EEEEEEP! And ARRRRGH! And PHEW

[simont]

In roughly that order.

At about 3:30 this afternoon I went to the Gallery by way of Argos. Went out of front door, opened car, piled in several things I needed to drop off at the Gallery, drove to Argos, queued for half an hour buying poncy radio-synchronised alarm clock (seems slightly silly to buy one the day after the clocks go back, but it'll be one less thing to hassle me in March). On to Gallery, watched things and played games and in particular introduced hilarityallen to Mao which was fun, finally gave Owen a lift home and then came back here.

To find the one vital thing I'd forgotten to do when I left: shut the front door! It was gapingly wide open and had been so since 3:30. Evidently the number of things I'd been carrying when I walked through it had overfilled my poor little mind and shutting the door dropped out of the other side.

Cue cold sweats and frantic running around to see if anything was missing, to say nothing of a bit of healthy caution in case any putative burglars were still on the premises. But no; apparently nobody at all (hostile or friendly) had so much as noticed, and nothing seems to be missing.

Excuse me while I wibble hysterically for a while…

Comments

[valkyriekaren.livejournal.com]

Hmm, wonders if there's any way <lj user="wechsler" could learn this technique, as he has that OCD habit too - I've seen him check the same door four times in a row before he's satisfied that it's locked.

[simonb.livejournal.com]

Sounds familiar - I used to check the doors and the fact that I had my keys a similar number of times before I started to use this visualisation technique.

It works quite well as there are three things to check so a triangle - an easy to remember object - works quite well. At night when I check the door to the garage before locking the house up I have to use a different visualisation technique since there are only two things to check, the back door and garage door. There I split the visualisation, using a method of check door, then do a specific hand/body motion (a specific martial arts technique) which allows me to imprint the memory of checking the door into my memory. I use a different technique for the back door itself.

Something else about the triangle method I use; once all three sides are lit the entire triangle flashes and it is that which appears to stick in my memory - a flashing purple triangle :)

[valkyriekaren.livejournal.com]

it is that which appears to stick in my memory - a flashing purple triangle :)

Like a great big bi-friendly sign? *grin*