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Things you do when no one is looking

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Novasmum · 22/06/2022 19:06

Sometimes I think I’m strange or childish because I do these things when no one is around but surely people do things when no ones looking either šŸ˜‚

Dance in the house
Make all sorts of expressions in the mirror
Lay on the floor after a long day
Put the bread knife back in the draw because bread is ā€˜clean’ 😳

your turn.

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007DoubleOSeven · 22/06/2022 23:59

This is hilarious!I came up the stairs on all fours today because I'm stiff and achy from exercise šŸ˜†I sometimes hold my boob when I'm watching TV...I've no idea why.

MrsPelligrinoPetrichor · 23/06/2022 00:02

33goingon64 · 22/06/2022 19:10

Talk to myself. Masks were great because I could do it in public. Have had to retrain myself not to do it.

I had to train myself not to stick my tongue out to people that pissed me off !

mm40 · 23/06/2022 00:10

Agapornis · 22/06/2022 23:59

The bread knife thing, pick my nose, fart, knicker de-wedge. Also:
Dip the sharp pointy knife into the peanut butter and lick it, it must be sharp and pointy.
Squeeze the crap out of my nose pores after a shower.
Hold a pringle in my mouth until it goes soft.
Fondle my pubes.

I also lick my plate but share that with people I live with, hard to stop myself in restaurants.

All that apart from the peanut butter…..
plus crack one out to go to sleep most nights,

frozenorangejuice · 23/06/2022 00:11

Great thread. I pick my nose and give any blackheads a good seeing to.

Chattycathydoll · 23/06/2022 00:20

I make weird ā€˜badoopydoop’ sounds in time with whatever I’m doing.

I stand on one leg like a flamingo while I’m thinking.

Sometimes when I check the time, I sing it aloud. Occasionally even to the tune of phantom of the opera songs. ā€˜It’s eight fifteen, eight fiftee-ee-een, it is eight FIFteen’

TrikeWife · 23/06/2022 01:13

Oh, so many of these!!

Fart without fear
burp words out
swear loudly
talk to the dog
confide in the dog
ask the dogs opinion
pick my nose
hold my boobs
hands down pants
spot popping
eating food with my hands that need cutlery - gets messy
do ballet
do gymnastics on my bed (I’m nearly 60 but in my head, I’ve still ā€˜got it’)

Glad it’s not just me who’s a little odd!

SwishSwishBisch · 23/06/2022 02:34

I am waiting for a delayed flight and this thread has cheered me right up. @Adeleskirts i snort laughed at your fart mishap
i do a lot of these too.
narrate the cat,
fart (and smell it),
squeeze my right boob while watching Tv (always the right),
put crocodile hair clips over my lips,
stick my bottom lip into the mouth of a beer bottle and then suck all the air out to make it swell up

avamiah · 23/06/2022 02:54

I must be a weirdo or maybe I just don’t give a damn or care about what other people think about me.
I’m 49 and life is too short .

sashh · 23/06/2022 04:12

I keep the bread knife in the bread bin, am I weird?

Skinnermarink · 23/06/2022 06:52

ALongHardWinter · 22/06/2022 23:00

Skinnermarink You go DOWN the stairs on all fours?! How?!

No! Up only. I was expressing surprise at another poster who claims they go up AND down on all fours. I bound up like an Irish wolfhound but am a fully upright human on the descent.

MrsPelligrinoPetrichor · 23/06/2022 07:44

Skinnermarink · 23/06/2022 06:52

No! Up only. I was expressing surprise at another poster who claims they go up AND down on all fours. I bound up like an Irish wolfhound but am a fully upright human on the descent.

I often go downstairs backwards ,much easier if you have mobility issues. My physio advised it.

ChagSameachDoreen · 23/06/2022 08:12

Daniel2008 · 22/06/2022 23:15

@ChagSameachDoreen Ingol CP School?

You what?

Squiff70 · 23/06/2022 08:14

Bit of a weird one from me!

I get tiiiiiny hairs growing from my fingers. If you divide each finger into three parts (divided by knuckles), the top part having your fingernail, then the hairs grow on the middle part. I am absolutely OBSESSED with pulling these tiny hairs out, either with the fingernails on the opposite hand like a pincer, or with tweezers if I can't grip the bugger. The best fingers are my middle finger and the one next to my little finger. Sometimes I get hairs on the little fingers too.

I've had this obsession for many, many years. At times I've got needles and pierced open my skin to dig out a particularly dark or stubborn hair. I haven't done that for a long time though. I must spend at least two hours every day (not all in one go) scrutinising my fingers for newly emerged hairs which immediately get pulled out.

I don't even remember how or why I started doing it but the feeling of sharp pain for a split second as the hair comes out is honestly better than sex (which I realise doesn't sound great about my sex life!).

sassafras123 · 23/06/2022 09:07

MrsPelligrinoPetrichor · 23/06/2022 00:02

I had to train myself not to stick my tongue out to people that pissed me off !

I used to swear under my breath at people and now have to remember not to. Masks were indeed useful !

LabiaMinoraPissusFlapus · 23/06/2022 09:15

Offandonagain · 22/06/2022 19:12

I do this both up and down!

Head first downstairs? That's impressive. I only do it going up.

Tia74 · 23/06/2022 09:22

Adeleskirts · 22/06/2022 22:38

You need to be really careful you are alone. A few weeks ago I got up, popped the kettle on, went out the back, let off a loud fart, made a sort of weird open legged squatting gesture as I pulled my knickers out my back side then turned round to go back in the house and realised the window cleaner was up his ladder next door and watching me.

honestly I couldn’t even style it out. It was so so bad.

Omg I just cracked up. U made my cry 🤣🤣

Skinnermarink · 23/06/2022 10:29

LabiaMinoraPissusFlapus · 23/06/2022 09:15

Head first downstairs? That's impressive. I only do it going up.

Annoyingly thƩ way thƩ quotes go on the new format it makes it look like I said thƩ going up and down comment but that was another poster. I am still perplexed as to how it works on the descent.

mumhugz · 23/06/2022 10:40

CheapNcheerful · 22/06/2022 23:45

This thread has got me howling šŸ˜‚šŸ˜‚šŸ˜‚šŸ˜­ too funny!

Full disclosure
I dance in front of the mirror sometimes naked pretending I've got an audience.
Talk to myself
Pick my nose
Scratch and sniff 🤣

"Scratch and sniff"šŸ˜‚šŸ˜‚šŸ˜‚ everyone's definitely done this at one pointšŸ˜‚

lifesabitchandthenyoudie · 23/06/2022 17:19

@Adeleskirts i literally laughed myself silly this morning when I read this; then again when I read it aloud to my oh just now! Thank you I needed it 🄰

HairyScaryMonster · 23/06/2022 17:27

I had never noticed but I apparently tap my teeth with my knuckle to a tune. My lovely SIL raised an eyebrow at me and I caught myself doing it 🤣

ndeplume · 23/06/2022 17:51

I've name changed for this.

I was widowed 18 months ago and a small comfort to being alone is that I can suck my thumb for comfort occasionally. Was a great thumb sucker as a child.

Disneyblueeyes · 23/06/2022 17:57

Give my fanny a good scratch.

Sunnysal · 23/06/2022 18:00

Take my top set of teeth out and lick the food off!

impossible · 23/06/2022 18:01

I do a big smiley grimace into the darkness before I go to sleep. DH doesn't know. Nobody knows. I think it helps me relax.

Chattycathydoll · 23/06/2022 18:08

impossible · 23/06/2022 18:01

I do a big smiley grimace into the darkness before I go to sleep. DH doesn't know. Nobody knows. I think it helps me relax.

That’s really lovely! I might start doing that one too!