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Mar. 27th, 2008 11:30 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jackIt's funny, if my fingernails are just ever so slightly too long, most of the time I don't notice, but just occasionally it jumps out at me and once I've noticed it's like fire on my skin, I want to tear the ends off right then and I have to deal with it immediately.
At home, cutting fingernails always feels like a minor chore, something I'll do but not something I'll want to do. Especially as nothing I do once every few weeks gets into a regular rhythm. However, I've kept a spare pare of clippers in my draw at work[1] and at work, it feels relaxing and cathartic to snip snip snip the ends away!
But then I remembered the Dilbert cartoon. It's something like Alice listening to clipping sounds from Wally's cubicle, and screaming "AGH! It's so annoying. Yet quiet enough I'll look neurotic if I say anything! It's driving me mad!" and the last panel is Wally telling Dilbert about his new screensaver, "Wally's 101 annoying cubicle sounds".
Is fingernail clipping so annoying? I can see why it might be in principle, but it doesn't feel it. It's very quiet -- practically not showing up against the background -- and lasting only a few minutes and only every few weeks. Work isn't so silent that noise would stand out. And we're spaced so only about one person might hear.
[1] along with emergency: toothbrush, alcohol and tissues. I've yet to stash shoes and underwear.
At home, cutting fingernails always feels like a minor chore, something I'll do but not something I'll want to do. Especially as nothing I do once every few weeks gets into a regular rhythm. However, I've kept a spare pare of clippers in my draw at work[1] and at work, it feels relaxing and cathartic to snip snip snip the ends away!
But then I remembered the Dilbert cartoon. It's something like Alice listening to clipping sounds from Wally's cubicle, and screaming "AGH! It's so annoying. Yet quiet enough I'll look neurotic if I say anything! It's driving me mad!" and the last panel is Wally telling Dilbert about his new screensaver, "Wally's 101 annoying cubicle sounds".
Is fingernail clipping so annoying? I can see why it might be in principle, but it doesn't feel it. It's very quiet -- practically not showing up against the background -- and lasting only a few minutes and only every few weeks. Work isn't so silent that noise would stand out. And we're spaced so only about one person might hear.
[1] along with emergency: toothbrush, alcohol and tissues. I've yet to stash shoes and underwear.
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Date: 2008-03-27 12:51 pm (UTC)Personally, if I occasially heard quiet tapping sounds, say, from a co-worker's desk, it would bother me not one jot. But if I one day stumbled across them to discover that they were actually, I don't know, picking dead skin off their feet or something - then I'd think "ew!" and any time I heard the sounds I'd think "ew, I wish they'd stop doing that". I'm not saying fingernail clipping is quite the same as picking dead skin off feet, but it's certainly on the same spectrum and not VERY far away.