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Traveling teaches you that no matter where you go and who you meet, you will be able to relate to those people at least on some level. Certain thoughts, emotions, and habits are simply universal.

So Reddit user Broken__Defraculator posted a question on the platform, inviting everyone to list the things we all do or experience but, for one reason or another, don't talk about in public.

#1

“What’s A Weird Little Thing That We All Do Or Experience, But No One Talks About?” (40 Answers) When hot in bed, we don’t just throw the covers off. We stick out a single leg….except we don’t just “dangle” it outside the covers, we wrap it around the duvet and kinda clamp it back down.

No one has ever shown us how to do this. No one ever taught us to do this. No one has ever discussed this. We just all do it.

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“What’s A Weird Little Thing That We All Do Or Experience, But No One Talks About?” (40 Answers) One weird little thing we all do but rarely talk about is replaying imaginary arguments or conversations in our heads, often coming up with the perfect comeback we wish we'd said at the time.

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Rafael
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3 weeks ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Esprit d'scalier (or something like this), like a reverse deja vu, where you think of a perfect answer when you're on the stairs on your way out.

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#3

The farts that roll up your v*gina are pretty weird.

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3 weeks ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Unless it gets stuck there and you have to do the hip movements to release it

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#4

“What’s A Weird Little Thing That We All Do Or Experience, But No One Talks About?” (40 Answers) Pretending not to see someone you know in public to avoid that awkward “hi” moment. We all do it, don’t lie.

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#5

“What’s A Weird Little Thing That We All Do Or Experience, But No One Talks About?” (40 Answers) Withessing some (random) person doing something really embarassing to themself and actively choosing/doing our best to ignore it and moving on. This is empathy.

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At work once this lady bent over to grab her purse and whatnot. I happened to be facing away from her and she tooted, just a little one. She said “oh! Excuse me!” I turned around with a confused look and said “for what?” She looked SO RELIEVED and said “oh, never mind”
She’ll never know that I know.

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“What’s A Weird Little Thing That We All Do Or Experience, But No One Talks About?” (40 Answers) When a random embarrassing/cringe memory floods the mind and the best you can do is try to blurt out some incoherent words, sounds, melody to distract yourself.

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“What’s A Weird Little Thing That We All Do Or Experience, But No One Talks About?” (40 Answers) Make up excuses to get out of invitations to social gatherings and other events you don't want to attend.

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3 weeks ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My parents and daughter regularly use me as an excuse, I'm chronically sick so no one ever questions it.

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#8

When you snap out of a daydream while you’re driving and quickly check all your mirrors as if you might catch a glimpse of a huge accident you caused. Then wonder how the hell did I drive this far and can’t remember.

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3 weeks ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My mum literally had a TGA event when she was driving to a meeting. She drove there, apparently gave a speech, listened to the comments and it was only afterwards in the kitchen that she realised she had no idea how she got there, or who anyone was. Scary stuff. It was a route she had driven so often that it must have just been autopilot that got her there.

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#9

“What’s A Weird Little Thing That We All Do Or Experience, But No One Talks About?” (40 Answers) When you're pooping in a public bathroom and strategically plan your exit for when it's empty so no one associates you with the smell of poop or farts you might have unleashed.

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cerinamroth
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3 weeks ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I really couldn't care less. Toilets are there to be used, and everyone defecates.

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#10

Anyone else having entire conversations with themselves? Like, full on talking at the 2nd person, like you're talking with someone else and trying to explain something? Sometimes even out loud (but in whispers so you don't look like your insane. Then you realize you're whispering to yourself and you look even more insane). Or am I just really lonely?

Even weirder, for me it happens in another language. I'm not English native, but I start talking with myself and arguing in english.

Also, do you guys/girls move when you're talking? On the phone, for example. I can't stand still. I'm literally walking circles around my own room. Sooner or later I'm gonna start digging out trenches like some Looney tunes cartoon. This also happens when talking by myself. It's like moving my body allows me to think and explain better.

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cerinamroth
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3 weeks ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I do this too, in most of my languages (to date, English, French, German, Japanese, Hebrew). I also talk in my sleep and my husband says it's like the United Nations in our bedroom sometimes.

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#11

“What’s A Weird Little Thing That We All Do Or Experience, But No One Talks About?” (40 Answers) Picking our noses. I mean, c'mon. Sometimes a tiny, golden morsel is stuck in just that one irritating spot where you can feel it for minutes - or hours - and there's no Kleenex in the vicinity. So up goes the finger and out comes the booger. Flick it, eat it, wipe it on your jeans. Whatever. Gotta get rid of it.

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#12

“What’s A Weird Little Thing That We All Do Or Experience, But No One Talks About?” (40 Answers) Disgustingly brutal intrusive thoughts. The ones that would shatter your world if it happened.

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Rafael
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3 weeks ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is a sort of mental training, and being disgusted means you passed. If they keep intruding too much for it to become a bother, we can seek help and it gets better.

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#13

“What’s A Weird Little Thing That We All Do Or Experience, But No One Talks About?” (40 Answers) Look at other people's food as waiters bring it to their table at a restaurant.

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#14

I feel like deja vu isn't discussed often enough. Not the "this feels like something I've been through" but legitimate "I had this exact dream and now it's happening". We all have that s**t and no one talks about it.

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3 weeks ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

There is a scientific explanation for it. Your long term memory is registering the event from your senses, rather than going via the short-term memory; the process that compares current senses with memory (to facilitate recognition) is fooled into thinking that it's happened before, because it's in your long-term memory. You are not seeing the same thing again, but seeing it for the first time twice in effect.

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#15

Before going to sleep, check how much sleep time you have.

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#16

“What’s A Weird Little Thing That We All Do Or Experience, But No One Talks About?” (40 Answers) Picking our underwear out of our a*s crack.

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#17

The gross feeling of sitting on a toilet seat after someone else warned it up.

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#18

How much middle of the night calf cramps f*****g hurt.

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Cee Cee
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3 weeks ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Hate this and sadly it happens all too often despite the supplements I take.

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#19

“What’s A Weird Little Thing That We All Do Or Experience, But No One Talks About?” (40 Answers) The things we smell sometimes. Our own farts. Our hands after scratching an itch in your pants....we all do it when we are alone. It's actually biologically ingrained in us to "like" that smell. Our brains give us a little dopamine for checking....if the smell is off we know something is wrong.

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SirWriteALot
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3 weeks ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I knew a guy who'd rub behind his hear and then smell it. Like constantly. During meetings. He's talking, rubbing, sniffing. Trying to do it low key but it was just so disturbing to watch.

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#20

The little shake we do when we get under a cold cozy blanket.

Such a privilege.

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ColdSteelRonin
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3 weeks ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I have heated mattress pads that i put on preheat while getting ready for bed. So in winter, instead of the shake it's a contented sigh.

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#21

Wiping your a**e then looking at the paper.

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#22

Putting the last chunk of deodorant back on after it falls on the floor.

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#23

“What’s A Weird Little Thing That We All Do Or Experience, But No One Talks About?” (40 Answers) When we accidentally spit on someone when talking and all act like nothing happened.

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And you can still feel it on your arm and you wait til they look away so you can wipe it even though you both know they just f**king spit on you while locking eyes.

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#24

The secret thrill of being the first person to use a new jar of peanut butter, and sliding in the butter knife with grace and care to carve out a perfectly-formed morsel of legumic joy.

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#25

“What’s A Weird Little Thing That We All Do Or Experience, But No One Talks About?” (40 Answers) Hearing a weird brief tone in one ear.

galloping_spider:
The aliens tuning in.

UncoolSlicedBread:
When I was little, I would pretend that it was my spidey sense picking up on bad guys somewhere.
As an adult, I prefer that it’s my spidey sense picking up on bad guys somewhere.

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CJ Vee
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3 weeks ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Tinnitus. When I was a kid someone told me a superstition: that meant someone was talking about you.

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#26

“What’s A Weird Little Thing That We All Do Or Experience, But No One Talks About?” (40 Answers) Pulling your phone out and fake checking it to act as a cover story for turning around because you forgot something or started walking the wrong way.

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#27

Don't pee in the dream bathroom.

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Cee Cee
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3 weeks ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Ha. I must have been about 5 and living in Uganda. The soil is often red. Dreaming I knew I wanted to wee but was engrossed in climbing this big red mountain. Decided to wait until I reached the top. Summit reached and there it was. A beautiful gleaming white porcelain loo. You can guess the rest! Never forgot that dream and I'm now 72.

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#28

Trying to catch your reflection in a window as you walk past to see if your hair is ok.

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3 weeks ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The hair is fine but I'm always horrified by the old fat lady looking back at me!

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#29

“What’s A Weird Little Thing That We All Do Or Experience, But No One Talks About?” (40 Answers) Having an itch right on my palm and using my teeth to scratch it.

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#30

Weeing in the shower.

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Jan Rosier
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3 weeks ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Weeing WHILE showering would be more accurate. It rinces away with no worries and you donot need to flush. To all women finding this gross : what do you do with menstruation blood when showering?

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#31

Finally loosening that bit of food stuck in our teeth and either getting sweet revenge by biting down on it and swallowing it or getting it loose and awkwardly rooting around in our mouth until the frustrating realization hits that we already swallowed it and there will be no vengeance.

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#32

That weird smell you get from your childhood but can never find or replicate if you wanted to. Mine reminds me of white school floors with little black dots all over.

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Roxy222uk
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3 weeks ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Once I was sniffing some samples of fragrance oils (for making cosmetics) when I was stunned that one smelt like my grandparents' flat. I had no idea that I associated a smell with them. We weren't particularly close and I would have been there once or possibly twice a year, and they'd moved nearer to my mum years ago. I never saw them in that flat, my grandad died, my grandmother moved into a retirement home, which I visited once, and then she died. So it was such a surprise how strong this association was. The smell was Osmanthus. This is a flower but the smell of the actual flower growing on a bush doesn't smell like their flat, only the FO.

LillieMean
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3 weeks ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Recently, I sniffed the wood of a pen in a creative writing class and memories of my childhood art school flooded my mind. I usually don't sniff pens in public, but among writers you can be your wonderfully quirky self. I absolutely love the smell of freshly sharpened pencils.

Tabitha
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3 weeks ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Old sense memories can re-emerge at the weirdest times, can’t they?

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3 weeks ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Or smelling something that brings you decades back but you can't associate it to something or someone concrete and spend the next 20 minutes trying to remember

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2 weeks ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This weird gross smell that I've only smelled at the doctor's office since.

David
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3 weeks ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I have no memories of childhood smell. But I also don't remember large parts of my childhood. But according to my grandkids I have 'grandpa smell'. For the life of me I don't know what they smell. For me that brings to mind the smell of B vitamins and faint odor of pee or something except that isn't it. But whatever it is they find it comforting. When younger, my oldest granddaughter would sometimes sleep in one of my tshirts (basically a dress/night gown for her). I'd give her clean ones but she loved it if she found one I'd been wearing. Forgot all about it until my oldest (now adult) grandson was visiting earlier this year and commented on smelling it. He said it is a comforting thing for him as well. I find it simultaneously heart warming and kind of paranoia inducing. My Brain: "What the heck do I smell like to them?" "Never mind, they like it, just go with that." A long time close friend also says this but she doesn't call it grandpa smell.

FloralDangerNoodle
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2 weeks ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Could be the scent of your soap, deodorant, natural scent, laundry products - a combination of all those, perhaps. Whatever it is, they like it, and that's awesome, and sweetly wholesome.

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Zaach
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3 weeks ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I remember liking the smell of my skin after recess during 4th grade

Sherribobbins
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3 weeks ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I once bought tater tots from a gas station and was freaked out how they smelled and tasted like Elementary school. My now ex husband ate one and said " they're fried in lard" I think I went green at the realization

Sarah Jones
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3 weeks ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The smell of whatever disinfectant they used in the sick room at school, I came to associate it with being comforted

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3 weeks ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Mine is from a field of some kind of blue flowers in Eastern Tennessee when I was about 6 or 7. I remember what they look like, and after searching, they may be grape hyacinth. I would recognize the smell if I ever came across them again, I believe.

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3 weeks ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Two weeks ago I was walking in a random neighbourhood and I smelled the exact smell from my childhood: the smell of the Thundercats stickers I used to collect. Never smelled it before. I think it was coming from the glue being used in some shop that was under construction.

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3 weeks ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Cookies my Grandmother used to make. Not sure what she put in them and the recipe is long lost.

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3 weeks ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Passing a pub doorway on a warm day, all the beer smells and polish sorta ingrained into the place...

Winter
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2 weeks ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Ugh! The revolting smell of over-ripe bananas in the primary school cloakroom (where we hung our school bags and blazers - back then (mid 50's) nearly every child was given a banana in their lunchbox. By mid-morning the room *stank* of bananas!) At 78, the thought of that smell revolts me to this day!

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3 weeks ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

As a kid me and my siblings had a toy E.T. figurine. It had the most strong specific smell. And any time I smelled it after, that toy popped up in my mind. I learned as an adult and after the legalization of weed that it did, in fact, smell of marijuana.

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3 weeks ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I licked a highlighter and my brain went like “mm, blue raspberry “

Kerry Fletcher
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3 weeks ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I have the same but sort of get it still. Smell of old school floors mixed with bare concrete walls and brass/copper railings. That combined smell. Makes me think of the science centre in the day. Still get the smell sometimes in the subway

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#33

Talking to ourselves in moments of solitude.

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#34

Cuddle with pillows.

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#35

Well I think its so weird if you just say goodbye and then walk in the same direction.

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Mike D
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3 weeks ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

How about running into someone, seeing they are going to go the same way you were going to go and you go in a different direction that is out of your way just to avoid walking and talking with them?

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#36

Slowly closing the fridge door to see when the lights turn off.

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3 weeks ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

As a kid, I spent a LOT of time trying to see my eyes move in the mirror. You can't. But if you're looking at your own face in Zoom, you can catch it if you're quick enough.

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#37

Testing if your voice still works after not speaking for a prolonged time...

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3 weeks ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Worse is _not_ testing your voice first, then three days after you last spoke to someone you find that you've momentarily lost the ability to make a coherent sound.

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#38

Knowing when someone is looking at us.

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Mike D
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3 weeks ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Similar, I seem to have a weird ability for finding my wife at the airport. I go to pick her up, sometimes circling several times, and then I will glance over for no conscious reason and there she is, usually in a crowd. She is dressed normally and standing there looking back at me, not doing/wearing anything to draw attention, I just go from looking forward to exactly where she is. Reinforces that we were meant for each other!

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#39

Going to the bathroom to check a wet fart.....

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#40

The sheer joy of talking off a pair of jeans when getting home. (I guess it doesn’t apply to people who enjoy wearing jeans inside, though..).

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