i am neurotic.

Every night before I got to bed I have to lock my car till I hear it honk 3+ times. I also have to check to see if the stove and fridge are off and shut firmly so that I can relax.

There is a long hallway leading from the stairs to my bedroom door and on either end of the hall is a switch that turns on the hallway light. The switch by my door must always be down when the light is off, or up when the light is on. The switch by the stairs doesn’t matter, so long as my switch meets the requirements for me to go about my day.

When I use a napkin, I fold it inside out so that I am not using the side that has possibly been touched by other people. I do the same thing with a paper towel – I use the side that faces the inside of the roll.

When I’m eating ice cream I always eat it with a teaspoon, that way no matter how much of it I eat I won’t ruin my body as much as if I where using a tablespoon.

I won’t go to bed unless all of the items on my desk are at a right angle and stacked from largest to smallest based on width.

I count words on my finger tips whenever someone is talking to me. If the sentence ends on a thumb, it was a good conversation and I am ready to move past it. If it doesn’t, I continue to speak on the subject until it does.

I do not like it when food is placed on a chair, even for a moment or if the food is packaged or bagged. I cant help but think that since people sit in chairs, their rear ends’ residue is lingering and will get on the food. It completely grosses me out!

when at work, I feel like I have to clock in and out so that my time card comes out to a rounded number. For example, I am currently until 5:20 to clock out because I clocked in at 8:20. If I had clocked in at 8:19, I would’ve clocked out a minute sooner to keep it even. My boss has taken note of this on my paychecks.

when walking, my feet cannot touch or cross any crack or line in the floor, nor can they touch or cross any line made by the imaginary extension of an edge of a nearby object.

I cannot read the fortune from a fortune cookie until I have completely chewed and swallowed every last bit of the cookie. This means that I must take the fortune out and hold it hidden in my hand until I am done with the cookie. If I peek at the fortune before I finish the entire cookie, I consider the fortune void. If I am around other people who are also eating fortune cookies, I insist that they follow my rule if they want their fortune to come true.