21 People Who Realized Their "Normal" Quirk Is...Surprisingly Disgusting
We recently asked the members of our BuzzFeed Community to share their "normal" habits that they've discovered are actually pretty weird and gross!!!
Here are some of their responses:
1."When I was a kid, I liked to mix the chocolate syrup into my vanilla ice cream before eating it. I did so by putting it in my mouth, swishing it around, then spitting it back in the bowl. Once all the ice cream was mixed this way, I would eat it."
2."Only washing the tips of my fingers after using the restroom."
—Anonymous, 30, California
3."Flossing your teeth with a strand of your hair is apparently not socially acceptable."
4."I always thought it was normal to swallow your toothpaste because my mum did. I can’t believe I did something so gross for so long."
5."Opening the fridge and drinking straight out of the milk jug. To make it even more disturbing, my entire family did it growing up. I always thought it was the norm — then I had friends over and found out it certainly was not."
—Anonymous, 35, Iowa
6."My sister's childhood best friend would spit onto the shelves in the frozen food sections in grocery stores, walk around with her mom for a while, come back when it was frozen, and eat it. Appalling."
7."I was probably 13 or 14 when my mom caught me using the toilet brush to clean out the sink. I didn’t see the problem. Isn’t the spray supposed to kill the germs?"
8."When I eat popcorn, I have to swish it in my mouth with water or Diet Coke before I swallow it. I’ve been doing this since I was a kid, but my family did NOT teach me this — it’s just something I started doing on my own."
9."When I was a kid I drank milk and Coke together a lot because of Laverne and Shirley. My friends STILL talk about how weird it is."
10."BMJ: bacon, mustard, and jelly sandwiches. Don’t knock it 'til you’ve tried it!"
11."All my life, I wiped my toothbrush on the hand towel to dry it until my sister asked what the fuck I was doing."
12."Rinsing off a popsicle before I eat it or give it to a person to eat."
13."I use my earring to scrape out the muck from under my nails then put the earring back in my ear."
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14."I used to pluck my eyebrows on public transport. So sorry to anyone who got those sticky little living hair follicles stuck to their clothes and skin."
15."Eating snow. Just take the same handful of snow you might see a kid stuffing in their mouth and let it melt in a glass. I bet you wouldn’t drink it!"
16."I put eggshells back in the carton. I didn’t know it was gross because I always saw my mother do it. I can’t believe it took me until last year to realize the error of my ways."
17."My dad taught me that the way to know if oil is hot enough to fry something is to spit in it. If it bubbles, it’s ready. I was WAY too old when someone told me that you could just drop water in it. I spit in SO many people’s food when I fried something!"
18."I flushed my tampons my whole life until I was about 30. No one had taught me they weren’t flushable. I stupidly thought they were like toilet paper. One expensive and embarrassing plumbing problem later, I never did it again."
19."I've been told that thoroughly licking my fingers after eating a bag of chips is disgusting."
—Anonymous, Saint-Barthélemy
20."I used to take shits and wipe for a bit, but if it was taking too long, I would just stuff a wad of toilet paper in my butt crack and deal with it later."
21."Poop knife, anyone?"
Are there any "normal" things you do that you found out one day are actually pretty gross? Let us know in the comments!
Some submissions have been edited for length and/or clarity.
