# 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:** 8
**Author:** ![Randolph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Randolph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Randolph)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2016, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-find-creepy-that-probably-nobody-else-does/767787/141 "2016-11-03T20:40:47Z")
People wearing obvious makeup. Not for a night out or something, but just as part of their everyday personas. When I’m talking to someone up close and I notice all of their liners and fillers and shadows and glosses, I get that uncanny-valley feeling - I’m not talking to a person, I’m talking to a person’s representative. I know there’s a real person under there, somewhere, but they’re hiding for whatever reason. It’s creepy. (Why yes, I am a judgemental asshole sometimes. Often, even.) ---
**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 3, 2016, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-find-creepy-that-probably-nobody-else-does/767787/142 "2016-11-03T22:32:41Z")
I guess I should add mold. It scares the shit out of me. I am somewhat allergic, and once had the misfortune to read _The Cask of Amontillado._ ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2016, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-find-creepy-that-probably-nobody-else-does/767787/143 "2016-11-03T22:38:50Z")
So, all you folks creeped out by parents kissing their kids on the lips… You do know that that’s the origin of kissing, right? Before prepackaged jars of Gerber’s, the way you’d feed a just-weaned baby was by the parents chewing up a bite of food, and then spitting it into the kid’s mouth. This practice developed into a general sign of affection used even when food wasn’t involved. If there’s anyone creepy or deviant here, it’s those folks who kiss those they’re sexually attracted to on the lips. Parents kissing kids on the lips is _normal_. ---
**Author:** ![StarvingButStrong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/starvingbutstrong/32/335_2.png) [@StarvingButStrong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StarvingButStrong)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2016, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-find-creepy-that-probably-nobody-else-does/767787/144 "2016-11-03T23:20:36Z")
No one else can’t stand manholes or other access covers in sidewalks or streets? I cannot step on one. Nope. I know that the cover will somehow crush down into it and I will fall in. Even if we’re talking about a gas line access that objectively is about 2" in diameter…somehow I will fall helplessly down through it. I also don’t like flooring or stairs that are made from that open metal grill stuff. I once turned down an otherwise great sounding job, just because the stairs I’d have to use every day were those metal strips kind. \ ---
**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 3, 2016, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-find-creepy-that-probably-nobody-else-does/767787/145 "2016-11-03T23:24:03Z")
> [@StarvingButStrong](#): > > No one else can’t stand manholes or other access covers in sidewalks or streets? > > I cannot step on one. Nope. I know that the cover will somehow crush down into it and I will fall in. Even if we’re talking about a gas line access that objectively is about 2" in diameter…somehow I will fall helplessly down through it. > > I also don’t like flooring or stairs that are made from that open metal grill stuff. I once turned down an otherwise great sounding job, just because the stairs I’d have to use every day were those metal strips kind. \ Manholes are easy to avoid, but the metal grates, no way. There are parts of NYC where it seems like the entire sidewalk is made up of those damned grates. ---
**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 3, 2016, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-find-creepy-that-probably-nobody-else-does/767787/146 "2016-11-03T23:25:03Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > So, all you folks creeped out by parents kissing their kids on the lips… You do know that that’s the origin of kissing, right? Before prepackaged jars of Gerber’s, the way you’d feed a just-weaned baby was by the parents chewing up a bite of food, and then spitting it into the kid’s mouth. I didn’t think it was that creepy, until you added that little detail. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![eclectic\_wench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ac91a4/32.png) [@eclectic\_wench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eclectic_wench)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2016, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-find-creepy-that-probably-nobody-else-does/767787/147 "2016-11-04T00:12:39Z")
Basements. I know there must be plenty of people who are fine with them, because I gather that in big parts of the US they’re totally normal, but WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU PEOPLE THINKING?! There could be ANYTHING down there!!1!!! Serial killers! Ghosts! Zombie clowns! Swamp creatures! I don’t mind being actually \*in \*a basement, but being in a room that has a door to a basement…AAAIEEEE. They’re not a thing in Ireland. Thank God. I mean, you get houses with ‘basement levels’, but that just means that floor of the house is semi-below ground level. It still has windows. > [@MrLee](#): > > Wind turbines, and even worse - [wind farms](http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/02490/wind-farm_2490548k.jpg). I have nothing against renewable energy, and recognise that harnessing energy from the wind is a great idea. But every time I see them - or even pictures of them - some part of my reptilian brain starts ringing incomprehensible alarm bells. It’s like it’s saying “This is a dark place - get \*out \*of here…”. The feeling is akin to the sort of terror that a toddler who is afraid of the dark might feel. > > Weirdly, I have nothing against ordinary windmills. I suppose it is something about wind turbines’ aesthetic - they seem dangerous and alien to me, like on a profound level _they don’t belong_. No amount of logic will work against it. I get this. ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2016, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-find-creepy-that-probably-nobody-else-does/767787/148 "2016-11-04T00:44:14Z")
Mobs of so-called ‘neighborly’ Republicans… whether its at a block party, a church social, or any event where they have their preferred 10-1 ratio for letting loose their assholishness. There’s something about that plastic-practiced smile… the phony clap on the back… the supposed sly winks to minions and thugs that everyone can see… and the ‘Ooops’ slips of racism. It honestly just makes it so much easier to see: You really ARE just Scum, aren’t you??? ---
**Author:** ![meenie7](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7993a0/32.png) [@meenie7](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/meenie7)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2016, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-find-creepy-that-probably-nobody-else-does/767787/149 "2016-11-04T02:14:50Z")
> [@StarvingButStrong](#): > > No one else can’t stand manholes or other access covers in sidewalks or streets? _raises hand_ When I was in 5th grade, I stepped on a manhole-type cover over a storm drain (or something like that) that was in a far corner of my school’s playground, and it wasn’t latched like it should have been. It flipped up, letting one of my legs fall in, and then swung back, trapping my leg in it at about knee level, leaving me in an awkward split position where I couldn’t get any leverage to get my leg out and get up. All I could do was scream for help. I was trapped for about 10 minutes and then it took three adults to move the cover enough to let me get out; I scraped up one side of my leg and the other side was one big bruise. Ever since then, I will not walk on a manhole or grate unless I absolutely cannot avoid it, and if I can’t avoid it, someone needs to hold my hand and I am terrified the whole time. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2016, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-find-creepy-that-probably-nobody-else-does/767787/150 "2016-11-04T02:25:48Z")
I LOVE wind farms. Those huge turbines make me think of the Martian war machines in H.G. Wells’s _The War of the Worlds_ (more like the Edward Gorey drawings, not any of the movie versions). > **[Edward Gorey’s Vintage Illustrations for H. G. Wells’s The War of the Worlds](https://www.themarginalian.org/2013/02/22/edward-gorey-war-of-the-worlds-1960/)** > > Two classic masters of the macabre and wonderful, together. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2016, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-find-creepy-that-probably-nobody-else-does/767787/151 "2016-11-04T02:29:12Z")
> [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](#): > > ```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. Oh god, this is SO creepy. And I only hear it out there in America west of the Hudson River. Come to think of it, America west of the Hudson River creeps me out. Some neighborhoods in Chicago and San Francisco are okay. You can keep the rest of it. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2016, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-find-creepy-that-probably-nobody-else-does/767787/152 "2016-11-04T02:52:59Z")
I find the older men, attending my daughter’s high school football games, staring all the young teenage girls out there kind of creepy. I’ve met people who haven’t had kids in the school for _years_ who still attends HS football games, and that kind of creeps me out too. ---
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2016, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-find-creepy-that-probably-nobody-else-does/767787/153 "2016-11-04T03:55:15Z")
> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#): > > I LOVE wind farms. Those huge turbines make me think of the Martian war machines in H.G. Wells’s _The War of the Worlds_ (more like the Edward Gorey drawings, not any of the movie versions). > > [Edward Gorey’s Vintage Illustrations for H. G. Wells’s The War of the Worlds – The Marginalian](https://www.brainpickings.org/2013/02/22/edward-gorey-war-of-the-worlds-1960/) Really? They put me more in mind of the tripods from John Christopher’s YA books. ---
**Author:** ![Santelia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eb9ed0/32.png) [@Santelia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Santelia)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2016, 10:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-find-creepy-that-probably-nobody-else-does/767787/154 "2016-11-04T10:19:27Z")
Ancient tunnels that have been discovered in my hometown in recent years I find simultaneously fascinating and creepy as hell ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2016, 10:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-find-creepy-that-probably-nobody-else-does/767787/155 "2016-11-04T10:22:27Z")
Do other people find old cartoons creepy, like an uncanny valley effect even though they aren’t even remotely trying to look human? ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2016, 10:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-find-creepy-that-probably-nobody-else-does/767787/156 "2016-11-04T10:23:05Z")
> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#): > > I LOVE wind farms. Those huge turbines make me think of the Martian war machines in H.G. Wells’s _The War of the Worlds_ (more like the Edward Gorey drawings, not any of the movie versions). > > [Edward Gorey’s Vintage Illustrations for H. G. Wells’s The War of the Worlds – The Marginalian](https://www.brainpickings.org/2013/02/22/edward-gorey-war-of-the-worlds-1960/) Me too. Driving up through eastern Spain recently, we went through some large wind farms - the first sight of them over the crests of foothills really looked like a bunch of giant, living, leggy creatures striding and thrashing about. ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2016, 10:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-find-creepy-that-probably-nobody-else-does/767787/157 "2016-11-04T10:49:41Z")
> [@Grrr](#): > > I hate this too. To remedy the issue I put the water bowl in one room while the food bowl goes in the other. > > Haven’t had to deal with it since. Poor doggie! In the next life, the dog will be serving _ **you** _. He’ll bring your meal to you at the dining room table. The wine and the water glass he’ll put on the hall table on the other side of the house. You won’t be allowed to move them. Want a sip? Take a walk. 😉 ---
**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 4, 2016, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-find-creepy-that-probably-nobody-else-does/767787/158 "2016-11-04T12:55:19Z")
> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#): > > Come to think of it, America west of the Hudson River creeps me out. Some neighborhoods in Chicago and San Francisco are okay. You can keep the rest of it. Former New Yorker here. Let’s see … Brooklyn? … That’s somewhere across the river on Long Island, right? I think. Some places like the Hamptons are okay. You can keep the rest of it. ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2016, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-find-creepy-that-probably-nobody-else-does/767787/159 "2016-11-04T13:06:43Z")
> [@wolfpup](#): > > Poor doggie! In the next life, the dog will be serving _ **you** _. He’ll bring your meal to you at the dining room table. The wine and the water glass he’ll put on the hall table on the other side of the house. You won’t be allowed to move them. Want a sip? Take a walk. 😉 A small price to pay for free rent and belly scratches. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![friendlessboob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71c47a/32.png) [@friendlessboob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friendlessboob)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2016, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-find-creepy-that-probably-nobody-else-does/767787/160 "2016-11-04T18:09:18Z")
> [@Turpentine](#): > > When people are parked, just sitting in their cars. Don’t they have somewhere to go or anything else to do? > > I know there’s nearly always some reasonable answer like “He’s waiting for somebody…”, but I can’t help but think of these people as downright creepy. I frequently do this to eat lunch, drive to a park and just sit in my car. Sorry I’m creeping you out. 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-find-creepy-that-probably-nobody-else-does/767787.md?page=7) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-find-creepy-that-probably-nobody-else-does/767787.md?page=9)