Pavlovian responses

[LeicsDom]

What seemingly unconnected things do you feel compelled to do?

For me it is the urge to pee when I brush my teeth.

 

[rareboy]

Pee when you brush your teeth.

Honestly, I can't think of any...

 

[Peloso]

I probably have a bunch of them but they're so ingrained and automatic I may not notice when I'm doing them.

I do know that I usually scratch my back when I pee. I have no idea why.

 

[unloadonme]

I can suddenly get the urge to pee when I put my key in the front door. I can be fine all the way home, but have to go immediately when I walk in.

 

[rareboy]

You see...what you are experiencing is actually a primordial instinct to piss on your doorstoop and thereby mark your territory.

There are so many times that when we finally get back from a drive, I just whip it out and piss in front of the garage....although that also may have something to do with bladder urgency.

 

[Vannie]

Whenever I eat stuffed cabbages I feel the urge to....

Nevermind!

 

[EddMarkStarr]

I get the urge to vomit at the smell of freshly shelled crab meat. Processed shell meat doesn't bother me at all.

 

[NotHardUp1]

I guess a true Pahlovian response is one that you have trained yourself to do. So, I wouldn't suggest they are unconnected, as they were not in the experiment.

A couple of mine come to mind.

After discovering I had made it to work without zipping up my pants after I had put them on, I automatically reach down as I am walking up to the office building where I work to check. Sometimes I had just gotten busy putting on shoes and belt simultaneously and forgotten to zip. So, now it is almost autonomic.

Whenever I see a car in the distance coming toward me, leaving its lane, entering mine, I move my car to the center. As soon as the other car corrects, I do too. My logic is that if the driver is being half-assed and careless, a good scare is in order. If she is drunk or drowsing, then a scare might help. In the very remote circumstance that the driver is leaving the lane for any other reason, I'd rather be in the center to have my options open to evade a head-on. I'm 62. They've always moved back into their lane.

 

[LeicsDom]

I can suddenly get the urge to pee when I put my key in the front door. I can be fine all the way home, but have to go immediately when I walk in.

That sometimes happens with me
I think it is that I hold it in all the way home and then realise I can go on the other side of the door. Sometimes, if my entry from car to house is not as smooth as usual, I get a dribble. Old age, I guess

 

[LeicsDom]

I get the urge to vomit at the smell of freshly shelled crab meat. Processed shell meat doesn't bother me at all.

The smell of most fish affects me like that

 

[LeicsDom]

I'm 62. They've always moved back into their lane.

So far

 

[NotHardUp1]

So far

That's more than 45 years of driving. That's sure more than half of my total years driving. I'm good with that. Fuck the slobs that cross the center line.