Zoom-boing
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All of those things are OCD.
So are: checking and re-checking the door locks and windows (even when you know the house is locked up tight as a drum), not stepping on a crack, or counting how many steps you take, or refusing to touch others (ie, Howie Mandel), hoarding to the point you have bunny trails in your house and no place to sleep (all those places that get condemned you see on tv news), yada yada yada......
All OCD....
Well I'm not ocd but .. . . the toilet seat has to be down because of the dog and cat and things going down that shouldn't go down. Legos, wedding rings, toothbrushes. And the cabinets/drawers? I'm always the one to run into these things so I automatically close them. I've come close to whacking my eye on the corner of open cabinets many times. I gave up and just shut them all now. I automatically move full glasses of liquid back from the edge of the table and turn pot/pan handles to the side but I think that's just a 'mom' thing. lol
If you ever saw the video of a toilet flush 'plume' that erupts and sprays the room with every flush, you would never flush with the lid up again, regardless of gender.
Especially if you are like 99.9% of us who keep their toothbrush right next to the john.
I have and that is part of it (although I'm far from a germaphobe). I always turn my back to the toilet in public rest rooms as soon as I flush -- or on those freaky auto-flush ones -because there are no lids on them. Oh . . . grosss.