What things do you have to have just so?

[bewitched]

Originally Posted by katiesue

I don't like my food mixed together. I'd be happy if everyone used lunch trays.

Ugh. I hate my food mixed together (unless it is something that is intended to be mixed like red beans and rice). I too would be thrilled if the world served food on divided plates. IMO, the worst thing to hit fine dining was (is) the "artistic" display of foods by stacking-- especially steak on mashed potatoes. I have sent food back to be reprepared because I can't eat a steak w/mashed potatoes all over it.

That aside, I must bathe in a certain order (shampoo, face scrub, soap, shave, rinse, bath oil).

Sauce/dressing has to be on the side.

Lines must be straight.

Pencil must be erased completely.

Papers have to be stacked and squared.

I strongly prefer odd groupings of anything...including fish, pieces of food, shrubs, whatever.

I have to pee right before bed. If it's been more than about 5 minutes, I have to start over.

Forgetting my cell makes me very anxious.

I'm sure there are many more.

What's funny is that I am known as pretty AR about so many things but generally really laid back. And my house is a complete disaster...other than the islands of ARness.

[flippyshark]

Originally Posted by JWBear

I also hate when you order pasta in a restaurant and they set the garlic bread right on top of the sauce. I've been known to send the bread back and request a fresh piece on a separate plate.

Somebody please send this to every Italian restaurant on the planet!

[LSPoorEeyorick]

Originally Posted by Kevy Baby

Doesn't EVERYONE do this?

No. But I'm not a glasses-rim-up person, either. Or a random-rim-placement person. My cabinet is small and my glasses are wide, so in order to make everything fit perfectly, they are placed just so:

rim up rim down rim up rim down
rim down rim up rim down rim up
rim up rim down rim up rim down

[Kevy Baby]

Originally Posted by bewitched

That aside, I must bathe in a certain order (shampoo, face scrub, soap, shave, rinse, bath oil).

It is amazing how others are reminding me of my own rituals

(In shower)Shampoo, rinse, ALWAYS start with the left arm when washing, followed by the right, body front, body back, legs, privates, face, rinse, wash piercing, rinse
(Out of shower)Hair, deodorant, shave, teeth (with a specific order of brushing), vitamins/drugs

[SacTown Chronic]

Originally Posted by JWBear

. Also, if meat juice gets into my mashed potatoes, I can't eat them. <shudder>

Oh you sick m**********r. I would eat mashed human flesh if I could dip it in any number of meat juices. I could name 50 things I'd mix with mashed potatoes including just about every animal juice known to man.


/has never met a food that can't be mixed with another food to make it better
//can you tell I'm Irish?

[SacTown Chronic]

Balls before face is poor form, Kevin.

[alphabassettgrrl]

I don't *have* to have them, but I guess I have my general ritual type things.

Glasses in cupboard rim down. All the silverware in my drawer nests, all facing the same way in their little compartments.

I like my morning cup of tea, and time to catch up on the internet stuff.

Tend to eat my food one type at a time; don't care if the stuff mixes a bit on the plate. Toast needs to be buttered all the way to the edge.

Shower: wash hair, conditioner, use soap, wash face, rinse everything.

I pee after brushing my teeth and before bed. Even if I've peed five minutes ago.

Getting in the car to drive, I generally start the engine before putting on my seat belt.

Husband asks that we put the TP going over the top. Luckily, the cat has not discovered this "toy."

My books on the bookshelf need to have the titles going the same way. My pens are in their little cups point down. Mostly.

[SacTown Chronic]

Yeah, I pee before bed even if I'm empty, too. There's no greater hardship than walking 15 feet to the bathroom in the middle of the night.

[Ghoulish Delight]

I couldn't think of anything until the shower was mentioned:

1. Wet hair
2. 1st shampoo application (don't rinse)
3. Wash face
4. Rise shampoo and face
5. 2nd shampoo application (don't rinse)
6. Armpits
7. Body
8. Rinse shampoo and soap

-If I'm shaving-

8. Apply shaving cream
9. Apply conditioner (don't rinse)
10. Shave
11. Final rinse

NEVER DEVIATE. EVER.



And all foods mix. All.

[scaeagles]

I must have condiments spread evenly on the surface of the bread of a sandwich.

Toast must be buttered all the way to the edges.

My cell phone must be in my left front pocket and money clip and keys must be in my right front pocket.

If I am barefoot and step on a texture with one foot, I must step on the same texture with the other foot.

We could change this thread title to the OCD thread.