Stupid Obsessive Behaviour

YaYa

I have found the 21st century equivalent of Chinese Water Torture, and that is waiting for a text message from someone important

you stare at your phone and your brain goes into fucking crazy over-drive

"when're they gonna reply

are they gonna reply now?

what if their phone is broken

what if my phone is broken

are they going to tell me what I need to know or will I have to keep texting them

wait, shit, did I say something that could be construed as a joke? I didn't, di-"

then your phone vibrates and you check it and the only thing the person says is "lol" and then you break something with your hands


so what other crazy obsessive shit do you people do?

VALVEjunkie

I mash the F5 key so much Its starting to wear out

Weaver

put your damn phone down

MarioG

The lock button on my old iPhone wore out so much that it was almost unusable. So now with my new phone I'm trying to use it less which results in waiting for the display to go to sleep by itself. The problem is that it drives me up the goddamned wall to leave my screen on. So in the end I just stare at my phone trying to make the right decision.

Nogs

go watch porn or something, thatll take your mind off the damn text message




and then just as you are right there

beep beep.

Baroque And Roll

I do that too, YaYa.

I'll leave the apartment, get to the door of my building, and this happens every time. "Did I lock the door? I think I locked the door. Shit, I don't remember locking the door." Walk back upstairs. Door's locked. Phew.

Rinse and repeat with everything small, yet mildly important in my life.

nuka

Waiting on anybody for more than a few minutes is torture.

Especially if you're waiting on them for like an hour or longer, then you start imagining them getting into things like car accidents.

Usually I just wait and pace the floor, I get the feeling that if I get up to do something else, they've arrived or call you or whatever.

Centipede Damascus

why not call them

use voice communication

Charles Kinbote

I am this thread

Kochikens

Baroque And Roll wrote: »

I do that too, YaYa.

I'll leave the apartment, get to the door of my building, and this happens every time. "Did I lock the door? I think I locked the door. Shit, I don't remember locking the door." Walk back upstairs. Door's locked. Phew.

Rinse and repeat with everything small, yet mildly important in my life.

This is a thing that I do constantly. Is my door locked? Did I turn my laptop off? Did I leave the sink on? Stupid shit, such stupid shit that will drive me insane if I don't go check.

Zombies Tossed My Salad!

YaYa wrote: »

I have found the 21st century equivalent of Chinese Water Torture, and that is waiting for a text message from someone important

you stare at your phone and your brain goes into fucking crazy over-drive

"when're they gonna reply

are they gonna reply now?

what if their phone is broken

what if my phone is broken

are they going to tell me what I need to know or will I have to keep texting them

wait, shit, did I say something that could be construed as a joke? I didn't, di-"

then your phone vibrates and you check it and the only thing the person says is "lol" and then you break something with your hands


so what other crazy obsessive shit do you people do?

GOD YES

Pharezon

Charles Kinbote wrote: »

I am this thread

You are a Yaya thread? I am sorry.

Charles Kinbote

Pharezon wrote: »

Charles Kinbote wrote: »

I am this thread

You are a Yaya thread? I am sorry.

it is a hard existence

also even as someone who suffers from both function-impairing neuroses and indescribable social anxiety, you guys need to calm down about text messages

Barcardi

It is much much worse when you do not reply to a text and then you get another text saying "why are you not talking to me?"

Fucking call me if you want to talk, don't text me.

Weaver

I wish my wife would text me back about when the damn paperwork is going to be ready for me to sign.

Seriously

Fuck texting. It's not for me.

Charles Kinbote

the only person with whom I am ever like "ugh text me back already" is a guy friend, and he knows all about my situation so we get to have fun with one another with our texts

he's also nearly impossible to perturb, so I basically go nuts and he is an angel for being patient with me

everyone else, though, I can be pretty bad about texting back. Chill your butt, folks, we'll hang out soon, it's fine

Projeck

i get anxious when people don't reply immediately/quickly on chat clients

i always think i scared them off or something

Raneados

used to have a lot more when i was a kid

now i only have

can't have my clothing turns on itself
can't have any doors open in my room when i sleep
can't have my covers below my neck when sleeping
gotta REMEMBER that i locked my house/car doors or I'll check
gotta get symmetry as often as possible

I Win Swordfights

Everybody likes talking to me so I never worry I am just like oh okay they'll text back later and then they do

YaYa makes a lot of threads

Abracadaniel

I always forget to set my status on Steam and such as away and feel kind of bad when I have a bunch of messages to come back to after work of invites and stuff.


I can be a bit obsessive about checking for replies on Twitter.

Oh and for a while I would check my Google Analytics on my various sites almost daily, mostly because I was curious about who was visiting my sites and/or what Google searches brought them there.

BusterK

I have to flush the toilet and wash my hands after using the bathroom
It's incredibly hard not to do either of these even someone is using the shower or I didn't even use my hands

Goatmon

Raneados wrote: »

gotta get symmetry as often as possible

http://www.lackadaisycats.com/exhibit.php?exhibitid=92

Abracadaniel

I use some papertowels to wipe down the toilets at work

but that's not like an OCD germ thing

it's that I work with cretins that piss on the seats.

I Win Swordfights

I need symmetry in sensation

If I eat something with primarily the right side of my mouth I gotta eat something with the left side

If I itch the left side gotta itch the right side

If water hits my back it's gotta hit my front

L|ama

I never check my phone because people never text me

people never text me because I never check my phone

it's a vicious cycle

Abracadaniel

If people need to get ahold of me they should email me. Almost guarantees a response.

I Win Swordfights

My exgirlfriend has not texted me back since she told me she was engaged

mrpaku

i clean things and places that don't belong to me on a more than frequent basis

i hum when things get akward

i crack my knuckles if danger is imminent

L|ama

Raneados wrote: »

used to have a lot more when i was a kid

now i only have

can't have my clothing turns on itself
can't have any doors open in my room when i sleep
can't have my covers below my neck when sleeping
gotta REMEMBER that i locked my house/car doors or I'll check
gotta get symmetry as often as possible

these

I also can't sleep facing away from a door

the covers thing is probably just due to it being fucking cold in my room most of the time though

also just random habits: When I get bored or have to wait for something I will start reading whatever is in the vicinity, not really that weird, but also if I see a group of numbers I almost involuntarily try to figure out the average of them or some other statistic (temperatures on weather reports, shots per goal on hockey stats at intermissions etc).

Melding

I Win Swordfights wrote: »

My exgirlfriend has not texted me back since she told me she was engaged

Aren't you like 16? why are 16 year olds getting engaged?

Projeck

i count things

The Geek

I Win Swordfights wrote: »

My exgirlfriend has not texted me back since she told me she was engaged

Man, what?

Arrath

Projeck wrote: »

i count things

All things!

And make little games to go along with it.

mrpaku

i double-check for my wallet and keys whenever i move from one place to another

like a couch, or a vehicle, or if i'm in an ethnic neighborhood

Huxley

I have to touch every eye on my stove before I leave the house. Then when that stopped working, I had to start saying out loud to the house, "THE OVEN IS OFF. THE HOUSE ISN'T GOING TO BURN DOWN."

Then it spread to my dog being in her crate when we leave (as opposed to her being left in the backyard). [Pointing to her in her crate] "YOU ARE IN YOUR CRATE, VALENTINE. THERE YOU ARE. IN YOUR CRATE."

Also, order tracking drives me up the wall. I just want to call and yell at people about my package still being in St. Louis.

babyeatingjesus

Waiting on final marks from two math classes I was struggling in over the summer.

Checking every fucking day... three or four times a day.

I have to know if I passed. I'm already in the next course that requires a passing mark and if I failed then I need to drop this class and start over in the fall and not freak out and COME ON MAN POST THE MARKS.

YaYa

Huxley wrote: »

I have to touch every eye on my stove before I leave the house. Then when that stopped working, I had to start saying out loud to the house, "THE OVEN IS OFF. THE HOUSE ISN'T GOING TO BURN DOWN."

Then it spread to my dog being in her crate when we leave (as opposed to her being left in the backyard). [Pointing to her in her crate] "YOU ARE IN YOUR CRATE, VALENTINE. THERE YOU ARE. IN YOUR CRATE."

Also, order tracking drives me up the wall. I just want to call and yell at people about my package still being in St. Louis.

order tracking is my fucking kryptonite

literally wrecked a keyboard f5ing that shit

then I ordered a new keyboard and tracked that

Arrath

Oh yeah, checking my wallet. I check to make sure its there every minute or so that I'm out in public. Same with my phone if I've recently pulled it out to text or whatever.

Edcrab

Man I check whether doors are locked/closed all the damn time too. Whether it's the house door or the refrigerator

Oh and most of the time I need to be on my right side in order to fall asleep. Not sure why that is.

Huxley

Arrath wrote: »

Oh yeah, checking my wallet. I check to make sure its there every minute or so that I'm out in public. Same with my phone if I've recently pulled it out to text or whatever.

Terrible about this, too. If I'm in public, I'll usually move my wallet to my front pocket and just keep my hand in my pocket resting on it. I'm the guy at the concert in the corner with his hands in his pockets, but not because I'm too cool for dancing. I'm just afraid someone's going to steal my insurance card (??) or will think I'm weird with just one hand in my pocket (hence, the other one).