Do you have checkitis?

[mtnsnake]

(pronounced check-eye-tiss)

Lots of times when my wife and I go to leave the house we lock the house door, get into the car, and then ask the other one if we checked everything...you know, the coffee maker, the stove, the hair dryer, and even the door itself. Even though we know we did all that, one of us still has to go back in and do a quick re-check just to make sure. Make sure that damn coffemaker really is turned off. Even unplug it to be sure. That's when you know you've got checkitis. If we're going away for a couple days, we might even drive a half mile down the road and then get checkitis and have to go back and check everything again. Did the garage door go all the way down?

[New Earth]

1. yes

i have keyitis checkitis. i have to check at least 5 times in a row before i either leave my house to get in the car, and before i get out of the car. i've locked my keys in the car enough times where i've grown a kind of OCD of making sure they're either in my pocket or my purse :shrug:

[newsguyatl]

2. it's called OCD

[jdj]

10. in my case it's called short-term memory loss.

[lavenderdiva]

3. every night, I have to check all the doors at least twice to make sure

they are all locked. Sometimes, if I can't remember seeing it go down, I have to drive around the block or reverse to look at the garage door, to make sure it is closed! Have to make sure all the heaters are turned off. Have to make sure every night, that the oven, stove, and microwave are all off. I don't know if this is considered obsessive/compulsive behaviour, as I don't count everything when I am checking. Once had a friend who, when we went out, had to check five things five times, before we left his home. Then as we were leaving, he had to turn the key in the lock five times each way.

[mtnsnake]

5. haha, good stuff! Now I don't feel alone

:)

[vixengrl]

4. I sure do. My way of locking a door *always* entails

giving the knob a turn to make sure it's really, really locked. I've sat at work wondering if I really had turned off the heater in the bedroom. I've walked out of places to go back and check if I really turned my headlights off (I have never left them on--I still check). And I have a keychain that clips to my purse, so I do a ritual to make sure I've always got all my keys.

My hubby doesn't think I'm nuts, because he always checks the knobs on the rangetop before leaving--even if no one's used the rangetop in a while. Ditto the toaster oven.

[mtnsnake]

6. Yeah, before turning in, I've gotta check those knobs

on the stove twice, too. Then I even put my hands right on the burners just to make sure they're not hot!

[OrwellwasRight]

11. Not only have I gone to bed with the door unlocked

twice I have left my keys in the knob (on the outside of the door) and didn't firgure it out till the morning.

I have lots of family and friends who have had various addiction problems and I always joke with them that I sympathize, but can't empathize because I don't have the "habit forming gene." If I can't remember to lock my front door every night or to wear earrings everyday, how the hell could I remember I'm supposed to smoke a cigarette every hour?

[susanna]

7. I used to, then I bought auto shut off appliances.

Of course, the day I left my front door WIDE open last year (in a reasonably rough neighborhood) comes to mind. No one broke in, stole anything...I think they just thought some total batsh!t crazy person had her front door wide open in the middle of a Detroit winter and gave the house a wide berth LOL.

[lavenderdiva]

8. of course, it doesn't help that my husband is the complete opposite!

I can't tell you how many times he's gone to bed, and I am downstairs checking the doors, and sure enough, he has left them unlocked, or the oven on and something in it! Makes me crazy!!

[auntAgonist]

9. true story...

when we were kids, my family would go camping. We would get down the road a bit EVERY SUMMER, and mum would turn to dad and say " ohhhhh did I unplug the iron?" Dad would turn around and sure enough the iron was ok. the LAST time she did that .. Dad stopped the car, went to the trunk and pulled out the IRON ... hehe .. she never asked again!!

[mtnsnake]

12. That was ingenious of your Dad. LOL!

I'm gonna do that with the coffee maker next time we go on a trip!