Symmetry

Just one more thing, as Colombo would say: a glass has to be set exactly on the middle of a coaster. Otherwise I am quite messy - is that a Scorpio tendency?

Tillybelle I didn't understand your ' Sleeping with the Enemy' reference, I don't think I saw the film.

I don't know what zodiac sign has which tendency, really.
Virgos are possibly fusspots perfectionists, apparently.

I even find myself straightening the towel on the towel rail in the middle of the night when I get up for a wee!! How dedicated is that?

Oh very good!
I had a friend years ago who used to measure the curtain pole each side when she closed the curtains, to make sure each end had the same amount of pole exposed.

I don’t have a symmetrical bone in my body, which is strange considering the years I spent in the military, which demands symmetry, and married to a soldier who, even in retirement, can’t bear to see anything not in a straight line! He is a nightmare in the garden. If I let him get away with it, he would plant everything in straight, evenly spaced rows instead of interesting groupings! Yes, he is a Virgo. I don’t like to see pictures askew though and in this our latest house, they almost always are. I think the house is sinking!

How about this?

A SWEET disorder in the dress
Kindles in clothes a wantonness:—
A lawn about the shoulders thrown
Into a fine distractión,—
An erring lace, which here and there 5
Enthrals the crimson stomacher,—
A cuff neglectful, and thereby
Ribbands to flow confusedly,—
A winning wave, deserving note,
In the tempestuous petticoat,— 10
A careless shoe-string, in whose tie
I see a wild civility,—
Do more bewitch me, than when art
Is too precise in every part.

Robert Herrick

NO

I'm with the matching pegs on the line, symmetrically arranged towels, the kitchen arranged just so before going to bed, wardrobe in order of tops, dresses, jumpers etc but not necessarily blocks of colour. I'm an Earth sign as are all my children we are all tidy but not irritatingly so and I would never dream of fiddling with things when friends visit.
I was told by someone who supposedly 'knew about these things, that a picture which looks slightly asked is ok as it showsvtgat someone must but have aligned it after dusting. If it's straight, it's never been dusted.
That doesn't make sense to me but then...what do I know.

asked askew

I admire anyone who lays their own floor - so who am I to criticise barely off lines? But it would irk, I must admit as my sense of order, instilled by Matron - 3 tiles between each bed; wheels all pointing inward, level with the bed end; hospital corners on all the bedlinen at exactly 45 degrees - would kick in

Oh my mum was like that!
Saturday morning, which was bed changing day was a nightmare!
Hospital corners, folds here, there and everywhere, and the whole lot pulled off if it wasn't done right.

Miss adventure I could not live with my fake kitchen floor tiles being less than straight. When I had my kitchen refitted year ago I just had to pay somebody to lay the flooring as although I’ve usually done this myself....this time with the ‘lined’ pattern I just dare not risk it! Very slight OCD although not enough to fret about!

Like me my late father-in-law was an Aries his garden's were immaculate. Passers by would stop to look at his front garden.

However his planting was regimented (ex army) Think lines of french marigolds with a clump of Little Dorrit in between all of equal spacing.
His lawn was also immaculate, mowed with a push mower in stripes that look like they had been measured with a ruler.

My garden is not so immaculate as we have 3 grandsons who use it to to play football and mini golf etc but I do like colour cordinated flowers and shrubs evenly cut.

Planted pots as I have already mentioned in odd numbers and same coloured large, medium and small pots as a trio.

Order and symmetry pleases the eye (imho)
Georgian Houses are a good example.

I like the cottage garden look, myself.
A bit of higgledy piggleyness reminds me of the countryside..

THE STRAIGHT LINES ARE OK BUT THE UNIT HAS TO BE ADJUSTED TO SIT STRAIGHT OTHERWISE IF YOU DO GET A PATTERNED CUSHION FLOOR OR EVEN ONE WITH NO PATTERN YOU WILL NOTICE IF THE UNIT IS NOT STRAIGHT... I COULDN'T HANDLE ANYTHING THAT WAS OFF.... GOOD LUCK WITH YOUR NEW FLOOR...

I'm a 'Hands up!' to the TV Volume bit - can't possibly have it on an 'odd number'.

My daughter used to live in a house that was situated on a bend in the road - meaning that the front of the house was slightly curved, the rear of the house was much narrower than the front of the house - and the rear garden wall tapered to 'just the gate'. The Landlord had laid laminate flooring BUT .......................... the grooves didn't 'disappear evenly' into the side walls - that house drove me crazy and I was so pleased when daughter announced that she was moving at the end of her 6mth tenancy.

If you sat with your back to the front window, it was like looking at the house from Alice In Wonderland ;-).

I do like straight towels in the bathroom and matching pegs with all pants and socks hanging the same way but those are the limit of my oddness.
I had a friend who when she washed her window nets would use a ruler to measure the pleats were exactly half an inch apart, it took her all day to rehang all of them.

Me too and it’s nothing to do with when I was born.
Once my granddaughter was diagnosed with Asperger’s I realised that I am a bit autistic. I need things to be in order and parallel and I love symmetry. You should see my patchwork!

I had to come back to this to ask if anyone wears odd socks?
I don't mean just different colours, either.
My daughter would wear one thick, one thin, fluffy with non fluffy, and long with short.
It really put my teeth on edge.
I could never do that!

Oh NO Miss A I could NEVER wear odd socks. Mine are all paired up when I put them in my sock draw.

Me neither.
I always have black socks, but I check the ribbing at the top to make sure the elasticity is the same before I pair them up.
I probably should go back to nice coloured ones.