Things you would never admit to IRL because they'd think you were weird!

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This is a topic that's been going round in my head lately as a thought popped into my mind a few weeks back and is becoming the itch that can't be scratched!

As I was driving home one day, I saw a random lorry with a place name on the side that I didn't recognise, and I thought "I wonder where I'd end up if I just followed that lorry?"

This has now become a regular topic of thought, wondering how long I'd drive for before I gave up following someone and just went home. Or wondering if they might see me driving behind them and realise I'm following them (that would be an awkward convo with the police - "why are you following that vehicle", "Well, officer, I was a bit bored and just wondered where they were going and thought I'd tag along"!)

In my head I've even gone so far as to thinking that if I were single it could be a nice day out! Pack an overnight bag, hop on the motorway and choose a vehicle to follow to see where I end up. Eventually give up and find a hotel for the night (or give myself enough time to drive home again if I couldn't find anything).

So... I realise I am weird for thinking this, but MN is a "safe space" where we can all admit our oddities without being outed, so what are yours?!

I often wish that my ex husband would die so that I don't have to pay for a divorce. It would make life so much easier.

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Sometimes when I have a song stuck in my head, I'll convince myself that nobody else on earth could possibly be thinking of the same song at that particular moment, especially if it's a really obscure one, for example a b-side from a 'Now' album in 1994 or a lesser-known album track.

@BeyondImagining my Dad is a retired builder and recalls the time once when they were drinking tea on a site from a tea pot but it tasted a bit….off.
Also the tea sort of trickled from the spout (can you see where this is going!?)

A mouse had indeed got into the tea pot, tried to climb out of the spout and passed away.

I look at people and imagine what they wear in bed. There seems to be a 'pyjama' set, a 'nightdress' set, those who sleep in underwear and those who sleep in the nude.
It has nothing to do with their attractiveness or otherwise, I just look at them and 'see' them in nightwear.

Bonkers. I know, I know...

My cat would talk like barry white....

Love this. One of My cats talks like Barry white too! The other one talks like hyacinth bucket.

I sometimes look at my Facebook friends who know each other but I only know them individually. I make up stories about how they know each other. One day I'll have to ask Sarah from baby group 18 years ago knows Becky who used to work with DH.

Me and my daughter do this all the time

The elderly and people you dislike are the most points lol

Our very genteel, elderly cat talks like a cross between Tyson Fury and Sean Dyche. She swears like a trooper too, really bad language.

This thread was a joy to discover!

I thought that I didn't do any weird shit that I didn't talk about, just weird shit that I do talk about but I was wrong. Me time travelling is one that happens a lot because I just love spending time in a time period of my choosing. I had a whole family when I was a kid whose world I would live in but I remember doing it mostly when I was on the toilet. I know I did it at other times but the toilet was a strong place for them and me I think because they helped me not worry so much about the devil sticking his hand up through the toilet and squeezing my bum.

Other stuff is even more mundane, the sort of thing that people will say is OCD even though it isn't. So, when I'm reading a book I have to put it down when I'm on an odd page number or odd chapter number. Both is magical. There are even numbers that are okay, so any ending in a zero and the number 14. There are also odd numbers that are not okay, so thirteen, unsurprisingly but also eleven and forty-three. If I'm tired when I'm reading I have to be a bit careful when I get close to 11-13 which is why I maybe decided 14 was okay but also because I really like that number. The wrong numbers are also wrong when they're hundreds, etc. There's no escaping the wrongness!

Oh! I did the super recogniser test and got 12/14 which pleased me but probably isn't that unusual.

Thanks for resurrecting this thread. Reading the latest updates has reminded me that if I get up for a wee in the night (thankfully not regularly), I can't possibly sit on the toilet without checking there's not a snake in the water! So there's me taking my phone to the toilet, just so I can shine a torch into the bowl, just in case! Of course then the light wakes me up and it takes ages to get back to sleep, but I just can't do it otherwise!

It might be sensible if you live in Australia or somewhere that this is likely to happen, but I live in the Thames Valley, 30 miles away from London!

I saw it on a drama series once and it's just stuck with me ever since!

@HiddenBooks Oh no, I do this too!!! And rats, not just snakes... Doubtful there's snakes in toilets in West Yorkshire either, but you never know!!! 🤣

@HiddenBooks it's akin to the whole quicksand thing a lot of us had growing up in the 70s/80s probably 90s too. We're in the UK, where are we going to come across this unexpected quicksand but it was a "real and present danger" in our heads.

I'm sorry you're stuck with the snake thing. I'm pleased to say that I no longer fear a squeeze or a bite from the devil. Maybe I should. Maybe he's been lulling me into a false sense of security despite not existing.

Oh! Talking about drama series. On LA Law back in the annals of history one of the characters, an older woman. Was talking to another character while waiting for the lift. It arrived and she got in but the lift wasn't there even though the doors opened. I have never just nonchalantly stepped into a lift since watching that scene!

You shouldn’t get more points for people you don’t like. You’d already be winning from getting rid of them, surely? They should low scoring IMHO.

I’m really sorry if this scares you but we do get quicksand here in the UK. A woman and her dog got stuck not too far from me a few years ago. Was pulled out by passers by. I’ll see if I can find the link. It gives me the shudders and I wouldn’t walk on the sand at very low tide unless lots of people are around!

I do that too but we are out in the sticks with an old soak away and snakes resident. 🐍

I do have this thing where I talk to myself in the car if I’m on my own. Like proper conversations with A N Other. Quite in-depth conversations- a monologue mostly but I do sometimes imagine the response and reply 😳

I really haven't given it that much thought tbh lol

god I love this.

me and DD1 have had an argument going for years anoyt what year modern history started. We both occasionally ask other people and then add their guess into the mix. We debate it endlessly. We’ve had mugs made about it, travel to historical sites that we believe will back up our arguments, the works. Years we’ve been discussing it.

For the avoidance of doubt, it’s 1485.

That's okay, @Foodusername I live by the sea and I'm careful at low tide too. I think in my head it's the quicksand we'd see on TV in American westerns or something that we don't have that used to give me the willies. I think that as children we just needed to have things to be scared off that weren't actually dangerous rather than being scared of actual really dangerous/horrible things. Or that might have been me!

Ha ha. That’s probably a good thing! May not so good I had that thought! 😂

I just looked it up. I’ll have nightmares tonight now! Don’t google it 😂 Yes, I remember those films. Urgh.

i often wonder how long it took for inventions like creating fire, or wheels, to spread across the work when human colonies where so small and so spread out and sparse. Or were they discovered / invented in more than one place?