Tasks That Give You The Heebie-Jeebies

[SiouzQ.]

I know this sounds really weird, but I cannot STAND pushing my cuticles back (shudder). Being a guitar player, my fingernails are usually incredibly short and the cuticles are somewhat ragged. Every once in a while I remember to file my practically non-existent nails and trim off the hangnails....and use one of the orange stick things, but for some reason it kind of freaks me out, even sitting here just thinking about it!

Does anyone else have a thing or a task that is unpleasant like that, that makes you react viscerally?

[Tussiemussies]

Don't get grossed out by any tasks. The only thing that really grosses me out is using public pools, hotels and public bathrooms. I try and stay away from all three plus any restaurant that has any sign of uncleanliness going on in the back where they cook.

Do you know what about using the orange stick freaks you out? Does it remind you of something else?

[CathyA]

SiouzQ.......what you said reminds me of something. When I was younger, I had a girlfriend who wanted to work on my nails a little at work once, when we weren't busy (ER), and she was using that stick to push back the cuticles, and I thought I was going to pass out. She laughed, but it really bothered me! So don't feel alone!

[SiouzQ.]

OMG, I'm not alone! That makes me recall that for a while when I was a kid, maybe 8 or 9, I couldn't even stand using those lever-type nail clippers (those cheapy kind that you can get any where). Just thinking about using them really grossed me out, so really, I became a nail biter for that reason to avoid having my nails cut! I have long since learned to get over this weird obsession it and use them. But now this reminds me of yet another thing that used to bug me when I was that age - I'd go to bed and become consciously aware of the physical feeling of having my eyes closed in order to go to sleep and being acutely conscience of that physical feeling freaked me out (I've never told anyone this, let alone my mom, that I was afraid to close my eyes at night)!

I guess I was a weird little kid with strange anxieties (thank god I grew out of that one - I love to sleep just about more than anything)!

[redfox]

Yeah, paying bills! ;)

[iris lily]

I never think about cuticles until I read the threads here on this site about cuticle care.

I don't have 'em and don't mess with 'em and have always thought it's the oddest thing that cuticles seems to be an issue with other people. Are they an issue with men?

[Kestra]

I'm not even completely sure what cuticles are. And like most "girly" things I figure if I've made it this far without knowing or doing it, why start now?

[iris lily]

I'm not even completely sure what cuticles are. And like most "girly" things I figure if I've made it this far without knowing or doing it, why start now?

I'm on the low side of average with interest in the girly-grooming stuff, too. My hair was always important, but really, nothing else. I've never tweezed eyebrows, for instance, and I don't' even remember that they are there on my face.

[SiouzQ.]

The only reason I sometimes care about my cuticles is that they get roughed up and painful after playing the guitar. I have a couple of songs where I don't use a pick and end up "slapping" the strings in a percussive manner with my fingernails. One time I was at an open mic doing a Shelby Lynn song I had just learned and felt something wet while I was playing; when I got off stage I looked down and sure enough, my cuticle was torn and bleeding and there was blood all over my guitar strings!

Otherwise, I do not go much much girly-stuff either and could care less about learning to use nail polish and stuff like that. At least I try to keep my fingernails clean and hangnails trimmed...

[pinkytoe]

eyebrows...I don't' even remember that they are there on my face.
Me either - I never give them a thought. When I was getting my hair cut yesterday, the stylist said she was running late because she had to wax someone's eyebrows. I didn't ask what that meant but assume it is a hair removal process and it sounds painful. The only thing that gives me the jeebies is painting my toenails so I have decided not to mess with it anymore. Very liberating as it has been a summer ritual for decades.

[Tradd]

Eyebrow waxing - eh, it's no more painful than a band aid getting ripped off. Get mine done every time I get my hair cut (every 6-8 weeks). Do minimal maintenance in between.

[Fawn]

I'm a nurse, so there really isn't any personal care item that bugs me.......but, oooooo, I do not like to pull anything out of the garbage disposal. So much so, that when I remodeled the kitchen, I had it taken out.

[CathyA]

I find that housecleaning of any sort makes me feel faint and nauseous. :laff:

[Mighty Frugal]

I'm another with the cuticles-thought I was the only one. Just reading your description makes my stomach turn

[Maxamillion]

I'm not exactly sure what cuticles are but pushing them back sounds like it would be painful.

Some of the grossest things I've had to deal with over the years with having pets is worms, like roundworms and tapeworms. *shudder* Thank goodness for the stuff that gets rid of them. What's even worse than roundworms and tapeworms are wolf worms. When I was a teenager, the cats would occasionally get these--I won't describe because they're really disgusting. We didn't have a lot of money and my mom wouldn't take the cats to the vet. So I had to get rid of the worms and treat the wounds myself whenever one of the cats would get one. Now there's a task that will make you want to throw up.

[Greg44]

I worked a couple years for a vet (Large/Small animal) - my arm has been places I would not like to discuss!
So not a lot grosses me out.

Strangely - I cannot watch surgery - even on TV. At the animal clinic I worked in the surgery every day. I remember one day we amputated a St. Bernard's leg. By the time we were done there was blood on all the walls and both of us. But now to watch the simpliest surgery (even just an incision), I have to look away!

[cattledog]

I hate cleaning the bathroom after we've had guests. I don't mind cleaning the toilet after my own family uses it, but when others have been in there, it just squigs me out.

[Mrs-M]

Removing things from eyes, especially on myself. Brrr... Sends shivers running up and down my spine, even makes my stomach queasy, and makes me feel like there's a knot down there.

[Float On]

Seeing a silverfish.


(while cleaning out files from the attic)

[Gardenarian]

Ick, silverfish. Why are they so creepy?

I hate dealing with anything moldy. It is just gross.

[decemberlov]

filing my nails!!! I can't do it...just thinking about it makes my skin crawl. Kinda like the nails on the chalk board to me.

[Mrs-M]

Also, removing slivers with a needle.

[Rogar]

Hands down changing the furnace filter in my crawl space. I have seen black widows down there and it is dark enough for them to sneak up on you un-noticed. Black widows are higher on my heebie-jeebie list than snakes.

[IshbelRobertson]

Not quite a task, but...


Ever since I was a young child, touching velvet gave me the HJs. Even nowadays, if clothes shopping and I touch anything made of velvet?

CRINGE.

[KayLR]

If any ornery person even looks at or gets his or her fingertips close to the bottom of my feet, I go into near hysterics, and my palms become sweaty immediately.

Aside from that, nothing....altho, it always amazes me when people say they actually clean, express, or whatever..their dog's anal glands. Really? Ick.

[rodeosweetheart]

My husband was sawing gutters yesterday and the sound was so horrendous I had to run into the house. Like the fingernails on the blackboard.

[Float On]

Baby Spit Up. I can't feed or hold a baby that is spitting up.......I end up on the back deck spitting up myself.

[decemberlov]

Aside from that, nothing....altho, it always amazes me when people say they actually clean, express, or whatever..their dog's anal glands. Really? Ick.

feeling sick just reading this!! Luckily this is not an issue with my dog.

[Mrs-M]

Boy-oh-boy, Rogar, would the furnace filter EVER be in a state if it were up to me to change it!

[Mrs-M]

Puke, does it for me, Float On.

[LDAHL]

Sweating pipes.

[Mrs-M]

Dealing with newly circumcised babies.

[decemberlov]

Dealing with newly circumcised babies.

haven't experienced this one yet since i only have girls.
But those little, still attached umbilical cords...yuck!

[ToomuchStuff]

Dealing with newly circumcised babies.


LOL, they are pretty lazy, they lay around all the time, whining and they don't even get up to go to the bathroom after that procedure.

Invariably, for me it is snakes. I always seem to step or walk near or under one when mowing, and after having one thrown back at me (in two parts, which I didn't know at that moment),from the mower, I have had a thing about them.

[SiouzQ.]

The sound and feel of the knife hitting the aluminum pans we use at work while slicing up our lasagnas for display....creepy!

[mamalatte]

Ditto on the silverfish, they totally creep me out; for some reason, they give me a sense of foreboding.

Can't STAND those hangers from the dry cleaner with the thin layer of foam to keep the clothes from sliding off. The feel/sound of that foam makes my skin crawl.

[Mrs-M]

Originally posted by Decemberlov.
those little, still attached umbilical cords...yuck! Ditto.


Originally posted by ToomuchStuff.
LOL, they are pretty lazy, they lay around all the time, whining and they don't even get up to go to the bathroom after that procedure.You're telling me... :)