By kekeroos - 20/05/2011 15:17 - United States

Today, on my metro ride home, I sat next to a woman who thought it was appropriate to continually scratch at her scalp and then eat her 'scalp pickings'. When I looked over at her hair, I could see scabs clumped together from her previous scratching sessions. FML
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While it is a public system and I'm bound to encounter plenty of 'weird' people, I would still never expect a 50 something year old professional woman to be picking at her scalp and then eating whatever it is she picks out. And while none of her pickings ended up on me, one good head shake would have changed that very quickly. It would have been Christmas in my lap in May!

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Oh god am I the only one who felt like puking after reading that? FYL OP!

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Elizabeth5796 5

I was eating minty gum as i read this... :{

That's actually a real medical condition called dermatillomania. Look it up.

Toeshoes3 4

It sounds like she might have trichtillomania. She probably can't help it.

Don't use words you don't understand. Trichotillomania means pulling out hair. The comment before you sounds more reasonable: dermatillomania.

Oh god I just threw up a little in my mouth!!:/

thatshannah 4

That's a disease. It has a really long weird name. But she probably can't help it

17deanju 2

Oh god I need to stop reading these when I eat lol

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