Walking my cat.
My neighbors and I never talk, and I can’t tell if it’s because they’re antisocial, or they think I’m antisocial. I wake up at 5am for the gym, go to work, and get home at 6 or later, at which point I’m tired and go straight inside. By the time I even saw one of my neighbors, I’d lived there so long I felt weird suddenly introducing myself.
It’s worse now that I’ve started walking the cat because when people are out and about, she gets tense so all my attention is on her, not making eye contact or small talk with anyone, so I look even more antisocial now.
When other people get really involved in their pet’s enrichment, I think it’s great. When I do it I think I’m a little weirdo who everyone ignores.
I find it embarrassing to carry fast food (or any restaurant food that isn’t considered healthy) from my car to my apartment.
I work from home and my neighbors know that. I don’t get out much and don’t really eat out often either but I don’t want to be the guy that’s seen as carrying tons of premade food back home.
I know it’s rather silly.
Oh, same. I cook at home 99% of the time, but sometimes I get a bad week. Lots of overtime, visiting a sick relative every day, something to throw off my schedule.
Those weeks I’m bringing home fast food almost every day and I probably look like I’ve never even seen a kitchen before.
For what it’s worth, I’m with you.
I also work from home, and while I generally cook all my own meals and do meal prep at werkends, sometimes I have a bad/stressful week where I cave and get fast food like three lunches in a row.
I keep a grocery bag in the car and put the fast food in there to hide my shame.
I am embarrassed by nearly everything for sort of unknown reasons.
Sometimes people ask me what I had for lunch in order to make casual conversation and I have a hard time responding.
Even today, my coworker told me some theory she has on a show we were watching and I wasn’t able to really respond much, despite being able to endlessly talk about shows via text with strangers online.
