I don’t really know how this started, and I get gut punches of embarrassment whenever I remember, but as a kid (from like 5-9 years old) I would always smell the part of a chair that someone sits on. Whenever my parents would have guests over and they would get up from their seat and go somewhere else, I would then get up and sniff the seat bottom, out of pure, genuine curiosity. There was no other reasoning behind this other than childlike wonder. The scents were one of those things like gasoline or dog paws that don’t necessarily smell good, but you can’t stop smelling.
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That reminds me of an old boss that told me that he used to smell bicycle seats.
I meant, it’s a little funny in a weird way but really not that awful I don’t guess. We are animals after all.
When I was pregnant I never once had a food craving but I would brave smelling my dogs feet. Like couldn’t wait to get home from work and huff them like paint one day, couldn’t stop thinking about it. Lol never have wanted to do it before or after. You were a little kid at the time too. Kids to the weirdest things. One of my sons used to ask us to fart on him over and over when he was a toddler. And as I was laughing at that memory my husband me that one of our 6 year olds runs and smells his farts if my husband farts around him.
Soooooo yea, you’re not the only one.
That’s incredibly disturbing.
We are animals to the core (and functioning on a very old hardware!). I think that was a primal behavior to protect yourself from the environment around you that is not very known to you (specially the guests that will feel like aliens to a very young person)
Honestly? That’s just peak weird-kid behavior, and we all had something. The fact you can look back and laugh at it now shows you’ve grown. Childhood quirks don’t define you, they just make the memories richer.
We were all weird and curious kids with strange urges. Hey, even dogs do that one.
Lol, I’m going to pretend I’m not sat here judging your previous ways of expressing an unusual sense of childhood innocence, however it made me laugh as I work nights as a HCA at an elderly care home, and part of my nightly duties are to work out exactly which seat covers need washing, (you can guess for what reasons), and it made me realise that I actually get paid in a sense to use this bloodhound nose of mine to determine exactly which seat has been sat on that day… Dear Lord above, this minimum pay we just about receive for the incomprehensible things we do weekly definitely isn’t sitting well with me lately…
I can’t quite believe I just sat here and realised I’m a certifiably-paid seat-sniffer.
Fugaz
Lmaooo, my best friend when we were kids used to smell such weird things like this. Smells never piqued my curiosity, but she shamelessly sniffed questionable things, also out of genuine curiosity. But this makes me wonder if she thinks about it now. Lol, looking back I felt kinda jealous she was so unabashed in her research!
I know a kid that does this.
That’s crazy, my uncle, god rest his soul, my mom would tell me when he was a kid, he was a chronic seat sniffer also. Had to smell everyone’s seat whenever they got up. I never knew it was a thing with other people.
My friend did this up into he was in college.
He was an absolute freak though into some really kinky things.
Like abnormal kinky.
Are you?
Chair sniffing as a kid – weird but harmless.
Chair sniffing as an adult and elected official, not weird but harmless.
We call that pooning in my local area.
Did you grow up to become VP?
Kids do weird shit 😂 I remember back in primary school (aged 6-8) I used to lick the palms of my hands because they were salty from sweat after playing out. Like seriously lick them all through class. Thinking back my teacher must’ve thought I was a little freak haha
Sis,is that you? My sister did this exact same thing when she was little
I seen this on an episode of my wife and kids 🤔
Cat turd collector
Weird shit is common.
I used to dry jump stuffed animals. First FWB, he used to ‘do it’ to the teenage girl fashion games. Nothing wrong with your proclivity especially as a kid. You were 9, give yourself grace , however I will still dunk on Adin Ross for sniffing a chair that Andrew Tate had sniffed down on prior.
I to was a chair sniffer as a child
There is an episode about this on a tv series called My wife and kids. Hilarious.
You still would do it, you’ve just suppressed it.
i did as well tbh same age
Better than being a ass sniffer🥴
Dog paws! Wtf. Are you a dog?
I remember the back on my cheap 2000s office chair smelled like bbq sauce. I would go around confirming others smelt like bbq too. Must have been the glue? From one chair sniffer to the next, they all smelled like bbq sauce.
Just finished up Sherlock Holmes. Most great detectives will use their nose to find clues where other would not dare to sniff or want to sniff. Hahaha. Its very valuable.
The Lives of Others (von Donnersmarck 2006) interrogation
My friend’s little sister, Martha, used to do the exact same thing.
I’d use a throwaway for this type confession. Sir/ma’am, I admire the enormous size of your balls
This sub has had some wild confessions but this is just flat out bizarre. Clearly you were negatively influenced by the family dog or someone else’s. This and being a child. No other explanation.
You just have a curious nose. You should get into perfumes, it might unlock something in you
All my dogs feet have smelled like biscuits. Fluffy biscuit feet, tiny stubby biscuit feet. Little. Biscuit. Feets.
*Biscuits as in the British meaning. Rich Tea or maybe a Malted Milk. Not the things Americans pour gravy over, which are clearly abused scones.
Your lucky you grew out of it
who left the best snail trails?