anal or detail oriented?
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- sauerbraten
wow, i find myself aligning windows on my screen, stupid little things and reorganizing forks/napkins on a dinner table to be parallel..
anybody else? i'm not OCD or anything, just little habits i have.
- jpowell0
i'm with you there sauerbraten.
i find myself aligning things to an invisable grid all the time. even on my desk.i also mentally think "apple z" when i mess something up. like if i drop something or spill something i think undo... or revert.
i think its a combo of being anal and too much computer time.
- taragee0
heh this reminds me of a funny story my AE called me "anal queen" iin front of a client and i busted out laughing...
- ********0
yup. same here_
and I can't stop to use the _ at the end of some sentences.
dunno why_
- mrdobolina0
tara, I saw that movie Anal Queen, great film.
- mitsu0
i remember going out one night and seeing some text on a sign somewhere and wanting so badly do CTRL + C it...
sad, sad, sad...
- Bio0
i skip stones.
- atomica0
I do this all the time, especially the edit undo thing, I also come close to utter "Beee- Arrr Beee" when I have to go away and attend to something, IRL. Sad stuff, and the grid thing all the way, has to be perfect....
- sauerbraten0
on a side note, other weird things you do when you're a kid right? when i was in the car with my mom running errands or whatever, pick a spec out on the windsheld, close one eye, and always make sure that point is over the line of trees or power lines along side the road.
funny shit, cause when we're going through a highy wooded area, i'd be on the floor.. my mom would be like, "what are you doing?" try explaining that.. haha
- mitsu0
ha! i did stuff like that as a kid too.
- jpowell0
you sound like an eccentric one sauerbraten
- blastofv0
saurbraten— I thought I was the only one! I still do that spec-on-the-windshield thing in my mid-twenties.
I wonder if that sort of behavior leads to a career in graphic design—ha!
- Mal0
I don't do anal.
- seas_of_rhye0
oh, he is.
- blastofv0
oh, and I get pissed off when someone adds an item to my shopping list in their own handwriting. screws up my typogrpahy.
- fusion410
Isn’t OCD a mild form of turrets syndrome.
Do you mutter obsenities uncontrolably or feel compelled to touch everything you see?
- mitsu0
speaking of OCD's, an friend of mine's mother is OC and she puts her trash on the kitchen counters and will not put her pots, pans, etc in the empty cupboards. and she always takes everything in the house and arranges it on the floor of the families dining room and spare bedrooms. (now they're having to sleep on the couch in the living room). weird!
- Mal0
holy shit, she needs a wee bit o help.
- Bio0
hahaaaaa i used to do that spec on the windshield thing.
- Jamesh0
I lick in sets of 3.
:)
- sauerbraten0
glad i'm not the only one!
luckily, i only blurt out cuss words and make obscene gestures in client meetings..
go figure!