I don’t know why, but I seem to be on a thread roll. Maybe 'cause I’m bored. This is the last one I’ll start today, I promise!
What things have your family members done that totally grossed you out? Was it a one-time thing, or is it a habit? Did they do it as kids, or adults?
When my brother was around 3-5, we had to avoid keeping an open bowl of potato chips anywhere around him, as he would lick the salt or flavoring off and put the chips back in the bowl. It was quite nasty to suddenly find yourself biting into a cold, soggy chip.
My dad used to absentmindedly pluck stray hairs on the back of his neck, and leave them in a little pile on the end table beside the couch.
I had a friend whose dad used to clip his toenails and put the clippings in abandoned pop cans sitting around the house. One time she had her fresh pop open beside a can of clippings, and she grabbed the wrong can and drank the toenails. Ugh.
My dad takes out his false teeth (he has a full set - top and bottom) and licks them. He also cleans his ears with car keys. He picks his teeth with credit cards, also.
Oh, and my mom never heard of using the toilet brush except in your own home on cleaning day, if you know what I mean. My husband cringes every time she goes into our bathroom.
My dad eats rotten food on a regular basis. It doesn’t make him sick or anything. Things I know for sure he’s eaten:
-Over a month expired salad dressing (Ranch)
-Expired buttermilk, or will “create” buttermilk out of existing milk
-Random mushroom (not the edible kind) he found in the woods
-Deli meats that have taken on an odor and a greenish tinge
-Moldy bread
-All variety of leftovers that no one else will touch
The funny thing is that he says he can eat anything and maintain an iron stomach, except donuts. One donut, and he gets sick. How weird is that?
Okay, okay. My mom leaves shit smears all over the toilet when she visits people and it never occurs to her that she should brush them away. To her, they stay till cleaning day.
:eek: That is seriously bad. He sounds lucky to be alive. The other ones, OK, that’s kind of weird, but if they don’t make him sick, more power to him–but this is something where he could end up hallucinating, poisoned, or dead. Even experts making an intentional effort to identify mushrooms can easily make mistakes, and unless your dad is a mycologist (or at similar training level) it’s pretty much a total roll of the dice.
My girlfriend spent the summer living at home with her family, and her 17 year old brother had just got his first serious girlfriend.
When she was packing to return to uni, she was looking in her brother’s room for some books he’d borrowed, and in a draw found condom wrappers and used condoms with slightly browning issue in them. :eek:
Mmmm, nice.
And he does own a bin.
Anyone else encountered this? Also, any ideas on how this trait could be exploited for comedy value/blackmail?
He says he knows what he’s doing and he hasn’t gotten sick from it in 53 years, so I think he’ll be ok. If they made him hallucinate he’d probably go try to find some more.
My older brother, the deacon, is constantly in contact with his testicles. He is adjusting, wiggling, making sure they’re still attached. All. The. Time. Gotta be an OCD thing. We’re talking 15-20 times an hour. Not only is it wierd and distracting, it’s totally unsanitary even though he’s doing this through his pants. So, picture if you will, a man who has a prominent job (postal inspector manager), prominent in his church and always trying to convince people that he’s better than they are cause he’s not going to hell. And all the time he’s jostling the twigs and berries. Ewww.
My mother removes her teeth in front of the television and then uses kleenex to wipe all of the denture glue off her gums. I wish she’d go in the bathroom to do that. I can’t even turn my head to her side of the room when she’s doing that.
Which makes me wonder… Why do people do such disgusting things in front of family members when they would never behave in such a fashion in front of nonfamily? Familiarity should not breed that kind of intimacy. Eyew.
