As I said yesterday I visited a large garden centre and I must admit the organisation and tidiness of this vast place was impressive. Even the shelving caught my eye as can be seen in the capture. Let me explain a little more.
I admit that I do suffer with a tiny amount of OCD but this may come from my times in the Royal Navy in the mid 60's. Oh boy did you have to have everything in it's place, and on Sunday mornings an officer would visit your living quarters and run a white glove around looking for dust. All your clothes in your locker had to be perfectly folded and placed with your embroidered name showing.
Now I'm not that bad, in fact I keep finding dust. What I do like is everything in it's place and different hight items must drop down sideways. When I had a tiled coffee table then the coasters had to be in line with the tile joints etc.
My friends used to know this, so if I went to the bathroom they would slightly move ornaments to watch me straighten them when I returned. One time when I went to the bathroom they moved several animal ornaments and stood them outside the bathroom door, It was then I cottoned on to them.
Now my friends and family think I'm strange because I have a half day tidying up ready for the cleaners and suggest I'm doing the work for them, no I just like things tiday and in there place.
Back to my capture, this looks lovely and tidy, so I thought, but when I downloaded the picture I noticed something wrong and wish I had spotted it then. See I'm not Shelf-ish and would have put it right for them. Can you spot it.
All kinds of things could be fixed around. Near blue bottles could have been balanced, third down should be two rows deep and an upper shelf could have one less row. Second down to the right, the two large red bottles shouldn't be on that shelf. Third down, near green bottle should be on the fourth, far to the right. Most of the products don't line up vertically. and on and on and on
'Tiny amount of OCD'? :) :) :)
My colleague in the office is also an OCD, and he always left his desk in the exact same neat state day after day. Of course the inevitable happened. :)
I remember how i discovered he's OCD. We sit side by side and i wanted to show him something on his monitor, and i pulled my chair a bit closer and pushed the corner of his monitor so that i could also see it. He very quietly moved the monitor back to 'that' perfect angle and invited me to move :) only then had it occurred to me that he is not only very neat, he's got an obsession :)
A brightly coloured shot , One red container on the bottom line is not in sync with the rest !! --The only one I would have to re set and perhaps the red one on the second row up . As a teacher of food technology I had rules for the children to adhere to when working in my Kitchen -- The 1st being -- Everything has a place and everything must be kept in its place !! I still like tidiness but am not obsessive about it at home !
Lol, nice shot and colors. Thanks for the follow…I completed only one 365 a few years ago and now only post occasionally (sometimes more sometimes less)
Fabulous narrative as always. I couldn’t see the mistake I think I am naturally untidy and just don’t have an OCD problem. My mum who was a very tidy person used to say ( when I was an adult but ) that she had no idea where she had got me from!
That Weedall is sticking out….I like things tidy too…. Staying at our daughters at the moment & she is very fussy!
You remind me, we went to the large garden centre today & meant to go back & buy some Ant killer after we looked at furniture but forgot!
Well of course it’s the green bottle on the bottom shelf that needs to be moved forward and lined up. We have quite a bit of OCD going on in this household, I completely understand your need for coasters to be lined up everything has to be straight in my house to. We had a two-year-old and a four-year-old over today and it’s taking hours to get the house back to normal.....lots of finger prints.
A nice array of colours all lined up in their rows.
The large green bottle on the bottom shelf has been moved up too close to the red bottles & has not only left a gap & distrupted the organised rows, but it's also slightly skewiffed the red bottle next to it?!
July 3rd, 2021
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My colleague in the office is also an OCD, and he always left his desk in the exact same neat state day after day. Of course the inevitable happened. :)
I remember how i discovered he's OCD. We sit side by side and i wanted to show him something on his monitor, and i pulled my chair a bit closer and pushed the corner of his monitor so that i could also see it. He very quietly moved the monitor back to 'that' perfect angle and invited me to move :) only then had it occurred to me that he is not only very neat, he's got an obsession :)
You remind me, we went to the large garden centre today & meant to go back & buy some Ant killer after we looked at furniture but forgot!
The large green bottle on the bottom shelf has been moved up too close to the red bottles & has not only left a gap & distrupted the organised rows, but it's also slightly skewiffed the red bottle next to it?!