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19 December 2006

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I stack my used washcloths, squeezed out and balled up, on the towel rack next to our shower/tub and leave them there until laundry day. They form a nice neat pyramid by the end of two weeks. (It's funny how we don't really "see" these things, if you know what I mean.)

They'll be a prize, by general consensus, for the grossest habit, real or made up. I have worse ones, though, so beware.

post by: Pips at: 11:42 | 33 comments

I refuse to share any of my gross habits. In my heavily blogged life, they are all I have left in this life that's all my own :-D

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 19 December | 11:46

Bunk sock. 'Nuff said.

posted by mischief 19 December | 11:48

mischief wins.

posted by trondant 19 December | 11:50

Snorting snot into the back of my throat and then making a really loud hacking sound before swallowing it down. In public. I get it from grandma.

posted by danostuporstar 19 December | 11:57

Oh jeez, where to begin:

knuckle-cracking, nose-picking, public flatulence, open-mouth chewing, a tendency to sit with my legs spread, ass-scratching...you name it I got it.

My tendency to merely stick my mouth on the tap rather than use a cup and/or chug milk straight from the container and let it dribble down me, is probably my worst.

posted by jonmc 19 December | 12:00

shit, we can't take you anywhere, can we?

posted by trondant 19 December | 12:04

≡ Click to see image ≡ Ok, yeah, bunk socks are gross, but not THAT gross....

posted by iconomy 19 December | 12:05

heh, peep this, trondant. I am a danger to propriety everywhere.

posted by jonmc 19 December | 12:06

I bite off my toenails and eat them. Not in public, though.

posted by jack_mo 19 December | 12:09

I freestyle to myself out loud...so i guess it aint' really to myself at all.

posted by Joe Famous 19 December | 12:11

Oh, come now, pink, where's your sense of adventure? I'll show you more of mine if you show me yours... : )

I'd say mischief and jack mo are in the runnin'. Seems we got a feet theme goin'... ; )

posted by Pips 19 December | 12:19

I dunno, ico, those socks look more than a bit stiff.

posted by mischief 19 December | 12:39

I bite my fingernails .. I have never cut them. My wife thinks it's gross. I think it's efficient, plus I use the *bitings* to clean between my teeth.

posted by danf 19 December | 12:41

So the bunk sock? You mean like you use the same one over and over without washing it? Seems more OCD than gross.

posted by danostuporstar 19 December | 12:45

Fast food.

I know, I know.

posted by mike9322 19 December | 12:53

All of my letters to the editor in the last two years have read:

Sirs,
Enclosed please find one fresh poop.
Yours,
D. Wino, Esq.

posted by Divine_Wino 19 December | 12:54

I let the dishes pile up in the sink until I don't have even one piece of clean of silverware, then I will wash everything and start the nasty cycle all over again. It's actually hilarious, because I OCD clean my house from to bottom, but will leave all the dishes in the sink and just clean around them.

posted by getoffmylawn 19 December | 12:57

All of my letters to the editor in the last two years have read:

Sirs,
Enclosed please find one fresh poop.
Yours,
D. Wino, Esq.

Yes, but most of them were to the editors of Fertilizer Monthly so it was less than effective.

posted by jonmc 19 December | 12:59

I inject half a syringe of low-grade mexican heroin into my gut and then stagger around downtown asking people where God went in my life, then come home, sweat myself into an American Indian hallucination while in bed, call my dealer, score, stagger, hallucinate, then clean the house from top to bottom while on a potent, kicky combo of cheap red wine and Oogie Juice, distilled from whatever's under the sink or in the medicine cabinet.

No, wait, that was actually last year's New Year's Resolution. Actually, I'm a very together and tidy fellow.

posted by Lipstick Thespian 19 December | 13:10

I groom our pets like a monkey and I burp really good, but only at home. When the broccoli people don't finish it I take the pan outside until I'm ready to dump it because once leftovers are in the refrigerator, they don't come out until they need a haircut.

posted by auntbunny 19 December | 13:25

open-mouth chewing

I keep trying to explain to people that food just tastes a lot better if you aerate it while chewing. Try this: push all the air out of your mouth, with your tongue filling all the extra space, and slip some tiny morsel in there of something foul tasting. Now chew that thing without allowing any air in. You can hardly taste it at all.

I let the dishes pile up in the sink until I don't have even one piece of clean of silverware

If you admit to yourself that someday you are going to die, this is one small way you can come out ahead just a bit. Y'know not having done those dishes for no reason.

posted by StickyCarpet 19 December | 13:44

i once went 7 months in roughly the same clothes without laundering them...i had maybe three pairs of socks, which i would wash with my extra pair of boxers in rest stop bathrooms and such...

i was what you might call 'fragrant".

but seriously...bunk sock wins(though i call them spankerchiefs)

posted by Schyler523 19 December | 14:33

I have one that's hilarious and actually kind of cool, but I don't think I can bring myself to commit it to a post. Maybe I'll spill it some night on IRC.

posted by tangerine 19 December | 14:44

I think I showered about once a week during my second 2 years of college, and I only did laundry once a month. And I managed to keep a boyfriend!

posted by muddgirl 19 December | 15:06

I also tend to have at least one hand in my waistband while watching TV. I dunno whether this is a guy thing or a me thing.

posted by jonmc 19 December | 15:11

Aw, come on tangerine... Here's a few more for inspiration:

I put Bounce in the armpits of dirty shirts overnight when I run out of clean ones. (Pretty good tip, actually.)

When I was a teenager, for some reason, I was shy about putting my, excuse the expression, sanitary napkins in the garbage for anyone to see, so I'd wrap them up and tuck them in the pockets of the shoe holder attached to my bedroom closet door. I intended to dispose of them later, of course, but my mother generally found them first and never said anything, just threw them away.

I also, for some reason, used to wipe boogers on the radiator next to the toilet rather than on the handy-dandy toilet paper nearby. There'd be this crust on the radiator that my mom never could identify. I don't know why, but I don't think I thought anyone could see it. (Do I win? : )

I think I'll stop now. Your all already looking at me funny...

posted by Pips 19 December | 15:20

Bunk sock. 'Nuff said.
posted by mischief 19 December | 11:48

We have a wiener.

Sorry.

posted by mudpuppie 19 December | 18:10

The prize: A box of Kleenex (with lotion ; )

double sorry

posted by Pips 19 December | 18:26

I had to google Buck Sock. Thank you for the disgusting, um, image.

(I usually just use a t shirt out of the laundry.)

posted by danf 19 December | 18:35

My tendency to merely stick my mouth on the tap rather than use a cup and/or chug milk straight from the container and let it dribble down me, is probably my worst.
I do both of these, but never thought they were that gross. If that'st he worst you can do, you got nothin'.

it puts the lotion on its ... um nevermind.

posted by dg 19 December | 18:40

My tendency to merely stick my mouth on the tap rather than use a cup

As long as you let it run for a few seconds. Then you won't be getting a big swig of the lead that leaches from the faucet brass and the solder.

posted by danf 19 December | 18:59

Idiot that I am asked the house out loud what a bunk sock was. Try 'splaining it to your 16 year old daughter. Still gave me a great laugh.

I drink out of the container, too. Why dirty a glass for just a little drink?

posted by redvixen 19 December | 19:34

I feel so much closer to all of you now.

Not close enough to reveal any of my own allegedly disgusting habits.

But I do.

And it's very important that all of you should know that.

posted by jason's_planet 20 December | 00:05

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