Weirdest Thing You Do?

[Chaos81]

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2. Leaving my apartment I have to repeat to myself, "The door is locked" the whole 20 yards to get to my truck otherwise I have to go back and check the door. My room mate gets a kick out of it when I'm driving him somewhere, get settled into his van then have to get out and go check the door.

I should have mentioned that as well. I do the same thing. It drives me absolutely crazy because I'll go 15 minutes out of my way at times to make sure a door is locked. Or I'll get all comfortable in bed then have to go downstairs and make sure my garage door is closed.

REALLY sucks and I have no idea why I started doing it. It's a pretty recent thing for me as I've only done it for the last year or two.

[mgoblue]

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When I get home I always empty my pockets (wallet, keys, phone, etc) onto the same spot and then go put on a t-shirt and pair of athletic type shorts. It's just so nice to be all comfortable, I've been doing this for years.

I also don't mix food really (unless it's pre-mixed). If I have corn, mashed potatoes, turkey, and cranberry sauce on a plate I eat them one by one until each is done. My mom ends up mixing nearly everything and doing a bite of this, a bite of that. I just can't do it lol

[Bighoff]

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I should have mentioned that as well. I do the same thing. It drives me absolutely crazy because I'll go 15 minutes out of my way at times to make sure a door is locked. Or I'll get all comfortable in bed then have to go downstairs and make sure my garage door is closed.

REALLY sucks and I have no idea why I started doing it. It's a pretty recent thing for me as I've only done it for the last year or two.

It's been going on with me for about 10 years, once I drove 45 minutes back to my parent's house to make sure I locked the door when they were out of town. It's a frustrating and annoying thing and I wish I could just ignore it but the harder I try the more the "fear" of an unlocked door barges it's way into my head.

[JohnnytheSkin]

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I've been diagnosed with OCPD so I won't list out all my idiosyncrasies...but, the one thing that bugs my wife more than any other, is that I always worry about shutting the garage door when we leave.

I'll freak at the end of the street and turn around, or if I'm within 10 minutes of the house I'll flip around. Beyond that, my wife or son might have to detail my routine showing that I hit the button. If we DON'T turn around when I'm having the panic attack I'll worry about it throughout the meal, etc.

And yet, it's always closed.

[NDAlum]

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I always set my alarm to a time ending in "2". For example: 6:32, 10:32, 7:02.

Yea that's pretty weird.

[Bellsprout]

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I've been diagnosed with OCPD so I won't list out all my idiosyncrasies...but, the one thing that bugs my wife more than any other, is that I always worry about shutting the garage door when we leave.

I'll freak at the end of the street and turn around, or if I'm within 10 minutes of the house I'll flip around. Beyond that, my wife or son might have to detail my routine showing that I hit the button. If we DON'T turn around when I'm having the panic attack I'll worry about it throughout the meal, etc.

And yet, it's always closed.

I suggest you do something like this to your garage door, that way it doesn't matter if it's opened or closed.

[Watson]

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I can't watch dramatic movies in public.

I have to get a high 5 before going to 2nd hour (physics). Or else i'll have a "bad hour" and not pay attention, space out, etc.

I can't shower at night and wake up the morning before school, church, or even film on saturday. I have to shower every morning, no matter how many i've had the night before.

We have an unbalanced formation where the X comes in at the Tackle spot. We have to fistbump before he gets in his 3-point stance (i'm in 2-point). He's the same guy that gives me a high-5 before 2nd hour

I have to drink 2 gatorades and 3 bottles of water the day of a game.

I cannot make my own PBJ sammiches. I can, but it will not taste right at all. Ignatius Reilly and I can both make one, and i'd prefer his to mine.

The biggest one:

I shave in the shower. Simply cannot do it outside the stall. Everytime I try to do it outside the stall it feels like the first time shaving.

[ElroyJetson]

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I brush my teeth in the shower, and if there's anything around the house thats not in the right position or when Im outside or in a car if something is out of place Ill fix it

[Buckeyes_Doc]

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I shave in the shower. Simply cannot do it outside the stall. Everytime I try to do it outside the stall it feels like the first time shaving.

I do this also. I never cut myself shaving in the shower, but at times when I have to shave outside the shower which is rare it is much tougher to shave.

[Trevytrev11]

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I share some similar ones with others and have some random ones of my own:

1) Have never in my life had a cup of coffee...maybe two or three sips tops and it drives my brother crazy. I drink nothing but water in the morning and am rarely tired, but he is convinced I'd be ten times better off with coffee.

2) I've used the same blanet forever. My wife and I sleep with seperate blankets (she's cold blooeded and I am warm blooded) and the one I use is an old one of hers from when she was a teenager. It matches nothing that we own and therefore gets thrown under the bed every day as not to upset the bedroom color scheme. We've tried numerous times to purchase a similar blanket of an acceptable color, but I have yet to find one with the same weight, feel, etc.

3) Up until recently, my bedroom and truck clocks have always been 5-10 minutes fast. After years of trying, my wife was finally able to break the habit.

4) I often shower 2-3 times a day. Always in the morning. Always after the gym at lunch on workout days and usually at night before bed.

5) I smell almost everything. I don't even realize it, but my wife catches me all the time. I could open up a pack of playing cards for the first time and put it up to my nose to take a whif.

6) From baseball and probably the weirdest to explain. When I played baseball I would always pick up dirt and filter it through my hands leaving a few little rocks left behind that I would then kind of roll around/twirl between my thumb and index/middle fingers during baseball. I would usually do this while on the bench when I wasn't pitching...it kind of helped me to relax. The rocks were always a certain size and shape and when I found them over the course of a game, instead of just tossing them to the ground when I went back out to the mound, I would put them in my pocket.

So after a game, there would be 10 or 15 of these little rocks in my pocket. I'd find them when I got home and set them on a table or something and occasionally, I'd pick one up and "roll it" while I was just sitting there watching TV or if I was in a car, etc.. I'll still do it every now and then on the softball field...it's always just felt comfortable and relaxing to me. My family thinks it's the most random thing in the world.

[allBthere]

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I do this also. I never cut myself shaving in the shower, but at times when I have to shave outside the shower which is rare it is much tougher to shave.

huh...I need the mirror, especially for 'all-direction' shaves when I'm expecting nookie lol.

I heart this thread, and I know I'm pretty weird but I can't think of anything right now...although I throw on sweats and a shirt after work like a few others here.

oh here's one. Just in the past few years I've started belching obliviously. I just do it anywhere including work without thinking about it or noticing - it's become involuntary.

If someone doesn't like me, I automatically hate them lol

[Trevytrev11]

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huh...I need the mirror, especially for 'all-direction' shaves when I'm expecting nookie lol.

FYI, they make fogless mirrors that go in the shower to use for shaving.

[RoyalBoyle78]

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I brush my teeth in the shower, and if there's anything around the house thats not in the right position or when Im outside or in a car if something is out of place Ill fix it

I brush my teeth in the shower too, think this has become very common now.

[Dog]

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I just thought of a few more.

I need to write in pen, not pencil.
I prefer to watch Eagles games alone.
I always need a fan blowing on me no matter how cold it is.
I call my dog by a totally different name than her actual name.
I purposely put everything off until the last minute.
When watching baseball, I always call out balls and strikes. I would suck as an umpire.
If the announcers suck for the game I'm watching, I'll mute it and put on the radio announcers.

[Scottdau]

I've been diagnosed with OCPD so I won't list out all my idiosyncrasies...but, the one thing that bugs my wife more than any other, is that I always worry about shutting the garage door when we leave.

I'll freak at the end of the street and turn around, or if I'm within 10 minutes of the house I'll flip around. Beyond that, my wife or son might have to detail my routine showing that I hit the button. If we DON'T turn around when I'm having the panic attack I'll worry about it throughout the meal, etc.

And yet, it's always closed.

Johnny I do the same thing, I don't go back anymore, but I do keep checking behind me when I am leaving down street.