
"Part of my kitchen floor are thick with dust, grease, part of a broken mug, a few mummified oven-chips, a desiccated used teabag and a couple of pieces of cutlery", says Sandettie Light Vessel Automatic. To most people, that's filth. To some of us, that's dinner. Tell us about squalid homes or obsessive cleaners.
( , Thu 25 Mar 2010, 13:00)
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Mrs Vagabond doesn't really have OCD, but definitely does have a thing about pens - they either have their lids on the top, or on the bottom, but ne'er the twain are separate.
Unless I've been in the office, obviously.
In which case the lids are all over the place, including some in a drawer, or a shoe, or similar.
( , Wed 31 Mar 2010, 12:14, 5 replies)

I put the missus's socks in her sock drawer. She asked if there were any odd ones, and I said there were. She immediately became agitated. "They have to go in the odd socks drawer!" she exclaimed. I told her they would be fine, but she got more and more wound up until I went back to the dresser, took out the offending odd sock and put it in her odd socks drawer. Next to its twin. "The other one wasn't in the odd socks drawer, was it?" she asked. I admitted that it was. You would have thought I'd left my coat hanging on the lever that launches our nuclear deterrent by her reaction. She was beside herself at the notion of a PAIR of socks in her odd sock drawer. Seriously, that's OCD.
( , Wed 31 Mar 2010, 12:28, closed)

However, I used to ensure not loosing socks by having a bag for specifically storing dirty pants and sock, as soon as they came off. The whole bag, and its contents, were washed together and never an single sock was lost. I was never happier.
Since moving in with my girlf*, now wife**, I have more odd socks than pairs. Even my rule of 'they only get washed when you have a pair' seems to gets ignored. Mostly odd socks don't worry me too much, but the odd football socks are a frustration.
Not pairing up socks in the odd sock drawer is a tad slack, though, but nothing to get upset about.
*Girl I Really Liked F'ing
**Woman I F Erratically
( , Wed 31 Mar 2010, 12:56, closed)

Her fume hood has the waste solvent bottles in and people leave dirty glassware next to them. She throws a shit over it and clears it up, leaving a note saying "DON'T EVEN THINK ABOUT IT!" in the now clean space. Every day since, he's left a tiny, dirty sample vial on top of the note.
She also delineated their working spaces with masking tape. For the next month, he moved the strip of tape over to her side by a fraction of an inch and claimed nearly a foot off of her space.
( , Wed 31 Mar 2010, 13:48, closed)

out of a household of me, the missus and 3 teenage kids, I'm the only one that believes that the toothpaste lid belongs on the end of the tube rather than on the windowsill or behind the taps.
And that the soap dish shouldn't have an inch of cloudy water in it.
Or Mrs Sandettie's stray hairs belong in the bin and not in the sink after she's brushed her hair.
( , Wed 31 Mar 2010, 14:14, closed)

If the dishwasher is stacked wrongly, more often than not I will unpack and repack it properly. You, know, mugs up top, saucepans on the bottom..
( , Wed 31 Mar 2010, 23:28, closed)
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