Are you anal about things that other people really don't care about?

[Darth_Kitten]

I'm finding myself picking up other people's litter. Such a dirty habit!

If it's anywhere near my apartment block, I pick it up. I guess I could leave it for the groundskeeper, but no, I'm fussy.

[kiraboo]

1. I am an obsessive floor sweeper. I mean OBSESSIVE!

I think it's because I'm always barefoot and hate the feeling of dirt or crumbs under my toes.

[idgiehkt]

2. fishing pole line.

I always pick it up around bodies of water, and there is always tons of it; dumbass nature- hating wildlife killers leave it around everywhere.

recycling. everything, all the time.

same with cleaning up after litter bugs.

I'm getting really weird about cleaning. I drag all my furniture out in the yard every few months and hose it off. If it can't be hosed off I don't want it. I hose my Tracker out at well. I want all the dirt off of everything. If it isn't completely hosed off it's not clean. I've been thinking all day long about building a house with drains in the center of each floor so I could hose off the walls and floor of each room every once in a while

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

7. You can recycle used fishing line.

A few tackle shops will have collection drops for it, but you can also mail it in for recycling. That's what I do with fishing line I find and my used fishing line.

Here's the address:
Berkley Recycling
1900 18th Street
Spirit Lake, Iowa 51360

It's run by the Berkley tackle company. They recycle the used fishing line into habitat structures to give fish hiding places.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

3. Crooked pictures on the wall.

If they're even slightly crooked I have to straighten them or I go nuts. Even though my house is a mess otherwise -- books, clumps of cat fur, dirty socks, newspapers, magazines, miscellaneous stuff everywhere -- the pictures on the wall *have* to be straight.

[BlueJazz]

4. Mine is rinsing dishes. I've watched other folks give a ...

"hit and miss" rinse with their plates and stuff and it drives me Nuts. (OK..I allow it to)

[struggle4progress]

5. Do you have ANY idea what an incredibly BAD job you did writing ..

.. your first sentence? First, there is the disgusting preposition at the end of it, which reflects a sorry disregard for the decay of our mother tongue: the English language is being DESTROYED by people like yourself with absolutely no respect for its proud history. If you refuse to mend your ways, your children and grandchildren will speak some catterwall patois that nobody -- and I mean NOBODY -- will be able to understand. And REALLY! What's that 'really' doing in that sentence? It adds NOTHING to the thought. I really mean it: it really adds nothing whatsoever to the sentence; it just takes up space and makes my eyes tired from having to look at it. Have you no regard whatsoever for style? On top of that the sentence is rude. I don't just mean vulgar. I mean rude. Of course, it's also vulgar to put a word like 'anal' into a sentence on a family-oriented website like DU, but it's REAL:LY REALLY REALLY RUDE to accuse your readers of being 'anal.' Sure, I know you're probably going to make excuses for yourself: "I didn't accuse anybody of being anal, I only asked ..." Sure, like I'm going to buy that load of bullshit! I can tell when I'm being accused of being anal, and I say it's rude. Not only is it rude, it's not true. You don't know what you're talking about. In fact, I'm not anal about anything. Really! I'm not!

[jadedconformist]

6. Paper towels on floor in bathrooms

Everytime I go to the restroom at work, there is always a nice wet, wadded up ball of toilet paper on the floor near the door. This is every single day. Sometimes there are some paper towels on the floor next to the sink as if he couldn't reach over a little to the right and drop it in. For the most part it's by the door. This is really aggravating. I see this older, Hispanic lady walking around all day working her little heart out and I talk to her every now and then, so maybe that's why it seems more personal? I don't know. I know it's not a big deal to most people that see it, but I wish I could find out who it is because I really might say something to them. I think most people laugh at me when I tell them that this annoys me. :spank: