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Normal things that gross you out.

144 replies

BluePonds · 07/07/2022 15:37

Not sporn or gross habits. Just every day things.

Used teabags make me feel funny.

Bits of cooked egg on a fish slice/spatula is gross.

The corners of books when they're turned up.

Feet. I even hate the word. This time of year is the worst for it with people wearing sandals. No one seems to put socks or shoes on their toddlers and babies. I hate it especially toddlers when their feet get chubby and shapeless. It's horrible.

Also certain names and words make me feel ill.

Such are the joys of being autistic and having an overreaction to so many things.

What normal things disgust you?

OP posts:
BobbinHood · 07/07/2022 20:26

Wooden lollipop sticks.
The word “pelmet”.

Sulusu · 07/07/2022 20:34

Millipedes and centipedes. Multi-limbed harbingers of the apocalypse, wherein we will be made to serve them as our giant insect overlords.

Feet. Best thing about winter the feet are hidden from my view.

Long fingernails. Real or fake they are nothing but germ magnets.

ThorsBedazzler · 07/07/2022 20:36

Mayonnaise

BlackCatTabbyCat · 07/07/2022 20:41

Stickers
Wet stickers
Plasters
Holes
Labels (all my duvet,pillow, cloths and towel labels have been cut off but strangely the ones on clothes don't bother me as much)
Beds with no sheets or pillow cases

Herejustforthisone · 07/07/2022 20:43

Filth gathered in the underside of acrylic nails.

Herejustforthisone · 07/07/2022 20:44

Rough feet skin catching on sateen/shiny bedding. Ugh.

Dilemmaemmaaa · 07/07/2022 20:54

I’m a vegetarian so I think it’s a factor in this but when you go somewhere and they have platters of food all touching each other 😩 Ham sandwiches touching the cheese yet it’s called ‘vegetarian’. One that gives me the proper heebie jeebies is the grazing boards you see now with everything all lying on a table touching 😭

Tubbyinthehottub · 07/07/2022 21:19

Oh god, those platters with all the food touching. So gross!

Also bathmats, especially when someone has already put wet feet on it.

And dishcloths but particularly when people hang them over the tap to dry. Get it off there! Way too much risk of touching it.

Mrsmch123 · 07/07/2022 22:25

The wooden forks you get at carnivals with chips
uneaten food on a plate that you need to scrape in the bin
uncooked chicken- love to eat chicken tho😂

myusernamewastakenbyme · 07/07/2022 22:26

Women wearing vest tops with huge flappy labels sticking out...makes me feel sick...likewise women with lipstick on their teeth.

MuddlingThroughLifeLittleByLittle · 07/07/2022 22:35

Mug with water, my ex used to do this

Egg on spatula

Wooden spoons

Eating a cold dessert with a metal spoon. (i use a kids plastic ikea type one)

Paper straws

Wooden stirrers the odd time I get a drink out.

Chips on seafront withna wooden fork.. Yuk. Ill use fingers

goldfinchonthelawn · 07/07/2022 22:43

Crumbs. DH always has crusty bread for lunch and leaves the breadboard out with crumbs spilling all over the counter. I have to make myself wipe it all up. They seem to crawl under anything left out on the counter. I have almost given up eating bread, because I hate crumbs so much.

Rachaelrachael · 07/07/2022 22:55

Wow who knew there would be so many haters of wooden spoons/lollipop sticks. Thought that was just me!

Ok another one... the carpet in caravans/holiday homes knowing how many dirty sweaty feet have been on them. Currently on my 1st caravan holiday since childhood and can't cope 😷

Vetoncall · 07/07/2022 23:35

Swimming pool and swimming pool changing room floors. The thought of walking on the wet floors with wet hairs and bits of soggy tissue stuck to them, just waiting to stick to my bare feet, is repulsive. Experienced it enough times at the local pool as a teenager to put me off for life.

Cold egg/runny or watery scrambled eggs/snotty fried egg whites etc. I like eggs but they have to be well cooked and piping hot.

Another one for wooden cutlery, and also soggy paper straws 🤢

StrawberryLipstickStateOfMind1 · 07/07/2022 23:51

Yes to the swimming pools, other people's foot skin or soggy plasters, nooooooo

FishcakesWithTooMuchCoriander · 08/07/2022 00:02

Paper straws. Everything tastes shit through a paper straw. I’d much rather have no straw than a paper one.

PinkButtercups · 08/07/2022 00:11

Cotton Wool 🤮
When people smell heady!
Dirty fingernails or long fingernails.

wellhelloitsme · 08/07/2022 00:28

goldfinchonthelawn · 07/07/2022 22:43

Crumbs. DH always has crusty bread for lunch and leaves the breadboard out with crumbs spilling all over the counter. I have to make myself wipe it all up. They seem to crawl under anything left out on the counter. I have almost given up eating bread, because I hate crumbs so much.

Why on earth doesn't he do it, regardless of whether you don't like doing it or not?!

If he can cut bread he can wipe up. I'd be more put off by the laziness and entitlement of expecting you to clean up after him than by the crumbs!

Fatarseflanagan09 · 08/07/2022 00:46

When you see women with lots of long curly hairs on their chins, don’t they look in the mirror?
men with fat guts hanging below a too short t shirt.
the bloke standing too close behind me in a queue mouth breathing loudly.
white gunk in the corners of mouths.
fluff and hairs on the skirting boards and hair that gets stuck in plug holes, it makes me sick.

cleowasmycat · 08/07/2022 01:03

Maytodecember · 07/07/2022 15:55

Anyone other than me cleaning their teeth. Even on TV.

Same

TheChosenTwo · 08/07/2022 01:36

Arghhh I’m with you on baby’s/toddler feet, worst is when they’re sitting in a buggy and they’re all flaccid and limp and puffy and look clammy 🤢🤮🤮 just horrible! I didn’t even like looking at my own kids feet when they weren’t fully shod with socks and shoes - I certainly don’t want to see anyone else’s kids’ feet! I hate the word ‘toes’ and I wanted to order a toastie for lunch recently and chose something completely different so I didn’t have to say ‘toes’tie 😳😳
Small feet remind me for some reason of when you blow up a surgical glove.
all hands look roughly similar but feet look so different to me. All horrible.
I also have a hatred of wet food touching dry food, it’s a texture issue.
I hate stepping on a bath mat when someone else has made it wet.
I like eggs but the solidified somehow chalky bit of the yolk of a fried egg is just disgusting and I refuse to eat it.

TOADfan · 08/07/2022 01:42

The main one that comes to me is eggs especially fried when the white isn't 100% cooked and is still all stringy. Reminds me of discharge and makes me feel so sick.
I won't order fried eggs now unless it's over easy or well done.

AmericanWerewolf · 08/07/2022 01:51

Another vote for wooden stuff that go in mouths(spoons, lolly sticks, stirrers… totally make me want to heave)
Raw fish in supermarkets… urfgghhh!!! the sliminess and the smell and the eyes looking at you…Makes me feel very weird, and almost cry!🤷‍♀️
people who stir tea forever, making the stupid clink clink noise, then tapping the bloody spoon on the cup😱 - also people who scrape cereal bowls out, and those who seem to need to ‘whip’ milky coffees forever (I work in a restaurant😀)
people who come down to hotel breakfast in their nightclothes, or half-dressed with bare unwashed flesh flopping around everywhere…gross🤢
Mens feet 🦶
Changing nappies on restaurant tables (seen this so many times)
getting honey or brown sauce on my hands -eeek!! Get it off me!!

CluelessHamster · 08/07/2022 02:03

Pixies74 · 07/07/2022 20:14

It's not something I particularly hate, but the sound of other people cleaning their teeth gives me involuntary shivers, kind of how I imagine some people react to nails on a blackboard. Have always had it since a child, it's weird!

Same here. My ex used to te

CluelessHamster · 08/07/2022 02:05

Argh! Stupid phone!

My ex used to try to wander around and have a conversion with me whilst cleaning his teeth. Just no!!!!