The following is a list of things/people that make me want to stop whatever I'm doing, go home and take a shower because they're creepy and gross. In no particular order:
1. People who eat on public transportation. For example: the woman sitting by me on the train last week who was scarfing down on some sort of strong smelling glazed pastry and then proceeded to take a gallon of milk out of the shopping bags she had with her and just start chugging. I wanted to throw up when she pulled out the milk.
2. People with excessively long hair who don't keep track of it. Another train story (which I don't think I've told before, but so sorry if I have). A woman with hair approximately down to her bottom sat next to me on the train one day and apparently was not at all bothered with the fact that her ridiculous mane of nastiness (it was not well-cared for hair) was now all over my shoulder, my arm, touching my neck (I am gagging just reliving the memory). I made an exaggerated shift to try and get as much of it off me as possible, and she noticed (admittedly, it would have been hard not to) and moved her hair back to her person. With an exaggerated sigh as though this was a huge inconvenience to her and I was being unreasonable. I don't care if you have to pull it back, tuck it in your coat, or cut it off, but just keep it off me, lady! I would also like to point out that the same process was repeated at the next stop when someone sat down on the other side of her. It's not just me.
3. The mouse running around the ceiling of my office. There is construction across the street right now and the weather is warming up (kind of) which means there are mice in the building (it's the city, this is a fact of life). I can hear this one's little feet scratching as it runs back and forth across my ceiling. The reason this creeps me out is because I'm afraid it will fall through the ceiling one of these times and land on my neck (much like the spider that caused the Mailbox Incident of 2000). The chances of this actually happening are quite small, as the mice in this building are TINY (I've seen them) and definitely not big enough to cause a ceiling tile to fall, but I still cringe every time I hear those tiny feet. Luckily we have an exterminator who comes in once a week so this will be short lived. I hope.
4. The inside of a bag of chips. I love chips. Particularly tortilla chips with taco sauce (I don't like salsa because I don't like the chunks, so I substitute). However, I don't like to reach my hand into the bag because it's next to impossible to get the hand all the way in to the chips and back out again without getting chip residue on the back of it. Because of this, when I'm eating the little single serving bags you get with a sub or something, I cut the front of the bag off Parent Trap-style (the old version, with Haylie Mills, the skirt at the dance?) in order to keep my hands as clean as possible. When I'm eating out of a larger bag, I'll cut down the top as I go so that there's enough at the top to fold over and re-close the bag, but not so much that I have to really go digging for the desired chip.
5. Things that have been refrigerated for longer than about two weeks. For whatever reason, when something hits that two week mark, I really have to force myself to eat it. I've gotten better about making sure that something has actually gone bad before I throw it out, especially since I (theoretically) live on a budget and it's not good to just throw away food willy-nilly. Along this same vein, if I have leftovers in a tupperware for too long and the leftovers are not good any longer, chances are pretty high that depending on what it is (i.e. how liquidy), I'll throw away the leftovers and the tupperware. I'm kind of weird about food. I also don't like eating stuff out of the fridge if the floor is dirty.
6. Deli meat that's been sitting out just long enough to get that slightly slimy feel. You know what I mean. When you're at a deli buffet kind of thing and you pick up the tongs and you can just feel the tiny layer of slime. Gross gross gross.
7. People who treat public restrooms like their home bathroom. There are times when I can overlook this one because I've been guilty of it, if I'm going out after work and I have my going out clothes and stuff with me (though I always try my best to be considerate of other people and/or only do it if no one else is in the bathroom). But it grosses me out when people come in and spread their stuff all over the counter, the floor, etc, and leave it there while they go about their business. This is not your house. Kindly do not get your makeup dust everywhere! And stop looking at me as though I'm going to steal your things! If it's a concern, don't leave them laying around everywhere!
8. People who cough and hack all over the place without covering their mouth, especially on the train. Yes, it's cold season. Many people are sick. Maybe you have a job that absolutely requires you to be there, even if you're on your death bed. But seriously, didn't your mother ever teach you to cover your mouth when you cough? You're spreading germs EVERYWHERE.
9. Men with really long fingernails and/or toenails. I always want to ask, "Why do you have those? What purpose do they serve? Cut them!" Yuck.
10. People with a really strong personal odor who touch my stuff. I used to work with a guy who had a REALLY strong (and kind of unpleasant) personal smell. And then he would touch my stuff and the smell would linger on whatever he touched after he left. I remember one day he came in and I was eating lunch and he just stuck his hand in my bag of food and helped himself. I had to throw it away, it was very sad. And anyway, who just goes around touching other people's food without asking permission? That is a definite level of friendship violation (but that's a whole other post)
Wow, it was a lot harder to come up with 10 of these than I thought it would be. And I know that later I'll get home and think of about a billion other ones that I couldn't remember now when I was trying to actually document them.
Anyway, what creeps you out?
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