The fear of odd numbers.
Never realised this was a 'phobia', but when it was mentioned to me that a friend's partner had been officially diagnosed with this it made me think.
Numbers are an important part of everyone's life and I never have a problem with them.......... or so I thought.
Everything in my life that relates to numbers that I am able to control, are even.
Whether its' volume on the TV or stereo, indoors or in the car. Temperature settings, again indoors or in the car. Cruise control, alarms and computer settings, all are even numbers and if an pdd number appears I change it.
I'm not the only one who has this issue as I found out recently.
So do I have disparnumerophobia or is it just a whim?
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But I love you three times anyway
I've got another colleague with koumpounophobia - look it up it's a real thing but sounds absolutely mad. She doesn't get much sympathy and prefers not to talk about it because everyone takes the piss.
It drove him insane to be in my car becuase I wouldn’t reset my clock for daylight savings.
He once spent two weeks complaining to his cable company ( every day) that the time on his cable box was off by two minutes. He knew, he’d got himself one of those clock that syncs with the atomic clock.
Of course, we’d all reset the clock just to bug him.
I especially liked the fact you used an odd number of paragraphs.
Good work!
It's you I hate.
Good job most swear words are four letters.
I did like 4 though. 4 was a good solid number. You knew where you were with a 4.
In fact I would also have to check under my bed 4 times each night when I was a youngster in the 80s as I thought if I didn't there would be a nuclear war . Of course in retrospect the soviets were itching their trigger finger waiting for the night a 10 year old sap in Orpington failed to crane his neck under his bed the mandatory 4 times before launching armageddon.
I was an odd child.
It’s only when someone starts a thread like this that you realize how much irrational weirdness there is out there.
I also see days of the week as various coloured rectangles:
Sunday: Dark yellow thick vertical
Monday: Light yellow thin vertical
Tuesday: Light blue thin vertical
Wednesday: Yellow thin horizontal
Thursday: Thick navy vertical
Friday: Pink thin vertical
Saturday: Black thick horizontal
I think this comes from watching the Test Card as a kid and also being a stickler for routine. I used to go one of my Nan's on Tuesdays and Thursday pre-school and this was sort of drummed into me and if I ever had to go there on a Wednesday or any other different day I would get upset.
I also associate certain meals with days of the week and really don't feel comfortable changing. I don't have the same meals every week but for example if I was to have sausage and mash or lamb chops and mash I will only have that on a Tuesday for example.
Oh and I've always prefered odd numbers, find even numbers smug.
Also absolutely hate pictures and mirrors being hung crooked and will go out of my way to straighten them......no matter where I am and not just in my own home.
He explains it here from 3 minutes 45.
jeez - how do you live you life like that.
Enough stresses in life without worrying about numbers as well.
I can't remember exactly when it was, but there was a point when it occurred to me that everyone is a bit weird, which is absolutely fine.