Sunday, June 17, 2012

Is This Normal? Everything You Never Wanted to Know...

I have a lot of weird tendencies.  Do you?  I have started noticing some of my weird thinking and wondering if other people have weird little habits or if I am just a real live case of OCD.


  • If I go to the bathroom in the dark during the night, I always tend to think "what if there was a snake in the toilet?"  As of yet, there has never been a snake in the toilet that I am aware of. 
  • I almost always talk myself out of using the bathroom.   I will think "I need to pee....no I don't....I can wait."   Then I will finally give in when my kidneys start hurting.  (well....maybe I don't wait that long).  
  • Once I make it to the bathroom I think of how I am going to be a rebel and not flush the toilet.   "I am not going to flush the toilet....what would it matter? It is my house. It can wait till next time."   Then I give in and go ahead and flush. 
  • The next step is to think I can be a rebel by not washing my hands.  "No one will ever know."  I give in and wash them begrudgingly.  

If I am in a public restroom the same rules apply but I add a few more.

  •  I cannot go in a stall and use the bathroom if I have seen the person who came out of it.  It creeps me out to know how the seat got warm. In order to not look rude, I will go in and pretend to pee.  Other times, if the opportunity presents itself, I will just pretend I didn't need to pee and only needed to look in the mirror and or stand there oddly.  
  • I cannot use the toilet paper that is hanging out of the dispenser. I must rip off a few squares because I know that those squares were touched by someone who was ripping off their squares.  
  • I will avoid touching the door on the way out at all costs.   If this means using a paper towel to open the handle and then running the risk of not being able to launch it all the way across the room into the trashcan, I take it.   So if you ever see a stray paper towel near a trash can and think "who would do that," it is me.  Sorry. I just don't want to touch the door. There are some people who might have actually been rebellious and not washed their hands.  

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