Non sexual or non relationship everyday things that give you the ick?

[Floogal]

What seemingly innocuous things make you cringe or even feel nauseous?
Mine are:
*Over ripe bananas. The smell, texture and taste. Oh and the veiney bits.
*Being on the bus on a wet day. The stale steam everywhere and smell of damp clothes 🤢

• Those waxy farmer jackets. Not so much what they look like, but the smell of them

The London underground in the height of summer.
Ick

The little fold down tables on the back of train seats. They are always grubby or sticky!.

Shower curtains.

Dogs in shops.

Walking past a café on a cold day and seeing all the windows steamed up from the people inside. Always think there must be so many germs in there.

Homemade food that’s been brought to a second location

Over fiddled with fancy canapes...all those fingers poking them when they are being made.

Cake stalls at fairs..same reason.

Workmen using your loo

Omg you are correct

Seeing dogs deficate on the pavement.

Goodness so you can never go to a shared table/ potluck/ fuddle then?

Perfectly happy to never go to any of those. And can't think of anything more ick than grazing tables.

Anything damp - shower curtains/umbrellas indoors/towels - just smells mouldy even when it isn't.

But my worst ick is sitting at a table after a meal that's full of congealing leftovers and dirty plates. I am a 'whisk them away immediately' person. When we visit our family in Spain and Cyprus - they are perfectly happy to sit and drink wine amongst dirty plates, and for added ick - smoke as well. Makes me want to take a very hot bath.

I would rather die. There was an unfortunate phase at work where people were doing ‘Bake Off’ and I had to either hide, or if cake was forced on me, find a way to slide it into the bin without anyone seeing

I'm absolutely pmsl that you've posted this in the extra curricular activities topic.

I feel quite icky about the increasing number of click-baity threads on Mumsnet that appear out of nowhere for no reason.

Unfortunately there isn't a Pet Hates topic option

The seal on a pack of supermarket egg sandwiches being broken and the thought of the first whiff that comes out. I don't actually need to smell it.

OP - get this moved to 'Chat' if you want any replies....

People's orifices especially mouths,I hate the thought of all the fluids and germs.
As a result I hate kissing and contact with bodies.

I realise this includes horror of my own bodily fluids, lol

Buggy wheels rolling through dog poo, likewise parents & kids on the school run who don't look at the floor when walking through "dog shit alley",

Kids / babies with food or snot not being wiped off faces

Nose blowing in public

Licking yogurt lids when you're over the age of 10

Washing up bowls / toilet brushes (although I have both)

Kids packed lunch boxes, always stink of plastic and soggy bananas no matter how much you wash them

Long fingernails, especially on men

The first part of the toilet paper in public loos, I always rip the first bit off

Dirty, dusty summer feet

My major ick is staff rooms. They are always hideous and smell horrible.

I hate eating lunch in staff rooms where I could be eating a salad and someone beside me is peeling an orange or eating a yoghurt lol. I realise that sounds ridiculous but honestly it makes me heave.

People licking their fingers to separate notes. Particularly when they then hand me the note, by the licked corner... And most especially when they've been all the way round the shop touching things and picking up things and then licking their fingers...

It's almost like they WANT norovirus.

I agree with long fingernails. Especially fake nails. If you have fake nails / long nails then I will never be eating your food or coming over for dinner.
Same with pet owners if you have animal inside the house I will not be eating your food or coming over for dinner 🤮

Parents who never wioe their kids noses and it is running and smeared all over thier face. I have 2 small DC and I always gets that sorted asap and taught my eldest asap gow to vlow his nose. He was on my 18months when he started to wipe his own nose and age 2 when he could blow his own nose.

Do you hqve OCD 😂

Some of these icks hit alarm bells for OCD.

The smell when you open a pack of ham. Can’t eat it any more.

Sorry @narcASDbut people who say floor when they mean the ground.

Dog smell. I was in a dog g-friendly cafe the other day queuing at the counter next to a guy with two very sweet looking spaniels, but my God the stench 🤢

The word “fuddle”. Sounds gropey and generally horrible.

Dirty tables in cafés. I always have a pack of wet wipes with me to clean the table. I wouldn't sit in my own filth at home, why would I sit in someone elses filth and pay for the privilege? My kids used to find it funny- now they're adults they do it too 😄