Wildcat
Retired Moderator
I saw a thread like this on SafeSearching and I thought it might be fun to bring here. The idea is to get to know each other better by writing a few unusual things about yourself that we don't know.
I guess the biggest thing about me is that I’m a total perfectionist (and probably have a touch of OCD to go along with it.) I spend hours trying to get things just right. It can be school work, cleaning, painting/art, or whatever. And even when I think I have things like I want them, I usually end up going back and tweaking them a little more (hence the reason that I’m always editing my posts. )
I’m also bit of a germophobic. I’m constantly washing my hands and I can’t stand touching anything dirty (like taking out the trash.) I have this really weird issue with ice. I won’t use the ice in the ice maker because people’s hands have been on it and I have no way of knowing if they bothered to wash them first. So I have my own personal ice tray (I know, I’m a freak. ) And now I get all my drinks with no ice when I eat out because they recently had a story on the news about a local student who did a science experiment where she was comparing the amount of bacteria on a fast food restaurant’s ice to the amount of bacteria on the restaurants’ toilets. Would you believe that she found that the ice in most of the restaurants she sampled has more bacteria on it? I try not to eat fast food too much anyway because I don’t even want to think about what goes on in those places (plus it’s really fattening!)
I’m a huge arachnophobic. I don’t just not like spiders, I actually have a mild panic attack when I see one in my house—especially one of those really ugly ones! A spider crawled under my bed before I could kill it (because I was totally freaking out and everyone else was asleep) not too long ago and I stayed awake all night because I was afraid that it was going to crawl on me while I was sleeping. The next day I fumigated my whole bedroom with a half a can of bug spray.
I like snakes (not that unusual, but a little strange for a girl I guess.) I’d like to get a python, but I can’t because I couldn’t bring myself to feed it live mice. My family has lots of other animals though—a macaw (parrot) that talks, a rottweiler that’s very sweet, a cat, and a horse. The horse is getting pretty old (she actually belongs to my older sister who got her when she was a little girl) so I can’t ride her much anymore.
So that’s all the unique stuff about me that I can think of right now. I’m sure you guys have some strange qualities to share too so let’s hear them!
I guess the biggest thing about me is that I’m a total perfectionist (and probably have a touch of OCD to go along with it.) I spend hours trying to get things just right. It can be school work, cleaning, painting/art, or whatever. And even when I think I have things like I want them, I usually end up going back and tweaking them a little more (hence the reason that I’m always editing my posts. )
I’m also bit of a germophobic. I’m constantly washing my hands and I can’t stand touching anything dirty (like taking out the trash.) I have this really weird issue with ice. I won’t use the ice in the ice maker because people’s hands have been on it and I have no way of knowing if they bothered to wash them first. So I have my own personal ice tray (I know, I’m a freak. ) And now I get all my drinks with no ice when I eat out because they recently had a story on the news about a local student who did a science experiment where she was comparing the amount of bacteria on a fast food restaurant’s ice to the amount of bacteria on the restaurants’ toilets. Would you believe that she found that the ice in most of the restaurants she sampled has more bacteria on it? I try not to eat fast food too much anyway because I don’t even want to think about what goes on in those places (plus it’s really fattening!)
I’m a huge arachnophobic. I don’t just not like spiders, I actually have a mild panic attack when I see one in my house—especially one of those really ugly ones! A spider crawled under my bed before I could kill it (because I was totally freaking out and everyone else was asleep) not too long ago and I stayed awake all night because I was afraid that it was going to crawl on me while I was sleeping. The next day I fumigated my whole bedroom with a half a can of bug spray.
I like snakes (not that unusual, but a little strange for a girl I guess.) I’d like to get a python, but I can’t because I couldn’t bring myself to feed it live mice. My family has lots of other animals though—a macaw (parrot) that talks, a rottweiler that’s very sweet, a cat, and a horse. The horse is getting pretty old (she actually belongs to my older sister who got her when she was a little girl) so I can’t ride her much anymore.
So that’s all the unique stuff about me that I can think of right now. I’m sure you guys have some strange qualities to share too so let’s hear them!