac]

I can't be late for anything. I get very anxious if I'm not on time

People merging onto highway traffic. Get up to speed and don't merge going 5-10mph slower than the speed of traffic. Dumbasses

 

[buckeyebri]

When I went to get my clothes this morning, I noticed my wife had hung up my dress pants and that they were not hung with the crease laying properly on the hanger......UUUUUUGGGGGHHHH.....

I had to rehang them all, which is not the first time. I have told her more than once to just let me hang my dress clothes, because I am going to rehang them anyway.

I am also very persnickety about the creases in my dress shirt sleeves. They have to be correct when ironed and no double creases...

 

[buckeyefool]

Checking the doors in my house if I am the last to leave to make sure they are all locked. I will check them 3 or 4 times.

Making sure the oven is off...even if it hasnt been used for a few days.

 

[CCI]

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3) Getting things off of my DVR as soon as possible thus freeing up more space.

Such a great feeling when I watch about 4 shows in a night and clear up the menu.

If my DVR gets close to 80 I panic

 

[buckeyegrad]

I count steps when walking up flights of stairs. Even if I've done it thousands of times like in my house, I still have to count them. I also have to remind myself to breathe when going up stairs. For some reason I hold my breath if I don't.

 

[buckeyboy]

Checking the doors in my house if I am the last to leave to make sure they are all locked. I will check them 3 or 4 times.

Making sure the oven is off...even if it hasnt been used for a few days.

Yikes, I thought I was the only one that checked the door locks and stove three or four times before leaving the house. :)

 

[localyokel]

Yikes, I thought I was the only one that checked the door locks and stove three or four times before leaving the house. :)

Years ago I found myself going back to check doors, even when I was (frequently) running late for work. So, I started making the act of turning the key a very precise, focused action--sort of mentally checking off that, yes, the door had been locked. I almost never worry about that one any more.