Bare your soul (or buttocks) here... Tell us your embarrassing secrets.

[kmla]

Mine?

I don't know how to swim. Would drop like a rock once I got into water over my neck. I once completed some swimming lessons, but they didn't take. I feel I am one of possibly 3 or 4 people in the nation that doesn't know how to swim.

When friends asked me if I wanted to go swimming when I was growing up, I always had to make up a lame excuse...

[terrya]

1. I don't know how to swim, either.

I'd sink like a stone.

[jpgray]

2. My embarrassing secret

Is that I feel I ought to make up an embarrassing secret, because I don't have any suitably zany secrets.

[Bluzmann57]

3. Gulp. I voted Libertarian once

and only once. I did a lot of drugs waaaayyy back when and they said they wanted to legalize pot.

[101 Proof]

4. I'm a geologist....

and I'm deathly afraid of heights. My area of interest is mountains and volcanoes. Go figure.

[Bertha Venation]

5. I snore.

My baby usually has to sleep in the guest room. Right now she can't because my nephew is visiting, so she woke up with a migraine today because she couldn't sleep for my snoring. :cry: :grr: :evilfrown: Short of surgery I have tried every device & "remedy" known to medical science & quackery. I don't know what to do besides the one thing I'm doing, which is a long-term fix that will show no results for a long time.

[gator_in_Ontario]

11. My wife has sleep apnea

and uses a machine to regulate her breathing at night. From what I hear, it can be dangerous, so you might want to check into it with a Dr.

[Bertha Venation]

14. had a sleep study -- don't have apnea

but thank you, Gator.

[ohiosmith]

13. Have you tried the Breathe Easy nasal dilator? I got a couple from

Brookstone yesterday for my wife and me and they are amazing. We both slept the entire night for the first time in years.

[Bertha Venation]

15. I'm loathe to spend money on that one because

Mrs. V. tells me I snore no matter what position I'm in, mouth open or closed, etc. I doubt something holding my nose open would do the trick. But thanks for the recommendation -- it's added to the "last steps before uvula removal" list. :)

And congratulations on finding something that worked for you!

[Wapsie B]

39. The UPPP

or uvula removal does not always eliminate snoring. Even with taking the tonsils, adenoids and soft tissue in the back of the throat.

I know you said you don't have sleep apnea. But CPAP will reduce or eliminate snoring in many cases. Do you happen to remember anything that was on your sleep study report like your Respiratory Disturbance Index?

[11 Bravo]

6. My current representative in Congress is a Republican...

and I voted for him when he ran for his first term (but not since).

[SlavesandBulldozers]

7. I flush

q-tips down the toilet. This can't be good.

[LynneSin]

8. I have at least 3 secret crushes on folks here at DU

but I don't want to reveal names

:D

[terrya]

9. That could be a very interesting thread in and of itself, LynneSin. :-)

[kmla]

10. I'm assuming it's not me....

... since the "Lion Sleeps Tonite" earworm thread from yesterday.

At least you didn't put me on ignore, though, like you threatened!;-)

[LynneSin]

12. It could be you...

It could be anyone here - male, female, gay, straight.....

Possiblities are mind-boggling

[Bertha Venation]

16. ...female...gay.... how about cat lover?

;)

[LynneSin]

20. Cat Lovers at DU tend to be either male, female, gay or straight...

which pretty much covers everyone.

BTW, I got my cat to sleep through the night - I just closed all my windows so he couldn't smell female 'pussy' (if you know what I mean)

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

18. Yeah baby! You want me BAD!!

:evilgrin:

[LynneSin]

23. NSMA - everyone wants you bad

I'd have to take a number and wait a few days in your line of secret crushes to get my turn!!!

[DarkPhenyx]

26. NSMA wants to beat me badly...

...does that count too?

[LynneSin]

27. Is it a 'GOOD' beating or a 'BAD' beating

:shrug:

[DarkPhenyx]

31. Excellent question.

Not long ago I'd have said a bad beating, but we've been agreeing altely so now it's kinda a 50/50 thingy.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

32. really fucked you over on that language thread that night..didn't I?

:D

[SOteric]

33. 'Course we do.

You're better when you're bad.

[populistmom]

28. Secret crushes

Are easier.

That's my only embarrassing secret, but it's less than secret. I'm terrible at keeping my own secrets.

[MrScorpio]

36. I went to 20 strip clubs last year.

A record, even for me

[camero]

40. Only 3?

Why not make it 4? :)

[DarkPhenyx]

17. I'm hung like a horse...

...and at 35 I still have the sex drive of an 18 yo.

[terrya]

19. Hmmmmm. That's all I'm saying. Hmmmm. :-) eom

[GOPisEvil]

21. Oh yeah, that's embarrassing to admit...

:P

[DarkPhenyx]

25. Oh! You meant embarassing for me.

My bad! Sorry.

[Snow]

35. You suppose he has one of those sheath things like horses,

and has to have it flushed out by the vet every so often? That's cool - I want one!

[VelmaD]

24. Grab a couple of 18 year olds then...

and come on over to my place. Y'all might be able to keep up. ;-)

[jonnyblitz]

22. I can't drive a standard shift vehicle very well.

I have tried and tried and for some reason I can't get that proper balance between lifting up on the clutch and stepping on the gas. I managed to get by at one of my duty stations in the navy when I had to drive semi's with bombs and torpedos etc from point A to point B. With bigger vehicles you apparently could be more sloppy but a regular passenger, forget. I don't know why I have this problem and it is embarrassing.

[Pobeka]

29. I voted for Reagan

WHAT WAS I THINKING!

[populistmom]

30. I don't have my bachelor's degree yet

I'm also on my third major. I started off majoring in marketing (I was good at that stuff, but it is so NOT me), then switched to early childhood education. I ended up getting an associates degree in that, started to work on my bachelor's, then I got fed up with teaching and started working with postpartum moms and babies. Now, I'm taking classes to get into nursing school.

[ronnykmarshall]

34. I don't know the multiplication tables.

Never was able to remember them in school. Still don't to this day.

[SOteric]

37. I don't

know how to swim either. But I can float, I'm not afraid of the water, and I'm amenable to learning one day.

Also, I really suck at bowling. Not that I've put much effort into it.

[ElsewheresDaughter]

38. i'm cleaning-impaired....if anyone knows of a 12-stepper please PM me

i have 3 generations of cat hairs in my sofa and dust cows under the bed...i have been putting off buying a new computer simply because i'm waiting for someone to make one that can vaccum the pizza crumbs outta its own keyboard ...okay i'll be quite now

[Nikia]

41. I am too

Unfortunately, my husband is too. Only very close friends who have even messier friends are allowed to come to our house without a couple days preparation. I think that if we had a bigger house and my husband didn't have to work from home and store stuff for his boss, we'd be better. When we buy a house, which will be bigger, I am hoping to be able hire a cleaning person to come in once per week. I don't like to have a place that I am embarassed to invite people over to, but I have a strong cleaning aversion and easily get overwhelmed from it.