The "No Pain Zone" (Discussion Thread)

I think I do many, many things differently than many people..... So, I'll just start with a couple!!

--Most people look forward to going to sleep at night. I look forward to the house being quiet - and because of all my insomnia issues - I am busy! I use my computer, catch up on all my TV shows that I DVR, etc. So, I sleep a whole lot LESS than most people.....!

--I don't know - are most people a little OCD about public restrooms? While I will use them - I won't ever sit on the seat (I'll let you figure out the visual, lol)..... and I use my foot to flush....... won't touch the door handles, etc. Yes, I'm a bit neurotic..... and imagine trying to take children (especially twin 3 year olds) to the potty with all that going on! It's quite the sight!

--Finally, unlike many people, I don't hold grudges. I can get very frustrated/angry/hurt..... but if someone offers a sincere apology - I forgive. Life's short and everyone makes mistakes....

I seriously hope you two have a therapist in your team!!! Lol, kidding!

I put everything open in the fridge and cabinets (food) in zip lock bags. Every single box, bag, piece of produce and yes the butter sticks after the box is open!

I immediately remove the mail from my mailbox! I wont leave it for 10 minutes!? Drives me crazy!

LOL Tina. I can still here my mother when all us kids were younger and we were out and about and would be in a public restroom and she was in there yacking at us don't sit on the toilet, hover over it, don't sit down. Funny because I did the same exact thing with my kids when they were little. Anyone hearing me must have thought I was out of my mind.

Alright I'm fine getting into bed if I have just put clean sheets on. But if the sheets were put on yesterday then tonight I can't get into bed until I brush the sheets like a crazy woman to make sure theres not one speck of dirt, sand or crumb in it. Because if I feel anything it'll drive me nuts and I'll be up all night scratching. My hubby thinks I'm nuts. lol I've gotten so carried away with brushing out the bed that I've actually smacked my hand on my end table so hard that I fractured my middle finger so bad that it pulled an entire chunk of one out of the back of the joint and I ended up in a cast for 6 weeks with my middle finger stuck up. lol

If we get down to 6 rolls of toilet paper in the house I panic and have to go to BJ's wholesale club and buy a 36 roll pack because Ihave an unreasonable fear as my family calls it of running out.

I can't go to bed at night until my coffe pot is set for morning, the dishwasher is put on delay to start at midnight, the washing machine is set on delay to start at 5am, my kitchen counters are all wiped down with clorox wipes and there can't be anything in the kitchen sink. The rest of the house can look like a bomb went off but I can't deal with the kitchen not being in order.

I'm actually getting some good ideas here, like the Ziploc baggies!

I, too, do the whole public restroom thing.  Hover and flush with foot, and after washing my hands, I use the paper towel to open the door handle.  It bugs me no end when they have those blow dryer machines in there instead!  Yuck.

Bear with me and I apologize if this offends anyone, but along the same topic, (and it drives my Husband crazy), I would rather take a pit-stop in the woods (liquid only, of course), I travel with baggies and precautionary wipes constantly!  But I'd rather do that than drive for miles trying to find a potentially filthy restroom.

Not to mention, when I have to go (and I have to go a lot),...it means NOW!  Not in 15 minutes.

Whenever I go out, the first thing I simply must do is find out where all the bathrooms are.  My whole "experience" whether it's at a restaurant or doctor's office, revolves around the rest room.

Who would have thought this thread would take this direction....

M.

I don't mind the hoverer's as long as they hit the hole!! Nothing more irritating then going in a stall and slipping in urine or worse!

One thing I do religiously is if there's a stall with no paper? I put some in there before I leave.

I'm a bit ocd with the bathrooms and I know which ones are best to use and I'll hold it until we make a pit stop at one of these places...just me but I do like the bathrooms clean.
Barnes and nobles usually keep theirs clean, Dillards has a good restroom clean up, I would give macy's an A but those push faucets always bruise my hands. Kohl's are so so, Texas Land and Cattle is very nice, Texas Roadhouse is okay, Cracker Barrel's okay...McD only in an emergency.
Kroger's and Hobby Lobby are very gross and really need to do a better job!
and I always keep those alcohol or germX wipes in my purse for a quick clean. and I wipe my purse and my cane. As I do have a bad immunune system and I'm on Methotrexate why take chances as it seems when I get sick it's usually pretty bad (pneumonia 4 times already). and in the month of December I only go to the mall early on week day to see the lights, never on a weekend.

Chart you have a very good idea about carrying wipes to wipe things down. I have to go to the restroom, and having diabetes, there are times that I wouldn't be able to hold it till we got home or somewhere I know that they're clean. We ride the bus, because we don't have a car. That makes a big difference.

Merrida The mcDonalds here are to where the employees use the same restroom as we do. All the others I don't know. You may have it right.

I really get irritated when a place says no restroom unless you're a customer. Gggrrrr


I can't think of anything that I do different.

love and hugs
Loretta

I laugh at anything...From being anxious to reacting to muscle spasms