Dry hands. I absolutely have to moisturize at all times.
I wouldn’t mind it being legal but oh my god I can’t stand the smell of weed
Store Music
I hate it.
Holiday music. Too repetitive.
A crowd talking.
Basically, it can be summed up as, TOO MUCH FUCKING NOISE
(I just want some silence 🥲)
When hurricane Beryl hit us, Target was on generators with very minimal lighting and no music. It was such a great shopping experience, that I flagged down the manager and asked them to do this full time.
Of course they didn’t. But man, I miss that.
There’s a supermarket nearby that has a ‘quiet hour’ every day, mostly aimed at neurodivergent customers. I try to go at that time, it’s a much less stressful experience.
earplugs have been a game changer for me. i haven’t been shopping without them for the last six months.
Some noise I do like though, if a store is dead quiet it feels like you can’t talk to anyone or even ask a vendor a question without being the attention of everyone in the surrounding area. There is a bit of privacy to a bit of noise. Though I agree to much is terrible.
Any sort of collar on a shirt except surprisingly dress shirts. Also tags on shirts, but those are slowly disappearing so I’m getting the option to not buy tagged shirts.
I blame it on an itchy wool sweater I wore when I was a kid that is my earliest sense of the feeling.
Just talking/thinking about itchy collars can give me goosebumps!
Pencil with the tip broken off on paper.
High pitched noises (CRT displays, dyson vacuums)
Sweating while wearing full clothing
Microfiber hand towels that don’t properly absorb water
That last one, wtf
Nail filing, chalk on chalk boards, using the eraser on chalk boards
Barking. It drives me absolutely mad.
Unfortunately in the US people are OBSESSED with dogs. Everyone has one and so many people just leave them outside to bark and bark and bark and bark and bark and… :/
This is how you can easily differentiate people and assholes. Assholes leave their dogs outside.
Cats too. Assholes who lets their cats out looooove mosquitoes.
Yeah I used to go for a walk at my old neighborhood and one dog would start barking then the next and the next and soon I would have the whole neighborhood barking just by walking around the block.
Also my old neighborhood my neighbor will leave for work at 6:00 in the morning and his dog would woefully and loudly bark for a solid hour after he left.
I hate dogs (dog owners, actually)!
I have a cat. She is currently emitting no noise and is a moderate grey color.
I read “she is emiting a moderately grey color”
That too.
If you think of how light and color works that’s pretty close to what’s going on. She’s reflecting the light wavelengths that we perceive as gray and absorbing the rest. So kind of like emitting a gray color.
Many many things! Notably though: having anything on my hands (I cook and bake by stocking paper towels and an empty sink and reminding myself constantly I can stop and wash at any time), anything too tight clothing wise (this is so much stuff it sucks), strong perfumes, the scent of peanut butter, feeling a glass that has not been cleaned (it feels ugly)
Dry, dirty hands after working in the garden. I mean dry.
Sharp Scrape of utensil on plate.
A thick seam on socks at the toes.
Too-tight clothing.
Repetitive noise.
Sometimes people chewing. Or talking around chewing.
The sound of a metal utensil squeaking against a plate. Nails on a chalkboard. Dry skin on dry paper. The smell of tobacco smoke. The sound of a modified or worn out muffler on a car or motorcycle. The tickle of a runny nose. The tickle of drops of sweat running down my face and back on a hot day.
Dyson hand dryers.
How something so loud can be installed in public without hearing protection beats me.
Hand dryer, you say? Oh…
Loud low frequency noise. So cars, leaf blowers, lawn mowers.
I generally don’t like people touching me. Even with my wife it can be a little upsetting depending on the duration.
Detached pubic hair.
When snow is so cold it is bone dry like a chalk board and squeaks any time it is touched.
Don’t worry, give it a few years and you will only hear the sound in films.
Oh snap I love that
It’s okay when it first starts crunching and squeaking, but as it gets colder and drier it gets bad.
I can’t stand chewing noises over headphones. its fucked up to eat when your mic is on dont do it
We have one of you at our zoom COVID pub group. We try to not chew the chips and peanuts around our you but we forget. But we do think about your issue all the time. Sorry.
