OCD

Ever wonder what someone who is Obsessive Compulsive keeps in their cube? (Don't worry, he didn't buy it all for him. He buys it for our group. All 10 of us.)

1 – Original flavor Trident
1 – Cinnamon Trident
2 – Freshment Trident
4 – Spearmint Trident
9 – Juicy Fruit
15 – Wrigley’s Doublemint
16 – Wrigley’s Winterfresh
21 – Wrigley’s Big Red
25 – Wrigley’s Extra Spearmint
1 – Wrigley’s Extra Wildberry Frost
3 – Wrigley’s Extra Peppermint
3 – Wrigley’s Extra Classic Bubble Flavor
1 – Wrigley’s Extra Cool Watermelon
10 – Wrigley’s Extra Cinnamon
23 – Wrigley’s Extra Winterfresh

NOTE: We now move to packages of gum that have 14 pieces per package rather than 5

3 – Wrigley’s Orbit Cinnamint
3 – Wrigley’s Orbit Wintermint
2 – Wrigley’s Orbit Original Flavor
3 – Wrigley’s Orbit Bubblemint
1 – Wrigley’s Orbit Sweet Mint

NOTE: We now move to packages of gum that have 12 pieces

3 – Wrigley’s Orbit White Peppermint
3 – Wrigley’s Eclipse Cherry Chill
1 – Wrigley’s Eclipse Lemon Burst
2 – Trident Strawberry Fusion

Then we have various pieces of gum: Cotton Candy Bubble Yum, Lightning Lemonade Bubblicious, Super Bubble, etc.

7 packages of Breath Savors Peppermint

4 large boxes of Anti-viral Kleenex
1 small box of Anti-viral Kleenex
1 large box of Puffs Plus

17 fun size packages of peanut M&Ms
7 Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups

Let’s see, there’s also mini Snickers, tootsie rolls, York Peppermint Patties, small Reese’s PB cups, suckers, Starburst, pixie sticks, Nestle Treasures (with caramel, peanut butter, and chocolate crème filling,)Tootsie Roll pops, Dubble Bubble, mini Milky Way, mini Butterfinger Crisps, Sweet Tarts, double chocolate Hershey’s kisses, mini Nestle Crunches, Blow pops, and Cadbury Crème Eggs.

16 bottles of water

4 containers of Chocolate Malt Ovaltine
1 container of Rich Chocolate Ovaltine
1 container of Malt Ovaltine

8 Red Bulls, 2 Sugar Free Red Bulls, ThermaCare Heat Wraps, Paper plates and bowls, Soup, chicken broth, Various flavors of Crystal Light, 2 packages of Ready to Eat Chicken Salad, Stanley 3 Piece Pliers Set, Stanley 10 WayFlexible Screwdriver, Loctite Super Glue, Tweezers, batteries, Mentho-lyptus Halls, Cherry Halls Max, Stanley Tools Utility Hacksaw 10IN.

Tropical Triaminic liquid, Grape Triaminic liquid, Cherry N’ICE lozenges, Cherry Triaminic soft chews, Cherry Triaminic liquid, DayQuil, Sudafed Sinus & Cold, Alavert, Zantac, Gas-X, Sudafed Nasal decongestant, Vivarin, Equate Suphedrine Sinus & Allergy, Oral-B Brush Ups, Alka-Seltzer, Tylenol Allergy Sinus, Tylenol Sinus, Advil Cold and Sinus, Tylenol Sore Throat Liquid, Tavist ND, Benadryl, Tylenol Flu, Theraflu, Sudafed Sinus Headache, Tums, Mylanta, Equate Liquid Antacid, Advil Liqui-gels, Imodium AD, Imodium Advanced, Motrin, Equate Headache Relief (Fake Excedrin), Excedrin Extra Strength, Aleve, Tylenol Extra Strength (2 bottles), Excedrin Migraine, Cortizone 10 Ointment, Cortizone 10 Crème with Aloe, Benadryl Topical Ointment, Equate Triple Antibiotic Ointment, Hyland’s Homeopathic Gas Relief (2 bottles)

Delimma

Sometimes when I cough, people think my cough is actually a sneeze and so they say ‘bless you.’ When that happens, I don’t know what to do. Normally, when I actually DO sneeze and someone says ‘bless you’ I say ‘thank you.’ But if I say ‘thank you’ when someone says ‘bless you’ when I actually coughed, I feel like I’m being deceitful by pretending to have sneezed when I, in fact, coughed. But then if I say ‘That was a cough, not a sneeze,’ then the person feels stupid. Surprisingly, though, I’m more comfortable with making someone look stupid than I am with being deceitful. But usually, I just don’t respond at all, which means that I feel rude for ignoring someone who just attempted to bless me after thinking that I sneezed.

Does that ever happen to you? What do you do?

Another story about Shad

Shad revealed a great secret to me today. You may wonder, if this is such a great secret, why I am now sharing it with you. The reason? It’s real funny. And when something’s funny, it's fair game for public ridicule.

Shad says that his greatest fear is passing gas in public. He claims that there are people who no longer speak to him because he accidentally passed gas in front of them. I told him that was ridiculous and he was just being paranoid. He said that his paranoia is based on his experiences. I said, “No, your paranoia is based on your whacked-out perception of reality.”

In any case, he decided to share with me a story about a guy who accidentally passed gas…

An apocryphal story about Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford is that he farted while swearing loyalty to Queen Elizabeth I and consequently went into self-imposed exile for seven years. After his return, the Queen was reported to have reassured de Vere: "My Lord, I had quite forgotten the fart." (John Aubrey, Brief Lives)

Find this and other stories about gas at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flatulent.

So my question is this: Can you relate to Shad's fear? Any funny stories to tell?