OCD Gets a Job at The Shoe Store


I had to quit the alternative shoe store because of herpes.


Regardless, nobody likes a gossip.  Except for me.






In short, I’m a blast at dinner parties.







Touch herpes sore, oooh, touch register.

Touch herpes sore, oww, touch register.










26 thoughts on “OCD Gets a Job at The Shoe Store

  1. I’ll bet that in real life it made the real Mt. Vesuvius eruption look like a baby’s burp! What makes a shoe store “alternative”? And how “alternative can it even BE if it is in a mall?
    And now I know why the name Horatio is so common among the offspring of shoe salespeople. Have you ever noticed this phenomenon?

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    1. The “alternative” shoe store back then sold combat boots and skate sneakers. The kind of stuff they didn’t sell at Foot Locker or Champs. Of course, the actual cool kids bought their shoes at the army surplus store!


    I have trouble with Unfortunate things that are Distracting. Like I have this friend who always has little ceiling dingleberries of …dust and cobwebs and whatnot and after I see them the first time I CANNOT STOP LIFTING MY EYES AND LOOKING and telling myself all the while STAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHP SHE CAN SEE WHAT YOU’RE LOOKING AT and my eyes just KEEP GOING BACK.

    (I never know if my WP comments make it through spam or are floating around in the Dark Web somewhere and someone is prolly copying them for use on Silk Road – so we’re trying a Twitter login today. NO I DON’T KNOW WHY THIS IS SO IMPORTANT TO ME.)

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  3. I think your OCD and my PMS should hang, they would get along famously. Oh the stories they could tell about all the wacky adventures they take us on. I think my PMS has a, “Quit this job this instant and RUN don’t walk out of here!” story or two also.
    Glad you still have your digit, that was a close one.

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  4. Soooo I’m assuming that ASMR videos of people eating are like nails on a chalkboard for you? I have no idea why people are curious about such things? Its bad enough that Michelob has a ASMR commercial to trigger a positive response for some, and others find it disturbing. Needless to say I’m with you, I would have run out of the store after watching her touch that volcano of a sore! I can’t/won’t touch the handrails on stairs or the buttons in the elevator!

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    1. That reminds me of the guy I used to work with who *very* audibly smacked his lips when he ate, and I had to start eating lunch in another room to keep from throwing up. He’s probably the one making those ASMR videos now.

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  5. Eek–I had to skip over some of the descriptions because it was making ME nauseated to even think about it. There are a lot of things that I have issues with too–most notably, I get very squeamish about blood, and I used to have a colleague that would always describe her periods to me, which made me want to run very far away. Why do people do that? I mean, I get that we’re women and we shouldn’t be ashamed of our bodily functions, but at the same time, I don’t need to know all the details!

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    1. I was at dinner with a friend last week and he told me he had to skip a paragraph because it was grossing him out too much! Body stuff totally grosses me out when someone wants to give me TMI, but for some reason I’m able to write about it without any issue! 😉

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