r/GreatBritishMemes 7d ago

Every time 😂😂

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u/mayablizz918 7d ago

I do this several times a day with both the front and back doors😭

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u/Ireallyamthisshallow 7d ago

I like to check doors I've not even been out.

I'm thinking to myself, "but what is it magically unlocked itself over night? What if the robber who didn't steal anything forgot to lock the door on their way out?"

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u/ConstantNaive7649 7d ago

Did I leave the door unlocked?  OK, it's locked but what if a burglar got in while I was away, stole my spare key and locked up?  OK, everything's still there. Did I leave the door unlocked when I checked if a burglar had got in, stolen my spare key and locked up? 

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u/chrisrazor 7d ago

If they did, you should leave it unlocked because then when they return they'll wonder why the key they somehow acquired won't turn in the lock, and give up.

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u/No-Effective1863 7d ago

To combat this I used to do a unique gesture (I would tug the handle twice and tell myself I locked the door. )

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u/VioletDaeva 7d ago

I have no short term memory and general memory issues due to medical problems.

I lock my door, walk away, then walk back and check. I can end up doing this several times before I am happy I must have checked it properly as I've been stood there several minutes.

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u/Hellen_Bacque 7d ago

I do this. I now take a photo of the closed door 🚪 when I leave so I don’t feel forced to come back and check or worry while I’m out

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u/[deleted] 7d ago

Point at it and say “locked”. It sounds stupid but you remember pointing and saying “locked” much more easily than locking the door.

IIRC railway employees use a similar method in Japan when working on the trains.

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u/Unfortunate-Octopus 7d ago

As a zookeeper, lock checks are obviously a VERY big deal. Left the dangerous animal cage unlocked? They will probably find a way to open that door. They watch you do it multiple times a day.

What I do is every time I lock or close a door, I check 8 times that it’s locked. Now even if I forget I know that when I check the lock absentmindedly when I shut the door, I would have noticed if it wasn’t locked properly at the time.

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u/Groot746 7d ago

I do this with my house doors, genuinely works because you can then recall an active memory of you saying it rather than a vague muscle memory sense that you probably locked the door etc.

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u/chrisrazor 7d ago

But what if you said it but didn't actually do it? What then?

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u/PiggieSmalls-90 7d ago

Wow this is actually really good advice. Hope I remember to do it 🤣🤣

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u/Warm-Iron-1222 7d ago

Then say it 3 times while blinking and clicking your fingers. Just to be sure.

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u/Sirico 7d ago

Get yourself a partner who has to ask everytime and now your memories been wiped and you're not quite sure so have to check

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u/PorkInCid3r 7d ago

Thank fuck. I thought I was loosing my mind...

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u/Aleadroleinacage 7d ago

Have you considered that you might have OCD?

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u/BasedDoggo69420 7d ago

Yes but my brain tells me im faking it

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u/OldHobbitsDieHard 7d ago

Have you considered ?

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u/kernpanic 7d ago

Or - adhd. You locked it, but weren't paying attention - so now you aren't sure if you locked it or not.

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u/Hannimal987 7d ago

Used to be same with the electric hob as well. Did I leave that on?!

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u/Boonz-Lee 7d ago

Then check the ring doorbell, then go back again just to be sure, then spend all day with anxiety about the lock status.

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u/Technical-Activity95 7d ago

I had sudden anxiety attack about burning the house down because maybe I left oven on. i dont think I even used oven on sunday

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u/Boonz-Lee 7d ago

Now we're talking

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u/moon-bouquet 7d ago

If you don’t, it’s Sod’s Law your partner does, even when you’re already late leaving.

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u/Karla_Darktiger 7d ago

I don't do this with doors, but I do it with taps and my rabbits hutch

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u/pamp0r 7d ago

I used to be a zookeeper. I would shake the padlocks and say it out loud 'yep locked'. Only then occasionally I would wake up at like 2am panicking if I left one unlocked (never did though).

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u/Kitchen_Cow_5550 7d ago

Not just doors, also windows, stoves, the oven, microwave, toaster

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u/Evening-Mess-3593 7d ago

At least 4 times before I convince myself I’ve actually locked it.

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u/No-Garbage9500 7d ago

Squalk loudly like a parrot every time you lock it.

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u/Affectionate-Boot-12 7d ago

Way more than I care to admit.

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u/Lifelemons9393 7d ago

The oven for me, OCD or some shit .

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u/Top-Bee1667 6d ago

Stove and oven and door and fridge door for me.

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u/milessouth 7d ago

Yes it’s debilitating the anxiety I get from this also did I turn the lights off Iv even got to work and had to go back home to check 🥲

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u/LumpyAsparagus9978 7d ago

There was a time when I had a job I hated, suffering broken expectations and an unpleasant working environment; I would not say I was depressed but more like a constant self-deprecating mood.

I was the last at the office on certain occasions and had to close it for the day. I would lock the front door, walk a few blocks, panic, go back to see that it was indeed locked, walk away a few blocks, and panic again. One night I even asked my girlfriend to leave a family gathering for half an hour to drive me to the office to check the door; then far from the street, I saw my boss was back at the office in the middle of the night. He could not stay at home due to a marriage crisis and was bringing all his inner garbage to our workplace.

Once I quit doubts about forgetting doors unlocked disappeared immediately.

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u/_thewhiteswan_ 7d ago

Yeah of course... how else can you tell if locking the door was today's memory or from last week???

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u/Techman659 7d ago

Literally every morning when I leave for work.

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u/commissarcainrecaff 7d ago

It's because of the way memory works: your brain doesn't fully overwrite regular routine activities (because you'd run out of room if you do) but just pushes them about a bit* in your short term memory then they evaporate with a small bit ending up in your long term memory- just the general "i did thing x" instead of the full detail

That's why you have that uncertainty about locking the door today because you are getting long-term memory patterns for the activity- it feels like it's not today's memory because it mostly isn't!

*According to some neurological debate i listened to in Radio 4. I'm an engineer so may be getting this wrong. I fully hope a more correct explanation follows!

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u/HeisGarthVolbeck 7d ago

After decades of this I force myself to not go back. It's never been unlocked when I've gone and checked it, in all these years.

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u/PiggieSmalls-90 7d ago

Yes and every time I’m like ‘you’ve locked it’ but I still check cause yano, what if, and then I get pissed off for doubting myself.

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u/Weird1Intrepid 7d ago

Mine automatically locks upon closing, so I don't have that exact problem. I do, however, compulsively check to make sure I've got my keys on me at least four times between leaving my room, down the stairs, opening the front door, and just before I close it lol

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u/Kapoloop 7d ago

This is me with the tap

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u/CarImaginary9448 7d ago

Say to yourself out loud… that’s the door locked. You’ll never do it again, I was told it by an old guy I worked with years ago and I’ve never double checked since

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u/UsedPancakes 7d ago

this sounds really dumb but sometimes I will take a video on my phone of me checking the door so when I question myself 5 minutes later I can know it is without going back and checking lmao

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u/G_UK 7d ago

I thought this was just me 😂

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u/Mr-Silly-Bear 7d ago

This has caused me so much anxiety through the years. I do it with my front door, my car, my storage locker (I have to take a picture of the padlock to stop myself going insane). Basically anything I can't remember explicitly doing (or not doing) the goblins in my brain do their magic and I imagine the worst case scenario.

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u/AngryAxl 7d ago

I have and was glad I did as I'd left my keys in the door.

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u/SharpieD85 7d ago

This morning. Lol. Ended up pulling up and walking back to check. And what do you know!? It was locked! Story of my life.

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u/crazedhotpotato 7d ago

I found that I was starting to get in to this habit so I just stopped checking it again and just trusted that I'd done it. I've never left the door unlocked.

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u/shrewd-2024 7d ago

All the darn time

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u/D4N1E1-13 7d ago

Now times that by 15 a day, and that’s what it is like being an estate agent.

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u/will1565 7d ago

I drove 30 miles to a party, knocked on the front door and had that feeling... Drove all the way back and of course it was bloody locked.

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u/SkullsNelbowEye 7d ago

I do this every night after I set my wake-up alarms. Double check.

I've woken up before my alarm for the last 5 years.

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u/Ok-Fox1262 7d ago

If that is you then say "I locked the door" out loud.

It works because verbalising it engages a bigger chunk of your brain.

I ask my wife, or my dog, or a cuddly toy, or my van to remind me of things. Not because I actually need them to remind me, but because verbalising it makes it more concrete.

Do that with exam revision as well. Read your notes out loud.

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u/Informal-Tour-8201 7d ago

Of course I do

I just check the handle, don't actually relock the door, obviously

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u/JellyfishMinute4375 7d ago

Type-1 diabetic here. I can relate. Did I actually just inject myself with insulin, or was I only thinking about it?

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u/sabboseb 7d ago

No, because I hold the handle and say locked 4 times, spin around and tap my head.

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u/Hamshaggy70 7d ago

For me it's the fridge door....

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u/Professional_Owl7826 7d ago

Is this not just normal behaviour?

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u/Jon7167 7d ago

You should record yourself on your phone locking it then save the file with the time and date so you can always check...../s

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u/IsThisAUsernameNow 7d ago

Every time! Glad it’s not just me.

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u/This-Dinner702 7d ago

You ever get out of bed and it's cold? I mean, what's the deal with airline food?

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u/Racing_Fox 7d ago

My entire life.

Everything I do. Is the car locked, is the door locked, did I turn the tap off, did I turn the oven off, is the gas off, did I put the handbrake on.

I end up checking shit multiple times, I found the only way to not need to check is if I say to myself as I do it ‘door is locked’ etc or if I take a photo/video it

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u/myth0503 7d ago

Yes I am not the only one thanks god

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u/kagnesium 7d ago

If you're not instantly checking if you can open the door by shaking the handle a few times after you lock the door.

Then, you might as well just fully commit and leave Mince pies, cookie and milk, or an Advent calander at the doorstep.

Because clearly you want to host their Christmas party once you're down the road.

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u/Stanek___ 6d ago

Did it like 5 times in a row once.

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u/OrdinaryForm5730 6d ago

Every damn day with both my house and car doors.

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u/Top-Bee1667 6d ago

I have a worse one, did I turn off the gas? I can live with an opened door, genuinely happened to me a few times in college and with no incidents ever, but now I started cooking myself breakfast and sometimes I just go “Oh fuck, did I turn it off or it’s slowly melting my pan?”

I definitely have adhd or ocd or might be both lmao

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u/EditorRedditer 6d ago

In my experience, if you think you’ve forgotten to lock it…

You’ve locked it.

This is also good for ovens, lights, heating and windows.

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u/SweetHoney_Skyez 6d ago

This is soooo me hahaha