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Sandettie Light Vessel Automatic tells us: "Until I pointed it out, my other half use to hang out the washing making sure that both pegs were the same colour. Now she goes out of her way to make sure they never match." Tell us about bizarre rituals, habits and OCD-like behaviour.

(, Thu 1 Jul 2010, 12:33)
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Counting, or more specifically, counting to four. I've done this since childhood - counting paving slabs as I walked to school and it's progressed into adulthood but now I count either cars that I drive past or lamp-posts but they always have to be evenly spread - either two on the left/two on the right or four on the right/left.
I'll speed up and slow down just to ensure this happens - if it doesn't I'll tweak the criteria - shutting my right or left eye so I don't see the offending vehicle - my game my rules.

I didn't know this was OCD behaviour until I was in my late teens when discussing this with others apparently singled me out as a mentalist but to be honest I quite like it - it passes the time on long car journeys.

Oh and one other slightly related point - assymetry drives me potty - I don't care if Cameron Diaz and Angelina Jolie were offering me a menage-a-trois (what? it could happen!)- if they were wearing assymetrical dresses it would just make me itchy.
(, Thu 1 Jul 2010, 15:40, 8 replies)
I have a semi similar thing
with street lights, there always has to be the same number on each side of the road and none missing on 1 side so you get 2 in a row on one side but none in between them on the other side.
(, Thu 1 Jul 2010, 15:47, closed)
And if that isn't the case?
Does it make you feel uneasy? - it does me so that's why I cheat - like I said - my game my rules
(, Thu 1 Jul 2010, 15:52, closed)
surely
CD and her mirror-image clone; or AJ likewise.
Otherwise you'd never properly symmetrize the situation.

Important note: under no circumstances should you allow yourself to realise that you yourself are asymmetric.
(, Thu 1 Jul 2010, 15:55, closed)
What?..er..
Damn - I guess that's the reason (and the only concievable reason) why this scenario hasn't happened yet - CD and AJ don't want to make me itchy.

And no I'm not asymmetric - I'm one half of identical conjoined twins - we share a foreskin.
(, Thu 1 Jul 2010, 17:24, closed)
Well, you're certainly chiral
So stop worrying.
(, Fri 2 Jul 2010, 22:28, closed)
Thanks - that's put my mind at rest
*googles chiral??*
(, Sat 3 Jul 2010, 13:45, closed)
I'm like that to fives.
Not so much nowadays though. It used to be worse. Does this make us enemies? Five sentences with five words.
(, Thu 1 Jul 2010, 16:09, closed)
I guess it does.
Who counts to five? Are you a mentalist? Be normal like me.
(, Thu 1 Jul 2010, 17:16, closed)

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