Hey Pandas, What’s Something You Do That Makes Other People Raise Their Eyebrows?

Pretty much just being me. I work on a farm. As a biofuel processing plant manager. In Iowa. I'm country down to the bone, having spent most of my adult life in really rural states west and north.
But in the evenings, a couple times a week, I gather up with some guys much younger than me, and of widely mixed ethnicities. I do sound and lights for their band, logistics, and tech/roadie. I even order/sell the merch.
But yep. Sometimes it raises a brow that a 50+ guy of Romanian descent from the Flyovers spends weekends working for two black, two Filipinos, and a white guy, lol. Best part? I don't generally accept any money from them. I just love doing this s**t, got experience, and it literally takes a team to make a band work, even at the local and regional level. I've got the time and resources to have the best hobby ever, with some of the best guys on earth.

I don't have or want or like children. I'm also a woman so everyone feels it's their duty to inform me that I absolutely must have at least five, right now.

I don't fake smile. But again, I'm a woman so mostly men and sometimes women cannot resist to tell me that I have to smile. Shockingly, that makes me want to smile even less.

I don't let my cats go outside. They are my cats, my decision. I had numerous family cats killed or maimed by disgusting humans in the past. They are spoiled and cared for very well, but exclusively on the inside. Lots of people, especially ones who never even had a goldfish insist on telling me every chance they got that I'm torturing my cats.

I don't do makeup or perfume, never been to a hairdresser. I'm clean and decent, and my partner is just as happy with my natural looks as I am. Others on the other hand think that I'm doing the whole woman thing wrong. My own mom told me once how proud she was when I was in high school and used to dress up so pretty. Well gee, thanks, good to know that that's all you felt was worth your pride in me.

I do math in my free time for fun. Everyone thinks it's weird but I really love math.

I don't separate my laundry by colors or fabrics. Just keep the temperature not too high and wash everything together - comes out fine every time. This seems perfectly normal to me but not to any female I've told about it.

I adopt rescued guinea pigs.

More than often I get weird looks since we have two groups and thus two big self-made guinea-pig-friendly wooden cages - one in our living room and one in my homeoffice (and people see them when I'm on Zoom meetings). Every time I get asked how many I've got (12 at the moment), people raise their eyebrows and probably picture me hoarding animals in small cages. We're not. We try to give them the best home they can have after they've suffered for a long time.

Where I live guinea pigs are seen and sold as "children's pets" - so being an adult and having quite a few of them probably seems weird. I don't agree. They're just gorgeous.

Adopting rescued animals often means they come here sick. I had guinea pigs with broken and inflamed teeth and jaws, torn/bitten/cut-off ears, wounds, bald spots, blind, deaf, broken leg, parasites, fungus. I had several that had been alone for a long time or lived with a lot of other piggies in really small, dirty cages. I had some labeled as "don't get on with other guinea pigs" who turned out perfectly socialized after a few weeks.

Rescued pets often have special needs and need a lot of extra care plus cost a fortune of vet bills. Sometimes we can give them years of life quality, sometimes only a few months.

They're worth every cent and every spent minute.

I still have wonderful contact with my ex, so does my girlfriend with her ex. Lots of people don't understand that you can break up without bad feelings.

I remove the passenger front seat of my car (hatchback or sedan). I did it once for a cross-country move and never looked back - it's like having an extra trunk! You get a wide open floor space that's at the perfect height for grocery bags. It also allows room for very long items. If you ever do need to haul a passenger, they sit in the backseat and marvel at the leg room! On any car, it's just 4 bolts and an electrical clip or two - try it!

My hair has been purple with teal accent for about 5 years now. I get a lot of looks, partly because it's purple, and partly because I'm a senior.
I wish I had done this years ago. BP (before purple), I kind of faded into the background. Now I stand out and am remembered.

I go to anime conventions with my 30 yr old daughter and dress up as different characters

I work as a criminal investigator for a public defenders office in a medium sized midwest community. I have never seen more people getting arrested for things that they did not do just so police and prosecutors can justify their existence. Tough on crime? Nope. Fill the jails to make it look like we're tough on crime...Absolutely! I cannot count how many people I have seen miss holidays with their families because they are poor, can't afford bail so they can wait for their trial to be heard while at home with their families, and instead have to wait for the legal system to finally figure out the person(s) were wrongfully accused.
Ooooo, dont forget the inmates getting covid because they are all housed on top of each other, a lack of medical attention for anyone who isn't dead and barely any heat in the jail.
Tough on crime doesn't work. It ends up with the exact opposite result...tough on the poor.
So, yeah, people don't like to talk shop with me because I end up essentially blowing up any preconceived notions they may have about "criminals" and our justice system...

I wear my hair up in a ponytail everyday, if I wear it down for a disco so occasion the attention it sparks makes me want to put it up again

I like to laugh like a maniacal villain in the movie randomly.

I blow my nose in the noisiest possible way. I am sorry but i really dont know how to do it properly without sounding like an elephant playing the trumpet.

I laugh at almost everything because if I'm not sure how to react that's my fall back. It makes people very confused when I tell them why. One day someone was stealing my chair out from under me when I was sitting in it and I was laughing a lot, so my friends thought I thought it was funny and I couldn't convince them I was actually really annoyed.

Im a total feminist born in a typical backword thought family ...... I totally hate the fact my family prohibits me from wearing crop tops or even shorts just because Im a girl. They also dont like the way I love K-pop , Because k-pop guys are "Gay" , according to them

My weird fashion tastes 😂 sometimes i dress goth, sometimes punk, emo or harajuku/kpop style, sometimes ‘girls ‘ clothes and skirts which people might think im weird for but i think i look cute 😊 also girls clothes fit me way better im very small 😩

I have a really bad anxiety disorder and I tend to shake and or fidget with literally everything. Apparently people find it annoying that I have nervous tics I cannot control, even with medication.

Also I've been told before that I'm too young to be depressed and simply faking my neurological disorder for attention.

I don't like harry potter, star wars or Lord of the rings

I truly do not give a crap what others think of me. I never get embarrassed. Saying this I'm never an AH to people. My friends find it weird sometimes. For example I fell on ice the other week and some old woman were laughing... I just did not care.

I am always myself & treat everyone the way I wish to be treated.
It raises a lot of people's eyebrows.