Like thumbsucking into your twenties. Or picking your nose into your fifties. What potencially embarassing little habits do you have that you’re too ashamed to admit to, at your age?
For me, it’s… ah… I’ll tell you later :). As soon as someone gets the ball rolling.
This probably isn’t terribly embarrassing, but my father teased me so much about it that I do try to hide it: I constantly “twirl” my hair - I’m sure you’ve seen people do it, they just twist and twist and twist a lock of their own hair idly… I could do it for hours and hours. Sometimes I do if nobody’s home and I’m just sitting at the computer. Much of a sex fiend though I may be, if I’m typing with one hand, it’s likely because my other hand is twisting up a hank of hair.
Head hair, people, come on, now.
But if someone walks in on me, I stop suddenly, as though I’ve been caught doing something I shouldn’t have. My father used to say it made me look ditzy, so I’d stop whenever he walked into a room. Now I always stop and I feel silly.
:o She’s onto me…
Seriously, this line made me burst out laughing.
I was reading the line above that one, and wondering, hmm… should I point that out?
Ummm, I suffer a bit from generalized anxiety disorder. When I was a kid, I would clutch my chest when something made me extremely fearful.
I still do that sometimes.
Hopefully nobody at work notices when I grab one of my breasts and squeeze real hard. 
Well, I know if my boss found out I play D&D, I’d be taking shit for it for years to come. He’s the kind who’s not only give me shit, he’d announce iy at every company meeting and to every new client.
So I hide it, but that’s less because it’s embarrassing than because he’s a dick.
Well, I know if my boss found out I play D&D, I’d be taking shit for it for years to come. He’s the kind who’d not only give me shit, he’d announce it at every company meeting and to every new client.
So I hide it, but that’s less because it’s embarrassing than because he’s a dick.
If I was at one of those company meeting, I would ask you when and where do you play. 
I hide nearly all of my hobbies from my coworkers, for exactly the reason Sublight does. What is it with these people, anyway? Do they really go home and do nothing but eat and watch TV untill bedtime?
I hide my cookie eating from my husband. If he knew, I wouldn’t be able to whine about my big ol’ butt.
Fresh out of the shower, I practice karate in my underwear.
I’m surprised no one’s mentioned masturbation yet. Ahem. Perhaps we are all wise enough to understand that activity is healthy, normal, and fun. It’s still embarrassing to be caught at it, but I wouldn’t ‘hide’ it, but rather, practise discretion.
Aside from that, I enjoy giving private concerts when no one is home. I used to even use a microphone and amplifier and cue up a bunch of records (later, records and CDs). And then I’d sing and sing and sing.
In my fantasy life, I’m Linda Ronstadt’s younger, wilder sister.
A belated apology to all my neighbours, and yes, this was while living in a single family house–no shared walls.
I still like to do this, but with less volume, alas, as our neighbours probably don’t deserve the yowling. Nowadays, I just use my favourite hairbrush for a mike.
If my husband comes home and I don’t hear him come in, it’s very embarrassing.
Also–smoking. <insert shame face>
I have bitten my toenails for more than fifty years. I don’t bite 'em to the quick, just little nibbles.
At least this has kept me limber, for an old lady.
I… I post too often on an internet message board.
I sucked my thumb waaay longer than most, into my early teens, but I gave that stuff up a long time ago. It’s a comfort thing, and more addicting than crack, as well.
I pick my lip, the front of the top one. I swear to you that more skin ‘grows’ there and if I don’t pick it, I end with kind of a ‘beak.’ Stop looking at me like that!
I like to play emotional heartfelt songs on my guitar , and play and sing them into my karaoke machine. I then listen back to the taqes I make and think I sound pretty good. but it’s too embarassing!
…toe biting?
I totally pick my nose, when it needs picking. I get enormous pleasure out of cleaning it out out in the shower, too, with a combination of picking and gym-teacher nose-blowing.
Oh yeah, I dance, lip-synch and air guitar (and air drum and air keyboard) like crazy whenever I’m listening to music by myself. In general, it shouldn’t be embarassing, but believe me, it is when I do it.
Well, you’re not alone. I do this, too. I tried to stop it once, and my mom asked me what I was doing. When I told her, she laughed - apparently I’d been doing it in my cradle. I figured there was no way I was losing that habit. Don’t worry about it.
Masturbate
I gyrate to Madonna songs from the 80’s in my livingroom. Actually, I have entire one-woman danceathons in my livingroom. I can dance pretty cooly-wooly when I’m clubbing, but when I’m alone I am a real dorkatron. I would be mortified if I knew people could see me then.
I play Bjork and Tori Amos songs on my computer and sing along and record them, then play them back.
From what I can hear out of it, I’m a decent singer, and I’ve actually developed my vocal range from singing along to this kind of music.
I’d never, ever let anyone hear it, though. I like singing alone but it embarrasses me in front of anyone else.
Pikers all of you.
I barely know where to start:
When I’m alone (and out of earshot of anyone) I violently scream out strings of random curses and assorted disturbing phrases when the impulse strikes me. I can sound like a tourette’s sufferer on a bad trip. Someday somebody’s going to overhear me and have me put away.
I squeeze blemishes, pick my nose and scratch inside my ear with a paperclip.
I have a large comic book collection and regularly fantasize I have superpowers (I’m 34, bear in mind).
I like to watch World’s Wildest Police Videos.