Things other people find relaxing/unwinding but you find stressful

[ThelmaLou]

@blabbermeister

Taking a shower: Loud water gushing, those harsh seconds before the water gets warm (even though it was already warm coming out of the bathtub faucet) - then it’s too hot; by the time you get comfortable it’s time to get out and start shivering all over again. Definitely a stress situation; I’d never want to wake up by showering first thing in the morning.

You’re not alone there. Here’s a whole thread on that topic-- it got to 60 posts.

Let's talk about showers (the bathing kind, not the meteorological kind)

Full disclosure: I hate showering. Especially in the winter. Because I hate to be cold right after when still I’m all wet and haven’t gotten dry yet. Also because in the winter my skin gets so dry I feel like it’s all just going to flake off my body. Rest assured, I DO shower (although not every day in the winter, as I don’t do anything or go anywhere), but I wish I enjoyed it. It’s just a necessary nuisance. I feel like this is a grownup thing I haven’t mastered and consider myself inept in the…

Another thing other people like but I don’t is “white noise,” i.e., the noise of a fan or the HVAC. It’s like a wall of monotonous static, like all the fingernails in the world on all the blackboards in the world. When I used to have a loud fan in my HVAC system, I had to sleep with earplugs.