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BrokenolMarine
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Re: You have any quirks

Post by BrokenolMarine » Sat Aug 30, 2025 2:35 pm

CT_Shooter wrote:
Sat Aug 30, 2025 2:04 pm
I have a few OCD behaviors, too. I count stairs as I ascend or descend them. It's a sub-conscious thing, but I'm aware that I'm doing it and I have always done it. I'm also compelled to straighten pictures on walls and make other adjustments to square, straighten, or align things whenever I feel they're out of place. I'm not quite like MONK or Rainman yet, but I'm close.

But I drink too much milk for it to spoil, though I might begin sniffing first if I ever take a mouthful of dairy lumps. That sounds bad.
Oh, it was bad... We had a bunch of family down and visiting, and a gaggle of kids in the kitchen having breakfast. You know how kids are, doing three things at once. We didn't notice the lumps when we poured the milk on the cereal, we had the TV going and we were all laughing and joking, not really looking. I was the first at the table and I took one huge bite of cereal and it came right back out. I was done with that cereal.

My older cousin poured the rest of the milk into the sink and it had what looked like cottage cheese in it. I was done with MILK and CEREAL for nearly a year. I was YOUNG too, under ten. What KID won't drink milk or eat sugary cereal? :lol: Nasty.
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Re: You have any quirks

Post by Mags » Sat Aug 30, 2025 2:41 pm

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Maybe I do have a quirk. Decades ago, after eating a salad at Denny's I got violently sick from both ends. Now I won't eat any raw raw vegetables and I haven't set foot in a Denny's since. Something like that happened with a burger from Jack in the Box. I now call them Puke in the Box. I haven't been back there since either.
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Re: You have any quirks

Post by BrokenolMarine » Sat Aug 30, 2025 2:47 pm

For years, I noted the Gas Mileage to tenths, oil usage and fully documented all maintenance on the cars and trucks I owned. It was a thing I picked up from a roommate in the barracks in the Corps. He had a Spotlessly maintained Bug and pointed out that it alerted him to any changes in the car's performance early. I found it a minimal effort but it really paid off, especially when it came time to sell or trade the vehicles. When you are able to show the prospective buyers detailed records on the cars, they are impressed that you have taken good care and less likely to worry about problems cropping up.
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Re: You have any quirks

Post by CT_Shooter » Sat Aug 30, 2025 3:23 pm

Mags wrote:
Sat Aug 30, 2025 2:23 pm
I do diligently maintain a monthly bill/budget spreadsheet.
Yeah. Me, too. I manage two connected Excel spreadsheets; one for bank accounts and equity balances that I update each week (OCD) and an annual monthly expenses sheet that I archive and zero out each new year. I created and started using them in 2002. That's probably an indication of something. :roll:
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Re: You have any quirks

Post by Coach » Sat Aug 30, 2025 8:10 pm

Crooked pictures bug the crap out of me.

I wasn’t always this way but as I grew older it became more prevalent.

At the range I take the bullets out of the box in rows.
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Re: You have any quirks

Post by rickhem » Sun Aug 31, 2025 9:02 am

I'm also a picture straightener. Usually takes more than one adjustment until I'm happy with it too. We have a restaurant that we frequent near us that has a three dimensional, metal wall decoration of a striped bass. This is well over three hours from any salt water, so not sure why it's there, but it is. I tilted that one slightly tail down, and told my girlfriend that it's looking up to find my popper. Love catching stripers on topwater plugs. That was two years ago, and it's still at that same up angle.

And I'm also OCD about my vehicle logs. Each vehicle has a little bound notebook, the kind that has the elastic that wraps around holding it shut, and the ribbon to use as a bookmark. On the right side of the pages, I log in every time I get gas, and calculate MPG. The left side, which is less populated, is for oil changes, new tires, brakes, whatever other maintenance or repairs I do. My oldest vehicle right now is a 2002 Silverado with about 258K on it, and my book goes back to August of 2002 when I got it. It shows how different tire sizes have impacted MPG, and how long trips and cruise control impact fuel efficiency. It even shows the difference in MPG between winter and summer gas, back before everything was 10% ethanol.
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Re: You have any quirks

Post by Hatchdog » Sun Aug 31, 2025 9:32 am

I have to do most tasks left to right. Like trimming the edge of the lawn, going right to left feels weird. Also my wife rarely lets the microwave count down to zero instead open the door and doesn’t zero out the counter. I can’t walk by without hitting the cancel button.
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