Things that ick you out....

Hotel room bedspreads and remote controls. They rarely get cleaned.

Dog hair (and we do have dogs, I am vacuuming it up CONSTANTLY and it is disgusting).

Dogs that eat any kind of poop.

The smell inside of a smoker's car (or house, if they smoke indoors).

Little kids who won't blow their runny nose, which we're dealing with right now, ugh.

My older brother's bathroom growing up, he had to have his own in the basement because no one else wanted to share one with him.

The creepy small metal coffin-like shower that used to be at the lake cabin, I am SO thankful it has been replaced with a nice clean large modern shower!

Remember when you were a kid and you'd get those giant scabs on your knees or whatever, and you could sort of open one corner and peek in? *runs screaming*

The opposite of the wet hair thing - the smell of dirty hair just makes me . I know not everyone washes their hair everyday and not everyone has hair that is greasy-smelly - but that smell is so rank. And no, I don't have to be right next to them - it carries on the spring breeze, easily a couple of feet. Blech.

Wet paper also freaks me out.

Motel rooms. I hate staying in motels.

Hearing and seeing people eat.

Sleeping in hotel beds.

Swimming in any body of water.

I think based on this thread alone, we can safely assume that people are as gross, or more so than animals. At least people KNOW better...and they're still disgusting.

Seeing people licking their fingers. Even if it is on tv, I have to look away.

Seeing people at the pool walk into the restroom with no shoes. That floor is so gross!

I'm weird, I admit it! But those things really gross me out.

I have a firm rule in this house. I don't do the 4 P's. Pee, puke, poop or puss. Nope. Thankfully DH is a trooper and has changed 90% of all the diapers in this house. The kids even know to not come to me if they've puked.

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Yes!  I stand at my door to welcome each class in and along with having to look at anyone's new shoes or recent haircut, someone always wants to show me their wiggly tooth or the bloody, gaping hole where one just fell out.  *gag*

Pets can be disgusting but I lump their grossness in with kid grossness - I love them, so I put up with it.

I opened a book from the library one day. The page it opened to had fingernails (at least 6) that someone had cut and left INSIDE the book. Still grosses me out years later. I hate when people spit. People, that is a body fluid! I don't stop and squat to pee outside. To me, no difference.

Seeing someone get into bed in regular clothes and pull the covers up. Whenever they show someone doing that on TV, I just shudder.

People who can't eat/drink without making noise- teeth on silverware, unnecessary crunching (ice, for example), smacking, slurping, etc.

Kit Kat commercials. Dear God, musical crunching? Just stop it.

Dust in the bathroom. I know it's just dust, but it seems ...dirtier.

*Fingernail clipping - that should be done in the privacy of your own bathroom, over a garbage can.
*Long nails on men - long toenails on anyone.
*The sight, sound, smell and thought of vomit.
*The position a dog makes to take a dump.
*Overflowing toilets (have nightmares about this!)

Now I've done some pretty icky stuff. Disimpaction, being vomited on so that the lace on my bra was visible under my scrubs, cracking a chest and doing open chest massage without batting an eye but anything to do with eyeballs skeeves me out.

I had a fresh heart one night that had some kind of fungal infection in his eyeballs. I was told by the day shift that an Opthamologist would be coming by to administer some medication. Luckily, the patient was still sedated. The doctor asked if I could assist. I asked just exactly was he going to do. When he said he was going to actually inject medication into the eyeballs with a needle, I think I made a retching sound, turned white and high-tailed it out of there. I told one of my co-workers I would pay him to help and he just laughed and held the eyelid open for the doctor. It took like 30 seconds but I had to hide my eyes and turn away.

Whenever any new nurse asks me what my worst experience in ICU was, this ranks in the top 5.

Janet

I have a long list, but most are associated with smell. I'm overly sensitive. I walked into my 2nd grader's school Friday and was instantly hit with the scent of vomit. Sure enough as I walked down the hallway and around the corner a custodian was cleaning up the mess. This eliminates a lot of professions for me.