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WCDT Strips 3281 to 3285 (8-12 August 2016)
BenRG:
Dora knows the big problem she has with some of her employees: They're also personal friends. Given the opportunity, some of them will just stand there and chat rather than get the shop ready for the breakfast rush.
mad hands murphy:
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--- Quote from: JimC on 11 Aug 2016, 04:06 ---Taking pleasure in small, essentially pointless activities, is surely a life enhancing exercise.
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Thank you for changing my perpsective. That is a very nice way of looking at it.
Your next challenge, if you choose to accept it, is to defend their habit of delightfully describing this habit as "so OCD." :roll:
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By getting over it, and realizing you know and understand exactly what they mean by OCD so getting torqued that it isn't the exactly precise definition is actually just embarassing for you.
Also - recognizing that they're out running six miles a day while you're sitting on the internet complaining about their trivial word choices.
hedgie:
Thing is that it's *not* trivial for those of us who actually deal with OCD on a constant basis. I'll certainly joke about it, and I do expect constant shit from my friends[1] about it. But it doesn't help anyone to describe some silliness as an OCD trait. I'll indulge in odd things on a whim[2] and it can be fun. It's still a vast difference between harmless indulgence and a serious anxiety disorder.
[1] Hell, I wouldn't respect them if they thought that they couldn't tease me. Of course, they would never in the lifetime of our sun do anything to trigger an anxiety attack.
[2] Due to co-morbidity, I also have impulse-control issues
theMarc:
Argh, this happens to me all the time. There's always, at any given moment, some word/phrase or another bouncing around the inside of my skull.
Right now it's "the most powerful". I don't even know what that's in reference to.
brasca:
--- Quote from: hedgie on 12 Aug 2016, 09:52 ---Thing is that it's *not* trivial for those of us who actually deal with OCD on a constant basis. I'll certainly joke about it, and I do expect constant shit from my friends[1] about it. But it doesn't help anyone to describe some silliness as an OCD trait. I'll indulge in odd things on a whim[2] and it can be fun. It's still a vast difference between harmless indulgence and a serious anxiety disorder.
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People make exaggerations all the time. When someone compares a busy afternoon to a battlefield are they being insensitive to veterans? Lashing out at people for their benign ignorance doesn't really you do any favors because either they will avoid you because they don't want you to take it the wrong way or they'll resent being scolded like a child and double down.
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