What Preps are you doing this week? Part 9

[pseudonym]

My OCDs kicking in..... get the hangers all hanging the same way

[jansman]

My OCDs kicking in..... get the hangers all hanging the same way

We are in the same club P. I have to keep floors clear in the cottage ,the same sort of OCD I reckon!

[Frnc]

My OCDs kicking in..... get the hangers all hanging the same way

I was actually going to do that, even though I don't bother normally. I was putting them so I can just pull them towards me. But the metal open sided ones for trousers (they make hanging trousers very quick) needed to go the other way so you have something to hold on to. So basically they were mostly whichever way is quickest to take them off and put them on. Two of the normal hangers then got put on randomly. I've turned those two around at the top now. All jackets are facing with the zip to the right!

[Frnc]

My OCDs kicking in..... get the hangers all hanging the same way

We are in the same club P. I have to keep floors clear in the cottage ,the same sort of OCD I reckon!

Anywhere people are walking about you want the floors clear of anything people might not notice and trip over. In our house the hall has a long line of shoes parked along the side, but everyone knows they are there, and you can't miss them because the line of shoes is half the length of the hall. They are all parked at a 60° angle to take a bit less of the hall width. I put my laces inside my shoes after loosening them ready to put on. I'm not OCD, honest!

[Sneddle]

One of my preps this week has been taking Christmas cards round. I don't really celebrate it myself, but judging by the decorations, there are a fair few in the street who do. It's a simple enough way to make a connection and let folk know who I am. Plus, it's an easy way to figure out folk's names so I know who I'm waving to. Few of us are close, usually it's a hello or passing on a parcel, but I feel a bit more secure being a recognised face with a name attached to it. It might come in handy sometime, like a lot of preps.

[Frnc]

One of my preps this week has been taking Christmas cards round. I don't really celebrate it myself, but judging by the decorations, there are a fair few in the street who do. It's a simple enough way to make a connection and let folk know who I am. Plus, it's an easy way to figure out folk's names so I know who I'm waving to. Few of us are close, usually it's a hello or passing on a parcel, but I feel a bit more secure being a recognised face with a name attached to it. It might come in handy sometime, like a lot of preps.

You are right. Problem with me is I have a terrible memory for faces and names. There's actually a scientific name, a medical condition, for not remembering faces. If I see a neigbour going into their house I'll maybe recognise them (some of them), but if I saw them at the shops I might not. For instance I got new next door neighbours and one day I talked to them over the wall for about 5 minutes. I saw the bloke working in his garden a couple of months later, but wasn't sure if it was him or a gardener. After I'd talked to him a few times I would know it was him, but only because he was in his garden.

[Sneddle]

Face blindness, I believe. I have it too. A person's voice clues me in straight away, but their face? Nope.

[jennyjj01]

Face blindness, I believe. I have it too. A person's voice clues me in straight away, but their face? Nope.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosopagnosia

FRNC described it just as I experience it. See a person out of context and suddenly she is a stranger. A close colleague, or neighbour bumped into at the garden centre etc. One can appear to be ignorantly 'dissing' them, when in fact there was no recognition. I suspect I have it (after what may have been a mini stroke). Same if I bump into a first cousin at any place other than a funeral. Zero recognition of them. It can prove embarrassing...

[jansman]

Face blindness, I believe. I have it too. A person's voice clues me in straight away, but their face? Nope.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosopagnosia

FRNC described it just as I experience it. See a person out of context and suddenly she is a stranger. A close colleague, or neighbour bumped into at the garden centre etc. One can appear to be ignorantly 'dissing' them, when in fact there was no recognition. I suspect I have it (after what may have been a mini stroke). Same if I bump into a first cousin at any place other than a funeral. Zero recognition of them. It can prove embarrassing...

I can totally understand this,now. Since my illness decided it was visiting me I was The Man who remembered everything. Names to faces,sharp as a knife! Selling and providing,I could answer instantly,and always dominate the issues. Not now though. I struggle to remember the neighbours names ,certain phrases etc. Certain words that begin with D too. One good thing though,my writing has gone back to its speed and - forgotten the bl**dy word - accuracy! That does please me,as I don’t have to check spelling most of the time. At the beginning of December,I would stare at a page,and just not recognise it.

So forgetting,or not recognising on a low level,is ,I guess, quite normal as one gets older .

[Frnc]

Face blindness, I believe. I have it too. A person's voice clues me in straight away, but their face? Nope.

Yeah, same here, I'm not bad with voices.