What's the thing you do that no one notices, but you always do it anyway?
 

There's lots of proud craftsmen and women on this board.

What kind of unnecessary obsessions do you fellas feel obliged to obey?

I do a cleanup thing with my photoshop masks at work that literally no one will or would ever notice or care, and it matters not a whit that I do it, but it's just a little housecleaning for my files and I'm compulsive about it:

What I'm talking about is making a selection of the final clipping path, spreading the selection 2 pixels, inverting and then cleaning up all my working masks with 100% black, feathered .3 pixels. I've even got an action set up to make it happen with one push of a button!

Since the files are ultimately flattened and the clipping path will dictate the edge of the image, it is just a waste of time, but my working layers are nice and tidy!

And it makes me happy. SmileWavy

I fart when exiting a crowded elevator.

Seriously though, all the screws in my light switches and outlets are perfectly horizontal.

I face all the cat food cans perfectly forward. Ziggy & Baby haven't even noticed :(

My pool is clean

I put Brad Penn in my garden tractor.

Verticlal screws here...I notice people's mis matched, crooked screws...stupid thing I know.

I point the Porsche Crest on my center caps towards the valve stem.

This is why everything I do takes twice as long as it should. I'm always thinking about the guy 20-30 years from now looking at something I've done. I live with creating this invisible legacy of people who don't know me saying, "This guy really cared about his work." I always do my best. It has been my curse.

Yep, I did the crest bit with my wheels too.

The HVAC vents in my vehicles have to be horizontal. The screws for my outlets have to match when there are 2. 1 doesn't matter but it has to vertical or horizontal.

The cymbal holding screws on my drumkit have to all be oriented the same way. The only exception is the one that is round. The others are t-style.


Wow, I have problems!:(

I say "please" and "thank you"...

Mine have to be vertical. About 20 years ago, I changed the way the toilet paper hangs on the roll due to a girlfriend...she's long gone, but I still can't go back....it would be so wrong now :D

I'm also with stomach monkey about vertical or horizontal screws, especially on switch covers.

I don't care which way it hangs off of the roll as long as there is a tail hanging. It really pisses me off when Mrs WD rips off a wad and leaves the end stuck to the roll. I am meticulous about leaving a tail.
I want this mentioned in my eulogy.

Add one more pinch of salt, sugar, cream etc to most things I am cooking. Hard to leave well enough alone.

I correct other people's spelling when replying to a forum post or in an email.

Most of the time it's just a typo...but sometimes there's a grammar issue - either way...I can't let it go.

I sweep the driveway twice a day, keeping the asphalt at a mirror shine.
(Maybe it was from working in jungle garages without a walking path)

The bed sheets are washed at least once a year.

You only think no one notices.

When I pull up behind a motorcycle at a stop light, I angle my car and turn the wheels so if someone hits me from behind, I won't hit the guy on the scoot.

When I do surgery on someone with sketchy tissue or vascular status, the only thing that touches the skin is the scalpel and the suture or staples when I am closing.

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This should make some of you happy

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*******!

Everything! Figure I'd have to get abducted by aliens for a couple of months before I'd truly be appreciated.

Tune my guitar / bass before I play.
Rev match or double clutch when I shift.
Clean up after others at work.
Make fun of people who don't notice because they are too self absorbed.
Crop dust.

Not a biggie, but I pick up snails off the footpath and put them over the fence. It's so sad seeing the little fellas knowing they won't survive the day if I don't.

The OCD is strong with these ones. :)

I have never heard of anybody aligning the screws on light switches before. You guys are whack!

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I have a 4 gang switch plate. I'll go take a pic of it in the morning for you guys. ;)


I don't have the time to worry about which way they are pointing. As long as all the screws are the same color. I call it good!

I hide miniature army men in the garden. It's a talisman thing.

Even the ones behind the dresser.:cool:

Absolutely!

Years ago, when I was a young buck, we put in a kitchen for this old(er) lady. She was nice, but extremely OCD (met my match), so was I. The one thing I did not do was to align the screw on the switch plates. When I showed up the next day, she had it all horizontally lined up. Even since then, I make it a point to not align them purposely. I think it look so tacky or mechanical. One thing I still do is to cut a piece of feeler gauge to test all my cabinet doors. Before, I show up for the final, my guys already have a little stick already ready for me. They all roll their eyes. Knowing they are perfect and adjusted by them, I have to scratch that OCD itch. I sent their assses off to lunch just to run the lil' stick of wood through all the gaps of the doors. This crap is not for the client my boys or anyone else, its for me. If I don't do this on every job, I go freaking bonkers on my drive home.

I used to step on all the concrete joints on the sidewalk with each of my foot on alternation joints on the way to school or where ever there are joints. If I missed one, I MUST go back and step on that joint with that particular foot or else. :mad: I outgrew that in the past 10-15 years, but there are times I still find myself doing it sometimes without knowing it.

Being a perfectionist is a real btich. I feel like I chase my tail all the time (with a certain things anyway).

Vents, don't move my goddamn vents on the driver side! They are set up a certain way for ME. My wife and kids always do that crap, so it doesn't bother that much anymore, but I will mess with it for a minute until I can get it to do the same again. Now, just don't move my mirrors. Once they are moved, I go fooking nuts trying to put em' back exactly how I want it, especially the rear view mirror. it has to see out the widow a certain way or else I will spend 5 minutes adjusting it as I drive along. When my BIL borrows my truck, fook-oh-dear, I spend three block trying to adjust the rear view mirror.

I also count the clicks on my seat for those time if someone moves it. Not a big fan of electric seats but love the "Put the goddamn seat back to last position magic button". They designed that little button for me:D. I know the designers in Detroit must have heard me swearing from CA.

We don't need to talk about my bicycles. All my bikes are set up exactly the same way. They fit me like an extension of my arms. Forget it, I don't loan them out. They can ride them around the block, but that's it. I have an old rusty one that I loan out to visiting relatives if they want to take it out to the beach. Its sitting in the basement of my parent's house. Make all the damn adjustment to the seat, handle bar they want on it. I don't care.

All my notes go into my wallet oriented in exactly the same way.
Shirts in my cupboard hang in order of colour.
If multiples of anything are stacked into cupboards or onto shelves they are always oriented in exactly the same manner.
Tubes get squeezed from the bottom.

I never do the same thing twice in a row.

O M G, I would have never thought so many were that anal about such small things.

I do have somewhat of a routine throughout the day, but it is more aligned with the efficient way of doing things, not some mental tick that must be done to continue.

Actually if I disclosed all my quirks I am sure it would be met with scorn, condemnation, and ridiculed and be judged but safe to say there is a very long list of some very strange actions that are rooted in complete dysfunction and a very loose grasp on reality...

As they should be. I put all new modern switches and outlets in last year and spent a bit of time getting the tension on the faceplate correct against the horizontal slot.

I always refill the Kuerig when the low water light is blinking.

Add me to the switch plate screw alignment club.