[rustybike]

Today, I was rightfully told I have an OCD... which is true and it would explain so many things.

I now want to know if anyone else has an OCD so that we can form a group and take over the world.

Mine:
- Labels on cans and jars need to be facing the front.
- I should always open something the right way round (ie. The "Wotsits" label facing up)

[nade]

There's one thing i'm really bad at doing... checking if the front door is locked when I leave the house. Sometimes I think I check the handle 3 or 4 times, and then I even try checking with a key.

I think i'm starting to cope with it by using my car keys... once i've locked the door i flip open the car key to tell myself it's locked. Been helping me to deal with it recently.

Just glad I don't have to click Submit 5 times.

[MK Chris]

I do the same as 'rustybike', but I also have to have all the notes in my wallet in order, £5 at the front, through to £50 (not that I ever have £50 notes) at the back. The Queen's face must be facing forward. Since they changed the design on the £20 notes, the new design goes behind the old design.

My (slightly odder) other ones are that the volume control on the stereo / TV / car radio / anything with a numbered volume control has to be on an even number. Anything I do to one side of my body (such as scratch an itch on my right arm, etc.), automatically gets done to the same part on the opposite side, I don't even think about that.. I think someone just mentioned it once.

[wurzel]

I also have to have all the notes in my wallet in order, £5 at the front, through to £50 (not that I ever have £50 notes) at the back. The Queen's face must be facing forward. Since they changed the design on the £20 notes, the new design goes behind the old design.

I do that.

[rustybike]

but I also have to have all the notes in my wallet in order, £5 at the front, through to £50 (not that I ever have £50 notes) at the back. The Queen's face must be facing forward. Since they changed the design on the £20 notes, the new design goes behind the old design.

My (slightly odder) other ones are that the volume control on the stereo / TV / car radio / anything with a numbered volume control has to be on an even number. Anything I do to one side of my body (such as scratch an itch on my right arm, etc.), automatically gets done to the same part on the opposite side, I don't even think about that.. I think someone just mentioned it once.

Oh my god... i do those things too!!!

Like just now, I flicked something off my desk which means i had to make a flicking motion using my other hand to make the feeling equal on both sides.

What about uneven things? Uneven posters/notices on the notice board wind me up as well as uneven lamp shades.

Has anyone ever seen the show "Monk"? I can relate to so many things on that show.

[Yudster]

Ok, I partially retract what I said earlier - you do indeed have OCD rustybike, but this is a club I would never get in to! I'm not that weird.

[catherine]

I'm too lazy to have an OCD.

[wurzel]

I don't like having anything to do with the number 8. This includes volume on the telly, radio or sitting in places or tables that have 8 on them.
My cd's have to be in alphabetical order and I do arrange my wardrobe so my clothes are organised into colours.
That's about it really, judging by the state of my room I can't really join the club.

what's wrong with the number 8?

i suppose mi the opposite with the number 23

[Yudster]

Hang on, there's a world of difference between obsessive behaviour and simple superstition.

[rustybike]

My cd's have to be in alphabetical order and I do arrange my wardrobe so my clothes are organised into colours.

I like alphabetising my cd's and dvd's but i think you should do that otherwise it'll take you a long time to look for something. My friend, for some strange reason, has her dvd's organised by the production company (the little icon on the side). So all her universal studios are together, etc. Now THAT's weird.

However, the wardrobe thing i can agree with. I keep all my work clothes together and then arrange them by colour and then I put my casual clothes together and then organise them by colour...

Let us know if you've picked up some ideas from today's thread.

[geek]

Ive not been diagnosed OCD but my mate recons I am. You know how some lights have two switches to control them well I have that in my room but I hate it when I use one switch to turn the light on and the other to turn it off because then the switches are the wrong way so I end up getting up and going and changing it so that they are the right way again. I also group things together with the number five or put the volume of my TV to a multiple of five.

[catherine]

I used to make up little stories about numbers when i was little, 1 and 2 were a couple 3 and 4 were a couple etc etc, and number 7 just looks like a complete bitch.

[foot-loose]

Wow. I thought I was bad.

I agree with having the volume on an even number, but having your notes going smallest to largest AND with the queen facing a certain direction? Topher - when was the last time you saw a £20 note anyways!

I don't think its a very good idea for you to all be exchanging ideas about what freaky thing you will start doing next!

[Chris]

having your notes going smallest to largest

You see I do that, but only out of convenience .. I can sleep just fine at night if they aren't.

[Chris]

There was a girl in the car park who used to have this thing about locking her door, checking it, and checking it, and checking it, and walking away, and walking back, and checking it, and ... you get the idea.

Oh, and we used to video it. In our defense, she never noticed.

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[rustybike]

That is hilarious!!

For the benefit of doubt... I just hope the reason for all the constant checking was because of her lack of memory and the fact that she had forgoten she'd locked it. Like me really... I sometimes forget whether I've flushed a loo*

Poor Girl...




















*Yes, I am weird... but I'm happy.

[Sunny So Cal]

Let us know if you've picked up some ideas from today's thread.

I've picked up ones on how not to behave, does that count?

There was a girl in the car park who used to have this thing about locking her door, checking it, and checking it, and checking it, and walking away, and walking back, and checking it, and ... you get the idea.

Oh, and we used to video it. In our defense, she never noticed.

Oh my God! It's either really funny or really sad. I haven't made up my mind yet. That would drive me mental and I'd have to pull the blinds rather than watch her constantly swarming about her car.

[foot-loose]

There was a girl in the car park who used to have this thing about locking her door, checking it, and checking it, and checking it, and walking away, and walking back, and checking it, and ... you get the idea.

Oh, and we used to video it. In our defense, she never noticed.

I can see why - if I owned a car like that, I'd be carping it incase someone nicked it. In the words of the legend: "Mmmmm... Nice Wheels!"

[Vivienne]

I don't find the "girl in the carpark" thing remotely funny... for those suffering from OCD's, these things are, as the title suggest, compulsive, and nothing to be laughed at.

[MK Chris]

My OCD (if, indeed, it is OCD.. it could just be me being silly) can be laughed at if you wish. I laugh at it myself.

[rustybike]

My OCD (if, indeed, it is OCD.. it could just be me being silly) can be laughed at if you wish. I laugh at it myself.

Ditto. I laugh at myself regulary.

[foot-loose]

I don't find the "girl in the carpark" thing remotely funny... for those suffering from OCD's, these things are, as the title suggest, compulsive, and nothing to be laughed at.

Everything should be laughed at. As a nation, we take things far too seriously and if everyone chilled and just saw the funny side of things, life would be so much better.

I shall use the example of a song from Avenue Q, a show in London:

Everyone's a little bit racist
Sometimes.
Doesn't mean we go
Around committing hate crimes.
Look around and you will find
No one's really color blind.
Maybe it's a fact
We all should face
Everyone makes judgments
Based on race

Now not big judgments, like who to hire
or who to buy a newspaper from -
No, just little judgments like thinking that Mexican
busboys should learn to speak goddamn English!

Everyone's a little bit racist
Today.
So, everyone's a little bit racist
Okay!
Ethinic jokes might be uncouth,
But you laugh because
They're based on truth.
Don't take them as
Personal attacks.
Everyone enjoys them -
So relax!

If we all could just admit
That we are racist a little bit,
Even though we all know
That it's wrong,
Maybe it would help us
Get along.

Everyone's a little bit racist
It's true.
But everyone is just about
As racist as you!
If we all could just admit
That we are racist a little bit,
And everyone stopped being
So PC
Maybe we could live in -
Harmony!

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbwNSNLPIfw][/youtube]

[rustybike]

I don't find the "girl in the carpark" thing remotely funny... for those suffering from OCD's, these things are, as the title suggest, compulsive, and nothing to be laughed at.

Everything should be laughed at. As a nation, we take things far too seriously and if everyone chilled and just saw the funny side of things, life would be so much better.

I shall use the example of a song from Avenue Q, a show in London:

Everyone's a little bit racist
Sometimes.
Doesn't mean we go
Around committing hate crimes.
Look around and you will find
No one's really color blind.
Maybe it's a fact
We all should face
Everyone makes judgments
Based on race

Now not big judgments, like who to hire
or who to buy a newspaper from -
No, just little judgments like thinking that Mexican
busboys should learn to speak goddamn English!

Everyone's a little bit racist
Today.
So, everyone's a little bit racist
Okay!
Ethinic jokes might be uncouth,
But you laugh because
They're based on truth.
Don't take them as
Personal attacks.
Everyone enjoys them -
So relax!

If we all could just admit
That we are racist a little bit,
Even though we all know
That it's wrong,
Maybe it would help us
Get along.

Everyone's a little bit racist
It's true.
But everyone is just about
As racist as you!
If we all could just admit
That we are racist a little bit,
And everyone stopped being
So PC
Maybe we could live in -
Harmony!

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbwNSNLPIfw][/youtube]

Oh my god. I'm so glad someone knows about the Avenue Q show. Everyone i've spoken to about it have gone "Avenue what?" or "Riiiight... that's weird"
I took my girlfriend to see it for our anniversary. It was very very funny and extremely witty. I throughly enjoyed it and I highly recommend people go see it.

[foot-loose]

I want to see it, but it's a bit far to go.

[MK Chris]

It may be the thing to plan for my first West End show.