I am so exceptionally picky, that I will refrain from giving examples here for fear that it would make me look like an obsessive compulsive weirdo


I am very fussy.

Geez! I was so picky it was sickening!

My house had to be cleaned once a week from ceiling to floor, baseboards included..

I hired a maid service to do my house, and she didn't do it quite the way I wanted it so I let her go..

Now, I have learned that life is to short for such nonsense.. I am totally laid back.. And yes my house is still clean.

Berry said:

Oh Miss Vish, I'm so sorry if my joke did not make sense

I was saying "no, I'm not picky...,but could you fix your title?" Hence being picky. It did not work. I should have put a smiley face or something

I am so sorry for the misunderstanding girlfriend.

Yesterday my boyfriend and I had this whole argument on how he thinks I am 'snobby' about the food I eat. I guess I would have preferred the term 'picky.'

CalhounSq said:

ME TOO!!! I guess I'm somewhere between CalhounSq and LaVisHh.

making sure I spelled LaVisHh right...

*double-checkin'*

I eat chicken, but only the breast. No skin, no bones, no FAT.

Thank you.

i thought this was about PEOPLE WHO PICK THEIR NOSES
i wanted to see whut kind of people do this...

00769BAD said:

I can be picky about some things. For example... the last time our firm changed its name, we ordered new letterhead to reflect the change. The printer screwed up at least a good portion of the order by printing on the wrong side of the paper and/or upside-down, so that the watermark was oriented improperly.

When I was admitted to the bar a few months later, I politely asked our staff member who orders the letterhead to ask the printer to be careful about getting the watermark right on my new, personalized "Attorney at Law" letterhead. (Fortunately, the printer got it right.) My theory is that if my letterhead is messed up, it looks as if I'm careless and don't care about details, and it reflects poorly on me, the person whose name is printed at the top.

My colleagues had mixed opinions about this--some understood and agreed with my concern, whereas at least one didn't seem to understand why I'd even care about something like that.

Regardless of your take on this, I know that at some companies, any resume with an improperly-positioned watermark gets automatically tossed into the "reject" pile. If you get 200 resumes for one job opening, you'll do anything you can to narrow down the candidate pool.

Berry said:

No problemo...

Natsume said:

Dump him! On Valentines Day! Classy

I don't think all of these things are picky necessarily, but one might be. Otherwise, these things are some of my:

Quirks, Idiosyncrasies, and Botherations

Don't watch me cook:

I don't like it when people invite themselves to watch me cook. I mean, unless I tell them to watch me so they can cook by my directions themselves, it really makes me uncomfortable. It makes me feel like taking all of my cooking resources and going to some corner where I can't be easily watched. I'm fine if I tell you to watch, I don't mind showing people HOW it's done, but I'm uncomfortable if I don't initially give the invite. And usually this only applies to people outside of my immediate family. Is that odd? I guess I'm too much of an introvert. I ... don't ... care.


Alarm clocks bother me:

Does the ringing from the alarm clock bother anybody? For me it's gotten to the point that I only use either my pager or my cell phone and set either one to vibrate when it's time for me to get up. Ringing alarm clocks put me in a bad mood. It seems no matter what they're just LOUD. But sometimes waking up by vibration can be annoying too since I'm an insomniac, and by the time I get to sleep it's time to get the up again. That's a botheration.


Don't with my food!:

If I go to the Subway shop and see people making sandwiches without those clear gloves on, I'm turning around and walking the hell out. They are required to wash their hands first, and put on those gloves before they handle the food. Yeah, yeah, I know I can't control how food is prepared everywhere, but if I SEE something that doesn't agree with my cleanliness standards you're in the doghouse and I'm outta there.


People in line at the grocery store:

There is a such a thing as physical space. You're entitled to it, I'm entitled to it, everyone else is entitled to it. I've never been in a large grocery where the person behind me needed to touch my ass with their cart while we're in line, or rub up against my back. But they do it anyway. This doesn't happen to me a lot, but it's a botheration on my mind when it does. It's almost as if I get the feeling they're doing this on purpose.


Pick the item in the back:

When I'm shopping, whether it's the grocery store or a clothing store, I'm in the habit of picking the item that's NOT in the front. Front items have been picked over, prodded, handled, touched, squeezed, stroked, etc. by everybody else. I've seen what people do to those things. It doesn't feel like it's new anymore, even if it's sometimes all in my mind I feel better about it if I get the fresher item from the middle of the pack.

Supernova said:

THIS IS ME Once I was @ Taco Hell, which is bad enough, right? The cashier took my order. A rancid looking man came up & left the bathroom key on the counter - a key attached to a large flat piece of wood. The cashier grabbed the bathroom key, put it away & proceeded to MAKE MY FOOD W/ THEIR BARE HANDS!!! Not only was she hitting those nasty register buttons & handling filthy money, the broad touched the bathroom key, dammit

I already knew I wasn't gonna eat it but I just had to say something, that shit was WRONG. I told her to wash her hands & she looked @ me like I was nuts. I could see the sink & she barely rinsed her hands, didn't think twice about soap. I left the food on top of a garbage can, I'm sure some homeless person was happy to get it.




Yea, this is a huge problem everywhere though. I seem to know lots of people that have NO concept of personal space - always wanna touch you, talk to you nose to nose. Good NESS, people - back the fuck up!!



You're not alone there, I always pick from the back too. And they DO put the older stuff in the front, just check the dates on cheese & milk for example - they're trying to get rid of that stuff & they know most people don't look.



rancid edit...
[This message was edited Thu Feb 13 4:11:05 PST 2003 by CalhounSq]

CalhounSq said:

Damn straight it is!


Shoulda asked for a refund before they fixed your food. I'm one to talk; there was a time I wouldn't ask for my money back I'd just throw it away.




Sometimes even if I look back at 'em they act oblivious like they did nothing. I want to say something but don't want to make a scene.




Now that you mention it I do think I've heard of that method of stocking food.

Another botheration:

I can't stand it when restaurants or fast food places don't de-vein their shrimp. I asked the cashier at a Mexican food place if they de-veined their shrimp in the shrimp burrito, he said he didn't know. The fool should have, but I wasn't gonna take a chance and order it. Even if I'm given a plate with un-de-veined by friends I DON'T eat. I'm sorry, that's just NASTY.

CLEAN THE FRIGGIN SHRIMP RIGHT!!! You charge enough for it!

Supernova said:

I know, but she didn't understand english really well & I didn't feel like going through it. It was easier to just toss that cheap shit



LOLOL!!! I worked @ a restaurant once where they didn't devein the shrimp, and this place wasn't dirt cheap either. I felt bad for customers who ordered the beer batter shrimp b/c they were eating but unless they asked I couldn't just volunteer that info - well, I could have but I would have been fired Once a lady asked if the shrimp were cleaned & I told her they weren't, we had the longest convo about the fact that the restaurant charged $15 for the shit but didn't bother to clean it - disgusting. I was SO glad to bring the manager over for her

DAMN I'm glad I don't wait tables no mo!!!

Another thing:

People who pick up a spoon by the scooping part with their hands and give it to you to use. Firstly, I didn't ask this person to pass me a spoon, secondly, even if I did don't people have enough sense to know that you don't pick up a spoon by its scooper with your bare hands and expect someone to eat from it! More home training, please.

And another thing:

I've noticed this only since the advent of the internet: people who contract the words "no" and "one" by typing "noone" - as if that shit is a word! IT IS NOT A WORD!!! People are too lazy to use the space bar in between two words that add up to 5 letters. Gawd that's annoying!

Am I annoyed today? Can we get an annoyed emoticon around here? It's very necessary.

I'm an passive/agressive obsessive compulsive control freak with an inferiority & superiority complex. But other than that I'm quite normal.

People who try to hold conversations with you while you're trying to hear the TV. They don't say a word when they're watching TV.

still no nose pickin huh???

I'm not picky at all, I just hate it when things aren't they way I like them.

ME 2!

ESPESIALLY for services that are paid for.

they are taking your cash they should bring quality product to the table weather it be peuchasing a vaccume cleaner or dinner some where, or weather that dinner be at McDonalds whom I feel needs to get thier shit together

I recently ordered fabric samples for a sofa and they guy I talked to didnt want to send me the entire book but pick each number of swatch I thought I might be interested in


WELL three weeks later they never came
called back and the guy tried to tell me it was my fault that they werent sent!...Because he made me pick out the seperate swatches instead of the sending the entire book like I asked originally


well thats customer service...and real shitty when they cant admit to thier own mistakes, and two when they just to damn lazy to get back with you or just to send the entire books period,

so I would say that is going to reflect on the situation on my order...as in if it would ever be shipped.

and by the way I had to put a $200.00 deposit on those swatches and you best beleive they checked my account to make sure the funds were there even though they didnt send them out...the place is a upscale retail store for modern italian furniture, you would think they would have their shit together


1. customer relation
2. product quality
[This message was edited Sat Feb 15 8:54:38 PST 2003 by GIOVANNI]

Yeah! You're looking at the ultimate "Miss Picky" right here!! I am very picky about how neat my drawers and closets at home are, everything has to be "just so" or else I am not happy. At work, I check and double check my work to be sure there are no errors.

Same thing with dating men - I am SUPER PICKY in this category! LOL -- I remember once when a friend of my brother's asked my father if I had a boyfriend and my father replied that I didn't. My brother's friend was surprised, and he asked my father why I wasn't "taken". My father's response? "She's picky".
[This message was edited Mon Feb 17 8:43:24 PST 2003 by psychodelicide]

high-fiving all the picky people

Oh, and other areas that I'm fussy about are eating out of candy dishes or food that is not covered (a definite no-no, since this is a sea of germs that can cause one to get sick).

I also wash or rinse my forks, knives, spoons, whatever off at work just to get the germs off for the same reason as listed above. At a restaurant, since I can't wash off my eating utensils, I wipe them off good with my napkin. What is funny is that my mom does the exact same thing!

Lastly, and you all are going to think I'm really WACKO for this - lol!! - I cover the toilet seat with toilet paper before using, because several times I sat down on the toilet seat without looking and wound up with a wet butt because of the last person that had used it.

I probably will think of some more.

psychodelicide said:

I do that!

chickengrease said[/quote]

Chickengrease, that is the cutest emoticon I have ever seen. I think the moderators at the org should add that onto our emoticon list. It rocks!!!

LaVisHh said:

You do, LaV? I'm glad I'm not alone!

Here's another thing that I do - lol! I have learned to double-check my receipts when I get home from the store, because several times I have been double charged for the same item. It happened to me again at the store yesterday. I hate when that happens.

psychodelicide said:

Alone? PLEASE, I do that all the time