As a nurse, and I guess a germaphobe at times, and just generally weird.....I have picked up on a few of my own rediculous behaviors that I guess I have managed to obtain through the years.
1. If drinking from a large open glass on the nurses unit. I cover the glass with a paper towel, put a straw through the top, and bend the straw not up, but down towards the ground..................why..........well, everybody knows germs fall from the sky and into things...like straws.... :chuckle
2. When opening a new can of pop, I wash it under the sink of running water, and then take a paper towel, all smushed up to a point, and go around the rim of the top of the can to get the dirt off, then open it and drink it.
3. I don't let food touch each other on my plate, and I only eat one thing at a time on my plate. I always finish one thing, and then move onto the next.
Anybody else share in this weirdness????????????????? :rotfl:
I'm not sure if this is good or bad, but I feel so at home in this post.....
1-NO shoes in the house. I'm sure i just stepped in some resistant tb mucous on the sidewalk. Now my kids are playing on the floor?
2-toilet must be closed before flushing at home. You can only use a public restroom if you absolutely cannot wait until we get home. Turn away, flush with your foot, and DON'T TOUCH ANYTHING!!
3-When staying at a hotel, all surfaces must be disinfected. Wear flip flops at all times. Bring your own pillow (I don't want to sleep in someone else's drool).
4-Dog's feet are wiped, every time he comes in, with a baby wipe.
LOL. I was at a restaurant once and sent my girls into the bathroom (aged 13 & 5). I got the leftover food boxed up and was waiting...and waiting. They took so long I pushed open the door and yelled for them to see what was taking so long.
An older lady popped out of one of the stalls, saw me in the bathroom with FOOD, gave me a horrified look and started lecturing me while scrubbing her hands up to the elbow and applying hand sanitizer. I didn't bother to correct her misassumption as she kicked the door open with her foot and stomped out. It was funny.
I'm always worried people will think I'm gross when I leave a restroom without washing my hands. The truth is, I prefer to touch as few things as possible in most public restrooms and I always use a hand sanitizer once I have left the area. Give me the benefit of a doubt! :)
Specializes in Med/Surg/Ortho/HH/Radiology-Now Retired.
Thanks folks! You've given me the most laughs I've had all day! :rotfl:
And..... also a BIG sigh of RELIEF!!
I'm NOT the only one!!!! :chuckle :uhoh21: :chuckle
But .... have NEVER before heard of people separating the food on their plate and eating one food at a time! That's intriguing to me.
The thing I still persist in doing after all these years........ making the beds "hospital" style! Y'know, "envelope" corners? :chuckle
I won't begin to describe my cutlery draws to you! :chuckle People just look in disbelief and shake their heads. I tell them it's easier to locate just what I want! Though, I've ceased counting thesedays! :chuckle :chuckle
One thing baffles me, those of you who strip of your scrubs when you get home, arent you bothered by sitting in your cars in the dirty scrubs? Doesnt the hospital offer facilities to change clothes? I'd hate to wear my work clothes outside of the hospital and especially in the car if I thought they were icky.
I refuse to use the mouth breathing technique when something smells funky. I am paranoid that the contaminated odor would enter my mouth and diffuse through my membrane. I would rather get a whiff of it through my nose - that way the dirty air would go through the built-in filter mechanism.
Not a nursing one but my family just does not understand why it drives me CRAZY when they do keep the big plates with the big plates and the little plates with the little plates when they load the dishwasher! They say "what is the big deal?". The big deal is that it drives me insane to open up the dishwasher and have them all scatterd.
I am compulsive about washing my hands before I use the bathroom at work. Weird? Maybe not. I carry alcohol gel in my purse and clean the shopping cart handle when I get to the grocery store or Wally World. I also clean my computer keyboard with it when I get to work and doing charge all day. Also I clean the telephones in the charge area. I think all that is good stuff!
Amen to the animals--I have three dogs myself. And I eat my food the same way: one section at a time, nothing touching each other. I wipe my 'scope down too--it doesn't make any sense to wash our hands, but let the 'scope spread germs everywhere. And I have to have MY pen--if I misplace it, I can't function until I find it.
I have to have coffee in the morning. That and TP are two things that I never allow to run out at my house.
One time a little girl came knocking on my door asking for a peice of TP. Her sister was stranded on the toilet with no TP and thier parents were gone.
Of course I gave her a fresh roll. I watched as she went around the corner passing several other hourses and on to the next street. I wonder what brought her specifically to my door. I actually saw her comming before she arrived at my door and she passed other houses never stopping. Must have had a homing device that detected TP storage.
Everything must be in even numbers, if it's not then the odd thing goes in the middle. For example, remote controls, I have three, 2 big ones and a little one, the little one goes inbetween the big ones.
If I'm driving and the light I go through turns yellow, i touch the visor in my car with my right hand, if it turns red then its with my left.
If I eat something like Lucky Charms, I'll save the marshmallows for last and then eat them according to type and size, for example I'll eat the pots of gold, then rainbows... etc.
Shower curtian must always be closed when not in use.
Mail is always divided by family member and placed on the table in respective piles. None of this, digging through endless mail to find mine.
Any and all papers must be in neat piles.
Everything is in either size or alphabetical order, books, cds, pictures...
If I'm doing something and have to turn one direction, I turn the opposite direction to "counterbalance" the first turn.
I have many more I'm sure I just can't remember them all. I'm sure my boyfriend will be able to point them out later. :rotfl:
I'm just glad I'm not the only wierd one around here:icon_hug:
I think OCD needs to get in the way of your life in order for it to be a disorder. ( bothersome to the person and takes more than one hour) I think it is usually triggered by uncontrollable thoughts etc....or purely obsessional.
I think we all have traits to different types of illnesses, but don't have the illness.................. aren't we all a little nuts...........I hate to meet a perfect person.... I think I would have to kill him/her :biggringi
PS that was an interesting article.
What you all are describing is obsessive compulsive personality disorder versus obsessive compulsive disorder which are different according to the DSM. People with OCD are miserable, people with OCPD are happy and don't think there's anything wrong with the way they are.
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I'm not sure if this is good or bad, but I feel so at home in this post.....
1-NO shoes in the house. I'm sure i just stepped in some resistant tb mucous on the sidewalk. Now my kids are playing on the floor?
2-toilet must be closed before flushing at home. You can only use a public restroom if you absolutely cannot wait until we get home. Turn away, flush with your foot, and DON'T TOUCH ANYTHING!!
3-When staying at a hotel, all surfaces must be disinfected. Wear flip flops at all times. Bring your own pillow (I don't want to sleep in someone else's drool).
4-Dog's feet are wiped, every time he comes in, with a baby wipe.
I could go on an on.......................