There are many grammarians who maintain that one oughtn't end a sentence with a preposition, but no argument of which I'm aware that one oughtn't begin a sentence with a preposition.

All this is moot, however, inasmuch as I began the sentence with a conjunction. (Yes, there are grammarians who maintain that one oughtn't begin a sentence with a conjunction. A fig for them.)

 

you avoid lines or you step on lines?

Step on a crack....break yo' momma's back...

 

I've heard people with OCD usually turn out to be serial murderers. So, wactch out for Scot and Magician!

 

I saw a show, when I was a younging, where some guy had OCD and touched every telephone pole while walking down a street. I decided to give that a try on my way to school the next day. Somewhere along the way, I got a splinter and hence forth, I'm not longer friends with OCD habits.

 

wannabe.....


try counting steps.... it is more fun than counting appostrophies... :

 

I do, I don't bother recounting if I miss a step though. I like making sense out of patterns so I keep trying to figure out why there are 11 steps on the stairs at work

 

When I walked a lot in college from class to class I would avoid cracks and count steps but I wouldn't do it all of the time. I mainly did it, I think, because I walked so damn much and it took my mind off important things, like school.

Now I don't do anything wierd like that.

My bosses son counts steps in their house. And if he doesn't count right or misses a step he does it over again.

I don't know about OCD at all but it seems that people who have it are avoiding something, much like how I was avoiding the stress of school.

 

"grammarians" and "oughtn't"??? are those actually real words??

 

Yes, and yes.

 

When you are going up, down, or both?