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Stuff you think must happen to other people - but can't risk asking?

999 replies

IMissFrance · 03/02/2021 11:21

Anyone else have stuff happen to you that must happen to others.

But you can't really ask because what if they say "NO! How weird!" And then you can never talk to that person again. Wink

So I'm bringing it to the anonymity of Mumsnet.

I'd love to hear other peoples. And will start off.

  • whenever I wash my hair in the shower (I have long hair) loose hairs wash down my back and end up in my bum crack. End of my shower I have to check there's no hair left.

I can't be alone in this grossness! (Or can I)

OP posts:
Bloodylovecheese · 04/02/2021 00:41

@AprilThe8th

When I wake up the day after drinking alchohol my plucked eyebrow hair has grown.Happens everytime I drink.
Omg...me too!!!
MarthaWashingtonsFeralTomcat · 04/02/2021 00:46

My armpit sweat smells different depending on the time of the month.

I also get a tingly armpit when I'm nervous.

tinylittleyou · 04/02/2021 00:48

Does anyone else leg it upstairs to bed after they’ve switched all the lights off, I always feel like something will get me Blush

GingerFigs · 04/02/2021 00:48

Yea to the hairdryer! And also putting my head under the water in the bath. Scared I can't hear what's going on or someone will be there when I open my eyes!!

Carouselfish · 04/02/2021 00:53

Shooting pains in what feels like my veins in my wrists. Feels like trying to pass a pea through them.

Very sensitive skin on upper arms, sometimes. So they feel like they're missing layers of skin and clothing hurts when it brushes them.

May172010 · 04/02/2021 00:57

Every time I travelled for work and was staying on my own in a hotel room, I would check under the bed, wardrobe, toilet, balcony to make sure nobody is there waiting to kill me! And of course I was sleeping with the lights on. My colleagues thought I was nuts! I guess I watched too many horror movies as a kid! Anyone else??

Bobbitybobbins · 04/02/2021 00:59

This one is very cringeworthy and I've always wondered if other people do it or if I'm just really weird and gross. Its something I do absentmindedly without even thinking and I've done it as long as I remember (now in my 40s). Regularly when I'm sitting on the loo with my pants round my knees, or when I take them off getting changed for the shower, I sniff the gusset! No particular reason, its like an automatic thing! I wondered if it was some biological instinct like dogs sniffing their bits? !!! Does anybody else do this or am I just a freak?

Mamanyt · 04/02/2021 01:03

Hair in butt crack...OH YES! And, about two years ago, having had enough of hair in my butt crack and of waking up to thinking my neck was paralyzed because I had my hair stuck in my arm pit or under my boobs, I had 30 inches lopped off of it in one go. Best thing I ever did! My headaches are gone, everyone tells me how much better/thinner/younger I look, and a wash and dry takes all of 30 minutes...air drying! Have a genius hairstylist. Don't have to a thing but wash, towel, and shake my head.

AND I donated the lopped off bit to have wigs made for kids with cancer.

tobee · 04/02/2021 01:09

@Bobbitybobbins

This one is very cringeworthy and I've always wondered if other people do it or if I'm just really weird and gross. Its something I do absentmindedly without even thinking and I've done it as long as I remember (now in my 40s). Regularly when I'm sitting on the loo with my pants round my knees, or when I take them off getting changed for the shower, I sniff the gusset! No particular reason, its like an automatic thing! I wondered if it was some biological instinct like dogs sniffing their bits? !!! Does anybody else do this or am I just a freak?

Maybe you did it once because you worried you didn't smell fresh and now it's become a habit or superstition? Just a guess.

Anyone get the shooting electricity in your inner forearms when reading something arousing? Or thinking of a crush or similar?

DennisSkinnersMolotov · 04/02/2021 01:09

Re the leaky vag post-bath, Caitlin Moran tells a very funny story about this happening to her when she was live on BBC Breakfast. She was the first person I heard speak about it and I felt heard.

tobee · 04/02/2021 01:12

I know the post bath/swim vag leak thing only happened to me after having had kids. I was appalled when it first happened. Imagining everyone looking. You feel like checking that there's any water left in the swimming pool! Grin

KindofAwakeTonight · 04/02/2021 01:13

@KylieKangaroo

Does anyone else have this thing where you're half way between being awake falling asleep and you let out an involuntary noise? And you're never really sure if anyone else can hear it or if it even came from your mouth! It happens all the time to me I think but I can't prove it or explain it Grin
Yes! Sometimes I believe I'm shouting at the top of my lungs but no-one ever comes to see if I'm okay. I tell myself that I must have been half-dreaming, otherwise I'll have to believe that no-one cares if I'm being murdered in my bed! Grin
nervalslobster · 04/02/2021 01:15

@TellingBone I work in a library and I've never heard of that! Might explain some of the more unsavoury incidents that have occurred...
Also copying that link to share to my work WhatsApp group tomorrow!

Chienloup · 04/02/2021 01:31

I have a problem with rice. Whenever I eat it, I am guaranteed that at some point in the meal I will get a feeling that there is a big clump of it in my chest. It is extremely painful and I feel like I'm suffocating. The only way to get over it is a huge glass of water and forced deep breaths.
Please tell me someone knows what this is.

Leonie12 · 04/02/2021 01:38

It's called sleep paralysis,I've not experienced it myself, but I've heard about it and read about, sounds scary!

XenoBitch · 04/02/2021 01:38

After a night of drinking, I find my nose is full of bogeys the following morning.

Chienloup · 04/02/2021 01:47

[quote shesasquirter]@Goldenmythicalcreature
Yes! I've name changed for this but I've ejaculated about 5 times in my life. The first time it happened I was mortified but my husband loved it. Once, in a hotel room, it shot all over the room and soaked all the magazine. My hubby was going down on me at the time. Poor bugger nearly drowned.[/quote]
I thought it was an urban myth, and then one day, at the age of 41, it happened to me. I can now make myself squirt every time I have sex if I feel like it. But it's definitely more gush than squirt - there's a lot.

EugenesAxe · 04/02/2021 01:50

I pooed in labour - I always watch 'Call the Midwife' fairly whimsically and wish I had been given an enema as standard, although current thinking is actually that they do more harm than good.

I also get the bum crack hair thing and the slightly leaky belly button (which I hate - I stick tea tree oil in whenever I notice it happening).

Sometimes I'll have a really dry but bunged up nose, and I'll sniff expecting it to be pointless, but then suddenly something shifts and a huge gob of mucus dislodges at the back of my throat. Doesn't often happen but always takes me massively by surprise. I have to spit them out Blush There are quite a lot of weird bogey formats to be honest.

Bluewavescrashing · 04/02/2021 01:57

This thread has cheered me up immensely.

Thank you Grin

EugenesAxe · 04/02/2021 02:00

I've thought of another weird thing - when I'm using my arm muscles in some strong, repetitive action, I get a sympathetic urge to sort of 'chew' my lips. It mostly happens when I'm beating cake mixture or kneading dough/ fondant icing.

I try not to do it now I've noticed it!

Sparrowfeeder · 04/02/2021 02:00

@Catra

Does anyone else have a little pointy bit of skin above their arsehole? On the fanny side. I’ve had it all my life, it’s not a pile and it’s bloody annoying. My 3-year-old does. She's had it since birth. The doctor said it was a skin tag and wasn't willing to do anything about it.

Yes to javelin bum, yes to diarrhoea as a reaction to nerves, no to hair in the bum crack or pooing during childbirth (although I did fart a lot while pushing!)

So here's my oddity: Throughout my entire life, I sporadically get a strange sensation in the back of my neck that lasts around 5 seconds. The only way I can describe it is like ballbearings rotating in the handle of an old-fashioned skipping rope, only they're in the back of my neck and the movement creates a shimmering sensation. It feels far deeper than my muscles and in some way related to fluid. It's in no way uncomfortable, it's just bloody weird - am I a complete freak or does anyone else know what this is?!

Yes! I think so - it feels like bubbles in my neck/spine. Apparently it’s spinal fluid moving about.
Sparrowfeeder · 04/02/2021 02:08

@30sthngLondon

The underarms of my woolly jumpers collect hair... I lift up my arms and pull out big tangled hairballs. I have long hair but have never met anyone who seems to have this problem...
I have this!
BattyOrange · 04/02/2021 02:09

Does anyone else have a look in the tissue after blowing their nose? I don't know why I do this - I know it's gross and disgusting but I find it compelling.

Apart from that - thank you so much for this thread. We're all normal! Grin

TaraR2020 · 04/02/2021 02:25

@kirktonhouse how do you find water underground? Shock

XenoBitch · 04/02/2021 02:28

@BattyOrange

Does anyone else have a look in the tissue after blowing their nose? I don't know why I do this - I know it's gross and disgusting but I find it compelling.

Apart from that - thank you so much for this thread. We're all normal! Grin

I enjoy a sinus infection for this reason. Proper thick yellow stuff. Love it Grin