Ridiculous things you feel bad about?

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I feel a bit mean when I chop the heads off a broccoli. And when I cut a chicken breast with scissors. My sister tells me it's disrespectful to the chicken and I kind of see her POV, yet I still do it. (It's so quick and easy!!) Also I feel bad for the last bit of onion I can't seem to chop.

Anyone else have this, quite frankly, bizarre train of thought?

I feel bad when I pull leaves off a basil plant.

Me too for the basil leaves. I have lots of these irrational feelings, I'll have a think.

YES! Basil is the ultimate martyr - ooh look at me! I'm such a vital ingredient and yet so fragile!! Textbook narcissist.

I feel guilty when I leave a baked bean in the tin. The whole purpose of its existence was to be eaten and it’s fallen at the last hurdle.

But surely to cut chicken with scissors you have to hold it loads? I try to minimise finger to meat contact :)

Oh @RaptorWhiskers I will chase the last bean out of there and then take the same care with getting them out the pan. I always feel quite bad if I leave one of something in a packet, like it'll get lonely on its own.

DH has a full on relationship with our 'baz', takes care of him and chats to him. Every now and again when he looks very sorry for himself I take him to the basil hospital and he returns looking like a new plant. This usually coincides with a trip to tesco

Dh always tears off the last half piece of kitchen and loo roll that gets stuck to the cardboard and leaves it for me to use up. He knows I'd be sad if there was a bit left on the cardboard in the recycling bin.

These are brilliant

I feel guilty if I leave any of the kids toys lying out all night, especially dolls and Teddie's, even worse if they get left outside! They should be in their boxes for bedtime not out in the scary darkness.
I also feel guilty if I can't find a pair for a sock or if I have to leave one bit of clothing out to dry over night and there is no other washing to keep it company, especially if it's the kids clothes.

A bit like smartcar, I feel sad for things left on their own when we go shopping- so for example if there are 3 cans of beans for sale but we only need 2, we have to get the lot or one will feel lonely...

I cry whenever I break glassware.
No idea why 🤷‍♀️

I can’t bear throwing away excess veg seedlings. I always thank them, apologise and tell them I’m returning them to the soil.

The last baked bean. A sorry tale

The lonely bean was a story I made up to get my toddler to eat all her dinner. I would coax her to eat one bean and then tell her he was so lonely on his own in her tummy she better eat all his friends so they could play together. 😂

I'm stealing the lonely bean story idea.
I feel bad about leaving pegs on the washing line. They look so sad without clothes to hold up.
Original source shower gel always makes me hate myself -
'35 lemons were squeezed to make this bottle of shower gel'
I'm always like "don't bother, I'm not worth it!"

If toys get broken and I have to throw them away, I apologise to them I blame Toy Story

If I'm ever cooking things that I need to check are ready like Pasta sometimes or Chips, I always feel sorry for the first one I catch and eat like all it mates boiling away in the pan will be like "noooooo, this is what is going to happen to us "
I'm aware this is very weird and I'm glad there are others out there like me

Whenever I pass a display of cuddly toys in a shop, I can't stroke just one...I want to stroke them all so no one feels left out. I also hate choosing veg/flowers in the supermarket. I have to buy the first one I touch even if it turns out to be manky, just so it doesn't feel rejected.

Any "one shoe" situations; one must be lonely without the other! There was a time in my childhood when one shoe got lost possibly hidden by my DB , I had to go to school in slippers that day, and report to the fearsome headmistress for being late, like a child who's been frogmarched in wearing pyjamas for refusing to get dressed.

In the book "Tom's Midnight Garden", Tom often wears one slipper. Mr Bean saves space in his suitcase by taking only one slipper with him; also he tries to buy just one shoe, to replace one he left on the roof of a car (which drove away). Also in the film of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, Jake loses one shoe in the mud.

If I was to break a leg, maybe the worst part of that would be only wearing one shoe instead of two! Perhaps I need to work on priorities.