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You know you’re obsessive when…
2 min readOct 14, 2018
- You have a fever and you take your temperature three times and then average out the results to get the most precise measurement.
- You wait until everyone leaves the classroom before going up to the whiteboard and hurriedly, expertly fixing the grammatical errors, then bolting before anyone sees you.
- You regularly take your wallet and arrange the money inside in order of value (smallest to largest bills).
- Clothes are strewn across your bedroom floor, which bothers you far less than the fact that your drawers are disorganized.
- When walking down the sidewalk, you step over all the cracks and make sure that you take an odd amount of steps on each block of concrete so that each foot can get to go first an equal amount of times. If you step on a crack, you are then obligated to step on all of them.
- You vow to yourself that you will make a Google drive folder containing an alphabetized, informative report about every single date you will ever go on. This is mainly just in case you meet someone and you suspect you used to date someone. I could then check their name, the date of the date (no pun intended), how old we both were (which I could technically calculate on the spot but would prefer to have written down), why there was or was not a second date, what I thought of the date, what happened on the date, etc.
- Your teacher erases the whiteboard but leaves a dot of marker by accident, and you pay more attention to the dot than the lesson for the rest of the period.
- You agonize over deleting pictures of memes on your phone because your iCloud hasn’t been updated in half a year due to your tendency to latch onto every picture and video you take.
- You make this list.
