Screws should be clocked to the vertical, not the horizontal, to keep the dust from settling onto the slot.

SmileWavy

After a heavy rain I pick up earthworms from the sidewalk with my knife blade and drop them in the garden areas. Partly for the earthworm and knowing they will help the garden and NOT be dried up and stuck to the sidewalk in the sun.

I align the money in my wallet to be in order and all facing the same way.

My closet would throw any OCD person into fits. Shirts are just whatever random order they come from the dryer.

Grocery store parking lot......shopping carts must all be straightened out and consolidated in the cart rack properly before leaving...no one notices....but it feels so right! :)

On boats, all screw slots should face fore and aft, anything less is sloppy workmanship.

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1460034550.jpg

As this picture illustrates, proper torque is as important, if not more important, than the orientation of the screw head. Note that in his zeal to attain his chosen screw slot orientation this installer over torqued the right top screw and cracked the plate. Proper torque is 0.112 Newton-meter people! Observe your standards here.

When alone and bored (not often) I practice my hand writing. Also, I only use fountain pens.

The defense rests.

Why even have slotted screws? Everything should be Phillips!

Whenever I'm faced with the choice of doing something right or making more money I'll always do it right. My wife notices that...
I always give room to motorcycles lane splitting. I used to ride and it's the least courtesy I can extend.
Many others already said - sweep street in front of my house, hold doors, say please and thank you, sir and ma'am.
And never never refer to people as "folks"

I keep the bills in my wallet in ascending order, largest denomination at the back, smallest at the front. All have the front side facing forwards.

If I have multiple currencies in there, I keep them in separate dividers.

I am definitely OCD. I check and double check doors are locked, side gate and back gate locked. Double check hand brake is off before proceeding to drive.

Recently our neighbours went away. I look after their house. A day after they left I check their back door. It is unlocked. I go into the house and the backburner on the stove is full on. I am OCD for a reason....

If people notice I am OCD so be it.:)

I put the toilet seat down no matter what.


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When coding all my folders and such have to have the same structure and capitalization, even if it doesn't matter to the program and no one else on earth will see it.

I am with Glen on this: I align the money in my wallet to be in order and all facing the same way. My wife never understood this for the longest time.

I could be wrong, but I suspect that the Post count here on Pelican is a pretty good measure of OCD

I wait for people to exit the elevator before I get on.
When I'm on an elevator I allow the ladies to exit first (if possible).
Also guilty of aligning the screws on the switch plate but good gosh I would never point it out to anyone.

That is just very nice behaviour!

I hate it when I leave a train (or elevator or bus) and the new passengers are storming the doors before I get out.

I've always done this and I fold my toilet paper. ;)

I always eat two bowls of pasta, 1 just doesn't feel right.

I pick up trash and put it in a trash can.
At work, at home, at the store, doesn't matter. If I see a piece of trash on the floor I'll pick it up and look for a trash can. It's an obsession.
I don't have to pick up all the trash, just one or two pieces.

I also step over cracks and joints in the cement when possible. I don't HAVE to do it and still step on the odd joint, but if I can step over one without looking like a Monty Python skit I'll do it.

The wife is so used to it she doesn't even notice anymore.

maintain the Keurig coffee maker at work. I'm almost always the first one in in the morning. I clean it, descale when needed, clear the coffee grounds from the hot water tubes and packet holder and make sure it full of filtered water. I also make sure its square with the wall behind it and 6 inches to the left of the outlet. I do need to check the screw head orientation, haven't noticed where they are.

Bills in my wallet or the cash drawer must be aligned. I got $100 in $5's from the bank and the teller counting them out for me had one out of alignment. I said "You're going to give me those with one turned the wrong way?", and he chuckled, fixed it, and handed it to me. I guess this is pretty common.

Always grab a wayward cart on the way from the parking lot into the store even if I don't need it. Helps the poor guy who has to round up carts just a little bit.

When pulling up to a stoplight in the right lane I leave enough room on my right for those wanting to turn right on red.

Always back in to my driveway unless the maneuver impedes traffic on my little street, then I'll pull in forwards. Doesn't happen often though. Drives my wife nuts!

When I was working HVAC for my OCD dad (still recovering) ;) he would routinely drop by the job to "inspect" (he was ex USAF and ex-military school... used to 'inspect" my room when I was a child... still recovering.

It didn't take long for me to realize he would not leave the job site until he found something wrong. He also almost always showed up between 10 and noon... around 11 I would instruct the guys to leave one grill off or one fitting uninsulated... "but your dad is going show up!" "I know just do what I say"
Dad would show up "hey, you forgot to install that grill!" "okay dad, we got it."
And he would jump in his truck and take off.
After a short time the crew could see what I was up to and they never questioned me when I asked them to leave something undone.

I worked in a grocery store as a kid.

Shopping, when I grab something off the shelf, I face the remaining products to the front edge of the shelf and rotate label out if necessary. I'll also return stuff that people have dumped in the wrong part of the store after they have decided upon something else.

I purposely leave grocery carts in the far end of the parking lot on sunny days, because I used to enjoy spending the time outside retrieving them when the weather was good.

By wdfifteen: ^^^ This fits me to a "T"

By Oh Haha: Perhaps you should give Robertsons a try - a more practical & forgiving driven screw head.

Cheers
JB

I turn off all the lights that are left on and close all the cabinet doors that are left open. Pretty sure nobody notices...

Pick worms up off the drive and throw them in the grass before they shrivel up in the hot sun! Lol

If I use medical tape I fold the ends over to create pull tabs not only on the body but the tape rolls.

I spend the night out on work once every three weeks and I try to get the same hotel room as much as possible It's a bit larger and I can move around in the dark with out hitting anything

My pillow and sheets travel with me

Y'all are all crazy...if crazy was a country you could see it from Palin's front porch:D

I am peccadillo free:cool:

All my coat hangers match. I cannot stand the cheap wire ones that dry cleaners use.

I coat every nut and bolt with anti-seize compound.

Before I drop a piece of mail into a mailbox- I check- and re-check that there is a stamp, return address, and that the mail-to address is showing. If my car keys are the same hand as is holding the mail- I put them in my other hand and deliberately place them in my pocket, before putting the envelopes anywhere near the mailbox opening.

Storm drains also freak me out. If I am in a parking lot, getting read to unlock the car, and I walk near a drain, I clutch my keys as if some gnome with a strong electromagnet in the drainage ditch is going to turn it on and fling the keys from my hand.

Cohesion is bad. Adhesion is better. Mechanical retention is best. I always strive to incorporate mechanical retention in any project where something is joined, even if the glue joint should be adequate.

I don't think this is OCD, with kids in the house, no one seems to care that all the lights are on, and all the cupboards (and tool box drawers) are open. It is just trying to be efficiient, and safe by shutting things off, and closing drawers.

Same thing with having all the money in my wallet aligned, and facing the same direction. At a glance, I know how much is in there, and it makes it much easier to grab what I want.

I don't have anything color coordinated in my closet, or bedroom drawers, but I do have things neatly folded by category....more efficient that way.

I have a friend who was apalled when I opened up an M&Ms bag and just ate whatever came out first, she has to arrange by color, and eat one color at a time.

Wait ..... you're married AND you have $100 bills in your wallet?

I thought they called that just being a dad.

^^^^^^^ And as a side note, I scanned my above post, and went back to edit the corrections before someone else made mention of them.

LOL! Good catch - of course I don't have $100! That was getting change for the Pop Warner snack bar during a tournament last fall.

...and a husband.

I always lean left when wiping. Pretty sure no one know or cares. Well, more people know now. Still don't care.

We already know some...

I use my turn signals.

Framing must be perfectly, exactly, level and square. Same for floor joists - they need to be completely level too. No nail bumps either when drywall goes up.

I've also signed and dated one stud out of each wall I've built or repaired and left a newspaper inside one. Maybe someday it'll give someone something to look at.

Sounds to me like you're just being careful.

My ex-wife was an OCD sufferer and so was her father. She was compulsive about baseboards. The rest of the house could be a total dump, but she would rub her knuckles raw scrubbing the baseboards all over the house.
Her dad had to tap his foot on the floor some number of times, like three or so, on each side of his shoe before he put it on. He had to put the left one on first and tie it before tapping his foot and putting on the other shoe. He had to step through a door with his right foot first every time. If he didn't and couldn't go back and pass through the door again he couldn't function - couldn't talk or anything.