What do you love that almost everyone else hates??

@magnetron I’m getting nervous just reading that^. :-SS

Liverwurst, black licorice, Vienna sausages (70’s dinner party staple at my house growing up…along with a nut covered cheeseball. #sochic #not) Raisin cake and fruit cake, rocking a fussy baby, and mostly being told “you can’t do that” or “that’ll never work”. I like a good challenge :wink:

Sitting in the front at the movie theater. I like to be TOTALLY immersed.

This is probably gross to many, but I don’t mind changing diapers. I’ve changed the diapers of many, many, many babies and it’s really no big deal for me. Started changing diapers when I was 5 years old…the days of cloth and big diaper pins.

I love taking care of babies, so changing diapers is just one part of the care.

I like sitting in the front of large classes–would always sit in the 1st or 2nd row in 200+ seat classes to avoid falling asleep. It worked very well for me. Many people liked hiding in the back of the class.

I actually like, and have always liked, pop music… including some of the music of the boy bands of the 90s and early 2000s (Backstreet Boys, NSync, etc.).

Most men I knew in my age cohort despised pop music (or claimed to) and especially disliked the boy bands. I found their better songs melodic (there’s a reason nearly every song in every popular genre has 1/4/5 and usually minor 2 and minor 6 chords in it – these chords, and the melodies and harmonies they support, sound good) easy to play on a guitar. The music I write is a bit more complex (I use 7s relatively liberally, for instance) but i appreciate simplicity too.

To this day, when i hear someone refer to a boy band in a positive manner, i look around to make sure nobody my age is within earshot before responding.

Spreadsheets.

(this “sound good” isn’t some innate, “natural” (whatever that means), or magical thing–it’s the result of acculturation. If you’re unconvinced, consider that other cultures’ musics did not follow these structures until western music came in and took over (itself a function of power dynamics)). Or, as Eddie Prevost put it, "no sound is innocent.

Preparing tax returns.

I like middle-school age students. Long after my kids moved on, my kids’ former teacher would contact me to drive/chaperone on field trips. It was an underfunded urban school and they could go on field trips, but had no funding or transportation available so relied on parent volunteers. I really like that age group.

“Love” isn’t the right word, but I don’t mind sitting on a packed airplane in the middle seat in Economy class. I can even deal with crying babies.

I’m so put upon by the responsibilities of work & family, that when I’m aboard an airplane, I’M NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANYTHING. It’s an aluminum escape capsule.

Grapefruit

Bees. I know most people don’t hate bees, but I actually like being around them.

Turbulence on airplanes. I have to stop myself from yelling “whoo-hoo” sometimes.

I don’t think most people hate grapefruit!

Most people in my family sure do!

Home renovations. Love to do them. But then again, I have a fabulous contractor.

@greenwitch I should be so lucky! I spent a lot of time during the kids’ childhoods de-segmenting grapefruit! And sprinkling just the teeny-tiniest amount of sugar on the prepared fruit. I usually ate mine standing up at the sink…after everyone else had finished theirs!

I did a lot of desegmenting for the girls’ lunches but they, plus one niece and myself, are the only people I know who love grapefruit.

The grapefruit industry in Florida and Texas is thriving.

Anchovies, liverwurst, room temp water ,and liver, bacon and onions. I love to do laundry (including ironing), and enjoy painting and washing windows.

I love grapefruit, eat one per day, and would only go on statin medicine that allowed grapefruit as part of the diet.