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So everyone knows what this picture is all about right?<\/p>\n

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Whenever I am eating any kind of colored or flavored candy (skittles, m&m;\u2019s or jelly beans etc.) after I grab my handful I automatically count them into groups by color or flavor, then I eat the extra ones so there are even amounts of all of them, then I eat one of each candy individually until they are all gone. <\/p>\n

So in this case I would eat a black one, a purple one and a yellow one. Then orange, purple, yellow, orange, purple, yellow. This is completely normal and rational right? Don\u2019t most people automatically do this?<\/p>\n

Most people except my husband that is, he thinks I\u2019m crazy. It took him several years of married life to realize that if I was going to share my candy, he had to either eat the \u201cextra\u2019s\u201d or take one of each color. Otherwise it would throw off my system. I have tried to explain it to him, but he just doesn\u2019t get it. He just says I\u2019m obsessive. <\/p>\n

But I am not obsessive, I could eat candy out of order if I wanted to, I just don\u2019t want to. And besides, I am not a very organized person, I don\u2019t obsess about anything. In fact, this is the only kind of food that I sort before I eat.<\/p>\n

Wait.<\/p>\n

Except chips of course. <\/p>\n

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Because you have to separate the broken pieces from the whole ones, and you always eat the broken ones up first. <\/p>\n

Because everyone does that.<\/p>\n

Right?<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"