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I get what you're saying in theory, but the reality is that when my husband is puttering around in the kitchen, he is just as likely to get sidetracked and wander out of the kitchen, leaving cabinet doors open.
It's just not difficult to open or close a cabinet door or drawer. And if we're going to use your reasoning, why not leave drawers open too? Never mind the hip bruises! Put some ice on those lumps on your head from hitting the cabinet doors too!
If I'm working on a project, I like to clean as I go. I don't care if I have to go back and clean a surface again at the end. I'd rather do that than wander around in piles of sawdust tracking it everywhere.
The other day, my husband went into the laundry room and got a milk bone out of the cabinet for each of our dogs. Then he left the cabinet door open. Why? Was it because in a few hours he'd go back in and give them another bone? Who knows? Honestly, it's pretty bizarre to those of us who close cabinet doors. We do not get it. It is not "more convenient" to us.
But speaking of convenience, why zip up your pants? You're just going to have to unzip them again. Just walk around with them unzipped. No one will actually SEE anything, and it's a lot more convenient.
I had never been bothered about this until I started working with Anna. Every afternoon she makes a coffee on the small chest of drawers we have in our shared office. It's got a tray with a kettle on top, a few cups, and tea bags, coffee and powdered milk in the top drawer. Every few weeks I clean the tray and tidy around. I am far from being obsessional. Going back to Anna: day after day she takes the powdered milk out of the drawer, leaving the drawer wide open, shakes the milk into her coffee, then puts the milk on her desk and goes back to her work on the computer. I don't care where she leaves the milk, but the drawer!!!! The drawer remains open. When I see it, I kind of freeze in panic and a wave of sweat goes over my body. It's one of those office-style drawers where all it takes is a slight push and the whole drawer slides back into place with a satisfying click. How can she leave it open? How can she? My explanation is that she's a very spontaneous person who says what she thinks and acts accordingly. She's not a calm person and she can't hold her emotions back. For her, getting on with the work is her priority, the coffee is just a drink and the drawer is her last concern. Or maybe she thinks she'll be putting the milk back in later, so leaving the drawer open indicates that she has unfinished business. I, on the other hand, can't work if the drawer is open. So, I invent all kinds of strategies to get over to the drawer and close it without her thinking I'm nagging her. So I go over to the window and mention the weather, then give the drawer a nudge. Or I make a cup of tea that I don't want, just so I can close the drawer.
I met Anna's husband about a year ago. He said, "Does she drive you mad?"
One more thing: Anna also puts down the phone with way too much force. When she finishes a conversation she flings the receiver down with a violent flourish. Once, she did it really hard and it bounced off the phone and onto the floor. That's when I knew it was her, not me, the problem.
I'd say the person who is concerned with closed drawers is the OCD. The person leaving the drawers partly open is definitely non-OCD. No mystery there.
I had never been bothered about this until I started working with Anna. Every afternoon she makes a coffee on the small chest of drawers we have in our shared office. It's got a tray with a kettle on top, a few cups, and tea bags, coffee and powdered milk in the top drawer. Every few weeks I clean the tray and tidy around. I am far from being obsessional. Going back to Anna: day after day she takes the powdered milk out of the drawer, leaving the drawer wide open, shakes the milk into her coffee, then puts the milk on her desk and goes back to her work on the computer. I don't care where she leaves the milk, but the drawer!!!! The drawer remains open. When I see it, I kind of freeze in panic and a wave of sweat goes over my body. It's one of those office-style drawers where all it takes is a slight push and the whole drawer slides back into place with a satisfying click. How can she leave it open? How can she? My explanation is that she's a very spontaneous person who says what she thinks and acts accordingly. She's not a calm person and she can't hold her emotions back. For her, getting on with the work is her priority, the coffee is just a drink and the drawer is her last concern. Or maybe she thinks she'll be putting the milk back in later, so leaving the drawer open indicates that she has unfinished business. I, on the other hand, can't work if the drawer is open. So, I invent all kinds of strategies to get over to the drawer and close it without her thinking I'm nagging her. So I go over to the window and mention the weather, then give the drawer a nudge. Or I make a cup of tea that I don't want, just so I can close the drawer.
I met Anna's husband about a year ago. He said, "Does she drive you mad?"
One more thing: Anna also puts down the phone with way too much force. When she finishes a conversation she flings the receiver down with a violent flourish. Once, she did it really hard and it bounced off the phone and onto the floor. That's when I knew it was her, not me, the problem.
I can't understand people who won't spend a few seconds of time, to tighten the screw behind their desk drawer handle. My boss's drawer handle would get so extremely loose that it would actually fall out, and the entire handle with it. The same way with door knobs, and with plastic screws behind toilet seats. Often the doorknob, or the seat, gets so wobbly and loose that it practically comes off. You can easily tighten it with a coin.
I had never been bothered about this until I started working with Anna. Every afternoon she makes a coffee on the small chest of drawers we have in our shared office. It's got a tray with a kettle on top, a few cups, and tea bags, coffee and powdered milk in the top drawer. Every few weeks I clean the tray and tidy around. I am far from being obsessional. Going back to Anna: day after day she takes the powdered milk out of the drawer, leaving the drawer wide open, shakes the milk into her coffee, then puts the milk on her desk and goes back to her work on the computer. I don't care where she leaves the milk, but the drawer!!!! The drawer remains open. When I see it, I kind of freeze in panic and a wave of sweat goes over my body. It's one of those office-style drawers where all it takes is a slight push and the whole drawer slides back into place with a satisfying click. How can she leave it open? How can she? My explanation is that she's a very spontaneous person who says what she thinks and acts accordingly. She's not a calm person and she can't hold her emotions back. For her, getting on with the work is her priority, the coffee is just a drink and the drawer is her last concern. Or maybe she thinks she'll be putting the milk back in later, so leaving the drawer open indicates that she has unfinished business. I, on the other hand, can't work if the drawer is open. So, I invent all kinds of strategies to get over to the drawer and close it without her thinking I'm nagging her. So I go over to the window and mention the weather, then give the drawer a nudge. Or I make a cup of tea that I don't want, just so I can close the drawer.
I met Anna's husband about a year ago. He said, "Does she drive you mad?"
One more thing: Anna also puts down the phone with way too much force. When she finishes a conversation she flings the receiver down with a violent flourish. Once, she did it really hard and it bounced off the phone and onto the floor. That's when I knew it was her, not me, the problem.
You are saying Anna is "not a calm person and she can't hold her emotions back"
But you're reaction at an open drawer is " When I see it, I kind of freeze in panic and a wave of sweat goes over my body"
My husband doesn't turn off lights or lock doors - which means that I make the rounds at night and do it. This is fine - but one time recently he was working on something in the den and I was getting ready for bed and I said, "Honey, can you be sure to turn that light off before you come to bed?" and he looked at me and said, "Of course I will. I always do."
So apparently he really thinks that he turns off lights! WHAT THE HECK! I honestly do not get this mindset. I mean, I might occasionally forget to turn off a light or lock a door but it's very occasionally - like a few times a year at the most. This is an every single day thing for him - he does not think about it, so he does not do it. I mean, except maybe once in a blue moon, he may think,"Hey, maybe I'll turn off this light or lock this door!" But it's random and sporadic at best. But he thinks he does it always. Always.
My husband doesn't turn off lights or lock doors - which means that I make the rounds at night and do it. This is fine - but one time recently he was working on something in the den and I was getting ready for bed and I said, "Honey, can you be sure to turn that light off before you come to bed?" and he looked at me and said, "Of course I will. I always do."
So apparently he really thinks that he turns off lights! WHAT THE HECK! I honestly do not get this mindset. I mean, I might occasionally forget to turn off a light or lock a door but it's very occasionally - like a few times a year at the most. This is an every single day thing for him - he does not think about it, so he does not do it. I mean, except maybe once in a blue moon, he may think,"Hey, maybe I'll turn off this light or lock this door!" But it's random and sporadic at best. But he thinks he does it always. Always.
Mind. Blown.
IDK what lights on has to do with open drawers, but anyway you already posted this in your previous venting about all of your husbands absent mindedness in this thread.
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