To ask what things you do, that you think are completely normal, that have caused others to be shocked/disgusted?

[HappilyChatterly]

Sat in the staff room tucking into a kiwi, like you do, or rather like I do...chomping it like an apple. Everyone was horrified! Apparently you eat it with a spoon like a boiled egg... I can see why, the skin is minging but I alwa?s thought it was worth it for the delicious flesh. My family all eat it that way, never occurred to me there was anything odd about, I thought it was just the way it had to be done.

I'm really paranoid now there are other things I'm doing that are weird and disgusting. Please post your own experiences so I can tick them off the list.

I haven't read it all but separating an egg (yolk and white) between my fingers.

Laughed like a drain at the chicken in bed. I want to get hens now just to try it. Are they not a bit....pecky?

Another hands and feet stair galloper here.

Dipping warm toast into a cup of sugary tea .. Yummmm

I go to a restaurant and order a burger without the burger, so I can just have the bun and salad. Waiters always get confused.

I ask at McDonald's for a sausage & egg mcmuffin with no sausage and no egg.

At hotdog stands I ask for just a bun with onions and DH gets embarrassed.

I also had a nightmare about a tiny door in my spare room, and now I can't go in there. I haven't been in there for 3 months

I can't sleep unless my tv is on with something I've never watched before, on loud.

And I'm 31 but I still can't stick my foot out of the bed on case something grabs it.

DH is constantly telling people how strange I am!

Near - that's not weird - that's how i was taught to do it as a chef - when you have to do lots...
In fact I saw on Masterchef the professionals one of the chefs using the half shell method and thought that was weird!
But you do get messy fingers - at home just one or two I do think I should use half a shell -but I find it too much of a faff!

Eating cold mash from the fridge.

I really like the smell of earwax...only my own of course although I've never been tempted to sniff anyone else's. I'm assuming other people will think this is gross because it's not something I've made public so haven't seen anyone's reactions

Oh and I like the smell of petrol. It reminds me of vanilla ice cream.

Not me personally, but my dad and his sisters used to save a potato from their main course until it was cold and then plonk it into their pudding.

Shinyshiny I like the smell of fresh pertrol too (not burning petrol though!) but it does not smell like ice cream lol.

I like drinking the vinegar from pickled silverskin onions (by the teaspoon though, not the pint).

I use cloth dishcloths rather than those scourer sponge things. When they get minging, I bleach them.

I occasionally ask gentlemen callers to wee in my compost bin.

I'll think of more in a minute....

I'm from Northern Europe and apparently, we are really into being naked. For me, it's normal to go to sauna naked in mixed groups - whether with family, friends or colleagues. It's just sauna, of course you go naked, it's not a place where you go and stare at each other.
People in UK or US are usually when they hear about it.

BabyMummy

When I was pregnant I loved, and I do mean loved the smell of lemon surface cleaner, it made me feel euphoric. Also the smell of bleach and chlorine.
My kitchen has never been so clean. I can still remember how good it made me feel.

DD does the eating a meal 1 foodstuff at a time thing which DH thinks is really odd.

He has also never got his head round my liking picked onions with my fish & chips , but I'm fairly certain that's quite normal and he's strange for thinking otherwise.

I also like to give the guinea pigs a sniff when they come in for a cuddle. They smell of hay and warmth and remind me of my school days when my school had loads of animals and my friends and I used to help look after them and get up to mischief in the hay shed

Isitnormal I think we are twins, just noticed your post about holding your pen weirdly too. Although I don't hold my pen that weirdly I do hold my paper at a weird angle so that I'm kind of writing vertically up the paper. I would blame being left handed but even my fellow lefties marvel at how weird it looks. I seem to provide most of the entertainment in meetings..

Yep I wiki all the details about all the actors/locations etc. as well as the plot!

Emperor I'm left handed too - perhaps you are my long-lost twin!!

And do you mean vertically with the nib towards you, because that's exactly what I do!

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Sorry, SIL was using my account, last two posts are me!

Ha I did think we probably needed more in common than just being left handed to be long lost twins!

I do have the nib towards me! I always thought it was quite a normal way to write if you were left handed but there's quite a few lefties at work and I'm the only one who writes like that. My handwriting is really neat too

I'll be thinking of my long lost twin as I sit writing at my desk eating chocolate for breakfast before going home to watch TV and wiki

Oh yes, I sniff my cats. The smell of a clean healthy cat is lovely. dumspiro, I totally understand why you sniff guinea pigs.

Cuddling up to a chicken is brilliant

I thought everyone kept their baby's cord clamp/ belly button peg thingie. Apparently not - that's very weird according to my friends.

fish thats not weird cats smell lovely. U often bury my nose into composcat's lovely soft fur and inhale deeply.

Whenever the antiques roadshow theme comes on my wife gets up from the settee and dances a hornpipe.

cafebistro - people don't?!

With DC1 and DC2 I removed the dead skin first. DC3's is still attached