Do You Ever Check, Double-Check or Triple Check Something?

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I can't say that I'm obsessive compulsive, but more and more I find myself double checking to see if the stove is off, door locked, etc. Many times, even though I know I already checked once, I'll check again just to be on the safe side. How about you, do you find yourself double-checking things on a daily basis?
 

Yes, I do. More and more, as the old faculties deteriorate gradually. Short-term memory is the worst. Ten minutes after setting down a tool, or locking the door when leaving, I find I am often not SURE where I put the part, or whether I locked the door!

Yet, I can call out one-hit wonders of "oldies" from forty years ago. My friend Charley, from high school days, is worse. He leaves the house, drives away, returns to check the door, leaves again, has been known to do this act in triplicate!

Old age. If I complain, my wife advises that I consider the alternate to living old.......imp
 
Yes , I never used to..but short term memory is shot now so I double check the doors are locked at night, cooker is off...and when i go out double/double check I have my keys in my hand before shutting the door..only last summer I shut the door and realised in an instant I'd left my keys indoors.:eek:..had to call a locksmith out which cost me £80 quid!!
 
I double check and sometimes triple check the doors are locked, the lights are off and the stove before I leave the house and do it before I go to bed.
 
No. It never works with me. If I check, I've always done whatever it is I'm checking on. Only when I forget to check did I also forget to do it.
Maybe I should double check whether I've checked everything or not.
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Oh my, I don't double check anything! Is this because I don't care enough and am taking foolish risks?

Am I wrongly putting too much trust in my memory? Sometimes I do forget small things like who said what and when.

I recently read my emergency room report for a visit for ankle swelling and great pain one Sunday ( Achilles tendon strain/inflammation, NOT blood clot as I'd feared). This report referred to history from a hospitalization I had in March, in part:

"Memory: Short term memory loss".

The date was 4 days after 2 surgeries and I was quite high on morphine for pain and Valium for back spasms! True, at that time I was lucky to have remembered my name if in fact, I did. Will this report follow me for the rest of my life?

My live-in 21 year old grandson laughed when I told him about this and said he'd sometimes wished my memory wasn't as good as it is and that its as good or better than some of his friends'.

So anyway, what the heck was my point???
 
imp said:
Yes, I do. More and more, as the old faculties deteriorate gradually. Short-term memory is the worst. Ten minutes after setting down a tool, or locking the door when leaving, I find I am often not SURE where I put the part, or whether I locked the door!

Yet, I can call out one-hit wonders of "oldies" from forty years ago. My friend Charley, from high school days, is worse. He leaves the house, drives away, returns to check the door, leaves again, has been known to do this act in triplicate!

Old age. If I complain, my wife advises that I consider the alternate to living old.......imp
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I am exactly like you, imp. Ten minutes is good. Thirty seconds will do it for me. I also find I'm getting clumsy. Dropping things that immediately vanish off the planet. Knocking things over. I live alone now, and am unstable walking. I can't afford to get into trouble. So yes. Think about every move, and check it twice. As far as "beats the alternative"; I'm not so sure about that.
 
I never used to need to do this but now I absolutely double check things just to make sure. It must be aging.
 
I'm checking things all the time and then I still get side tracked easy and forget something and have a mini disaster on my hands. Like forgetting to turn off the water running into the kitchen sink.
 
When, or if you are a pilot and your plane has over 200 souls on-board, it's a good idea to always check and double-check most everything.
 
Oh yes, I am guilty of this. When I go out for my daily walks, I leave through my basement door. When I come back, so many times, I have gotten upstairs and then can't remember locking my basement door. I go downstairs to check and see if I did, and lo and behold every time it has already been locked. Apparently, I go through the motions automatically but I'm not paying attention and can't remember doing it. If I didn't go back and check, it nags me until I do. I have done this with my upstairs doors sometimes too but at least I don't have to climb stairs to check them.
 
RadishRose said:
I recently read my emergency room report for a visit for ankle swelling and great pain one Sunday ( Achilles tendon strain/inflammation, NOT blood clot as I'd feared). This report referred to history from a hospitalization I had in March, in part:

"Memory: Short term memory loss".

The date was 4 days after 2 surgeries and I was quite high on morphine for pain and Valium for back spasms! True, at that time I was lucky to have remembered my name if in fact, I did. Will this report follow me for the rest of my life?
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Yep, it will. Just before retiring for good I worked in Medical Records at a trauma center. There's a lot of hysterical laughter when the transcriptionists type the reports and more hysterical laughter when they're being readied for the docs' signatures. Not much hysterical laughter from the docs ... for some reason? ;)
 
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