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to eat a pea because I feel sorry for it.

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SlightlyJaded · 29/02/2012 14:45

I have just eaten a cherry tomato that I didn't really want (last one, bit bruised and squishy) because I 'felt sorry for it' and thought it would be sad if it didn't get eaten like it's friends...

I often do this with peas as well.

And other small pieces of food

Confused

I try to tell myself that it's ridiculous "Jaded it's just food, it doesn't have feelings FFS"

But still I find myself adding the manky mushroom to the risotto so it doesn't feel left out.

Anyone?

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rebelfor · 14/03/2015 15:06

My God, I, and my sisters do this Blush

Can vividly remember my mum cutting potatoes for tea and leaving a handful, and my sister's pitiful 'Aww, don't leave them out, they'll have been cut for nothing'

Weirdos Grin

TheHobbit · 14/03/2015 15:06

Trees

TheHobbit · 14/03/2015 15:06

I'm exactly the same, in fact I used to collect my apple cores as I felt like I was abandoning them by throwing them away and then I buried them altogether. Now I eat the cores lol. But I always worry about my soft toys and food, I also feel sorry for treas if they get cut down.

julker · 14/03/2015 15:02

I'm glad you did resurrect it Smile I have read through nodding along, I now know its not just me!!!

Eliza22 · 14/03/2015 14:51

You're not mad. I do this. And I'm definitely NOT mad! much

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SlightlyJaded · 14/03/2015 14:41

I KNOW it's bad form to resurrect a Zombie thread, especially when it is one you started yourself, but I was talking about this to someone last night who thought I was mad and couldn't believe that anyone would worry about a pea being lonely or a new soft toy being put with an older one who can 'show him the ropes', so I came back for reassurance and realised that the thread was actually brilliant. (Other people's contributions rather than mine)

So for those who missed it first time round. Grin

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smileymam · 03/03/2012 18:17

OMG cant beleive i just saw that, this is me all over, i only leave food in twos, so they have company ( or eat the last one even if its forced down) i cant leave odd numbers in case one feels left out. If i drop a crisp or nut or something smilar i have to drop another to keep it company. So releived that i,m not on my own. I also thank cash machines and car park machines!

daisyrain · 03/03/2012 17:09

My dp came home from work one day, to find a Xmas card on the shelf with a photo on the front of a man & woman, grinning.

Dp "Who is that from?"

Me "Paul & Claire"

Dp " Who are they?"

Me "I have no idea.
Its for the previous owners, there arn't any sender details.

We cant forward it as have no address so they will have to sit there & have Xmas with us"

I couldnt bear to throw them in the bin, after surviving the journey!

So UANBU!

toofattorun · 03/03/2012 08:42

:o @ TheCrunchUnderFoot!!!

TrinityRhino · 03/03/2012 08:39

mathanxiety that is a hilarious and so cute picture Grin

lesley33 · 03/03/2012 08:31

My DP insists doors, etc have bitten her when she catches a finger, etc in them and tells them off for biting her. I now do the same and insist she must have been nasty to said door, etc to have got bitten.

iscream · 03/03/2012 07:08

Only read the first post, but yanbu. I often told my toddler ds's that the pea/carrot/bean was crying because it didn't want to be alone without its family.

WhereEaglesDare · 03/03/2012 06:57

Box of leftover biscuits are eyeing me up...maybe i should eat them ,maybe i should feel sorry for them...Grin

Pornyissue · 03/03/2012 02:03

I'm the Opposite if the food has a face.

Like a pom bear. Or a jelly baby.

I feel guilty and cruel that they just witnessed the fate of their friends in the same bag and now must face a similar end

Can never decide which is less cruel - to go with the arms, legs or head first?

DaenerysTargaryenButCallMeDany · 03/03/2012 00:59

are you lot fucking serious?

I think you all need shrinks.

FairyHanny · 03/03/2012 00:35

I feel like I am truly among my own kind here. Grin

In a similar vein to many other posters, I can't leave even one grain of rice in the jug after washing it because it's come too far of a journey to just be washed down the sink without fulfilling the only purpose in it's life.

(Plus all of it's friends are already in the pot and it just wouldn't be fair on it!)

It's ok, I'll call them out myself...

Whirliwig72 · 02/03/2012 22:37

I can't leave a single egg on its own in the egg box it just seems wrong - it might get lonesome Grin

crochetfish · 02/03/2012 22:33

Ooh, similar to Synyster. Got my childhood cuddly toy to 'train up' the toy we bought for DS. This meant they had to be sitting together 'studying' for weeks before DS was born to allow all the wisdom to be passed along...

PineCones · 02/03/2012 19:25

Ah synyster my old panda (had a panda not a teddy) - how I have let him down! I think he was lost when my parents last moved house. He looked pretty sad by then already :(
I think I'll curl up in a corner and weep now Sad

limitedperiodonly · 02/03/2012 19:10

Ahh! synyster

mathanxiety · 02/03/2012 18:39

I am always surprised at how much food my sofa manages to tuck away and yet never gain a pound. It's like a venus fly trap. It wouldn't have given up a piece of ham without a fight.

Synyster · 02/03/2012 17:38

what a brilliant thread.
when ds was a baby and had new teddies, I put my childhood teddie in as well, so he could show them the ropes(did it with dd too)

Allthewhitehorsesarestillinbed · 02/03/2012 17:34

Grin at SlightlyJaded

In a similar fashion, I ate the small piece of ham hock which had escaped from my sandwich onto the sofa at lunchtime Blush. I just, y'know, felt sad that he would've ended up in the bin.

I am going to have to name change again, aren't I?

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SlightlyJaded · 02/03/2012 17:19

My Our DC's two favourite toys have passports - stamped each year Blush

Norman I am like you - can't bear to upset the food/things in the house, but not a hoarder at all. However, I have been known to take a few toys and whatnot to the charity shop (after a long reassuring chat with them all) and then pop in a couple of days later to secretly ensure that they are arranged in a prominent position and with at least one of their friends.

And I may have once bought back a tatty beanie toy that hadn't sold after two weeks

Last night I was talking to DH about this thread and showing him that I am not the only bonkers sensitive person and he deliberately left a mushroom on his plate when he could clearly have eaten it. Obviously I ate it but did worry slightly that it was going to find itself in with a bit of a strange crowd and not the friends that he had made on DH's plate.

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mathanxiety · 02/03/2012 17:07

The DCs have asked, out loud and in earshot of the cat, if we will get another one when she kicks the bucket. I always hush them even though the cat goes on making herself ever more comfortable, seemingly unfazed by the morbid topic.