If there are a bunch of the same thing in different colours I have to sort by spectrum order. ROYGBIV. I rearranged loot bags at a birthday partymy son attended, because they were almost in rainbow order, except orange and green were reversed, and purple was next to a light blue. If they had been more thoroughly out of order I might have resisted temptation.
M&Ms and (Canadian or rather Non-USA) Smarties must be sorted into pyramids also by spectrum colour. lines can only consist of colours adjacent in the spectrum. Brown get eaten first because they are not in the colour spectrum and they are not pretty…
I don’t have OCD exactly, but this colour thing can be pretty obsessive.
If you travel with me on our way to a car race, I make you greet the animals we pass in their own language.
If having a traditional meat dinner, the meat must be at 10 o’clock on the plate with the veggies at 2 and 6. This is not the usual pattern.
I say “Thank you” to Mr. Sun at the end of a good day.
The mouth of my coffee mug lid must be 90 degrees from the handle. The contents had better be tea.
I wear my camisoles inside out so the seams don’t rub on my sensitive skin.
I wear sandals, not slippers, around the house in winter.
When loading the silverware caddy of the dishwasher, there has to be, as nearly as possible, an equal number of pieces in each of the six slots.
When hanging laundry out on the line, there has to be, as nearly as possible, an equal number of articles on each of the four lines.
I talk to all animals as if they understand English. Not just pets, but wild animals, insects, and spiders.
For every parking lot I park in regularly, I have identified a “best” parking spot (or in some cases a cluster of up to a half dozen that are equally good), and I try to park there every time. They are definitely not the spots that are closest to the front door. As you face the front of the building, they are almost always on the right-hand side (not sure why) and far enough from the front door that the magic space and the adjacent spaces are likely to be and remain empty.
When I was younger I couldn’t stand the feel of polyester or polyester blends against my skin. It felt like sandpaper. I seem to have grown out of it.
I am feeling downright boring reading this. I have no rules about how food must be presented, I don’t count stairs/steps, and while I do talk to my animals, I don’t have a routine conversation pattern with them.
Sometimes I tell the dogs"be good" when I close the door on their pen, but probably not even half the time. I say nothing to the cats when I leave.
I may have to find something to make a weird habit…
I too do this. Also when asked to pick a number between 1 and 100 I would never consider picking anything ending with a 0 or 5. It must be something off-kilter like 73 or 58
I stand on one foot when I brush my teeth (SO pointed this out to me, I wasn’t aware I was doing it or why).
I much prefer to watch movies with the subtitles on. I hear just fine, but I get super irritated when I miss a word or phrase. Alas, the subtitles bug most everyone else so I only do it if I’m watching alone.
I’ll leave my bedsheets all rumpled up all day long, but then make it up right before getting into it at night.
It’s good to read that other people have to set the volume at either an odd or even number; I’m an odder.
In the shower, I start bathing with my left forearm. From there, there’s no set order of body parts.
Whenever I hear a helicopter in the sky, I say, “Chopper,” just like one Walter O’Reilly. My hearing isn’t as acute as his, so other people around me can usually hear them at the same time that I do and it’s not nearly as impressive. But it’s still fun.
My husband and I do this too. Helps a lot when actors are mumbling or the sound people decided that background music/sounds were more important than dialogue.
I have a lot of these, that are somewhere between habit and compulsion…
I only use plastic utensils at home (and not because I’m too lazy to do dishes, because I will most certainly wash and re-use the plastic utensils as well
On a related note, I can’t sit down to eat dinner until all of the dishes are done, even if sometimes this means my dinner gets cold while I’m cleaning up.
I go out of my way to ‘find’ trash on trash day, to make sure we’re starting the week with a totally clean slate (for example, take that last roll of paper towels out of the package so I can get rid of the wrapper)
I floss my teeth upper right to upper left, lower left to lower right ALWAYS
