but do you really think it's the reason behind all of it?
What other sorts of reasons do you suggest?
God information collecting and organisation for re-presenting purposes is twisting my brain in an not-leaving-the-building-for-lunch sort of a way. I hope I at least manage a late afternoon stroll for a...well, I don't know where to get decent hot chocolate. Something.
Roto Rooter gave me another $5 off this time. Which is nice. He pulled a sock and two toothbrushes out of the kids' toilet.
He pulled a sock and two toothbrushes out of the kids' toilet.
Cash, I think your kids are bent on world domination one toilet at a time.
I admire you so damned much.
Yes, I think I'd have long since resorted to yelling "That's it! I'm putting a lock on the toilet and you're wearing diapers until you can drive!"
I heard the news about Bo Diddley -- he was younger than my Mom is! That's just wrong, because he should have got to go on much longer than he did. SIGH
What other sorts of reasons do you suggest?
behavioral, chemical loop that reinforces itself
I've met some people who didn't articulate their compulsive behavior in terms of some neurosis or anxiety that needed to be staved off, it was just stated as fact. And sometimes in kids I see compulsive repetition which seems to me more connected to pattern recognition than anything else.
Cash, I think your kids are bent on world domination one toilet at a time.
My son flushed a plastic cup that he found in the doctor's office bathroom. Took out the toilet until the plumber could come fix it. Wrecking them at home wasn't quite enough fun. It was a while before he was allowed to go to the bathroom by himself again.
Ha! F2F in PA.
::raises head from pile of paper to say...::
WHEN??!!!
Cashmere - buy the auger. Guaranteed that they'll stop flushing things.
I've met some people who didn't articulate their compulsive behavior in terms of some neurosis or anxiety that needed to be staved off, it was just stated as fact
I guess what I don't get here is when they know they're done. Alleviation of a neurosis seems a simple enough mechanism. In the scenarios you describe is it just a simple knowledge that tapping that twenty times makes things right again? What does "not right" consist of, then?
Maria, clearly your father and my grandmother must never meet. It would be like a black hole of overworrying.
Add my mother, an Olympic class worrier, and we could suck up the whole galaxy. My mother worries when anything happens in the whole state, regardless of how far away it is. She called me at 5:30 a.m. after the Olympic Park bombing, after worrying all night. That wasn't completely unfounded; I was volunteering nearby and had walked through the park about a half hour before the bomb. It just didn't occur to me to call my mother at 1 a.m. and say, "Still not dead."