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 talk to myself..ask myself questions and answer them out loud🤷‍♀️ plus heard about the death of someone recently who helped me years n years ago..I talk to him out loud sometimes, just in case he can hear..

I used to fantasise that we would all be forced to stay at home and how enjoyable that would be 😳

Synaesthesia is so interesting in how it presents differently in different people! Mine is both flavours and sensations.

Kelly = orange juice
Zoe = a bee!
Rachel = biting into a Granny Smith apple
Colman = potato salad
Sharon is quite similar for me in that it’s freshly washed hair
Ben doesn’t conjure up much for me, though.

@WetBandits @wellybellyboop

Same! wow I thought I was the only person that did that
the name 'Brooke' always reminds me of shortbread,
'jessica' - apricots
'Sylvia' dihorrea (sorry to all Sylvias out there)
'Zoe' a bee

I have a lot more, those are the ones I can think of at the moment

I have weird thoughts that if now in 2024 and I'm now 59 and dropped dead in a field and was ''eaten'' naturally to become a bog person, would someone dig me up in 3034 and facially and bodily reconstruct me and stick me in a museum?!

We have two male shepherds & we have also decided how they would sound if they could talk, lol.. my eldest boy shep would sound like scooby doo & my youngest Ddog who is 8 months old would have a squeaky voice , haha we havent shared this with anyone else in case they think we are batshit 😂

Whenever I'm abroad (away from UK) I see a dog, cat, bird, etc and think 'I wonder if they bark, meow, churp in a different accent...' 🤔

I love this thread, I feel like you are my people <3

@Projectme cows have regional accents http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/5277090.stm

Oh I love this! Thank you 😊

I’ve laughed out loud at your descriptions of your GSDs “voices” 😆 Perhaps your pupper could be “Scrappy Doo” to your elders “Scooby Doo?”

I always thought we were totally nuts having these (serious) discussions about Ddogs voice… makes me feel a whole lot better! She was a sweetheart, huge but soppy as a sack, used to let the local little girls ‘do her hair’ (fur, she was long coated) and nod off as they brushed and plaited her long hair! Very popular in the neighbourhood as being so friendly and strokeable… I received cards when she died aged 12, saying such lovely things about her.
We currently have a lunatic of a GSD, almost 9, who is stubborn and full of mischief, but so funny and loving.
I am trying to get DP to agree to having a pup later this year… he talks to this dog in the daftest of voices and does a voice for her.
Are you “ Mum and Dad” to your dogs?

Why am I even asking - of course you are!

So…

Gruff & German accented?
or
Soppy baby voice?

To help me go back to sleep if I wake up in the night I imagine scenarios happening to me such as:

What would happen if someone broke in to the house (DH is police and is used to having sharp things waved at him and would probably recognise a burglar, we have 2 x 6’5” lads in the house and large soppy dog)

How I’d react if someone called the RSPCA on us (imagine me showing them how spoilt our animals are)

I know it’s SO weird I’m embarrassed in front of myself! 😂

You are so funny! I want to be your friend

Aw look at her, she was beautiful, we lost our girl shep last year aged 6, it was awful, she was so sassy (she had an American accent, think guests on Jerry springer!)

I swore we wouldn't get another but my boy grieved so much we ended up with scrappy doo, lol..love that

They truly are the best dogs, and yeah we are definitely mum and Dad haha, we have 3 daughters so they are known as 'our boys'

Your girl sounded just like mine who we lost, she was wonderful and adored kids ❤️

@Londongirl78
Thank you, yes she was an absolute star, still miss her every day and it’s 8 years this August. They really become family don’t they?
Condolences on your loss💐

What a lovely thread!
Glad to think a lot of the things I do are not mad... Everyone gets them.
I used to when I was a kid in the car imagine getting into the car and someone outside 'racing' the car, having to jump roads, hedges and fields.. sometimes still do it on the train for a laugh 😂 becomes a challenge for them going over bridges on a train so they are 'allowed' to hold on.
But... I have no visual imagination so I can't see them I can only imagine there is someone there.
Find it wild that people can imagine things in their head. I can only ever get a fleeting glance at a thing and then it's away like a second glance. Could never firm up details like when reading a book, only get a suggestion of what is happening. So when a film of the book I have read comes out I don't get upset about casting, location and things because it's more helpful than my brain was at piecing things together ha ha

I can relate to so (too) many of these.

I have a thing that when I’m going between my house and garage, if I hear a car coming past, I try and get inside before they see me. No reason. I just feel good for having ‘beaten them’.

I get very concerned about insects on public transport. If a wasp flies into the carriage at Morden (where he lives), what if he ends up at High Barnet? He'll just be stuck there for ever, not knowing any other wasps. And he won't know that he has to get on the other platform to get home again!

I spend far too long thinking about this.

I think that too. I had a snail on the windscreen of my car once. I stopped after about 2 miles and put him in a bush. I hope he found some friends.

I hope so, too. But what if he has a local accent and is shunned? What if he was from the posh side of town and then they put gravy on his chips for him and he doesn't like it??? It's all too much.

I used to do this with my dad as a child, but not rude words as he wouldn’t have liked that!
We also played ‘Mr Wobbly man’ where if he was walking me somewhere he’d pretend he was going to walk up someone’s drive and I’d have to call him back.
I’m there for the train tracks thing but I think that’s common!

@Meringueatan that's fascinating! Do you have synesthesia?

More than likely. Not sure how or if there is a formal diagnosis for it. I find the one with seeing colours interesting.

Some words I can think of...

My nanna tastes like Warburtons bread, specifically the one in the orange wrapper
There is an estate in my home town that tastes of cubed roast potatoes coated in garlic butter
DHs name tastes like cheap watery coleslaw that was sold in Kwiksave circa 1990s. I tend to use the shortened version, as to avoid the taste.
Rainbow tastes of cheap paint, to one you need a wet brush to activate
Plump is aniseed, I like this one

It happens when I least expect it. I think I'll start making notes every time it does though.

Oh I worry about this to! If I’m driving to work and realise I have a fly in my car I worry that he has been separated from his family and friends, that I have perhaps separated the Romeo and Juliet of the fly world!