Kevin's OCD impulses

Kevin and I went out for breakfast this morning. He ordered an egg white omelette with bacon and cheddar. He was deciding between mozzarella and cheddar -- I told him to go for cheddar. Although he ate most of the omelette, I could tell there was something bothering him. It turned out there was, but I would have never been able to guess what it was.

"I have a problem when my food is not color-coordinated," he tells me. "I wish I would have went with the mozzarella."

So it turns out when he orders egg whites, he wants a white cheese. Yellow cheese is okay when he gets regular eggs. I have known this guy for seven years, and I never knew this about him!

"Yeah, I've been trying to work on it over the last couple of months." Based on breakfast he doesn't seem to be succeeding, but I guess we can't expect to make these huge important changes overnight.

The most amusing part about this whole thing is that this is a man who doesn't even know how to color-coordinate his clothes! I once made him a chart with all of his shirts as the column headings on the top and all of his pants as the row headings along the side. Then I put a "yes" or a "no" where the shirts and pants intersected based on whether they matched, and he referred to this chart the way some people refer to the Bible. Maybe a better idea is equating each piece of clothing to a food. At least my mornings would be a little more entertaining.

"Maureen, do you think chocolate and pizza sauce could go together?"