# What do you like to do that is so embarassing that you hide it? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 3, 2005, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-like-to-do-that-is-so-embarassing-that-you-hide-it/292677 "2005-03-03T00:24:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Crescent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e99b99/32.png) [@Crescent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crescent)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2005, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-like-to-do-that-is-so-embarassing-that-you-hide-it/292677/41 "2005-03-04T03:41:42Z")
I was 11 when I quit sucking my thumb… we had moved again and the thought of new people knowing finally made me stop. It’s nice to know I wasn’t alone. The embarrassing thing I do now is: I discovered my one cat has a thing for earwax one time when I got some on my finger and she went nuts when she smelled. So, it’s weird but I let her lick my finger. Not often… but it’s funny. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2005, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-like-to-do-that-is-so-embarassing-that-you-hide-it/292677/42 "2005-03-04T04:13:57Z")
> [@yosemite](#): > > I go through phases where I sing along to Chumba Wumba’s “I Get Knocked Down.” That song’s called “Tubthumping”. I talk to myself. A lot. In fact it’s increasing, as I live alone anyway. I ask myself questions in my head, but answer them out loud. It can be embarrassing when I do it as I walk down the street, another thing that’s increasing. I figure one day I’m going to be one of those crazy people who sit on the bus yelling to invisible people. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2005, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-like-to-do-that-is-so-embarassing-that-you-hide-it/292677/43 "2005-03-04T05:15:37Z")
I have about twenty Barbara Cartland novels in a box, shoved to the back of my closet. You’d think it was a porn stash or something, from the way I keep in concealed. ---
**Author:** ![Agent\_Foxtrot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc29f/32.png) [@Agent\_Foxtrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agent_Foxtrot)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2005, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-like-to-do-that-is-so-embarassing-that-you-hide-it/292677/44 "2005-03-04T05:21:39Z")
Sometimes when I’m in bed, I’ll pretend I’m in some kind of comfy space-travel pod. I rarely ever do this anymore, though. \ Adam ---
**Author:** ![roger\_thornhill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d9b06d/32.png) [@roger\_thornhill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/roger_thornhill)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2005, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-like-to-do-that-is-so-embarassing-that-you-hide-it/292677/45 "2005-03-04T05:25:27Z")
I put hamsters in my mouth. The record is probably four or five, but they might not have been fully grown. Incidentally, I don’t find this embarrassing at all, but my wife (and increasingly my daughter, sad to say) does. The hamsters love it. ---
**Author:** ![roger\_thornhill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d9b06d/32.png) [@roger\_thornhill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/roger_thornhill)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2005, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-like-to-do-that-is-so-embarassing-that-you-hide-it/292677/46 "2005-03-04T05:28:08Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > I have about twenty Barbara Cartland novels in a box, shoved to the back of my closet. You’d think it was a porn stash or something, from the way I keep in concealed. **Baker** , you distaff or spear? ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2005, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-like-to-do-that-is-so-embarassing-that-you-hide-it/292677/47 "2005-03-04T05:59:09Z")
> [@roger thornhill](#): > > I put hamsters in my mouth. The record is probably four or five, but they might not have been fully grown. _desperately stifles richard gere joke, turns red, runs out of the room with eyes watering_ ---
**Author:** ![roger\_thornhill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d9b06d/32.png) [@roger\_thornhill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/roger_thornhill)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2005, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-like-to-do-that-is-so-embarassing-that-you-hide-it/292677/48 "2005-03-04T06:02:40Z")
Does Richard Gere keep hamsters? He’s a Buddhist, isn’t he? ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2005, 6:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-like-to-do-that-is-so-embarassing-that-you-hide-it/292677/49 "2005-03-04T06:16:36Z")
> [@roger thornhill](#): > > Does Richard Gere keep hamsters? He’s a Buddhist, isn’t he? That’d be the Budd, Bob. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2005, 6:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-like-to-do-that-is-so-embarassing-that-you-hide-it/292677/50 "2005-03-04T06:45:54Z")
When playing music, I lip-sync and dance along, pretending to be the singer. It can be a little embarrassing when I’m doing the dance that goes with Jan Ken Pyon, for instance. Or pretty much any other time I’m pretending to be a chirpy Japanese pop singer. \>\_\> ---
**Author:** ![roger\_thornhill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d9b06d/32.png) [@roger\_thornhill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/roger_thornhill)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2005, 6:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-like-to-do-that-is-so-embarassing-that-you-hide-it/292677/51 "2005-03-04T06:49:05Z")
> [@Sublight](#): > > That’d be the Budd, Bob. You talkin’ to me? ---
**Author:** ![Freejooky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ba8739/32.png) [@Freejooky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freejooky)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2005, 7:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-like-to-do-that-is-so-embarassing-that-you-hide-it/292677/52 "2005-03-04T07:15:14Z")
I dig in my asshole, and then smell my finger. If the cat’s around, I let her smell it and then crack up laughing. I often let out streams of frantic, nonsencial syllables and sounds. When I was young, it was so bad that my mother took me to several therapists out of worry that I had tourette’s or was having some sort of seizure. ---
**Author:** ![roger\_thornhill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d9b06d/32.png) [@roger\_thornhill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/roger_thornhill)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2005, 7:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-like-to-do-that-is-so-embarassing-that-you-hide-it/292677/53 "2005-03-04T07:23:43Z")
> [@Freejooky](#): > > I dig in my asshole, and then smell my finger. If the cat’s around, I let her smell it and then crack up laughing. Doesn’t she lick it? ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2005, 10:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-like-to-do-that-is-so-embarassing-that-you-hide-it/292677/54 "2005-03-04T10:22:01Z")
> [@roger thornhill](#): > > **Baker** , you distaff or spear? Distaff ---
**Author:** ![Kitchen\_Wench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f08c70/32.png) [@Kitchen\_Wench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kitchen_Wench)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2005, 11:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-like-to-do-that-is-so-embarassing-that-you-hide-it/292677/55 "2005-03-04T11:23:55Z")
When the cats follow me into the bathroom, I let them sniff my undies. Sometimes I grab them by the face and kiss their lips (my husband would kill me if he found out). I got all you thumb suckers beat. I sucked my thumb until age 21. ---
**Author:** ![LuckiestGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7c8e57/32.png) [@LuckiestGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LuckiestGuy)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2005, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-like-to-do-that-is-so-embarassing-that-you-hide-it/292677/56 "2005-03-04T14:18:50Z")
Another comic book geek here! My family knows I still have them and keep them in the protective bags (but this only because they help me move…and there are 4 boxes of them;)) Just like the D & D guy, my boss can be a bit of a idiot…so I pray he never finds out. I’ll even have a rainy day of pulling them all out and read dozens and dozens of them. My Blog _[Don’t laugh so hard, it may be funny but it’s also my life](http://luckiestguy.blogspot.com/)_ Lucky ---
**Author:** ![roger\_thornhill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d9b06d/32.png) [@roger\_thornhill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/roger_thornhill)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2005, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-like-to-do-that-is-so-embarassing-that-you-hide-it/292677/57 "2005-03-04T17:21:35Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > Distaff You must have a lot of dough. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-like-to-do-that-is-so-embarassing-that-you-hide-it/292677.md?page=2)