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Bangkokhibby

Bangkokhibby

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Following on from the superstitions thread what about wee things you just can't stop doing. I don't mean life affecting stuff like tourettes or hand washing hundreds of times, just daft wee behaviours you seem to be stuck with. I've had loads over the years stretching back to primary school. Two that are still with me are, never being completely satisfied the car door is locked often pressing the remote up to 100 yards away or even when I get indoors and lean over the balcony and check again.
The other is if I'm walking and inadvertently scrape my heel along the ground or kick my ankle I have to immediately do the same with the other foot. Kind of feels good that I've evened things out.
And a very common one which I had for most of my life but for some reason I don't care about now, is having the tv volume on any number, odd or even where before it had to be even.
Any more?
 
I think checking things are locked / turned off is dead common.

And not helped, when one tries to shake it off, by coming home and finding an errant teenager has left a turned on iron face down and burning materials underneath
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aggie said:
I am the only person in the world who can do the dishes properly.
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Dish washing is also something I am particulary obsessed with and also have to do myself...well I live on my own so i've no alternative !
Just hate dirty dishes though. When i'm up at my dad's I spend half the time in his kitchen washing up dishes.
 
Two Headed Boy said:
I can't hide from my family in the kitchen for the length of a podcast by offering to load a fucking dishwasher.

Not all progress is good.
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1. Get rid of your family, fam.
2. Get a dishwasher.
3. Kickback in the living room with a podcast of your choice whilst your dishes get washed to a much higher standard.
 
I can’t help counting the knives and forks as I’m putting them away from the dishwasher.
Bizarre, but it just happens automatically
 
Bangkokhibby said:
Following on from the superstitions thread what about wee things you just can't stop doing. I don't mean life affecting stuff like tourettes or hand washing hundreds of times, just daft wee behaviours you seem to be stuck with. I've had loads over the years stretching back to primary school. Two that are still with me are, never being completely satisfied the car door is locked often pressing the remote up to 100 yards away or even when I get indoors and lean over the balcony and check again.
The other is if I'm walking and inadvertently scrape my heel along the ground or kick my ankle I have to immediately do the same with the other foot. Kind of feels good that I've evened things out.
And a very common one which I had for most of my life but for some reason I don't care about now, is having the tv volume on any number, odd or even where before it had to be even.
Any more?
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I know what you mean about the car being locked. I get para about that all the time.

Another car one is that mine tells me when my phone is still in the car when I turn the engine off. In response I always say thanks Annie out loud; just in case she wouldn't tell me next time, it feels like good manners. Annie's the cars name btw.

Typing that out makes me feel like its more weird than I thought. Anyways..

Other OCD things, well a lot of the time its not so much that but more actual logic, and just being, well, the right thing to do?! And must be stuck to. Like someone's mentioned dishes - yes! They need to be washed in a certain order; i.e. glasses, then cups, then cutlery, then plates then obviously pots and pans last. Thats because the water gets dirtier with each lot. That to me is logic, not OCD. Right? Right??! Haha.
 
emerald green said:
its 2026 lads. Dishwashers.
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My missus drives me nuts by washing the dishes before then putting them in the dishwasher. Not least cos she used to rip the pish out of my mum for doing so 25 years ago. Same goes for real lunacy like washing out jam jars.

Tbh EGers , it has me pondering the wheel of time and the inexorable grip of fate.
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My wife has pretty severe OCD.
Too many to list.
I have one.
Anything that has a volume control must be on an even number.
 
egb_hibs said:
My missus drives me nuts by washing the dishes before then putting them in the dishwasher. Not least cos she used to rip the pish out of my mum for doing so 25 years ago. Same goes for real lunacy like washing out jam jars.

Tbh EGers , it has me pondering the wheel of time and the inexorable grip of fate.
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Mrs EGB needs informed that this is bad for the machine. Its sensors need the dirt!... as for washing out jam jars, lunacy!
 
emerald green said:
Mrs EGB needs informed that this is bad for the machine. Its sensors need the dirt!... as for washing out jam jars, lunacy!
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Her excuse for the latter is that foxes are attracted by the sugar and take them out the bins.

My response is: so fucking what?

Its one of my small pleasures in life, using the washing machine normally, when her Starmer like regime is curtailed by a burds night out or whatever

Dont get me started on my apparent tendency to stack the fucking plates wrong. Demented. :huffy:
 
I'm another worrier about whether I've locked the car or not.
I have a magic app on my phone which tells me if it is locked or not, and I can fix it from anywhere! Even locked my car at Edinburgh Airport from Lanza when the bastards at Fastpark had left it unlocked - I get an alert!
Means I can lock it when the missus often forgets.

A pal of mine bought a new car and was never sure he'd locked it properly, so would go back and try the handle - fuckin unlocked every time!
Took him a while to realise the fancy motor automatically unlocked on his approach without the need for pressing any buttons!

He probably shouldn't have shared that with me, but I don't tell everyone.
 
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