Do you suffer from...
Have to check the front door is locked - after you've driven away.
Every time I do something stupid I get worse with this kind of shit.
Once I didn't check the front door because my wife was last out of the house, when we got back from our day out I was just a little upset to find that not only was the front door not locked but it was open.
This kinda crap sends me just a bit.
Today I checked the oil in the car because we were going to do a fair run out to Bellingham which is on the edge of Keilder Forest, middle of nowhere, hmmm yes the AA will be there in 3 hours I'm afraid.
So I hadn't checked for a while therefore it had to be topped up.
Anyhoo we live on the coast and to get to that end of Northumberland we have to go over the top of Newcastle, down the A1 and across the A69.
Just pulling away up the slip road near Gospforth Park onto the A1 - a fair way into the journey - going up a reasonable incline - accelerating up to 70 ish to join the A1 traffic.
Thump! thump! - Hmm that was kinda like a stone but not quite so hard. Can't see anything in the rear view.
Anyway onto the A1 past the next junction - you know that didn't sound quite right. Nag nag nag what the - damn ... oil filler cap.
Next layby, yup, oil filler cap.
Must say - proud of driving all that way with it balance on the engine block.
I was so pleased when I realised this car had a bit of plastic fixing the petrol filler capto the tank AND you couldn't take the key out of the petrol flap without locking it.
However as Hal said: I can feel it. My mind is going.
Every time I do something stupid I get worse with this kind of shit.
Once I didn't check the front door because my wife was last out of the house, when we got back from our day out I was just a little upset to find that not only was the front door not locked but it was open.
This kinda crap sends me just a bit.
Today I checked the oil in the car because we were going to do a fair run out to Bellingham which is on the edge of Keilder Forest, middle of nowhere, hmmm yes the AA will be there in 3 hours I'm afraid.
So I hadn't checked for a while therefore it had to be topped up.
Anyhoo we live on the coast and to get to that end of Northumberland we have to go over the top of Newcastle, down the A1 and across the A69.
Just pulling away up the slip road near Gospforth Park onto the A1 - a fair way into the journey - going up a reasonable incline - accelerating up to 70 ish to join the A1 traffic.
Thump! thump! - Hmm that was kinda like a stone but not quite so hard. Can't see anything in the rear view.
Anyway onto the A1 past the next junction - you know that didn't sound quite right. Nag nag nag what the - damn ... oil filler cap.
Next layby, yup, oil filler cap.
Must say - proud of driving all that way with it balance on the engine block.
I was so pleased when I realised this car had a bit of plastic fixing the petrol filler capto the tank AND you couldn't take the key out of the petrol flap without locking it.
However as Hal said: I can feel it. My mind is going.
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Oh ... I thought this was about OCD ... oh, well.
I used to have OCD ... but now I have OCD.
I don't suffer from OCD, I get by OK, I get by OK.
Skarpo
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Sorry ... just wanted to make absolutely sure this wasn't about OCD!
It isn't ... right?
Skarpo
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You know it just a s well and I doo ... it will never be HOT enougfh for youa ... well ... me ... or the soap just doesnt' lather up well enough ... or ythr gith way ...
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AND now for a serious reply ;p
I'm extreemly guilty of this one.
Drives my other half up the wall. Worst time it happenend we were going to his brother wedding in Manchester ( we live in southampton ) anyhoo, after the wedding I got it in my head that I hadn't locked the front door and we went home via a warp-shunt and a lot af panic.
Now we have a sign on the back of the door with 'make sure you've checked the bloody thing' written on it.
ho hum.
I'm almost as bad with my keys too :)
Would that be Metric seconds or Imperial? And 15 times? You sure it's not 26 times? ... just making sure.
When I only had one cat I forgot to lock the door once ... only once ... that was enough ... it was summer and a bit windy which caused a draft to form through the house because the windows were open and the door being unlocked opened up ... the cat went outside for a wee walk ... but kept close to the door because it was a Persian and had never really been outside and the grass tickled the kittycat's belly and she didn't know how to react to that ... except by just staying put by the door.
Skarpo
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Reading these replies makes me feel like I'm absolutely fuckin mental. When I'm getting ready on a morning I have to put my left shoe on before my right otherwise I don't feel properly dressed.
When I leave the house I have to make sure the door is locked twice.
When I'm at work I have to have my MP3 in my left pocket and my keys in my right.
And before I go to bed I have to nip back downstairs just to check the pilot light is still on.
Other than that I'm perfectly normal
We have 3 cats but I don't love them a lot and they never come into the house at all. I don't dislike them, its just that I don't like them much. Two of them used to come in a bit but we got bored of them hanging around. When they are outside they eat mice - or sometimes gorge themselves on a pigeon. When they are inside they just sit. I don't think they are Persian, so grass isn't a problem.
We do lock the door mostly but that is because we have retained English habits. Most people around here don't bother much about locks.
Skarpo
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They are all healthy and well.
Oh, you live out in the country? Then it makes more sense, I guess :-)
oh and when i have to retie a shoe lace i feel like the other needs tying also.
The cats who own me come and go as they please. They even have their own little door to do so. Occasionally, they bring a live bird in the house and let it go for entertainment purposes.
I have the opposite of OCD - never check / repeat anything. Really can't be bothered - what happens, will happen.
Also when i was very young when i flushed the loo i had to run down the stairs and back to the lounge before it finished flushing.
Thankfully those two freaky weird habits stopped manyyyyy years ago
My ex girlfriend used to always have to say to me in person or on the phone 'drive carefully, (yes), promise me (yes), swear on your life (yes) everytime i spoke to her as she thought if she didnt say that i would have a huge acident !
My mate (as do a fair few people) still salutes frickin magpies. Do laugh when theres a lot of them as he looks like a lunatic