Clocks
I'm not that afflicted with OCD, unlike my old man who has his numerous checking routines and ridiculous 'lifting a plate after he's put it down, just so he can put it down again' things.

But I am very pernickety about clocks being accurate. It annoys me that the clock in my car goes a minute slow per month, or thereabouts. My watch gains a second or two each day. I reset it against the radio controlled clock in my office and then use that to synchronise the clocks at home.

But worst of all... my new house has a double oven in the kitchen. Each half of it has a clock for the automatic timer. And even though I reset them to the correct time when I moved in, a week later they had drifted by a good 10s. So I have to reset them on a regular basis, just to make sure they are at the same time. Otherwise I get really annoyed.

My girlfriend, on the other hand, is permanently late for everything and doesn't really bother about the time. In fact, her clock-radio-alarm thingy gains time at quite a rate. At one point it was 40 minutes fast. But rather than resetting it, she just set the alarm for 40 minutes later. The logical thing would have been to reset the time, but she only did this after calculating her alarm time the wrong way, which resulting in it going off 80 minutes early!

I managed to break it (or so she claims) so she's buying a new one. Let's hope she gets one which keeps good time!
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Tue 6 Jul 2010, 12:23, 2 replies)

All clocks do is stress you out - their only purpose is to point out whether you're early or late.
"The pendulum slicing rashers of moment from the bacon of time" - Terry Pratchett.

Reset all your clocks to wrong and free yourself from the tyranny of worry.
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Tue 6 Jul 2010, 12:29, closed)

I do this too
drives me mad if all my clocks aren't exactly accurate and synchronised. Glad I'm not the only weirdo!
(Petite chien is going to do science to it, Tue 6 Jul 2010, 12:33, closed)