Eccentric Behaviors - what have you seen?

[Haystack]

Eccentric? Some might call me that. I can't stand to leave any task unfinished.

But the worst I ever witnessed was an OCD man I worked with. He had an office with a door that locked. Every time he left that office he shook the door knob many, many times to make sure it was locked. I once counted 17 times in a row that he shook his door knob before walking off. He also had white carpet in his bedroom so that he could see anything that wasn't supposed to be there.

 

[ZX9RCAM]

Eccentric? Some might call me that. I can't stand to leave any task unfinished.

But the worst I ever witnessed was an OCD man I worked with. He had an office with a door that locked. Every time he left that office he shook the door knob many, many times to make sure it was locked. I once counted 17 times in a row that he shook his door knob before walking off. He also had white carpet in his bedroom so that he could see anything that wasn't supposed to be there.

Not gonna ask how you know that....

 

[Haystack]

Not gonna ask how you know that....

He asked me to help him move.

 

[CyberWolf]

Any of the three would make a better than nothing fire safe.

Except if you ain't careful - meaning get into the habit of looking inside first any time you turn it on, that fire is likely to be started by an oven full of crap that's not supposed to be in there!

As previously mentioned, it's a cultural thing!

 

[baboon]

Any known reason for the change?

Old people who remember dying off! Everything built now is disposable! Everyone working for disposable income.

 

[Surplus Guy]

Friends father in law buried a couple pounds of gold in his yard. Decades pass and so did the father in law. Friend decides to remodel the house and garage and suddenly remembers the gold. Took a couple days to find it

Treasure Hunt

 

[Surplus Guy]

Sounds like what my daughter will be saying about me, khaki cargo shorts and western style shirts with snaps. I tend to find them once a year on clearance and will buy whatever I can then.

One good thing about getting older, your wardrobe costs go way down.

 

[Surplus Guy]

Eccentric? Some might call me that. I can't stand to leave any task unfinished.

But the worst I ever witnessed was an OCD man I worked with. He had an office with a door that locked. Every time he left that office he shook the door knob many, many times to make sure it was locked. I once counted 17 times in a row that he shook his door knob before walking off. He also had white carpet in his bedroom so that he could see anything that wasn't supposed to be there.

My Mother locked and shook all the door handles when Dad was gone. I mean she would shake em for 10-15 seconds each. Never could figure that one out.

 

[gamboolman]

Like many, my folks grew up in the Depression and ms gamboolgal and I was raised in the environment of folks being forever impacted by living thru tuff times and making do and saving stuff just incase.....
A Poor Man Has Poor Ways

Summary: I struggle with still washing out saving Zip Lock Plastic Bags and HEB Food Storage Containers, keeping old clothes and anything in general that "we might need someday"

Too Long, Did Not Read Follows:

We lived in Africa as expats working the Oilpatch for the last 18 years before retiring this year.
Getting food and supplies was not easy.....
There were several things we would do, e.g., We would wash out Zip Loc Baggies and reuse them many times.

Now that I have retired and we're back home to Texas, I still find myself feeling guilty over throwing away a Plastic Ziploc Baggie.
I was also having problems throwing away some of the many dozens of HEB Plastic Containers that we had brought back from Africa when we shipped our stuff home upon repatriation ....

We had dozens of HEB Plastic Containers for freezing Beans that we would cook up for Beans & Rice. We would bring over many pounds of Cameilia and Blue Runner Pintos, Reds, Lima's, etc with us in our Annual Shipment of Food Stuff & Supplies.
We ate Beans & Rice and Ramon Noodles a lot !

We never did adapt to the majority local foods. The locals there all have Cast Iron Stomachs for sure ! In Equatorial Guinea there was snails the size of footballs that the locals cooked up regularly - could not ever bring myself to eat them....
Seeing open air markets in the hot sun with all the flies - fish, goats, chickens, cattle, etc...
We had to be real careful the few times we would eat at local Cafe's - as Bush Meat and Mystery meat was the norm..
After getting bad food poisoning afew times, we learned to be very careful about foods and drinking water.

Fortunately ms gamboolgal runs the Kitchen and she has had no issue adapting to being back home to Gods Country
We have been cleaning out and giving away stuff now that we are back home.
Thank God for them Texas Gals !

gamboolman...

 

[Surplus Guy]

Parents, grandparents and great-grandparents that lived through the Depression learned some valuable life skills that many used for many years afterwards. One of the most prevailing was the distrust of banks. Even after he did start using banks, he still would keep a large sum of money hid away at home.

My grandfather never put money into a bank until a few years before he passed away in the early 1970's. He never had credit, and he paid for everything with cash. He built six or seven houses during his lifetime, and when they were finished, every bit was paid for. When he bought a car or truck, he got the most stripped down version they had.

One of the valuable lessons he taught my father, and was passed to my brother and i, was to take care of the things you have and they will last a long time.

Today, many would see that as eccentric. They did it as a matter of being practical and being able to survive. Some may view being eccentric as being a bit off, or not right in the head. Being eccentric makes sense to that person because of sometimes, a unique set of circumstances in that person's life.

Can't imagine how hard that might have been. We could use some of those Life Lessons and practicality today.

 

[pronstar]

My Mother locked and shook all the door handles when Dad was gone. I mean she would shake em for 10-15 seconds each. Never could figure that one out.

Oh so now we’re getting into OCD behavior, which can definitely be called odd…

My mom repeatedly checks doors, windows, oven and stove. Windows that haven’t been opened for years, still gotta check them whenever she left the house, and before bed every night. Stove and oven dials checked and rechecked to ensure they’re off.

She would clean, reclean…at least our house was immaculate. But many surfaces got rubbed-through.

I had ocd in a bad way when I was younger. I still have some minor issues with it…but I remember when I first moved out, I would also repeatedly check doors when I left the house. It got to the point where I’d often turn the car around, go back home and recheck the doors.

Was late to work several times because of it.

OCD is really, really hard to overcome. There’s really no effective therapy for it.


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[Mowingmaniac 24/7]

Wouldn't behavior modification help cure OCD?

You hire someone to punch you in a new spot every time you display OCD.

I'm thinking it just might stop OCD pronto!

 

[Daley_G]

Wife has a tendency to peer through the blinds from time to time, just to see what's going on out there. It really worked in our favor during the freeze however since she noticed water running down the driveway at the neighbor's house. Finding that odd she asked me what I thought that meant. Well, it's well below freezing and I know they're at work - so it's a burst pipe. I went to the garage to find tools to shut off their water and heard water running. Knowing nobody was in the shower, I suddenly got that "oh sh**" feeling and found that our outside spigot burst in the same place as most of our neighbors.

Had my wife not done the blind-peering thing, God knows how long that water would've run before it got noticed!

Closure on the burst pipe situations: I have never seen so many people in an aisle at Home Depot but I was able to have both situations fixed in roughly an hour.

 

[CyberWolf]

Wouldn't behavior modification help cure OCD?

You hire someone to punch you in a new spot every time you display OCD.

I'm thinking it just might stop OCD pronto!

Funny enough, that actually reminds me of this thing we did at one of the Dojo's I used to attend as a child (practically lived there for a few years); at a certain level of rank - we were tasked with developing situational awareness...sooo....

It was the clearly-stated responsibility of regular students (regardless of rank) that when seeing any other regular students of said-rank out-and-about in public, they were expected to try "sucker punching" that student (or similar) if the opportunity presented itself...Very effective training tool!

 

[Axxe55]

Can't imagine how hard that might have been. We could use some of those Life Lessons and practicality today.

I think that the further removed we have become by generations, those valuable skills and practicality are slowly disappearing.

I think as more removed many have become from the Depression era, and many of the younger generations have become a faster paced society, that they want things now, not later.

I learned from an early age, that it took hard work and time to get the things I wanted. I see that lacking in many of the younger generations.

 

[Brains]

Wife has a tendency to peer through the blinds from time to time, just to see what's going on out there. It really worked in our favor during the freeze however since she noticed water running down the driveway at the neighbor's house. Finding that odd she asked me what I thought that meant. Well, it's well below freezing and I know they're at work - so it's a burst pipe. I went to the garage to find tools to shut off their water and heard water running. Knowing nobody was in the shower, I suddenly got that "oh sh**" feeling and found that our outside spigot burst in the same place as most of our neighbors.

Had my wife not done the blind-peering thing, God knows how long that water would've run before it got noticed!

Closure on the burst pipe situations: I have never seen so many people in an aisle at Home Depot but I was able to have both situations fixed in roughly an hour.

HD up here ran out of fittings and PVC pipe pretty fast. Neighborhood Facebook groups were organizing who-has-what lists and sharing whatever we had to get people's pipes fixed. A lot of wives were thankful that husbands had the proverbial "just in case I need it" box in the garage.

 

[FireInTheWire]

I don't know.... but if I pull out my sock drawer to get my briefs one more time.... I'm gonna loose my chit.

 

[TreyG-20]

I hear that some people clean their guns everytime they shoot them. Those 1911s jam up quick.

 

[ZX9RCAM]

I don't know.... but if I pull out my sock drawer to get my briefs one more time.... I'm gonna loose my chit.

So, are you pulling out the wrong drawer, or are you literally pulling the drawer all the way out?

 

[Axxe55]

Best place to hide a sock, is in a sock drawer.

True story.