A line can be a line of bricks on a pathway, a join in the cement, a shadow, an imaginary line drawn from a jutting corner, and on and on.
I find myself stepping over these lines. I know I’m mad, but am I crazy?
Is there a word for this
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affliction?
OCD (Obsessive/Compulsive Disorder)? Do you happen to also be immeasurably wealthy, like Jack Nicholson’s character in “As good as it gets?” 'Cause that would be cool.
Okay, I’ve just checked my bank balance…once…okay, six times, and no, I don’t believe I am in that category.
<<grumble, grumble>>
If there is a line at Subway I go down the street to the next one.
I’m glad to see I’m not the only…oh.
<<glares at UncleRojelio>>
I avoid cracks/lines/joints in walkways.
If tiles are large and pronounced enough I try to avoid stepping on the lines.
I might avoid some of the other lines you mention (like shadows) but not imaginary ones - that’s just weird 
I blame it on an incident when I was young, chanting “step on a crack, break your mothers back” and when I got home Mom had something wrong with her back. Even at the time, I knew that there wasn’t a causal relationship, but I still avoid the things.
May not be related to that at all, since I count stairs and do some other minor (very minor) OCD-type things. I don’t think I’m OCD, but I can understand a lot of their quarks… NO, sorry - “quirks”, not quarks.
I only partially understand quarks, and I thought there used to be a 2-spin, but I can’t find a reference anymore. Seems like everyone is all “quarks are fermons and thus 1/2 spin particles” with their snooty voices and their fancy MP3 players.
Damn kids.
I also have a hard time letting an argument drop, even after I discover that I’m wrong (which rarely happens). I’ll keep researching and documenting that the losing side was indeed incorrect. Lucky I’m not afraid to lose an argument, providing I learn something in the process.
And it seems I hijack threads… Sorry Mellivora capensis
I so totally thought that this was what this thread was going to be about…
Yeah, I do that too. No real reason…
You just can’t hide your line eyes.
C’mere.
::: SMACK :::
Now, don’t do it again.
I have it only if I think about it.
I then usually draw imaginary lines from all 90 degree corners and try not to step on these.
Sometimes I even count all these imaginary lines I go across and I try to come to an even number.
It was a lot worse when I was younger, I now do it more to amuse myself.
Wow, I must be a lot crazier then I even thought.
Bobo, no problem, that was a cool hijack anyway.
934spe, now that you mention it, I do that too. I hate queues.
Rysdad, thanks for slapping AskNott back into <ahem> line. Danged youngsters these days.
Scoundrel, welcome to the Krazy Klub.
That was supposed to be Scoundrel and Strinka. :smack:
Aww, gee, Daaaaaaaaaad!
Silly Minnesotan, you’re just grouchy 'cause winter started yesterday. Go have a little lunch, you’ll feel better. 