You Are Not Alone!
I walked into my doctor's office one day and out of habit straightened his filing basket on his desk. 'You have OCD' he told me sharply.
Now I have lived with that mortal sin for half a century and find it rather daunting - OCD of course stands for Obsessive Compulsive Disorder.
Not to make mischief with folk who are genuinely struck down with this heartbreaking disorder, I find it fascinating to watch all my friends who have the same malaise albeit in a more mild manner!!
Take Teri for example - she is unable to walk into a room without straightening other people's pictures!!
Nix insists all her cans of food face the same way, all in orderly soldierlike lines!!
She Who Must Swim insisted, as a teenager, that her silver shoes must face each other in the cupboard.
I too have a fetish, I can walk into a house or an hotel, poke my finger quite unconsciously into a vase to see if the flowers have water!!
Now a toilet roll is a dead give away..Woe betide anyone who leaves the cardboard centre on the roll empty , even with one single sheet for good measure!! As for the correct way to hang toilet paper "There are two types of people in the world - those who hang the toilet paper over the top, and those who are wrong,"
The debate has ranged since 1891 and I know for a fact that
Aggie has, for years now, corrected the way the toilet paper hangs in her friends' bathrooms!
Hoarding is another symptom of OCD and how many of us are guilty of this fetish I dread the day I pass onto a better world and my daughters have to empty my cupboards. I have 'Look and Listen' magazines from the seventies, Eveline School magazines from the sixties, all the kids school reports from Junior and Senior Schools! Newspaper cuttings about HeeHoo when he was Chairman of this and CEO of that. Cuttings of when I was a 'famous' TV personality!! Farming records. (we lost our farm in 2002!!) Photos, photos and more photos, I started to digitalise them but it was taking so long with all the delightful memories!!