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What are the little things that you lose your mind over?

January 23 2018

Hi everyone. What are the things that are minor to other people but are things that you are pedantic about and lose your mind over? Not necessarily OCD (or maybe you are a little) but the little things that play on your mind until you can fix or avoid them. E.g maybe you can't stand lids being left off pens. Maybe the red lid was put on the black pen and vice versa. Maybe on shopping day you have banned your housemate/partner/family from packing the freezer with your new purchases because "they never stack it properly". (these are real examples from people I've known btw) maybe, like me, you try to avoid using the shitter in public toilets as much as possible. Btw I think my thing comes from being "heavily traumatised" from music festival toilets. Seriously some look like the most recent user of said toilet was breakdancing while shitting, used the toilet paper that's covering the floor for some sort of parade streamers and the wet floor makes it look like it rained during this weird breakdancing-while-you-shit-parade thing. Apologies for waffling on and being so graphic. Over to you rhp forumites.... - Posted from rhpmobile

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  • RHP

    RHP User

    8 years ago

    anymore though probably fussy about wrapping food properly in the fridge, don't spare the gladwrap kind of thing 😀 And I like cold tomato sauce lol third world problems 😂😂 my son likes it in the cupboard, I sneak it back into the fridge when he's not looking 😎 Public toilets, agree, I visit the ones I know will always be clean, otherwise I hang on until I get home 😊

  • RHP

    RHP User

    8 years ago

    Skim milk, shits me when coffee shops don't have it. Don't eat white bread or seeded bread either (medical issue with seeded, not because I don't like it), that can be a challenge when out. I do make an exception for HJ's though 😁

  • RHP

    RHP User

    8 years ago

    Being sucked in to reading unneccessary details about pissers and shitters does my head in. 😊 I'd like to glue Lego. 😇

  • EarthQueen

    EarthQueen

    8 years ago

    I drive my daughter nuts because she is methodical and I am dreamy. She likes order and I’m more laidback. BUT if they borrow my headphones and don’t put them back on my drawer and I need them for a run and can’t find them, it’s on like Donkey Kong. Makes me so mad at 6am in the morning 😂 - Posted from rhpmobile

  • RHP

    RHP User

    8 years ago

    My home currently looks like a hurricane has torn through it because of my packing/decluttering process, but my work desk at work is always fastidiously neat. 😁 I'm also quite a stationery queen, and dislike people pinching my stationery and losing them. 😠😡 I have different sponges for cleaning (the sink and counter tops), for the cat's bowls, for my cups and glasses, and for the cutlery and crockery. Thanks to Daiso, their different style sponges make washing up an absolute breeze and a joy! 😄 I dislike it when I tell visitors to "just leave the dishes in the sink and I'll wash it", but they try to be helpful and use the wrong sponge for washing up. 😛 And... nobody washes and rinses the dishes as thoroughly as I do so... hands up! And back away from the sink! Don't try to be helpful and wash up... because I'll rewash after you leave! 🤣😜 I stock up on softeners with different fragrances when they go on sale, and when I do my laundry, I select the softener based on mood. 😊😛 I don't mind doing the dirty laundry for my loved ones (pun intended)🤣😛, but I really dislike my own laundry being handled by others because there's sorting to do with lingerie going into little laundry bags to protect them, selection of the appropriate cycle, etc. 😛 My ex bfs never complained about me being pedantic - because they never had to wash the dishes, nor do the laundry! 🤣😆 OP, the toilet habits of some humans are worse than animals. 😝🤢😷 Your very graphic descriptions made my stomach queasy! 😷

  • RHP

    RHP User

    8 years ago

    Don’t people put the clothes pegs back on the line so they slide ? Makes it so much easier when you hang the next item to just slide the pegs to one side and peg up the next piece rather than having to unclip the pegs one by one. Dickheads.

  • RHP

    RHP User

    8 years ago

    My keys I can never bloody find them and my mobile. If the toilet roll is empty change the bloody thing and when you do face the paper forward not backward as trying to find the end in the dark is really annoying. Don't hang my washing out because I have a certain way to hang it and I will rehang it if I don't like the way its done. Washing up I have a system please don't mess it up. I used to iron all of my sons baby clothes. I used to iron a lot actually as I found it a peaceful thing to do (weird I know) now I don't iron anything. I do fold all the clothes a certain way though and have the fitted sheet folding down pat. Pens at work disappear all the time so I brought my own and get a bit annoyed if someone takes mine. God forbid don't steal my lighters. Having a son with OCD food issues I have to cut all the fat off things, cook it a certain way, cut vegies a certain way and only buy food that he likes. I am not totally anal about my house but everything has its place and when my mum comes over to check on my son she puts thing in the wrong place.

  • RHP

    RHP User

    8 years ago

    The toilet paper roll and face it the right way. Thank you. LC.

  • RHP

    RHP User

    8 years ago

    Empty packets put back in the cupboard. Grrrrrr 😤 😡 😤

  • RHP

    RHP User

    8 years ago

    Actually they're not little things that I lose my shit over, no not That shit Peachy, they ARE a big deal to me. It's the rest of the world that's out of step. 😇

  • Dirtyandfriendly

    Dirtyandfriendly

    8 years ago

    I'm pretty easy going, but it's the washing hands after the toilet, sneezing and my ultimate hate is the licking the fingers and handing me your money at work. I hate throwing up and getting sick so gastro is from poo so idiots who don't wash just erks me. I never touch hand rails, escalator handrails or door handles in toilets, pubs restaurants etc because I'm about to eat or drink and guess what my hand can touch, knowing people most just don't wash. Sneezing and coughing and not covering your mouth is just rude, I always cover as it's about respectfully not infecting others. My sister in law has the habit of sneezing with such ferocious velocity she will actually sneeze on you and not give a shit. People who get sick and blatantly don't cover up or stay at home, I once had a mum bring her vomiting child in holding an icecream container as she purchased something. Other than that I'm a nice civil person with very little hang up, I don't get ocd I don't have time for it.

  • RHP

    RHP User

    8 years ago

    I was in a brand new Comms room for a multinational gas company today, looked around and saw 6 earth lugs bolted to the Telco main earth buss bar, all of them off by a few degrees to 90. I tried, whilst standing there listening to some dude telling me something more important, to straighten them up. I don’t think I have a problem....😝 - Posted from rhpmobile

  • Sawadee

    Sawadee

    8 years ago

    Pen's ? If I had every pen in Sydney and I urgently needed one when I'm on the phone ' I'll pick up the dud ? I walk around to check if I've closed all the doors before going to bed .. Then when I'm comfy in bed my mind starts ..... the back door ? I know I closed it , but ? No way can I sleep until I get up and trudge back out to check it out.. 9 times out of 10 it is locked ... then I grumble all the way back to bed. When I was playing footy , I always put my right sock on first then the left , then the left boot before the right ? That went on for years.. and guess what .. we still had our wins and loses regardless..

  • RHP

    RHP User

    8 years ago

    You wouldn't be any good at my job. this is what I deal with everyday at work. I think I have great immunity because I deal with germs everyday. Hand sanitiser is my best friend. Nothing worse than going to a shop and the person serving you does this sooooooo gross!!

  • RHP

    RHP User

    8 years ago

    People going slow eg 20km below the speed limit, but speed up to the limit when you have a chance (or are trying) to overtake.

  • RHP

    RHP User

    8 years ago

    Lego and more lego to step on. I didn't do the toddler years to well with mine. LC.

  • EarthQueen

    EarthQueen

    8 years ago

    Quoting 'Sailbadthesinner' Empty packets put back in the cupboard. Grrrrrr 😤 😡 😤 Yes! Forgot this one. The teenager is notorious for this but its only the good junk food that they do it too. Recently I fucked them over by eating the bag of pods first and then putting it back in the cupboard sealed on purpose. That was sweet revenge ha ha. The look of disgust on their faces when they pulled it out was priceless.

  • RHP

    RHP User

    8 years ago

    A single hair lacky band anywhere but you had 20 of them lying around last week. LC.

  • RHP

    RHP User

    8 years ago

    What the? I've been through several airports now, where there isn't a single pen available to fill in the (international) incoming/arrival card... (yes they might have gone walkabout...) Last time I had to ask a security staffer... I assume everyone that travels now must ensure that they always have a good old fashioned PEN on them?

  • MsSuperFoxy

    MsSuperFoxy

    8 years ago

    I always have to have a coaster under my drink. Ms Foxy

  • RHP

    RHP User

    8 years ago

    in my handbag, I carry a 4 colour Bic with a teeny chip at the tip, a small pen that slides into the space at the back of my wallet, and a pencil, you know just in case. I lost the best 4 colour pen when I lent it to a friend, and they didn't return it. It was a good pen... Peachy

  • RHP

    RHP User

    8 years ago

    Well biggish I guess.Calling a rifle a gun Calling a ship a boat

  • RHP

    RHP User

    8 years ago

    Same, still holding a grudge to whomever nicked my four colour pen in grade 3. There’s a lesson there peeps. Memory like an elephant does B.B. have 😝 - Posted from rhpmobile

  • RHP

    RHP User

    8 years ago

    Quoting 'Philacrocorax' Well biggish I guess.Calling a rifle a gun Calling a ship a boat And the American habit of calling a stinkboat a Yacht !

  • MsSuperFoxy

    MsSuperFoxy

    8 years ago

    Togs/bathers/cossie/swimmers, potatoes scallop/potatoe cake. Its togs and potate scallop. 👌 😎 Ms Foxy

  • RHP

    RHP User

    8 years ago

    Don't move my stuff, I mean it. I'm bad enough at losing it as it is... Peachy

  • RHP

    RHP User

    8 years ago

    Cashiers/sales assistants that give you your change back by dropping it in your hand. I presume it is because they don't want to touch you, and I presume that is because of a fear of germs - but the money you just touched probably has probably had about 48,000 pairs of hands touch it in the past year. The fear of germs thing, to the point where it affects your everyday life, I find perplexing. Of course I will wash my hands after I have been to the toilet or before preparing food - all that kind of stuff. I think a lot of people don't realize that germs aren't just on toilet door handles, everything we touch that isn't out of sterile packaging has bacteria on it. I went to a wedding in Cambodia years ago with a whole heap of friends and their assorted spouses and families. Nearly every person had a pump pack of hand sanitizer in their bags or backpacks. Everywhere we went, every time they touched anything out would come the sanitizer for a few pumps. They lost so much time constantly sanitizing their hands. Many were aghast when I refused their offers of sanitizer. I would just sit there and watch them sanitize their hands then put the pump pack away, into their bags which are probably a hive of bacteria, and also meant they were touching the pump pack that they had touched before - so the whole exercise was useless. The hilarious thing - and I actually did derive quite a bit of pleasure in this - was watching most of the bacteriophobes come down with stomach bugs anyway. I did not, nor did others - both from the ultra-sanitizing camp and those that didn't bother. Oh, and selfies. I have taken 3 to date in my life, all for my profile here. Aside from that, can everyone please stop?

  • RHP

    RHP User

    8 years ago

    Hahaha, memory like an elephant here too... My long term memory has always been great, now my short term is catching up. It is such a relief. That's how it is so easy for me to lose things without any help.

  • RHP

    RHP User

    8 years ago

    but I do get annoyed when people don't leave the block square when they cut the cheese or butter off.Or when they don't slice my home made bread neat and straight.

  • RHP

    RHP User

    8 years ago

    I'm the only one who eats cheese here so no-one else to blame 😀

  • RHP

    RHP User

    8 years ago

    Yes this> "Cashiers/sales assistants that give you your change back by dropping it in your hand. I presume it is because they don't want to touch you, and I presume that is because of a fear of germs - but the money you just touched probably has probably had about 48,000 pairs of hands touch it in the past year." Takeaway or coffee drive through where they drop the money on the ground 😕

  • RHP

    RHP User

    8 years ago

    One of my pet hates is about some of the posts on RHP. I am talking about the ones that criticize another post or poster. There may be a number of reasons for this. Maybe they think it's obvious that the target will know that they are the target. Maybe they want to be deliberately vague and see who takes umbrage. Maybe they want to make it deniable so that when the target replies they can ask why they thought as much. I think it's a bit like walking into a bar with a sawn off shotgun and firing in the general direction of your target. Finally this post is not aimed at any one person but all who post in this manner. Talking of manners, I won't use any names here.

  • RHP

    RHP User

    8 years ago

    Oh dear I forgot to specify that I meant I was talking about posts that specified who or what they were criticizing. It is just a bit ironic that I didn't specify that, almost embarrassing too. Ya get that.