Personal Habits - That Aren't!

[andy-hughes]

Saw the opening of a documentary about Desert Island Discs on I-Player, and one image set me thinking - it was of originator Roy Plomley filing his nails.

What personal habits do you think are private, that you see some people do in front of others, and find it makes you sqeamish?

Filing nails is one - especially men, but also -

using a paper table napkin as a hankie and then leaving it on the plate
spraying deoderant
applying make-up
brushing hair
cleaning fingernails
blowing nose

any others?

[Mamyalynne]

Sometimes I am glad I live alone.

[tiggerblue10]

I'm glad its just me and Little Tiggs!

[Mamyalynne]

Ah now the little ones have their own ways, can be quite challenging can't they.

[andy-hughes]

triggerhappy - hairbrushing and make-up application don't make me sqeamish, I just prefer that it is done out of sight.

[tiggerblue10]

Indeed Mamy, Little Tiggs has now located the inside of his nostril and its contents.

[andy-hughes]

I heard my youngest daughter use a wonder phrase to her three-year-old -

"Don't put your fingers up your nose, you won't find anything nice up there ..."

[stewey]

Next time someone issues you with a certain look when you burp, just inform them that "It was merely the sound of waste gaseous hydrocarbons emitting from my oral cavity due to a spasmodic contraction of my diaphragmatic muscle." Then check out their facial expression:)

[EcclesCake]

Using toothpicks, picking scabs (doubly unpleasant if they are then eaten) and digging around in ears and inspecting what comes out.

I have been reminded why I NEVER shop in Asda.

[boxtops]

I object to the girl on the train this morning who not only did her hair, but got the hairspray out and sprayed most of the compartment.

and the young guys on the bus home who seemed pleasant enough, but polluted the air with Fs and Cs as part of general conversation

[Peter Pedant]

I watched someone put on eyeliner (and the rest of the slap)
on a train.
Difficult not to start with horrified fascination.

She didnt pput her eye out like an oliver on a cocktail stick - but nearly

[boxtops]

I've no objection to people filing their nails, I do it myself - get out the emery board rather than sit there with a broken nail.

[gness]

Well I watched a girl, on the tube last week, paint her toenails dark purple.
I was full of admiration and envy at the ease with which she reached her nails....I have to wedge my foot on a low windowsill, stretch and hold my breath in my attempt to reach my toenails...:-(

[EDDIE51]

If i picked my nose I would not have ended up with the one I have got now.