Superstitions/OCD?

seanoconn

Have you picked and strange habits over the years? Pre ride rituals? Do you have to go back and check you've turned the gas off 3 times before you leave the house?

I wouldn't consider myself superstitious but.... I always put my left shoe/glove on first. I don't walk under ladders. Would never intentionally smash a mirror. Ouija boards are the work of the devil and should not be trifled with. I think it's bad luck to read a horoscope or have your fortune read. And I would never stand in front of a mirror and say 'Candyman' 3 times!

Other than that I'm perfectly sane

ballysmate

The number of times i have had to go back to check the car is locked is unbelievable. Never yet have I returned to it to find I had forgotten to lock it. :?

marcusjb

If you're riding an event and it has a rider's jersey - never wear it before you've finished the event. Very bad luck - you have to earn the right to wear that jersey.

Daft I know.

arran77

On a two or three gang light switch each individual switch has to be the same way

markhewitt1978

arran77 wrote:

On a two or three gang light switch each individual switch has to be the same way

When you have a double switch where one is controlled from the top and bottom of the stairs, but the other is not; can be tricky

arran77

markhewitt1978 wrote:

arran77 wrote:

On a two or three gang light switch each individual switch has to be the same way

When you have a double switch where one is controlled from the top and bottom of the stairs, but the other is not; can be tricky

Yes :evil:

metronome

seanoconn wrote:

Do you have to go back and check you've turned the gas off 3 times before you leave the house?

yes

GiantMike

I never flush the toilet when I'm at work or in any public place. And I don't like to pick up dog poo either. I have 6 dogs, so that would be a lot of bad luck.

Pituophis

I have a mortice and two bolts on the front door.
When I go to bed, they get the one, two, three check. That's a particularly good night
On a "middling" kind of night they get the 3 x 3 version :roll:
On a bad night (thank god I seem to be over this period) well its anyone's guess how many permutations of 3 I might have to go through :shock: :evil:

Its not funny and I certainly wouldn't tell anyone about it. And I don't think I'm mental in any other way
Oh, wait a minute :oops:

seanoconn

Pituophis wrote:

I have a mortice and two bolts on the front door.
When I go to bed, they get the one, two, three check. That's a particularly good night
On a "middling" kind of night they get the 3 x 3 version :roll:
On a bad night (thank god I seem to be over this period) well its anyone's guess how many permutations of 3 I might have to go through :shock: :evil:

Its not funny and I certainly wouldn't tell anyone about it. And I don't think I'm mental in any other way
Oh, wait a minute :oops:

in a nice way. Thanks for sharing with the group, I'm a bit like that with windows.

Captain Slackbladder

Small rucksack pocket, one with keys wallet in etc...

Double checked prior to riding...the amount of times i've got 30seconds into the ride and stopped to check to zips closed again.

Ride hard

Ballysmate wrote:

The number of times i have had to go back to check the car is locked is unbelievable. Never yet have I returned to it to find I had forgotten to lock it. :?

But the one time you don't...

I'm a bit OCD in many ways - knives in the cutlery drawer tray have to be arranged from left to right in a concertina effect with the edges facing to the left - but the one thing that got me was the three drains = bad luck thing. My Goddaughter mentioned it to me a few years ago, and those two sentences ruined even the most straightforward journey on foot for about 3 years - until I snapped out of it.

the playing mantis

if im following cricket on line or via ceefax (or whtever the red button thing is) and essex/england are batting and doing well, i cannot check again until 7pm if its 4 day cricket (after stumps) or if its a day nighter until i know the match is schedudled to be over, as i fear that the act of me checking the score again will be some sort of chaos theory/butterfly affect that causes a wicket.

its the same when playing and watching my village colleagues or on the rare occasions im watching essex/england live in first class cricket, if a good partnership is building or a tense run chase i cannot move seats/get up and walk around etc in case i jinx it.

if i see totteringham are losing or drawing (only when drawing against a team they should beat) either on the tv or on ceefax/online i wont look at the result again until i know its full time again, as again i beleive in the chaos theory that me checking the score will cause them to score.

o and i have to wash my hands and rinse 4 times after coming home from work each day (if im not p**sed and thus forget), but thats to make sure there clean after touching the filthy tube/trains, but it must be 4 times!

capt_slog

I used to be bad at my old house with thinking I hadn't locked the door in the morning when I left for work. So i used to go back and check, even though this meant that I had to do a u-turn somewhere and then park up again outside the house. BUT when I got here I couldn't just go and check the the door, oh no, because then the neighbours might twig I'm a fussy tw@t with OCD, so I'd go into the house as if I'd forgotten something. Of course this meant that I'd get half a mile away again, and think "Did I lock the door?" :oops:

I don't have OCD, by the way, just a genuine anxiety of being burgled.
Even though this makes it sound even worse.... I eventually got over the 'problem' by saying to myself "It's Thursday, and I've locked the door" as I did it, and then I could remember this in the car when I got two miles away.

Thank goodness for Yale type locks on the new house.

Superstitions? No. I used to go to church when I was a kid, but thankfully I grew out of that one.

markhewitt1978

I often have the opposite problem. Got a phone call from my wife when I'm just about to start the Hell of Hexham sportive - wanting to know why I'd left the front door wide open when I left in the morning!

arran77

the playing mantis wrote:

o and i have to wash my hands and rinse 4 times after coming home from work each day (if im not p**sed and thus forget), but thats to make sure there clean after touching the filthy tube/trains, but it must be 4 times!

Very wise, I read once about all the shite (quite literally) that you find on the average tube seat, shite was probably one of the more savory things too :shock:

stu-bim

A bit OCD when it comes to dressing especially socks. Could not leave the house with unmatching socks. Around once a year if socks are getting old and hard to match and cannot but new identical one I'll buy a pack of five of socks of a new type and try them out. If I like them all the other socks are tossed and replaced with the new type, probably five packs. If not the new ones are tossed and start again.

Left sock can never be turned right way out before right sock is done and placed on right leg ready to be used. Always right one on first then left, then trousers for some reason left then right. Then shoes, again right then left, and last shirt. Wallet, cash notes and keys in right pocket and phone and coins in left. 10 second walk to car but keys have to go into the pocket before coming back out.

EXCEPTION: On really important days trousers go on two legs at the same time while balancing on arse on sofa. This is to counteract being ordinary as that day is demanding.

the playing mantis

Also can't open a pack of crisps upside down, or else u have to kiss jo Burton ( some weird girl at primary school). Indeed it bothers me when I see other people having done it!

DIESELDOG

If the clocks about to change to the hour I have to watch it, tins must stack neatly and face the same way, (Fray Bentos the lettering has to line up, beans with beans, peas with peas etc), dishwasher stacked in a particular way with ALL cutlery facing down), cups in cupboard are black to the back, and then the rest stacked in height order, toilet roll must face forward and be 2 sheets down, right shoe on first, emails, don't even get me going on that one. I have a file for everyone and everything.

In my defence I have lightened up a bit in the last 2 and a half years...

Love n Hugs,

DD

oldhairylegs

Captain Slackbladder wrote:

Small rucksack pocket, one with keys wallet in etc...

Double checked prior to riding...the amount of times i've got 30seconds into the ride and stopped to check to zips closed again.

I thought it was just me that did this!

I use a rucksack when riding my motorbike for commuting and always have to take it off again and do a zip check after I have put it on - and sometimes set off - just to be sure. :?

This particular OCD trait of mine went into overdrive after my lad lost a load of stuff out of his rucksack when the zip came undone whilst he was on his motorbike. :oops:

pinno

My memory is not good enough for me to develop an OCD. My memory is not good enough to...I blame Wiggle...whats this thread all about anyway? Oh yeah - OCD. My memory...what was I going to say?
Whodefukareyewlot? Bananas are a good energy source.
I think Tesco and ASDA should remove those fancy dress outfits. What sort of jacket did Ride on time buy in the end?

BTW - I think you're all nuts.

the playing mantis

just remembered another semi one. from the age of 16 for 2 and a bit years after scoring my first senior half century, whenever i played cricket i had to wear this pair of my old mans sky blue y fronts when batting, to slip my box into (anyone whose played cricket will know you don't want the box directly next to your jatz crackers, so you wear a jock strap or sporting briefs with their own pouch for it, or in my case my dads y fronts over the CK briefs that were de rigeur for my age at the time, as this was most comfortable...not sure how i discovered that!)

Without fail every match i had to have these otherwise i was convinced if i didn't i would fail. back then i played wednesdays when school commitments allowed and most saturdays and sundays, so i had to wear them 2 days in succession even if they were damp having been next to a wet towl stuffed in my cricket bag allnight, but as they were only on for batting it didnt get funky. it had to be this sky blue pair and no others would do i was somewhat anal with them and their care when me mum was washing em and became quite protective.

they met there end after i was sidelined for most of the season when i was 19, with them mysteriously disappearing when i was fit again. needless to say they my batting was just as average as ever after their apparent demise, but for the first few games back i was convinced id be a walking wicket.

MichaelW

I'm not superstitious and think all of these rituals are just silly but obviously I never step on cracks in the pavement; I mean, it stands to reason.

bompington

It's bad luck to be superstitious.

meagain

Seems I'm saner than I thought! The only superstition of which I am guilty and ashamed is that I wear a St Christopher when cycling, m'cycling and flying! Really not acceptable as an aetheist I know.

I double check locks etc more as I get older - simply practical recognition that my memory is declining.

Giraffoto

GiantMike wrote:

I never flush the toilet when I'm at work or in any public place.

That's not superstition, that's antisocial behaviour

2Phat4Rapha

Spectacles, testicles, wallet and watch. Chub lock the front door, job done.

... but did I turn off the gas? :?

ballysmate

Always change hands at 99.

ForumNewbie

Giraffoto wrote:

GiantMike wrote:

I never flush the toilet when I'm at work or in any public place.

That's not superstition, that's antisocial behaviour

Agree - it's a disgusting sight and smell for the next person.

crumbschief

Ballysmate wrote:

Always change hands at 99.

I'd feel flaked out after that many.

pinno

So from now on when you go into a public toilet and there is a Richard the 3rd floating around in the bowl - you will have a culprit.