What do you do for stress management?
What do you do for stress management? Many people get angry or depressed. Others may take to alcohol or hit the gym to burn off some adrenaline. What does this APE-head do? I stop at the local BP and eat a hot dog for breakfast. Now don't go away thinking this is some $3.99 Nathan's all-beef hot dog. This is a genuine "Dirty Dog", meaning a multiple meat containing casing that costs less than .99 (US). Some reason, the casing is so thick that you have to sharpen your teeth to get casing puncture to occur. Or else, you just bite down so hard that at some point the hot dog explodes in a delightful multiple meat pile-up in your mouth.
Nothing summarizes the idiocy of my OCD like this particularly destructive stress management technique. I don't like the way it tastes, I don't like the way it sits on rollers between hot-dog shaped "cheeseburger dogs" and hot-dog shaped "sausage breakfast burrito dogs". I don't like anything about it, but when the stress in my life is really high, it is the only thing that will get me through it.

Yeah he can fight, but can he floss?
I have never seen the movie "Fight Club", but have read the book (sometimes the movies are significantly different than the book, in which case this analogy would not work), and in the book there's lots of self-destructive OCD going on. I could not finish the book the first time around, as it was just hitting to close to home. I haven't even been able to watch my TV show yet. But I have nothing but respect for "Cutters" and "Flossers", because you didn't see Brad Pitt running around with dental floss in Fight Club.
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