Friday, February 17, 2012

Balancing Reports

Okay, say I'm working on a (numberical) report, and it doesn't balance the first time.  I run the numbers again, and it DOES balance the second time (or maybe the third, whatever).

I now have a compulsion to go back to my adding machine tape, and see what I did wrong the first time.  I HAVE to know what the difference was.

What does that say about me?  (OCD much?)

2 comments:

  1. I don't always check to see what the difference was, but I do have to get the right answer at least twice before I accept it. Usually three times.

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  2. I am exactly that kind of OCD. It's not that I made the mistake, per se, just that I really want to know what it was.

    And Jess, I do the same thing when I weigh myself. I don't accept what the scale says unless it says it three times. But this is probably not OCD as much as it is DENIAL....

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