Small Talk Six: 6 Ways Not to Rub Me

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Today’s topic is “6 things other people do that make you personally uncomfortable.” You can answer this with a list of 6 words, 6 phrases, 6 sentences, 6 paragraphs, 6 photos, 6 videos, etc . . .

I think this week’s topic can be interpreted in many different ways.  It will be interesting to see what everyone comes up with.

Here are my six . . .

1)  I feel very uncomfortable when people smoke around me and my family.  Not only is it bad for us, but I cannot stand the smell and the smoke makes it hard for me to breathe.  I even get lightheaded if I’m stuck in a closed space with somebody smoking.

2)  Hearing somebody scratch cardboard (or even paper sometimes) makes me shiver.  I can’t stand to hear it, but oddly I don’t mind nails scratching on a blackboard at all.

3)  Hugging!  My parents were not the affectionate type, so it feels very unnatural to me to hug anybody who is not my husband, a child, or a pet.

4)  Being near somebody who is clearly sick.  Even if they are not sneezing or coughing at me, I still feel uncomfortable next to someone who is all snorfly (is that a word?), runny, and congested.

5)  When people are pushy about my trying food that does not look appetizing to me.

6)  I actually get motion sickness if I am reading on my laptop or in a book and somebody is causing motion.  Sometimes my husband or my children shake the bed or the dining room table while I’m doing work on the computer and I immediately feel sick.  The feeling doesn’t go away for awhile either.

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~Karen