Thought of some more
If I'm using the microwave to make something, it has to have completely used up all the time I've given it before I can take something out. If I can see that whatever is inside is about to catch fire, then I will take it out but I have to delete whatever time is left. Going to use the microwave and finding 37 seconds leftover from whoever has used it last freaks me out, it needs to be a clean start.

When I'm driving, I have a set routine - engine on, lock all the doors, seatbelt on, window, light fag, check mirrors, and go. I can't take my handbrake off until all this is done. Locking the doors drives my mates mad when they try to get out and find themselves trapped, but I just feel safer driving with doors locked, regardless of where I am or what time it is.

If I need to get up early, at say 4.30am, I have to set about ten different alarms all spaced out in multiples of five or ten from about 3.30 - so 3.30, 3.40, 3.45 etc until I've reached 4.30.

I eat most of my food in a pattern - a piece of steak, piece of potato, piece of veg etc until it's all gone.

Doing the washing up has to be done in a pattern for me too. It goes: glasses, cutlery, plates, then really dirty things like pots/pans. If anyone tries to help me, I have to shoo them away, I just don't think they'll be clean unless I do it that way.

In work, I have the most OCD habits ever. I work in a coffee shop, and I have my own way of doing things. If I'm on bar making drinks and anyone tries to help me, I can't let them - them 'helping' me messes it up, and I end up worse off than I was before they came along.

Control freak? Moi?
(Twinx, Thu 1 Jul 2010, 23:26, Reply)