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A couple of things spring to mind...
1. Grammar. I'm a compulsive editor. In particular, the incorrect use of "it's" makes me insane, and lack of subject-verb agreement (like the heading for the What Things Did You Accomplish this Year thread) just make me so edgy that it's all I can do not to correct people. But it's a good thing, in a way, because I've learned to suppress myself most of the time.
2. I have an annoying (to me, and surely to others) compulsion to clip my fingernails everytime someone comes into my office for casual conversation. It's not like my fingernails are in great shape -- they're not. And I don't even realize I'm doing it...I'll be having a great conversation with someone, and then I'll look down and notice that I've gotten my clippers out of my drawer and am clipping away while I talk. Gross, huh?
3. My kids' toys. There is a place for all of them. When I find a Thomas the Tank Engine part in the Lego drawer, I start going through them all one-by-one to be sure that nothing's intermixed. Books are segregated by size. And I set up the little Sesame Street blocks in Rainbow Order -- nothing else will do. It's a sea of compulsion in an otherwise fairly messy house.
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