ticktockpedal

I had my seat bag open and emergency pouch out and open. My wife happened to see, picks up the billion mini zip lock bags and electrical taped objects (only one single piece of tape per object, pre-tabbed at the end, for easy unwrapping). "What the heck is all this?" -- "That's a whole world of OCD you don't even want to get into!"

I know there are some good OCD stories out there...

K&K_Dad

You want cycling related or just OCD stories? My wife has mild OCD so I gots tons of stories. :-)

M_FactorX19

yeah mine too. im watching right now as she sweeps the floors for the 5th time tonight. lol

tagaproject6

I see McDonald's ketchup packets and I have to throw them out...

Trouble

I gave up OCD a couple of months ago and life is soooo much easier. I just don't care anymore about labels facing forward, older items up front and used first. It's a lot less pressure.
Thanks to my wife for setting me free. It was painful at first, but now it's F-it, I don't care and I'm much more relaxed and easier to get along with. The term is "whatever".

Mike F

Me too. I realized that 90% of my stress was self imposed. It took a while but a pseudo zen approach to giving a crap about stuff and what to care about has made me feel alot better. Heck, you cant control events, everything happens for a reason and worrying is the most futile activity the mind can create. Unfortunately some people have interpreted this as complacency but Im Ok with that

BillyD

No, it's "what. ever."

Macster

No, it's "Eff it!"

BillyD

What.Ever.

rousseau

Wait a second: is this not the road forum?

I'm confused. You say you're OCD, but you have a saddle bag?

zeo_max

I have road bike related OCD. I can only sleep with my bike next to me. Otherwise I will think that I might have left it outside and thus exposed to theft. Sound crazy ? Well that's why OCD exists.

mmmdonuts

If you gave it up it ain't OCD...

mmmdonuts

What did she find, your secret condom stash?

big john

A friend is so obsessive about cleaning his bike that he has stopped during a ride to clean dirt off of it. One time I ran over a ketchup packet and it squirted onto his Orbea. If looks could kill.....

FLvector

Keep coming back here. Must be OCD.



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ticktockpedal

I got so OCD about the small seat bag and all the items I wanted to carry it got out of control and I didn’t want to open the pouch for things because I’d have to repackage everything exactly. The zippers were tucked in loops so they wouldn’t open inadvertently, just unzipping it was a labor. Everything remains electrical taped (singular piece, pre-tabbed) and ziplock mini-bagged. But the most arcane items have been removed. Zipper shuts just regularly now.

98TJ

I used to be OCD, but I've realized that I'm actually CDO.

It's like OCD, but with all the letters in alphabetical order.

I'm OCD about everything. The light switches in our house have to be in the same position when they're flipped off. One can't be up and the other down, and off is down.

My tool chest is organized so that, without looking, I know where things are. If someone uses my tools it is easy to see if they were put back properly. Most anyone that is in my garage knows that if you use something, it goes back where it belongs when you're done. Clean, too. Just the way you found it.

My neighbors gave me a hard time one day about washing the truck..."How long are you going to spend cleaning it?"

"As long as it takes."

It may seem crazy, but for a 2002 4x4 with 285,000 miles as an environmental recovery vehicle, you'd never know it.

The problem isn't that I'm OCD, it's just the rest of you are doing it wrong.

guadzilla

I have bike-OCD. I need to have different bikes for different things. Cannot use the same bike for different things. And as I maintain 2 domiciles, you can see how "n+1" is a very, very large number for me.

Also have OCD about having all my stuff ordered and together. I hate it when my clothes, camera gear, etc end up split over my 2 homes.

Thankfully, I am NOT OCD about my bikes being super clean, scratch-free or whatever. They are tools and get to be used as such.

mvnsnd

I probably need to bring some OCD into my life.

schwinnbikelove

You could gladly have some of mine.

Are there any GOOD OCD stories?!

K&K_Dad

good OCD stories.. heheh. .

My wife is OCD in that she has to do certain things in 3's. Like set her alarm clock 3 times. For fun I hit the snooze or play button and she has to start over.
No items in the pantry can have nutrition labels facing out. For ****s and giggles i turn every other one around sometimes.
I randomly move candles 3 inches one way or the other to see her break into an instant sweat. I got tons of these.

It's sad that my 2 girls are starting to show S/S of the same anxiety disorder. How is this a good story you ask? Well she gets mad and tells me to go ride my bike. It's win win in my eyes!!!

FLvector

Does she tell you 3 times?

K&K_Dad

usually I only hear the first one.

guadzilla

You are married to Mustafa?

98TJ

I was in the military when I developed (or learned to be) OCD. Tools needed to do my job are useless if I can't find them...so I became a neat freak, kept my junk organized, and could work faster. Once you get used to things being neat and organized you'll notice, and get frustrated with, people who are unorganized.

Here's one drawer of my tool chest - contains inch and metric sockets. This is actually not as neat and organized as I would like it to be. It's everything I can do to not buy the "missing" sockets for the socket holders. I'm not missing sockets, but the empty slots frustrate me.





My obsessions:

Concern with order, symmetry (balance) and exactness

Worry that a task has been done poorly, even when the person knows this is not true

My compulsion: Ordering and arranging items in certain ways

So it's not so much Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder as it is Organized Carefully Dammit.



When I was in the military I went to a remote site to repair some of their equipment. It was at night, pitch black - no moonlight, and we drove with no lights and night vision. Once there it was just me and another tech and the handful of people that were manning the site.

Got there and got to work. The next thing I know there's a bunch of commotion at the entrance to the site. Another vehicle had driven through the entrance and the razor wire that was in place at the gate - dragging it across the soldier that was at the guard point. Sliced his face pretty bad. He had cuts across his face, his nostrils were cut open (completely through), lots of blood. Nasty. Luckily it didn't reach his throat or his eyeballs.

Having my truck organized and knowing exactly where everything should be allowed me to yell out to people that had never been in the truck exactly where my medical bag was located. Without being so OCD about keeping things organized the time to get the medical gear and treat the guy would have been greatly extended - especially in the dark.

Being OCD about keeping things organized also makes it easier to tell (in my case) which tools are missing when borrowed. Luckily I don't do the repetition thing.