# What are your OCD tendencies?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-ocd-tendencies/759458>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [July 9, 2016, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-ocd-tendencies/759458 "2016-07-09T06:05:30Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![ERON](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ed8c4c/32.png) [@ERON](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ERON)\
**Post date:** [July 12, 2016, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-ocd-tendencies/759458/41 "2016-07-12T01:50:04Z")

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> [@Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](#):
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> Don’t know if it’s really OCD, but the loading-animation on [imdb.com](http://imdb.com) when you load a trailer a) isn’t quite round, and b) spins slightly off-center. Drives me bonkers. You’d think they could get some intern to shop together something that doesn’t make me want to strangle my monitor, but it’s been there quite a while now.

That’s not OCD. That’s crazy unnecessary stress and this belongs in my ‘pet peeve’ or ‘what offends you’ threads.

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**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\
**Post date:** [July 12, 2016, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-ocd-tendencies/759458/42 "2016-07-12T04:25:00Z")

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> [@Sahirrnee](#):
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> You’d go seriously crazy in my house **Idle**  
> My kitchen light has three switches…

When we put a larger kitchen on our house, the lights got two switches.

Why, yes, of COURSE they were installed so that when the lights are on, one switch is up and one down. So [pure evil] I CAN NEVER HAVE THE LIGHTS ON WITH BOTH SWITCHES UP [/pure evil]. Sigh, UP for ON is the way that God and Nick Tesla and Tom Edison all intended).

Unless I break down and rewire it… but that’d be giving in to OCDness.

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**Author:** ![Doyle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doyle/32/439_2.png) [@Doyle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doyle)\
**Post date:** [July 12, 2016, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-ocd-tendencies/759458/43 "2016-07-12T14:11:14Z")

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I wash my hands about 20 times a day.

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**Author:** ![GaryM](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garym/32/241_2.png) [@GaryM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GaryM)\
**Post date:** [July 12, 2016, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-ocd-tendencies/759458/44 "2016-07-12T14:16:12Z")

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I need to count buttons when I put on or remove a shirt.

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