# I hate when that happens...

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [May 21, 2013, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-when-that-happens/658897 "2013-05-21T02:52:04Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Mixolydian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/da6949/32.png) [@Mixolydian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mixolydian)\
**Post date:** [May 21, 2013, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-when-that-happens/658897/1 "2013-05-21T02:52:04Z")

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Don’t you hate when you bite your nail a little too far and you wind up with a flap of skin on the side and you can’t leave that hanging and you know you shouldn’t but you bite that too and really take a nice chunk out?

I hate when that happens.

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**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\
**Post date:** [May 21, 2013, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-when-that-happens/658897/2 "2013-05-21T02:55:17Z")

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Fortunately for me, I’m at home most of the time, where I have a set of nail clippers. So any time anything like that happens (hangnail, or any variation thereof) I can always trim it (nail or loose skin) neatly to avoid further damage.

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**Author:** ![SeaDragonTattoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df705f/32.png) [@SeaDragonTattoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SeaDragonTattoo)\
**Post date:** [May 21, 2013, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-when-that-happens/658897/3 "2013-05-21T03:15:17Z")

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I have a habit of biting my cuticles. They all have little callouses which makes it more enticing to bite them. Then I even them out with clippers, then I go to work where I use alcohol and peroxide regularly and OOOUUCH. Dangit, I gotta stop biting my cuticles. Until I do it again next week.

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**Author:** ![Rhiannon8404](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rhiannon8404/32/17929_2.png) [@Rhiannon8404](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhiannon8404)\
**Post date:** [May 21, 2013, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-when-that-happens/658897/4 "2013-05-21T05:08:52Z")

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I’m a nail biter. I know exactly what you mean. It sucks.