Not what you think

[Ron Evers]

When I was young (early teens) I related to folk 10 years older. My peers thought I was way to serious & tended to dismiss me in favour of conduct I considered juvenile.


Later, in the working world, I became an engineering surveyor where it was paramount that everything must be level & plumb.


Even later in life, my daughter said I was never a kid.


Some have commented on how I organize my garden as being too whatever, as one poster commented, if a weed would come up it would look about & it commit suicide.


I can assure you I am not an OCD.


I arranged my treat of candy tonight in the order to be taken.

That is simply organization.

 

[Amocholes]

I tend to do the same thing.

 

[Gary A.]

LOL ... Mary Lou, (my much better half), says she's not OCD ... she calls it "systematic".

 

[sm4him]

I can definitely tell you are not OCD. If you were, you'd know that you need to pull those yellow and orange ones and either eat them first, or last. They destroy the pattern.
You'd also straighten that line out a bit and take care of the ones at the beginning that aren't touching each other.

I mean, hypothetically, I *think* that's what you'd do if you were really OCD. Not that *I* am like that, at all, mind you.

 

[sm4him]

LOL ... Mary Lou, (my much better half), says she's not OCD ... she calls it "systematic".

I don't call it OCD either. I call it "particular." I am EXTREMELY particular about certain things.

My sister IS OCD, clinically diagnosed. She has been to a clinic in Boston to help treat hers because it was pretty severe.
Nowadays, one of her little OCD mannerisms seems to be to point out all the things *I* do that they were treating people for at the OCD clinic.

 

[snowbear]

Arrange by color, size and shape. then straightend the row and make sure it is lined up with the dots on the paper towel.

 

[Ron Evers]

Arrange by color, size and shape. then straightend the row and make sure it is lined up with the dots on the paper towel.

You conferm my contention, I am not OCD.

 

[bogeyguy]

Let me ask you a question Ron. When you take either a short or long car ride, how do you relate to someone the distance you traveled?? For instance, did you travel about 10 to 12 miles or did you travel 11.3 miles?? If you answer 11.3, then your just anal like a lot of people out there. LOL!

 

[limr]

I can definitely tell you are not OCD. If you were, you'd know that you need to pull those yellow and orange ones and either eat them first, or last. They destroy the pattern.
You'd also straighten that line out a bit and take care of the ones at the beginning that aren't touching each other.

This is exactly right.

I mean, hypothetically, I *think* that's what you'd do if you were really OCD. Not that *I* am like that, at all, mind you.

It's not OCD, it's just good sense!

Funnily enough, I was just talking about this today. Whenever Buzz and I share a bag of M&Ms, we play a game to guess the order in which the other will eat their share. First, it's always a problem if there is an uneven number. That odd one out has to be eaten quickly so we can pretend it never happened. Then we get to figuring out how we would arrange our own, then guess the other's arrangement. The rules are constant, but how they are applied depend on the array of colors that you are given.

I see no problem with this whatsoever

 

[snowbear]

Let me ask you a question Ron. When you take either a short or long car ride, how do you relate to someone the distance you traveled?? For instance, did you travel about 10 to 12 miles or did you travel 11.3 miles?? If you answer 11.3, then your just anal like a lot of people out there. LOL!

59,665 feet.

 

[Ron Evers]

Let me ask you a question Ron. When you take either a short or long car ride, how do you relate to someone the distance you traveled?? For instance, did you travel about 10 to 12 miles or did you travel 11.3 miles?? If you answer 11.3, then your just anal like a lot of people out there. LOL!

Strange you should ask that - you see, my car trips are measured in time. From home it is 15 minutes to Alliston, 45 minutes to Newmarket & 4 hours to visit mother in Chatham.

 

[snowbear]

I also tend to use time.

 

[sm4him]

Let me ask you a question Ron. When you take either a short or long car ride, how do you relate to someone the distance you traveled?? For instance, did you travel about 10 to 12 miles or did you travel 11.3 miles?? If you answer 11.3, then your just anal like a lot of people out there. LOL!

Strange you should ask that - you see, my car trips are measured in time. From home it is 15 minutes to Alliston, 45 minutes to Newmarket & 4 hours to visit mother in Chatham.

It really depends on why I'm relating that information. If I'm simply telling someone, for instance, how far I live from work, I'll use length of time, about 5-6 minutes.
If I'm giving directions, then I'd use distance but I'd still say "about 2 miles" rather than "2.3 miles."
The reason? *I* know it is 2.3 miles from my space in the parking garage to where my wheels first touch the driveway. But what if the other person starts from in FRONT of the parking garage? Or from the light at the intersection next to the garage?

The funny thing is, I constantly "measure" distance from one spot to another precisely, by looking at both my odometer and the clock as I leave the driveway then checking them again at my destination. I do that EVEN when it's a place I go to frequently, just to double-check. And yet I NEVER relay that precise information I constantly collect to someone else.

Huh. I'm pretty sure that my sister would tell me they treated people for that at the OCD clinic.

 

[sm4him]

I can definitely tell you are not OCD. If you were, you'd know that you need to pull those yellow and orange ones and either eat them first, or last. They destroy the pattern.
You'd also straighten that line out a bit and take care of the ones at the beginning that aren't touching each other.

This is exactly right.

I mean, hypothetically, I *think* that's what you'd do if you were really OCD. Not that *I* am like that, at all, mind you.

It's not OCD, it's just good sense!

Funnily enough, I was just talking about this today. Whenever Buzz and I share a bag of M&Ms, we play a game to guess the order in which the other will eat their share. First, it's always a problem if there is an uneven number. That odd one out has to be eaten quickly so we can pretend it never happened. Then we get to figuring out how we would arrange our own, then guess the other's arrangement. The rules are constant, but how they are applied depend on the array of colors that you are given.

I see no problem with this whatsoever

Uneven numbers of things like M&Ms are the worst! I agree, you must get rid of those and never speak of their existence again.

 

[baturn]

Is it OCD to calculate mileage after every fill up then reset the trip odometer? I tell myself that keeping track of fuel consumption is just good sense, but I'm probably just a little nuts.