Hand to mouth

I have a little bit of an obsessive nature. Once something begins bothering me, I cannot let go of it until it has been resolved or reconciled in my head. This usually involves trivial things that are of no import in real life, because, why would I waste my brain power on things that matter?

Most recently, I have been obsessed with personal hygiene habits. Mainly, other peoples' personal hygiene habits.

For instance, in one of my classes, there are two girls that sit beside each other. Let me introduce you to them. One of them wears flip-flops daily. We can call her "Feet." (That is not her real name, but it is a random nickname I think she should have.) She gets settled for class, then promptly kicks her shoes off. Her feet are then in the chair, and her hands are all over them. She rubs them. She picks at her toenails. She pops her toes. She puts her shoes back on, rearranges her pretzel legs, and then off go the shoes again and on goes the routine. In between all of this, she is touching things. The chair. The table. Her notebook and pen. Ug. It just gives me the willies.

The second girl, whose Indian name would be "Hands In Her Mouth" sits beside "Feet." She spends the entire class period sucking her fingers. She bites her nails, but then she puts her fingers all the way in her mouth, too! (I used to be a nail biter, and I know how hard it is to quit that bad habit, but I also know that you can get pinworms around your anus from biting your nails, and that fact alone is enough to make me never put my hands in my mouth again!) "Hands in Her Mouth" will raise her hand to ask a question, and you can see the light reflecting off of the slobber on her fingers. It is repulsive.

Each of these activities alone is enough to turn my stomach, but the fact that they are occurring simultaneously and in such close proximity to each other makes me obsessive. I spend most of the class period blending their behaviors until the two girls become one disgusting person who touches her feet, then sucks her fingers.

It is driving me to distraction. So help me! I have to fix this so that I can obsess about other meaningless things, like the actual lecture.