to eat a pea because I feel sorry for it.

[SlightlyJaded]

I have just eaten a cherry tomato that I didn't really want (last one, bit bruised and squishy) because I 'felt sorry for it' and thought it would be sad if it didn't get eaten like it's friends...

I often do this with peas as well.

And other small pieces of food

I try to tell myself that it's ridiculous "Jaded it's just food, it doesn't have feelings FFS"

But still I find myself adding the manky mushroom to the risotto so it doesn't feel left out.

Anyone?

Yes! Exactly like thecrunchunderfoot, I can't bear to leave a bean in the tin so it misses out on the main event - or likewise a lentil or bit of spaghetti in the pan. I actually think about it sitting in the bin going "all that preparation... for nothing... sob"

This is the first time I've admitted this apart from to DP who thinks I'm completely barking.

I also can't leave any doll, soft toy or poor little playmobil baby lying face-down or crumpled in a heap. I have to tuck them in somewhere comfy. Once I felt really sorry for one of DS soft toys that had fallen out of favour to be replaced by another. I had to take it to sleep in my bed so it wouldn't see

I think if I was a manky old tomato I'd enjoy a trip in a dustbin lorry to the local dump, where I could make friends with everyone else's rubbish, maybe find myself an equally manky potato and we could gently decompose together in the sun.

Sounds much more pleasant than being crushed up, pushed through various tubes following a bath in acid, falling out of a dilated anus from a height into a bowl, then being sucked into a stinky old drain.

You are all misguided and nasty!

Awww, I'm pleased someone is concerned about the Playmobil people, LadyWord.

When I was 5 I used to do that

I say sorry to soft toys that fall over...

Oh dear I thought it was just me who eats 'lonely' food

I never want to scrape them into the bin so they die alone...therefore I always eat a single pea or bean.

I like to think of them as 'escape peas' and 'has beans'

My DP does this. Insisted on eating a potato I left on my plate last night...as it would feel so lonely being left all on its own. DP attributes feelings to everything though. When DP packs clothes for holidays I am not supposed to talk about the holiday in front of the rejected clothes who are not going along...so they don't realise they are being left behind

when you have to sew up a teddy bear the needle transforms into an anesthetic injection just before you start to sew. and it also works when they go into the washing machine - but then it becomes a "breathe underwater and sleep until the end of the cycle" injection.

totally cheermum

lesley, bless your dp

Someone I know feels sorry for inanimate objects, they've been know to buy stuff because they felt sorry for it such as:
The last piece of tinsel on a shelf, all raggedy
A teddy with a very sad face
Other crappy old tat no one else would want

When I gave a teddy bear to a friend of mine, I snipped some holes in the wrapping paper "so it could breathe"........

When DD went on a residential trip with the school last month, Sydney Tuna was deemed Too Precious to go too, and I had to go up and read the school text messages to him the instant they arrived, so that he would know she was alright. Daddy could wait until he got home to read them, but Sydney needed to now immediately. Did this faithfully, every single one
I also worry about "splitting up families" when I eat things like beans, or those teeny millions sweeties

I eat the last of anything because I'm a greedy cow and not because I feel sorry for it. But I do make sure washing has a 'friend' when I hang it on the line - i'll put all the tshirts together and not have one by its self next to the trousers. Does that count?

'not have one by itself next to the trousers' lol

Yes I do this too! Never admitted it before but must scrape all baked beans out of the tin so that they fulfil their purpose in life. Ive tried to ignore the odd one or two when ive been in a rush but it's no good, I'll go back and save them.

Yes! Me too! I've never admitted it before. At least I'm not alone.

Yes! Me too! I've never admitted it before. At least I'm not alone.

do you post twice too so your first post doesn't get lonely anna?

When I watch cookery programmes, and the cook has, eg, a chopped onion in a bowl, and fails to tip it all in the pot, I get quite annoyed. It's really not fair on the missed bits of onion, is it?

When I tidy DD's toys, I always pair the little ones with a bigger one, to ensure they are well taken care of.

My eating of stray bits of food I feel sorry for is the reason I can't lose my big gut.....

Bonkers.

Sorry! I was looking for AIBU but I appear to have stumbled into the mad as a bucket of frogs topic instead.

I have a rotary dryer and nothing must hang alone on one of the four sides, I thought it was just me, thank you thank you thank you x

I sooo do this!

We've lived in our house for 5christmas's and every year we get a card for previous owners with not return/forwarding address. Every year I put it up with all the others do that the Christmas card can fulfil its destiny!

Yup - I can't bear the thought of that little chunk of onion feeling rejected and tearful as it's brothers go swimming in sauce. Feeling not good enough. Unwanted.

Perhaps I'm projecting.

Also apologise to doors and sofas and plants if I bump them. And have to put similar clothes with similar in the drawer so they don't feel lost and alone in the dark...