It finally got to the point where I couldn’t take it anymore, irked by my dad’s frequent complaints that I spent too much time on the phone, but even more irked by his fetish for precision. I like to live in a clean and straightened-up place, but for him it was an obsession. If you remember Felix, the character in The Odd Couple , played by Jack Lemmon in the movie and Tony Randall on television, you’ll recall that he was a neat freak with an obsessive aversion to the least disarray.