Obsession

[dot.hawkes]

Anyone else on here suffering from an obsession in their life? I have just pegged my washing out and yet again I have systematically paired all the ankle socks up on the line, not for the first time, and yet again I don't peg out the spare unmatching socks, i put them in the naughty corner, i.e. ontop of the tumbler. I must be getting better as on monday I chucked the lot in the tumbler and left them to it.

[purplelily]

I do that!! Is it an obsession, I thought it was normal!

My obsession is buying all my food shopping in 2's - I can't buy one of anything, it always has to be 2 packs, 2 cartons, 2 bags, whatever. Be afraid....

[Champagne]

I obsess about so many things. I can't put cutlery in a drawer unless all the handles are the same way up. Toilet roll has to be in the holder so that the tissue is presented 'up and over'. When at home I have to drink white wine from a glass and red wine from a goblet (don't ask!).

But I'm slack on so many other issues so that cancels out my obsessive compulsive disorder. :o)

[dot.hawkes]

Actually I am fanatical about putting paper money so that the Queen's head is all the same way! It even comes out of the hole in the wall mixed up and that really grates.!

[gessoo]

I had a neighbour who was obsessional about everything. Christmas Cards had to be displayed in size order, stripes in lawn had to be perfectly parallel, (lawn had to be mowed every day - he had 3/4 acre of it and we were so glad when he moved). The funniest thing out was when he planted his potatoes with the use of a calculator and a ruler to space them. He pegged his washing out in size order too!! The list is endless...............

[whiffey]

Loads !! A few examples. Most mornings I have to turn round a hundred yards from home and return to check if the front door is closed (one day I left it open all day!). I have to park the car in the gear I will next pull away in. I have to get down the stairs before the loo flush stops or I will surely die. I have to store my cycle clips right one over left and put them on in that order or I will surely die.

[gessoo]

I can't leave the house without wearing a gold bangle that my father gave to my mother as a 21st present sixty five years ago. I have driven back five miles before now because I have forgotton to put in on.

[stylinsam]

i do that thing with the money dot weird i hate it when there is a gap in the curtains when i shut them at night, i cant have wardrobe doors or drawers left open. and i do the thing with the cultery i thought it was normal.

[dot.hawkes]

pull the other one Whiffey, how can u park a car in gear (well i drive an auto so i actually don't know)

[gessoo]

I always parked my car in gear when I had a manual gear box, Dot. I think it's because it can't roll whilst in gear.

[caz21]

I once went out with a guy who was so obsessive with cleaning and order that when we accidently knocked a rock out of his fireplace and put it back, he noticed litterally the second he walked back through the door! now thats OBSESSIVE!!!

[dot.hawkes]

caz, you knocked a rock out of his fireplace? hat the heck is that all about!!!!!!!!!! lol, I shall obsess about that until you tell us!!!!!!!!!!!

[gessoo]

Funny you should say that Caz21. I once had a bath at my neighbours house when we were having a new bathroom installed. It was his wife who invited me to use their bathroom. I was so careful to leave it looking exactly as I had found it, but he noticed the shower curtain had been moved!!

[caz21]

I guess my obsession is with my email, it auto checks it every 15 minutes and on a morning i have to sync it with the clock on my Mac so it checks at 15 mins past 30 mins past 45 mins to and on the hour etc! it really bugs me if its a minute out and i have to wait another 15 mins to reset it! ;o)

[caz21]

Well dot, me and my friend where sat on the floor in front of the fire and she pushed me after i said something daft anyways i caught the fireplace its one of them modern ones with pebble looking things in it, so it fell to the floor i picked it up and put it back where i thought it had come from but i was very very mistaken! oops!

We once spilt wine on his cream carpet while he was out too, we got my friends mum to come over with a load of cleaning products! it came out quite well too!
...... he never spoke to me again!!

[Champagne]

Dot, I agree with you about bank notes coming out of the machine. If I was the Bank Manager I'd sack the member of staff who didn't take the time to put the Queen's head the right way around! Bluddy slackers.

[dot.hawkes]

True and apart from anything else Champers, try paying in a large amount of notes at a bank counter with the notes the wrong way round, and see how many tuts and sighs they come out with!!!!!!!!!!!! I thought the way they count so fast in banking is because the notes are all organised! Sloppy slackers if u ask me!

[rugeleyboy]

i have to have my money with the heads the same way around!

also, i have to have my coins in size order, not value order, it has to look like a walnut whip if i have a lot!!

[dot.hawkes]

so how does that work / look in your pocket then?

[rugeleyboy]

ah, yes i see!

i arrange coins in my hand as i hate to walk around with change, up until my wife got me a coin machine from argos (brilliant) i would stack all loose change on the side,hence, it looking like a walnut whip!!

[dot.hawkes]

actually I do that but I then lay them carefully back into my purse and they make such a pretty pattern...................................

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