[Nicola_Red]

So, the topic about ipods has got me onto thinking about my various OCD-like habits. These are my main ones:

*I'm not particularly tidy in general, but I am fanatical about the order of my cds, dvds etc. Everything is strictly alphabetised. If I see one out of place I can't rest til I've put it right. Same with my mp3 player - everything is ordered in a particular way, which probably nobody else would understand, but if I spot an anomaly I have to put it right as soon as I get home.

*I'm weird about odd numbers. Say I was eating a box of chocs or something, I can't leave an odd number in the box. Although for some reason 5 is the exception and would be okay to me. If I was with someone in a car, I don't like parking on odd numbered levels of a car park either. I hate odd numbered prices in shops and when I read back customers' booking references to them, certain sequences of numbers bother me.

*I eat in order, usually leaving my favourite thing til last, and I eat Skittles etc in colour order.

It's not that I feel bad things will happen if I don't do stuff like this - it just makes me feel better, and calmer, when I do. My bro, who is a teacher, thought this hilarious recently and told me I have Asperger's syndrome. But I think everyone does these things to some degree or another. So who else has OCD and what form does it take? Fess up, people.

[Ed Pummelon]

As I'm the one who brought OCD into the iPod thread I should probably add something here. My most OCD tendency is definitely in my ordering of my media collection - iPod as per the other thread, plus all my TV shows are catalogued on my hard drive etc.

However, in the physical world it isn't really reflected, which is a bit strange. For example, all my music and movies are carefully archived and catalogued on my computer, but the CDs and DVDs they were ripped from are not on the shelf in any particular order. Odd.

[MK Chris]

Mine have been posted here.

[TIAL]

The only thing I think I'm really bad with is watching TV and films in the correct order, even if it doesn't really matter what order you watch them in. For example, I've never really been in to Scrubs because I haven't been able to see it from the start. Therefore, when it's on TV I never watch it because even though there's not much relation between each episode I feel I'm missing things.

Eventually I'll be up-to-date with the 10 o'clock news

Also, I can never watch a film if it has already started - even if its only a few minutes in. Again, I just feel like I'm missing out on some of it and won't get the 'full' experience if I miss some of it.

[Nicola_Red]

ah curses, there's been a thread on this before! I must have missed that altogether. apologies...

[Ed Pummelon]

The only thing I think I'm really bad with is watching TV and films in the correct order, even if it doesn't really matter what order you watch them in. For example, I've never really been in to Scrubs because I haven't been able to see it from the start..

At the risk of perpetuating a dupicate thread...I'd never realised until reading that, but I do exactly the same thing. Thanks TIAL. I think.

[Boboff]

I can't be arsed to have any OCD's, although I do have moods when I like to line up all the tins and cleaning products.

[jocky85]

*I'm weird about odd numbers. Say I was eating a box of chocs or something, I can't leave an odd number in the box. Although for some reason 5 is the exception and would be okay to me. If I was with someone in a car, I don't like parking on odd numbered levels of a car park either. I hate odd numbered prices in shops and when I read back customers' booking references to them, certain sequences of numbers bother me.

I used to hate finishing something with an odd number of 'bites' so glad that didn't take hold!

Can't really think of anything else OCD apart from I can't sleep if 1 of my wardrobe doors are open!

[MK Chris]

Well, the wardrobe monster can be a *, it's a good thing wardrobes have big sturdy doors that no big scary monster would be able to find their way through.

[AndyJ]

Well, the wardrobe monster can be a *, it's a good thing wardrobes have big sturdy doors that no big scary monster would be able to find their way through.

Have you seen the film Monsters Inc? Its true you know.

[jocky85]

Well, the wardrobe monster can be a *, it's a good thing wardrobes have big sturdy doors that no big scary monster would be able to find their way through.

Thanks for that Topher - oddly enough I was never scared of the wardrobe monster

[Ed Pummelon]

Until now....

[Yudster]

Wardrobe monsters are nothing to the monster that you see behind you looking over your shoulder when you look in a mirror at night. Mirrors are evil.

[Ed Pummelon]

You're thinking of the one in the rear view mirror in the car.

[Yudster]

No, the one that I just know will be there behind me if I look in the mirror in my bathroom, or my bedroom, after dark.

[Zoot]

No, the one that I just know will be there behind me if I look in the mirror in my bathroom, or my bedroom, after dark.

Ah, you mean the one on the bathroom cabinet where there's nothing there to start with, then you open the cabinet to get your toothbrush, close it and notice something over your shoulder.

Yep, I've seen Horror Movies.

[Yudster]

See I haven't. I don't like being scared shitless, so I don't watch horror movies. The Mirror Monster is just real. I've never actually seen him, but I absolutely know he is there.

[MK Chris]

No, the one that I just know will be there behind me if I look in the mirror in my bathroom, or my bedroom, after dark.

Ah, you mean the one on the bathroom cabinet where there's nothing there to start with, then you open the cabinet to get your toothbrush, close it and notice something over your shoulder.

Yep, I've seen Horror Movies.

Just remember that when you go outside to check if anyone's there, you must leave the door open for serial killers or horrible monsters to get in the house. Then when you go inside again, lock the door, so that you're locked in with them.

Oh, and no matter how fast you run (regardless of the fact that they are walking) they will always catch you.

[Zoot]

That's correct, and if you're a young girl with a small top and big boobs, the best place to run to when being chased by a knife wielding maniac is a deep dark forest with lots of things to trip you up.

[ladbroke]

No, the one that I just know will be there behind me if I look in the mirror in my bathroom, or my bedroom, after dark.

It's better to 'write' on the bathroom mirror with your finger (best if your finger is a bit greasy). Write something like 'I'm watching you' and you wont be able to see it. When your other half has a shower, hopefully when they're the only one in the house, the steam then makes the writing become visible (the steam doesn't easily settle on the greasy bit of mirror). Scary the first time it's done, rather tedious on the 10th!

[S4B]

That's correct, and if you're a young girl with a small top and big boobs, the best place to run to when being chased by a knife wielding maniac is a deep dark forest with lots of things to trip you up.

I tell all my friends who fit this criteria that this is the way to go but, sadly, none of them have yet died due to vampires, werewolves, zombies or any knife carrying weirdo! I just have to put up with them having beautiful boobs, a beautiful figure and a figure a vampire would die for! hmph!

[MK Chris]

They must be virgins - virgins don't die.

[S4B]

I obviously don't either read or watch enough of this crap to realise that

[Sunny So Cal]

That's correct, and if you're a young girl with a small top and big boobs, the best place to run to when being chased by a knife wielding maniac is a deep dark forest with lots of things to trip you up.

It's even better if you wear glasses and drop them. Or is that just Velma?

[Yudster]

I'm not sure whether this qualifies as OCD, but it is associated with my obsessive mind-set when it comes to my diet and exercise plan.

Anyway - I go swimming most days. I always set myself a target of 64 lengths of the pool (which works out to about half a mile). However I find that I often lose count and can't work out if I'm on number 37 or 39 for instance. When this happens, I always assume that I am on the lower of the two numbers - and then go back to the previous length (in this case that would be 35) as a punishment for forgetting. If it happens more than twice in any given swim I add a further ten lengths on the end of the swim as more punishment.

I am beginning to worry about myself slightly.