Alright everyone, prepare for another weird one that is probably only distracting for me. And by everyone I mean professor Leggette and maybe one other person who stumbles across my blog. So if that person is you, congratulations. You probably won’t relate to this distraction at all. One of my biggest pet peeves for myself and other people I interact with is dirty fingernails. It may be because I am a germaphobe or a minor form of OCD or a mixture of both. For whatever reason, I absolutely can’t have dirt under my finger nails. I am constantly checking them throughout the day, picking at them, and washing my hands. It is definitely a distraction for me. I wouldn’t say a huge distraction because a lot of the time I can sit there and like pick at them to clean them out while I read or do something that doesn’t require using my hands.

The distraction comes when I am doing something and notice that there is dirt or something under my nails. At that moment I will completely drop whatever it is that I am doing to deal with that world ending problem. I have even let it distract me from Oregon football games. I have literally missed touchdown plays because I was looking down, making sure my finger nails were clean. The other half of it is when other people have dirty finger nails. I always seem to notice when other people have dirty finger nails, even if I’m not actively trying to. Then instead of engaging that person in a stimulating conversation, I’m not paying attention to what they are saying and looking back and forth between their eyes and their hands. And honestly it just grosses me out when people have dirty fingernails. Maybe that is another reason why I always make sure mine are clean.