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WaterH

WaterH

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I got to thinking about this. I say I’m OCD, but I don’t really know if I would qualify. Hard to rate yourself. So I want to hear the most OCD thing you do. Hopefully, I will think there’s lots of guys worse than me. Some stuff like making a suspension part look beautiful when it only gets beat up or no one can see it still has some logic and pride of ownership. I want the dumb stuff that doesn’t quite make sense even to you.

I’ll go first.

If I’m cutting large steel parts to make something, of course I keep the cut offs because I might make something in the future I can use them for. I assume everybody does this. So that’s not OCD, but when I have large steel cut offs, I have to use a flap wheel on the edges so that they are not sharp. If and when I use them in the future, I will be cutting it again, so why dress them now? I tell myself it’s so I don’t cut myself when I’m looking through the cut offs in the future. Of course, I always ware gloves when looking through the cut offs, so this is unlikely. This can waste a lot of time, but I just can’t though razor sharp stuff in a bucket.

Please tell me you guys are a lot worse.
 
I lock my truck twice. I hit the button once when I get out and then again when I am about 10' away. If I don't, it will bother me to the point that I have to go look at the truck and make sure the lights flash when I hit the button. I never did that until I got this truck. :laughing:
 
I have a few.... one is i can not have a dirty vehicle... every one of my cars that I bought new have only been hand washed by me.

If a vehicle service is due, it gets done after the drive that passes that mileage/time... I had a LS3 powered JK that i passed oil change/atlas tcase mileage on drive home from moab, arrived home at 0200 and the wife just looks at me and said "you're not coming in the house, are you? Nope. Swap fluids then and did differentials as well! 😆

One of my coworkers has bought 9 vehicles from me because he says I always have the best maintained vehicles.....
 
Not very. Worst examples would be.. I’ve probably replaced a set of sockets because they weren’t a matching set.. but I also have many sets that aren’t matching. I replaced a set of trailer wheels last year because they weren’t matching. I don’t care if my clothes are co-ordinated.. but won’t wear grey shirt with grey pants.. any other color I don’t care I.e. I’ll wear black with black, blue with blue.
 
I probably have more than I can count. I hid it well for many years, but after about 15 years my wife finally started to notice them. Then it got worse as she started pointing them out :laughing: Things got so much worse after my stroke 2 years ago too.

I'm good at hiding them, so most people don't know how retarded I am when it comes to some things. Maybe people started catching on with my water bottle fiasco :lmao:
 
Not very, I can't stand kitchen cabinets being open and if I know something is broke on one of the cars I obsess over it until I fix it.

Also I'm like Ebs with new tasks
 
Ebs said:
I'm not ocd until I have to spend money on something new or accomplish some unfamiliar task, then I tend to get bogged down in the details because I need to research every aspect of it.
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That's about me with everything. I will research it to death and end up researching myself out of buying the thing. Good and bad I guess. I save myself a lot of money though :lmao:
 
I have to make sure the fridge is closed,stupid fucking french door setup,you have to push it closed,if you dont and if the switch sees the door is open even a inch it doesn't run
I will start to leave for work,go back in the house and make sure its closed
 
I too was thinking about this the other day. Saying to myself "yuse getting pretty bad old man".
Putting respective left/right socks in my boots when I take them off.
Counting some repetitive motions/activities.
I'm sure they're other things.
Smoothing cut-offs ain't one of them tho. :laughing:
 
Moderate to high OCD. Preface that I'm a retired Engineer for back ground.....

At my worse when I carried cash; I would organize paper currency in my wallet in order by denomination, year, with subsets in denomination of serial number, then bank issuing bank, in that order. I don't carry cash any more.

3 way light switches all have to be switched off, toggle down at each end. I will walk across the room to make sure.

Sometimes, I will go back and recheck something to make sure it's off or locked, multiple times. 99.9% of the time I'm right the first time.

Symmetry is critical. I am not relaxed, unless there is order for me.

I will straighten a crooked hanging picture frame, even if it's not in my house (when no one is looking).

All my extension cords are coiled so that the end plugs perfectly connect, without disrupting the diameter of the coil.

I'll stop now.......
 
I line the indent on the flap up with the black rectangle on the trim ring. Will reach all the way across to do so after the girl friend fucks up my feng shui. I will also obsessively and compulsively not wave back to other jeep drivers cause I'm not gayer than Gay Gayerson.
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Everything has to perfect. Nothing out of place, everything spotless.
That was me for many years.
Now it's more "it's not dripping, and I'll be able to find it later"
(You fuckers know what I meant)
 
Elwenil said:
I lock my truck twice. I hit the button once when I get out and then again when I am about 10' away. If I don't, it will bother me to the point that I have to go look at the truck and make sure the lights flash when I hit the button. I never did that until I got this truck. :laughing:
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I'm not sure I have anything that the doors all lock, or the right keys to unlock it.
 
I check the locks on the doors every time I get up to pee throughout the night, and sometimes I get up in the middle of the night to check.

I have left the house and turned around to check the door.

I have gotten home from work, and turned around and drove 45 minutes back to work to check the locks.
 
grumpy356 said:
I check the locks on the doors every time I get up to pee throughout the night, and sometimes I get up in the middle of the night to check.

I have left the house and turned around to check the door.

I have gotten home from work, and turned around and drove 45 minutes back to work to check the locks.
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My dad did that my whole childhood. We turned around from a block away from home constantly. Especially if going somewhere farther than usual.:laughing:
 
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