# Things you find creepy (that probably nobody else does) **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 6, 2016, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-find-creepy-that-probably-nobody-else-does/767787 "2016-10-06T18:07:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2016, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-find-creepy-that-probably-nobody-else-does/767787/121 "2016-11-01T20:48:06Z")
> [@JcWoman](#): > > Toddler just finished eating ice cream and covered his face with melted ice cream as toddlers are wont to do. Mom grabbed kid by the ears and swept her tongue in a big circle around his mouth to “clean” him off. I about puked. That…is disgusting. But then again, the sight of babies/toddlers with food all over their faces icks me out in general. I don’t think it’s ever cute. ---
**Author:** ![Mister\_Rik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mister_rik/32/491_2.png) [@Mister\_Rik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Rik)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2016, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-find-creepy-that-probably-nobody-else-does/767787/122 "2016-11-01T23:14:02Z")
> [@Apollon](#): > > – When people append my name at the end of every other sentence. Do they think this will cause me to feel close to them? > [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > My new housemate does this. I feel like I’m being interrogated. My former housemate did this. I _think_ the idea behind it is to make _you_ feel important. This housemate had a Master’s degree in psychology, and his training/profession was counseling. He also read a ton of self-help books. And, yes, it drove me absolutely nuts. It did indeed create a feeling of being interrogated, particularly since it was combined with phrasing that was clearly intended to “draw me out”. ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2016, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-find-creepy-that-probably-nobody-else-does/767787/123 "2016-11-02T00:13:16Z")
Brushed stainless steel, like on a fridge or some pans. I can’t touch it. I have to buy enameled pans or the high gloss kind. The Papa John’s Pizza guy. His eyes are like raisins in a doughy face. Gah. ---
**Author:** ![HeXen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@HeXen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeXen)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2016, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-find-creepy-that-probably-nobody-else-does/767787/124 "2016-11-02T00:45:22Z")
Arachnids. Actually most exoskeletons in general creep me out. Also, even though they are all fake, those grey alien pics and vids always creep me out. ---
**Author:** ![HeXen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@HeXen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeXen)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2016, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-find-creepy-that-probably-nobody-else-does/767787/125 "2016-11-02T00:51:09Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#): > > The Trivago guy. > > But it’s probably just me. He looks like he should be James Vanderbeek’s dad, at least I always thought he did. ---
**Author:** ![buckgully](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/eb9ed0/32.png) [@buckgully](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buckgully)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2016, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-find-creepy-that-probably-nobody-else-does/767787/126 "2016-11-02T01:10:56Z")
I’m creeped out by forks with only three tines. I have no idea why. They just bother me. ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2016, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-find-creepy-that-probably-nobody-else-does/767787/127 "2016-11-02T01:17:39Z")
> [@Mister\_Rik](#): > > My former housemate did this. I _think_ the idea behind it is to make _you_ feel important. This housemate had a Master’s degree in psychology, and his training/profession was counseling. He also read a ton of self-help books. > > And, yes, it drove me absolutely nuts. It did indeed create a feeling of being interrogated, particularly since it was combined with phrasing that was clearly intended to “draw me out”. Telemarketers do this, and they use your first name, like you’ve been friends for years. Drives me nuts, but doesn’t creep me out. Makes me want to punch them through the phone. I don’t know who did the research there, but it must have been on neglected foster children whose names were frequently forgotten or mistaken or something. Normal humans want a little more anonymity. That ice cream thing is making me pukey. ---
**Author:** ![Wallaby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/dc4da7/32.png) [@Wallaby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wallaby)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2016, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-find-creepy-that-probably-nobody-else-does/767787/128 "2016-11-02T01:53:51Z")
Lakes. I will swim in the ocean, I will sail the seven seas, I have been in the water with sharks. I scuba, snorkel, surf - everything. I…don’t…like…lakes. They are weird. Where’s the waves? Where are the sandbars? They’re _ **cold** _. Even having a ride on the tourist boat freaks me out - ‘At this point, the lake comprises an old volcanic crater that is 30 zillion, squillion, bazillion metres deep’. The water doesn’t move, the fish are all a bit strange, underwater trees and logs are slimy. I _ **have** _ swum in lakes, but putting my head underwater is an unsettling experience. Lakes look gorgeous. From a lookout. Several miles away. I know why there are many more legendary lake monsters than sea monsters. ---
**Author:** ![I\_wasn\_t\_truly\_absent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/4da419/32.png) [@I\_wasn\_t\_truly\_absent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_wasn_t_truly_absent)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2016, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-find-creepy-that-probably-nobody-else-does/767787/129 "2016-11-02T03:04:27Z")
But as far as I know most people don’t find ‘cavemen’ creepy, just stupid and brutish. Is there anything that creeps you out that society at large is fine with? [/QUOTE] No I’d be completely with you, these guys if you were zapped back through time would probably want to eat you , great now I’ll have really really stupid dreams ---
**Author:** ![I\_wasn\_t\_truly\_absent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/4da419/32.png) [@I\_wasn\_t\_truly\_absent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_wasn_t_truly_absent)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2016, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-find-creepy-that-probably-nobody-else-does/767787/130 "2016-11-02T03:23:06Z")
> [@WOOKINPANUB](#): > > Egad yes. Or any recently vacated seat that is still warm. so I’m kinda small and am cold blooded if I get on public transport in winter it’s become a good thing to sit in someone’s warm ass spot!!! A big fat man is the best! Agh! ---
**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2016, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-find-creepy-that-probably-nobody-else-does/767787/131 "2016-11-02T03:34:50Z")
> [@buckgully](#): > > I’m creeped out by forks with only three tines. > > I have no idea why. They just bother me. You and Sheldon Cooper. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2016, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-find-creepy-that-probably-nobody-else-does/767787/132 "2016-11-02T04:31:26Z")
Large stupid animals. Back when I was a kid, I had a book about the ocean and the life it contained. I read about how oceanic sunfish couldn’t be kept in fish tanks: They’d kill themselves by beating their heads against the walls, over and over again. In the ocean, you see, they never really _need_ to turn. An oceanic sunfish is huge, a massive half-moon of a fish with few natural predators and prey apparently stupider than they are. They can just swim with the ocean currents, never hitting a real edge to their range, never having to think about anything even as simple as “don’t hit the walls”. For some reason, that creeped me the fuck out. I couldn’t even _look_ at the picture (well, a detailed drawing, I suppose) of the oceanic sunfish without getting heebie-jeebies. I suppose this transferred to a low-grade hatred of larger insects and arachnids; anything about ant-size or smaller is fine, but much bigger and I tend to get creeped out a bit. Jellyfish and other cnidarians and sponges and other animals without centralized nervous systems are below the threshold, I suppose; I don’t see a clam or oyster as being an “animal” at an instinctive level, just a somewhat more motile plant. I used to get creeped out by TV station sign-offs, but since TV stations don’t sign off anymore, I guess that’s a somewhat archaic fear. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2016, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-find-creepy-that-probably-nobody-else-does/767787/133 "2016-11-02T04:37:42Z")
> [@rowrrbazzle](#): > > You and Sheldon Cooper. 🙂 Yes, they aren’t forks, they’re tridents. [Spider eyes](https://www.google.com/search?q=spider+eyes&biw=1140&bih=1026&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiQj4CMoInQAhUJ9GMKHTrFA8YQ_AUIBigB) creep the bejesus outta me. ---
**Author:** ![It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/it_s_not_rocket_surgery/32/312_2.png) [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/It_s_Not_Rocket_Surgery)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2016, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-find-creepy-that-probably-nobody-else-does/767787/134 "2016-11-02T04:57:06Z")
```auto ``` Waitstaff who come over and ask “And is everything **tasting** OK”? My taste buds are well within my personal space, and asking about them seems wrong and invasive. It doesn’t help that it seems that this is a question that has only been asked in the last few years; I don’t remember waitspeople asking how the food tasted 8-9 years ago or longer. Gummi Bears have incredibly gross mouth feel to me (but they taste OK! 🙂 ). The few times I’ve tried them, I felt like I’d never get them completely off my teeth. ---
**Author:** ![JcWoman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jcwoman/32/2889_2.png) [@JcWoman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JcWoman)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2016, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-find-creepy-that-probably-nobody-else-does/767787/135 "2016-11-02T13:33:17Z")
Thought of another one this morning. Totally irrational but I own it. It doesn’t bother me at all to sit my bare bottom on a toilet seat that a million other people have used, but I can NOT sit on the paper toilet seat cover left over from the last person. Eww. ---
**Author:** ![Soylent\_Juicy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@Soylent\_Juicy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soylent_Juicy)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2016, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-find-creepy-that-probably-nobody-else-does/767787/136 "2016-11-02T15:18:10Z")
> [@JcWoman](#): > > I’m aligned with the guy on the first page who said he can’t stand to see people kiss their kids on the lips. Lol that was me. Nice to know I’m not the only one. Little kid’s teeth creep me out. Even worse if it’s a loose tooth. Ewwww. My tarantula’s post-shed exoskeleton gives me the heebie-jeebies. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2016, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-find-creepy-that-probably-nobody-else-does/767787/137 "2016-11-02T15:48:46Z")
The weird faces on bathtubs creep me out. You know what I mean? The round metal plate near the faucet with the two screws for eyes, and the long tub-stopper nose? When I was a little kid I always stared at that thing, waiting for its eyes to open. I’m glad my garden tub doesn’t have one. ---
**Author:** ![Soylent\_Juicy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@Soylent\_Juicy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soylent_Juicy)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2016, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-find-creepy-that-probably-nobody-else-does/767787/138 "2016-11-02T16:00:44Z")
> [@Spice\_Weasel](#): > > The weird faces on bathtubs creep me out. Oh that reminded me: when I was very little the bathroom sink drain used to creep me out. It looked like it had teeth down the hole. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2016, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-find-creepy-that-probably-nobody-else-does/767787/139 "2016-11-02T16:09:11Z")
> [@Apollon](#): > > - Shaking hands. > > - Firm handshakes. Like it’s not a real handshake if you’re not hearing the sweet sound of cracking bones. Hand-shakers who will not…let…go. It’s a brief ceremonial gesture, not the prelude to a lifelong commitment. Leggo!!! ---
**Author:** ![Mister\_Rik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mister_rik/32/491_2.png) [@Mister\_Rik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Rik)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2016, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-find-creepy-that-probably-nobody-else-does/767787/140 "2016-11-03T02:07:44Z")
> [@jsgoddess](#): > > Brushed stainless steel, like on a fridge or some pans. I can’t touch it. I have to buy enameled pans or the high gloss kind. Good thing you don’t work in foodservice - I’m surrounded by it! Though your post does remind me of some laughs I’ve had, seeing pots and pans advertised as “professional”. Um, no. We “professionals” don’t work with that shiny shit. We work with “sturdy”, not “shiny”. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-find-creepy-that-probably-nobody-else-does/767787.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-find-creepy-that-probably-nobody-else-does/767787.md?page=8)