i am neurotic.

I have 2 alarm clocks and every night before I go to bed I have to check them at least 3 times. Sometimes I even turn it off and then on again just to make sure its working. I have the biggest fear of oversleeping.

Whenever I notice that the clock says 11:11, i have to stare at it while making my wish to make sure i stop wishing the second it changes to 11:12, because I think that if I wish past 11:11 it will be canceled out.

When someone invites me out, or if I am home planning something, I have to calculate how long it will take me by looking at a standard clock to count the minutes…not the digital. I don’t trust them! Something about the face of the clock that makes it a little more “official.”

if i have to do something or go somewhere, i make all my plans based on the 15 minute mark or 30 minute mark. i begin to get panicky if what i’m doing takes me within minutes of completing by the marked time. if i finish right on the nose, i still didn’t do it promptly; therefore, i have to wait until the next 15 minute or 30 minute mark.

I wake up every night at 3 am, give or take a few minutes.  I go into the kitchen and eat something sweet, washed down by milk straight from the gallon.  I then go back to sleep.  I’ve been doing this for 21 years.

A posting on Passive Aggressive Notes from February 2008 captures the spirit of one of our very popular submission topics: left over time on the microwave.

Thanks to the reader who submitted this link.

Because of the myth of Bloody Mary, when I was younger, I would be scared shitless if I woke a few minutes before 12 A.M. needing to go to the bathroom and I’d stay in my bed until the time was at least 10 minutes past 12 so she wouldn’t show up at the end of the hall outside my door, in the mirror, in the shower, or have her face or hand in the toilet.

when i was in this algebra class in college i convinced myself if i looked at my watch before 4pm i was going to either get pulled over, or die on the way home.

I have to watch a clock change every hour, on the hour…even at night i set my alarm 2 minutes before the hour change and reset for the next hour…i haven’t had a good night sleep because of it in nearly 5 years.

I can’t hear the beep at the end of microwaving. I also can’t look at the clock the whole time it’s counting down- so I have to guess and open the door at :01 before the buzzer goes off.    If it does go off, something horrible will happen.