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    It’s Not Me, It’s You!: Impossible perfectionist, 27, seeks very very very tidy woman
    It’s Not Me, It’s You!: Impossible perfectionist, 27, seeks very very very tidy woman
    It’s Not Me, It’s You!: Impossible perfectionist, 27, seeks very very very tidy woman
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    It’s Not Me, It’s You!: Impossible perfectionist, 27, seeks very very very tidy woman

    Written by Jon Richardson

    Narrated by Jon Richardson

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    A control freak looks for love (women who leave wet teaspoons in sugar bowls need not apply).

    ‘I haven’t woken up with a cup of tea by the bed for seven years. It seems such a small thing but it’s one of a thousand things I miss about having someone around to take care of me. I have spent my entire adult life getting things the way I want them and all I want now is someone to give it all up for.’ Jon Richardson

    Is your filing faultless? Your CDs, apostrophes, cutlery all in the right places? Can you eat a biscuit in the correct way? Then Jon Richardson (single for seven years and counting) could be your ideal man…

    Living alone in a one bedroom flat in Swindon, 27 year old Jon has had far too much time on his hands to think. In fact to obsess. About almost everything. Jon’s obssessive compulsive personality disorder has seen him arrange the coins in his pockets in ascending size and colour code his bookshelves. It takes him less than 90 seconds to locate a receipt for a pair of shoes he bought in 1997. Over to the filing cabinet and R for receipts, S for shoes.

    But Jon doesn’t want to be like this, in fact he would quite like to share his life with someone. But who could that someone be? Someone like himself, a quarrelsome perfectionist only with breasts and less body hair? Absolutely not. But who exactly is Jon looking for and where will he find her? Faced with a loveless future filled with his own peculiar quirks and perfectionism, Jon sets about his search for The One. The question is, will he mind her keeping the knives to the left of the forks in the cutlery drawer or organising the CDs by genre and not alphabetically?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateJun 23, 2011
    ISBN9780007421145
    Author

    Jon Richardson

    Jon Richardson is a 28-year-old stand up comedian from Lancaster. His first solo Edinburgh show, concerning his OCD tendencies, was nominated for the Best Newcomer award at the 2007 Edinburgh Festival. His 2009 show about his resulting perfectionsim was nominated in the Best Show category. He lives in Swindon.

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    • 5/5
      This was a great insight into the mind of someone like Jon and it managed to be funny too. Great book.
    • 1/5
      No wonder why he's alone. Cringy and not funny at all.