# Weird urges you get (non-sexual) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 10, 2012, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-urges-you-get-non-sexual/627750 "2012-07-10T01:37:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2012, 8:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-urges-you-get-non-sexual/627750/21 "2012-07-10T08:06:12Z")
> [@Ambivalid](#): > > Dude, isn’t that called “suicidal ideation”? :eek: Not always. There’s Gagundathar version’s and mine: I don’t want to splat, but I do miss the high planks at pools, pretty much all of which have been removed for safety reasons. It was just 10m, but that free fall and then a splooosh! into cool water was neat. I don’t get the urge to kill myself jumping from a bridge, but I do get an urge to jump into bodies of water from a height. And leaving the fucking car in the middle of, say, Seville’s Quinto Centenario, blocking everybody would be a huge finger to traffic 😛 > [@Gagundathar](#): > > I don’t really want to fall; Instead I wish I could just fly. Watching someone whose dog is loose and who doesn’t pick up the dog’s shit has in recent times started to produce an urge to call the person a pig and give them a Crazy Old Woman Rant about people who leave their shit all around the place (if it’s the dog’s shit and it’s your dog, it’s your shit). I think I’ll wait a few more years before I start acting on it, though… ---
**Author:** ![bengangmo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/50afbb/32.png) [@bengangmo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bengangmo)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2012, 9:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-urges-you-get-non-sexual/627750/22 "2012-07-10T09:46:42Z")
> [@treis](#): > > What weird/odd do you regularly have? (non-sexual please) > > Mine is that whenever I see a cop with a pistol in his belt holster I want to grab it and take off running. I have no idea why, but it’s pretty strong and happens all the time. If that’s weird - then I’ll join you in your weirdity. ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2012, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-urges-you-get-non-sexual/627750/23 "2012-07-10T12:28:05Z")
I don’t talk at my TV when watching a movie, but if it’s set in the past - the middle ages, the American old west, a peasant village in the countryside - and there’s a wedding scene - I want to tell the happy bride “you shouldn’t have gotten married, you’ll get pregnant and die in childbirth!” ☹ ---
**Author:** ![gallows\_fodder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8c91f0/32.png) [@gallows\_fodder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gallows_fodder)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2012, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-urges-you-get-non-sexual/627750/24 "2012-07-10T12:51:20Z")
When I see someone with well-developed deltoid muscles, I have the urge to bite them. Just sink my teeth right into their shoulder, like it’s prime rib. ---
**Author:** ![Living\_Well\_Is\_Best\_Revenge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/6bbea6/32.png) [@Living\_Well\_Is\_Best\_Revenge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Living_Well_Is_Best_Revenge)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2012, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-urges-you-get-non-sexual/627750/25 "2012-07-10T13:42:05Z")
Sometimes when someone is walking in front of my car, I have the urge to “slip” off the brake and run over the person. I would never do this of course, but I think about it constantly. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2012, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-urges-you-get-non-sexual/627750/26 "2012-07-10T13:46:04Z")
I sometimes get the urge to add a splash of Sriracha sauce to a glass of grapefruit juice. So far I have recovered and resisted. ---
**Author:** ![Elemenopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b5e925/32.png) [@Elemenopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elemenopy)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2012, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-urges-you-get-non-sexual/627750/27 "2012-07-10T14:48:57Z")
Most of the above. ☹ Thank goodness I have pretty good impulse control. Except for the craft thing. If I qualify as a hoarder of any sort, it’s that I’ve convinced myself over the years that the Muse is demanding a slightly different medium. Some women need new shoes every season that they wear once, if ever. Me, I have dusty packets of colorful or shiny things with pricetags from Dick Blick or Hobby Lobby. I don’t actually _make_ anything at the moment, mind you. There’s laundry to do, you see, and the water bill is due, and… Oooh but it would be awesome to grow mushrooms this year, look at this coupon I just got! Also–not sexual (I swear!)–I find myself staring at other people’s pants flies. To see if they are undone…? This only started happening a few years after being married and having small children. If I catch myself doing it, I continue on my glance to inspect my fingernails, but I’m sure I still look like a creep. ETA: I have the unrestrained urge to scream weird things and make nasty faces whenever I see or hear Kathy Griffith. If this is sexual, it is in entirely the wrong way. It is a very irrational hatred and I should probably bring it up should I ever have the luxury of analysis. ---
**Author:** ![Rigamarole](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/77aa72/32.png) [@Rigamarole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rigamarole)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2012, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-urges-you-get-non-sexual/627750/28 "2012-07-10T14:54:03Z")
> [@treis](#): > > Mine is that whenever I see a cop with a pistol in his belt holster I want to grab it and take off running. I have no idea why, but it’s pretty strong and happens all the time. Maybe it will help quell your urge to know that you can’t actually do that, as it doesn’t work like it does in the movies. This was discussed in another recent thread - cops have something called [retention holsters](http://www.zahal.org/groups/duty-retention-holsters) that require certain actions in order to release the firearm before it can be removed from the holster. ---
**Author:** ![Double\_Foolscap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/85e7bf/32.png) [@Double\_Foolscap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Double_Foolscap)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2012, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-urges-you-get-non-sexual/627750/29 "2012-07-10T14:57:27Z")
I often want to squish things. Not in a steamroller way, more in a stressball way. Mainly animals. Edit: Also, whenever I’m writing up documents at work I get the urge to make them “funny”. Luckily I have yet to do so, as I don’t think my sense of humour would be appreciated (if it was noticed). ---
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2012, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-urges-you-get-non-sexual/627750/30 "2012-07-10T15:06:16Z")
> [@](#): > > I often want to squish things. Not in a steamroller way, more in a stressball way. Mainly animals. What you need is a good game of Katamari Damacy. It’s a game for the PS2, and the object of the game is to roll a ball around, over various objects, animals, and people, and have them stick to that ball. Complete with sound effects. I never really got into it, myself, but it was very, very popular. My daughter loved it. ---
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2012, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-urges-you-get-non-sexual/627750/31 "2012-07-10T15:13:32Z")
> [@Double\_Foolscap](#): > > I often want to squish things. Not in a steamroller way, more in a stressball way. Mainly animals. > > Edit: Also, whenever I’m writing up documents at work I get the urge to make them “funny”. Luckily I have yet to do so, as I don’t think my sense of humour would be appreciated (if it was noticed). What you need is a good game of Katamari Damacy. It’s a game for the PS2, and the object of the game is to roll a ball around, over various objects, animals, and people, and have them stick to that ball. Complete with sound effects. I never really got into it, myself, but it was very, very popular. My daughter loved it. As for your second item, go and read [Iggy Pop’s](http://www.thesmokinggun.com/backstage/arena-rock/iggy-pop) rider. Yes, all 18 pages of it. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/74df32/32.png) [@The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Devil_s_Grandmother)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2012, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-urges-you-get-non-sexual/627750/32 "2012-07-10T17:18:10Z")
> [@Scumpup](#): > > Sometimes when I am coming home from work each day and crossing a bridge over the Ohio River, I have an urge to stop the car in the middle of the bridge, shut off the engine, put the keys in my pocket, lock the car, and jump Billie Joe-style from the bridge. For some reason, it is important that my locked car be fouling up rush hour traffic. There’s a freeway overpass I use on my way to work, and sometimes I just want to gun the engine and fly off into the sky like the nazis from _[The Blues Brothers](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkkXHjQSyEI)_. I often want to scream at people doing jerkish things: parking badly, littering, or merging at 25% under the speed of traffic. ---
**Author:** ![AmericanMaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e480ec/32.png) [@AmericanMaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AmericanMaid)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2012, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-urges-you-get-non-sexual/627750/33 "2012-07-10T17:33:14Z")
Whenever I see a “wet paint” sign, it’s like there’s a tractor beam that takes all my willpower to not touch the surface. Also yogurt. Sometimes I can eat an entire pint of it because my body is screaming, “NEED MOAR!” ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2012, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-urges-you-get-non-sexual/627750/34 "2012-07-10T17:41:20Z")
Sometimes in crowded elevators, I get the impulse to start jumping up and down, scratching my armpits and screeching like a chimp. Luckily I have been able to control this, but it makes me smirk visibly while thinking about it. ---
**Author:** ![Motorgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e36b37/32.png) [@Motorgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Motorgirl)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2012, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-urges-you-get-non-sexual/627750/35 "2012-07-10T18:39:33Z")
When scraping out the mixing bowl, I have a strong urge to bite a chunk out of the rubber spatula. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Surb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ce73a5/32.png) [@The\_Surb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Surb)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2012, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-urges-you-get-non-sexual/627750/36 "2012-07-10T19:04:31Z")
> [@Gagundathar](#): > > But even now, when I stop the car along the Foothills Parkway I still feel the pull. > I get out and just stare out into the air to see the mountains and hear the wind blowing. If this is the same Foothills Parkway, I have the almost irresistible urge to turn the handlebars to the mountains and not return. Leave the keys on the desk, a note on the door, and a picture of my ass to be kissed. It’s a good thing I head away from the Diagonal or I would be gone already. ---
**Author:** ![cher3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/da6949/32.png) [@cher3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cher3)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2012, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-urges-you-get-non-sexual/627750/37 "2012-07-10T19:25:41Z")
I have a recurring fantasy of being able to snap my fingers and cause the windshield of cars with car-alarms or even the ones that just honk when you lock them to smash. It’s a good thing that I don’t really have this power. ---
**Author:** ![corkboard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@corkboard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/corkboard)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2012, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-urges-you-get-non-sexual/627750/38 "2012-07-10T20:15:10Z")
When someone is driving like a maniac, passing with inches between bumpers and speeding and just generally causing near-accidents, who I then see pulled over, I have thus far been able to resist the urge to stop my car behind the cop, walk up to the maniac’s window and give them a Nelson Muntz-style “HA ha!!”, then walk calmly away. ---
**Author:** ![Jragon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@Jragon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jragon)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2012, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-urges-you-get-non-sexual/627750/39 "2012-07-10T20:16:33Z")
> [@Gagundathar](#): > > Quite a few times in my life when I have approached the top of a long drop, I have had the urge to throw myself out into space. I probably have had this impulse for a long time. > > I imagine it might have surfaced along with my desire to be Batman when I was but a lad. Yes, you and I know that Batman can’t actually fly, but he always seemed to be able to fall a long way without being harmed. I figured it must be the cape. So, I donned my hat with flaps and pinned a towel around my neck. I climbed up the wooden fence and onto the roof over the carport. From there along the ridges to the very highest peak of the house. Stood there and leaped out to fall about 25 feet. Didn’t die because my leap outward was interrupted by impact with the tall pine that grew right next to the house. I don’t remember now whether that was a conscious decision or not. Slid down with minor damage to my jacket. Did not try this again. I think even then I knew I had gotten lucky. > > But even now, when I stop the car along the Foothills Parkway I still feel the pull. > I get out and just stare out into the air to see the mountains and hear the wind blowing. > I don’t really want to fall; Instead I wish I could just fly. Same, if it wasn’t so damned expensive I’d think skydiving would be up our alley. ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2012, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-urges-you-get-non-sexual/627750/40 "2012-07-10T20:26:09Z")
I want to touch everything at museums that have “do not touch” signs. Seriously. I have to keep my hands in my pockets! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-urges-you-get-non-sexual/627750.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-urges-you-get-non-sexual/627750.md?page=3)