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12-02-2022, 06:21 PM | #1 |
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When I got home yesterday, my wife told me my new Levis arrived and were on the bed waiting for me to do my "ritual." I asked her wtf she meant, and she said, "You know, that thing you do where you inspect each pair for damage/defects, try them on, then if all goes well, carefully remove all the tags and keep them on the dresser for the next week or so." I was like, "ritual" implies I do something out of the ordinary...is what I do weird?
She then told me it was how she first knew I probably grew up poor, and then related this story: when we were first dating, she wanted to spend time with me, called me up and I told her I had to do laundry because I let it pile up and work was the next day, but she could come hang out if she wanted. She did, and then she watched as I did my "ritual" with some new Levis. She's perceptive as all fuck, and rightly surmised that new Levis must've been a rare thing to me at some point and that these jeans were special to me. She then started noticing how I take care of shit, fix stuff/make things last and rarely get new things just to get new things. Anyway, it's something I hadn't even really realized I did, let alone that someone else had noticed it. Anyone else have something similar?
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12-02-2022, 06:45 PM | #2 |
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Your wife is Batman.
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12-02-2022, 06:48 PM | #3 |
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Haha! I'm convinced women are more Batman than most men. They notice shit!
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12-03-2022, 12:04 AM | #4 |
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12-03-2022, 12:21 AM | #5 |
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Drove my mom nuts as I grew up, I ate all of one thing on my plate before I moved onto the next one. When my future wife ate with us the first time, mom declared " Oh, my, you waited until you found one that ate like you!" I hadn't noticed she had the same habit.
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12-03-2022, 12:40 AM | #6 |
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I'm not sure if this qualifies, but when I go to lock my car with the remote, I give it a little tap with my knuckles afterwords. It's an OCD thing and I don't even know when it started. My dad had a lot of OCD tendencies and I was blessed to inherit some of them too. One time I was two steps from the car and look up and my girl is giving me a sly smirk cause she saw I just realized I forgot to tap the car and I am going to take two steps back to do it. Thankfully, she finds it funny and endearing.
Granted, it isn't as bad as Joey Ramone needing to fly back from England to New York to tap a curb, but if I'm still at the car, I do it.
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12-03-2022, 05:09 AM | #7 |
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I'm obsessive about keeping my hands clean. I wash them constantly. As a result, I rarely get sick, but it's still beyond the norm. I also count to myself as I am washing, to ensure I keep washing them for at least 30 seconds.
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12-03-2022, 08:50 AM | #8 |
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I'm not sure if this qualifies, but when I go to lock my car with the remote, I give it a little tap with my knuckles afterwords. It's an OCD thing and I don't even know when it started. My dad had a lot of OCD tendencies and I was blessed to inherit some of them too. One time I was two steps from the car and look up and my girl is giving me a sly smirk cause she saw I just realized I forgot to tap the car and I am going to take two steps back to do it. Thankfully, she finds it funny and endearing.
Granted, it isn't as bad as Joey Ramone needing to fly back from England to New York to tap a curb, but if I'm still at the car, I do it. Like your wife, mine sat in the driver?s seat and waited because she knew I was going to get out of the vehicle and check again just to be sure. |
12-03-2022, 12:29 PM | #9 |
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Yeah, I think OCD stuff often stems from something else too. Like, my apparent OCD of checking over new Levis comes from the desire to not inadvertently spend a lot of money on something with a defect or flaw that could lesson the life I get out of them (when I was young they were outrageously expensive to me, and fuck, they still are!) and because I just want to enjoy the "newness" of them for a minute since that was so rare to me as a kiddo.
But anyway, I noticed I was becoming way too OC about figures at one time, standing in a toy aisle comparing face paint apps and shit like that. I reined that one in by realizing there's no "perfect," looking for it is a waste of time, all it does is lessen my simple enjoyment, and remembering that I was just thrilled to get what I got when I was kid.
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12-03-2022, 01:39 PM | #10 |
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I've often heard OCD can be a byproduct of anxiety, at least the kind with our little rituals and lock checking (done that one before too). I suppose that makes sense when it presents as a need for order as well.
I notice it most among collectors with the completest mentally. I had a talk with myself years ago about why I was buying figures I didn't really care for and the only answer was because they were part of the line. Stopping that behavior was the best collecting choice I ever made. Toy companies know this as well. That is the exact reason classified has numbers on the sides of the boxes. A large number of collectors may hate figure 19 (just randomly using a number) but damned if it doesn't drive them nuts to have 18 next to 20 on their shelf. Then we get exclusives, variants, etc.
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