# What makes you feel uncomfortable?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-makes-you-feel-uncomfortable/387251>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [January 9, 2007, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-makes-you-feel-uncomfortable/387251 "2007-01-09T03:19:43Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Alistair\_McCello](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/58956e/32.png) [@Alistair\_McCello](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alistair_McCello)\
**Post date:** [January 10, 2007, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-makes-you-feel-uncomfortable/387251/41 "2007-01-10T20:39:01Z")

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Whenever someone is standing behind me doing something that has nothing to do with me. Such as talking to someone else or waiting for something to print on the shared printer. It makes me incredibly self conscience and while I know that they are not actually paying me any attention it doesn’t stop my brain from telling me that they are subtlety scrutinizing my every move.

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**Author:** ![Poysyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Poysyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Poysyn)\
**Post date:** [January 10, 2007, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-makes-you-feel-uncomfortable/387251/42 "2007-01-10T20:53:25Z")

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Also, someone being bullied (or picked on - as noted by a lot of you).

One scene stands out for me in the movie The Sixth Sense when the other boys grab him and lock him in a closet and he is crying and terrified.

I was sobbing

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**Author:** ![Jake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f475e1/32.png) [@Jake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jake)\
**Post date:** [January 10, 2007, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-makes-you-feel-uncomfortable/387251/43 "2007-01-10T21:34:35Z")

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Practical Jokes. They are ususally cruel and demeaning. For example, on **Mythbusters** the crew indirectly shocked Adam with a cattle prod. He was highly pissed and so was I at the (Production and the rest of the) crew for letting them do this. Just totally sucks! At the end of the show he forgave them but I’m sure they won’t do that again!

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**Author:** ![Eleanor\_of\_Aquitaine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a88e4f/32.png) [@Eleanor\_of\_Aquitaine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eleanor_of_Aquitaine)\
**Post date:** [January 10, 2007, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-makes-you-feel-uncomfortable/387251/44 "2007-01-10T21:47:27Z")

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I get uncomfortable when people are waiting on me, in almost any situation. I don’t like stopping traffic because I have to turn left. I feel rushed during any transaction at a cashier when there are a line of people behind me. I hate when someone is waiting for me to pull out of a parking space. I hate being late anywhere.

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**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\
**Post date:** [January 10, 2007, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-makes-you-feel-uncomfortable/387251/45 "2007-01-10T21:48:40Z")

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Kids talking to or being talked to about Santa Claus. It’s dishonest on the adult’s part, and deluded on the kid’s part, but I can’t really do anything. I don’t really want to play the ogre “Your Mom’s a liar, kid”, nor do I want to get slugged by the parent in question. It’s _especially_ uncomfortable if the kid talks to me about it.

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