My wife has this pet hate as well. I have spent time sitting in the car at Tesco’s while she sorts out the trolley’s left to the mercy of the supermarket car park.
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What triggers your inner OCD?
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You can tell it’s intl week, and I created this discussion not to trivialize the topic, but I was just thinking what little things really get you when it comes to disturbing your equilibrium?
For example, I can’t have unclean kitchen surfaces or pools of water. I can see my missus making a cup of coffee, and it’s spilling all over the side and I’m like aaaaah. They have to be wiped down and dry. To be fair, hers is when I leave the dishes all stacked up on the sink and never put them away, and many others I’m sure.
Another one that gets me is any sort of stain I get on my clothes if I’m out and I get a splatter of food after eating. My mind is really thrown if that happens.
For example, I can’t have unclean kitchen surfaces or pools of water. I can see my missus making a cup of coffee, and it’s spilling all over the side and I’m like aaaaah. They have to be wiped down and dry. To be fair, hers is when I leave the dishes all stacked up on the sink and never put them away, and many others I’m sure.
Another one that gets me is any sort of stain I get on my clothes if I’m out and I get a splatter of food after eating. My mind is really thrown if that happens.
I’m just curious to know what other things get under your skins. Are you someone that can’t have a book out of place on a book shelf, do your keys have to be in a certain place etc?
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The thread on electrical socket and lights switch screws all have to be horizontal. Other than that....nothing.0
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Don't know if this really counts, but we had a set of white dishes and plates that had a neat stripe down one side, they drove me nuts as all the stripes had to line up, despite being in the cupboard stacked away most of the time, it got to the point where during the adverts I would go and check they hadn't moved, wife really started thinking I was losing it when I took a hammer to the lot.8
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People who don't put their shopping trollies back in the correct place and leave it for others to do. Also if they do manage to get as far as the trolley bay, they just leave the trolley without slotting it into the others, resulting a tangled mess.
If I see small trollies jammed into bigger ones and vice versa, I feel the need to tidy them up.3 -
Same for me.
Clean worktops - with a clean dishcloth, followed by antibacterial wipes. All dirty plates and cups in dishwasher.
Clean windows and no smear marks - house, cars and even workshop windows.
Nicely stacked firewood.
Only use wetwipes, no toilet paper.
Can't beat opening the dishwasher and getting out a sparkling pint glass for a glass of water0 -
.....sorry, forgot car parks and people who don't park square in the boxes. Seems to be a cultural thing in France, to not obey the arrows in car parks and park wonky.1
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Glasses and mugs - they have to be facing upside down, but wine glasses (or ones with stems) have to be upright in the cupboard. Mrs Otto does all of them facing upright just to piss me off.0
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People holding glasses from the top. It never ceases to amaze me how many bar staff think this is acceptable even in this post-covid era. I'm often tempted to tell them to stop manhandling my rim, but I never do.10
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Gribbo said:Same for me.
Clean worktops - with a clean dishcloth, followed by antibacterial wipes. All dirty plates and cups in dishwasher.
Clean windows and no smear marks - house, cars and even workshop windows.
Nicely stacked firewood.
Only use wetwipes, no toilet paper.
Can't beat opening the dishwasher and getting out a sparkling pint glass for a glass of water
How are your drains?5 -
Septic tanks fine thanks mate.Dave Rudd said:Gribbo said:Same for me.
Clean worktops - with a clean dishcloth, followed by antibacterial wipes. All dirty plates and cups in dishwasher.
Clean windows and no smear marks - house, cars and even workshop windows.
Nicely stacked firewood.
Only use wetwipes, no toilet paper.
Can't beat opening the dishwasher and getting out a sparkling pint glass for a glass of water
How are your drains?
The wipes get bagged up in small paper bags and either put on log burner I the winter, or in the bin in the summer2 -
Files on my computer in a logical hierarchy of folders.
Nothing is left in the sink or on the draining board when I go to bed.0 -
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Toilet roll needs to hang this way.
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ME14addick said:People who don't put their shopping trollies back in the correct place and leave it for others to do. Also if they do manage to get as far as the trolley bay, they just leave the trolley without slotting it into the others, resulting a tangled mess.
If I see small trollies jammed into bigger ones and vice versa, I feel the need to tidy them up.2 -
HORIZONTAL!!!!SporadicAddick said:The thread on electrical socket and lights switch screws all have to be horizontal. Other than that....nothing.
I have been in the electrical game all my working life and never, never have I met a sparkie who would tighten his screws and leave them horizontal including myself.
Slots in screws must, and have to be vertical.3 -
When I was at college, we were taught to leave the slots going same way as grain in the timber. If I'm using slot headed screws, I always have the slots going the same waySporadicAddick said:The thread on electrical socket and lights switch screws all have to be horizontal. Other than that....nothing.1 -
"Grain in the timber", what course were you on, how to build a log cabin?Gribbo said:
When I was at college, we were taught to leave the slots going same way as grain in the timber. If I'm using slot headed screws, I always have the slots going the same waySporadicAddick said:The thread on electrical socket and lights switch screws all have to be horizontal. Other than that....nothing.
No timber in sight nowadays, by the time the second fix takes place and screw direction is being considered its all painted walls.0 -
No! That picture has actually annoyed me. So much so that I am going to have to break in to your house later on and put the rollthe other way round.Scoham said:Toilet roll needs to hang this way.9 -
Close, it was traditional boatbuilding college at Oulton Broadeaststandmike said:
"Grain in the timber", what course were you on, how to build a log cabin?Gribbo said:
When I was at college, we were taught to leave the slots going same way as grain in the timber. If I'm using slot headed screws, I always have the slots going the same waySporadicAddick said:The thread on electrical socket and lights switch screws all have to be horizontal. Other than that....nothing.
No timber in sight nowadays, by the time the second fix takes place and screw direction is being considered its all painted walls.2 -
Get very annoyed if I get a wonky stripe mowing the lawn2
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That probably explains why in every house I've lived at I've had to walk round and slightly adjust all the screws...eaststandmike said:
HORIZONTAL!!!!SporadicAddick said:The thread on electrical socket and lights switch screws all have to be horizontal. Other than that....nothing.
I have been in the electrical game all my working life and never, never have I met a sparkie who would tighten his screws and leave them horizontal including myself.
Slots in screws must, and have to be vertical.3 -
I don't like touching things that hundreds of people have touched without washing my hands after. Like the handle on a public toilet door or the rail on the train.4
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I am a bloody nightmare with keeping the house clean and tidy….
Handprints on the bi fold doors wind me up
Gloss black doors on cupboards. Get a scratch on one of them and I will order a new door.
I go through mr muscle glass cleaner like nothing else
Cant go out without the beds being made
All cushions puffed back up on the sofa at the end of every dayAnd then my car.
Any marks or dirt on the alloys and I am out with a bucket of hot water and scrubbing away at all hours.
Hoover it out every couple of days.
When I park on the drive it has to be parked in exactly the right place and angle. If the missus drives it on all skew-whiff I need to move it back.
And like other posters - got a real thing with germs and cleanliness. Will always touch door handles and the like with my coat sleeve instead of my hand.
Bloody hell - reading that back I have issues!5 -
@DamoNorthStand are you sure you're not my Mum? The number of lectures I used to get as a kid about leaving greasy fingerprints on the cupboard doors...
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My daddy was a boatbuilder, but he never hurt nobody.Gribbo said:
Close, it was traditional boatbuilding college at Oulton Broadeaststandmike said:
"Grain in the timber", what course were you on, how to build a log cabin?Gribbo said:
When I was at college, we were taught to leave the slots going same way as grain in the timber. If I'm using slot headed screws, I always have the slots going the same waySporadicAddick said:The thread on electrical socket and lights switch screws all have to be horizontal. Other than that....nothing.
No timber in sight nowadays, by the time the second fix takes place and screw direction is being considered its all painted walls.3 -
Alright Mike! You’ve put a couple of shelves up around Paulies house now you’ve turned in to Bob the Builder.eaststandmike said:
"Grain in the timber", what course were you on, how to build a log cabin?Gribbo said:
When I was at college, we were taught to leave the slots going same way as grain in the timber. If I'm using slot headed screws, I always have the slots going the same waySporadicAddick said:The thread on electrical socket and lights switch screws all have to be horizontal. Other than that....nothing.
No timber in sight nowadays, by the time the second fix takes place and screw direction is being considered its all painted walls. 4 -
Stop talking back to me @aliwibble or the Wifi is going off.aliwibble said:@DamoNorthStand are you sure you're not my Mum? The number of lectures I used to get as a kid about leaving greasy fingerprints on the cupboard doors...3 -
The upper cutlery tray in my dishwasher. I can’t stand it when the utensils are not grouped correctly. There3
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Sorry, we have this issue in our house and I think you are wrong. The way shown in the photo is correct because the pattern on the roll is visible. However, Mrs Plumb agrees with you…….ricky_otto said:
No! That picture has actually annoyed me. So much so that I am going to have to break in to your house later on and put the rollthe other way round.Scoham said:Toilet roll needs to hang this way.0 -
Yes and feel free to go and check which way the slots in the screws are facingricky_otto said:
Alright Mike! You’ve put a couple of shelves up around Paulies house now you’ve turned in to Bob the Builder.eaststandmike said:
"Grain in the timber", what course were you on, how to build a log cabin?Gribbo said:
When I was at college, we were taught to leave the slots going same way as grain in the timber. If I'm using slot headed screws, I always have the slots going the same waySporadicAddick said:The thread on electrical socket and lights switch screws all have to be horizontal. Other than that....nothing.
No timber in sight nowadays, by the time the second fix takes place and screw direction is being considered its all painted walls.
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I don't think I have any at all and am now worried that that is, in itself, a problem. 😂1
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freakAthletico Charlton said:I don't think I have any at all and am now worried that that is, in itself, a problem. 😂
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