What are your irrational fears?

[G22]

Ones that are non-TTC related. I'm guessing we all have similar ones there.

This brought to you by my thoughts while falling asleep last night. I have a huge fear of something happening in the middle of the night and not being able to save all 5 of my pets. Everytime we move to a new house, this irrational fear is brought out, and the first few nights in our new house I plan out how I'd try to save them if something happened.

Example 1: A few years ago we lived on the coast in California. We got tsnami warnings one night right before bed due to an earthquake in Japan. So i went to bed figuring out how I would get my pets on the roof of our single level home if we got flooding. I shouldnt have watched the live feed of flooding in Japan before going to bed....

Example 2: Our current house is 70s era with a ton of wood paneling. My new fear is it will catch fire in the middle of the night. So I must figure out how I would get all the pets out if this happened. It doesnt help that I woke up yesterday morning to find I had left a candle burning all night. 

All my irrational planning doesnt included my husband, because hes gone a lot and I need to be prepared if something happens when hes not home. Haha How is that for crazy and slightly irrational?

What are you irrational fears? Make me feel better about mine.

[ilovecandy]

I am trying to come up with some. I have the how am i going to get my pets out of the house in case of emergency fear too. I also now have a fear of someone hitting my new car.

[trufflefries]

A spider biting my ass while on the toilet. LOL

[G22]

Mar 5, 2013 10:52:11 GMT -5 ilovecandy said:

I am trying to come up with some. I have the how am i going to get my pets out of the house in case of emergency fear too. I also now have a fear of someone hitting my new car.

Oh I get the car thing! When we bought my car it was brand new and I was paranoid about someone hitting it. It survived 3 years, until we moved to Montana. Dont come here with a new car. In 6 months, I had someone do a hit and run on my car in a parking lot, 2 chips in my windshield (one of which sent a crack across my entire windshield and I still havent fixed it), and I had an accident.  What sucks is those were all out of my hands except my accident. I'm praying my poor car survives the next 2 years here because I love it.

( Sorry if my story fuels your paranoia )

[ilovecandy]

Mar 5, 2013 11:23:10 GMT -5 G22 said:

Mar 5, 2013 10:52:11 GMT -5 ilovecandy said:

I am trying to come up with some. I have the how am i going to get my pets out of the house in case of emergency fear too. I also now have a fear of someone hitting my new car.

Oh I get the car thing! When we bought my car it was brand new and I was paranoid about someone hitting it. It survived 3 years, until we moved to Montana. Dont come here with a new car. In 6 months, I had someone do a hit and run on my car in a parking lot, 2 chips in my windshield (one of which sent a crack across my entire windshield and I still havent fixed it), and I had an accident.  What sucks is those were all out of my hands except my accident. I'm praying my poor car survives the next 2 years here because I love it.

( Sorry if my story fuels your paranoia )

I am going to pretend i didn't read this lol.  Oh snakes coming out of drains is another one.  

ETA: We are going to visit my family this weekend in Houston.  Do you know how crazy the highway gets there? I am scared.  

[G22]

ilovecandy just stay away from here and you should be fine! Seriously, my car has been to up Maine, down to Florida, all over California (LA, San Fran..ect) and everywhere in between and survived. Move to Montana, a very low populated state, and bam! Everything happens. But there are some awful drivers here!

Good luck and be safe on your trip! You and your new car :-)

[ilovecandy]

G22  Thanks I will!  I had two fender benders in Texas when we live in El Paso though.  Plus when I was visiting my parents once and my mom and I went somewhere with her car another car slammed into us from behind on the highway.  I am mostly excited to sit in my new car for 18 hours or so lol.  And yes I will probably talk about my car or inject in some fashion for like a month because it is my first new car (my other was used).

[BNL2]

I'm terrified of drowning in my own bathtub. So I won't shower if I'm buzzed because I think I'll slip, hit my head, and then drown. Since Newtown I'm terrified of a shooter coming into one of my buildings. I worry more about not being able to protect students than protecting myself. I regularly have to talk myself out of locking myself in my office. I also fear losing my husband unexpectedly. I know that's a common fear, but I start to get anxious when he is late or if he doesn't answer his phone. Another fear is that a major disaster will happen and DH and I won't be able to reach each other. We work in opposite directions about 80 miles apart. If the zombie apocalypse starts midday, I don't know how we'll reach eachother.

[degal99]

My irrational fears include flying (which sucks because I love to travel!) and crickets. Yes, crickets. Evil evil little bugs.

[purpleme]

Driving on the freeway over the --bridge overpass-- that extends across the ocean....I feel as if the bridge will collapse and my car will plummet into the depths of the ocean!! Nooo! I get sweaty palms and my heart races as I drive over the bridge overpass!



This is St. Thomas bridge in San Pedro, California

[discogranny]

I don't have a car key, just a key fob and push to start. I am always afraid the doors are going to magically lock when I step out of the car to put mail in a mailbox or something and leave my key fob in the car.

[KaraOrNot]

G22 - This morning, for no reason, I started getting really anxious about a fire and not being able to get my animals out. The only thing that gets my grey cat out of hiding is soft food. For a minute, I was thinking that I should keep a can with me at all times. Than I realized that would be weird, but I do need to come up w/ a game plan. H works 3rd shift, so if something happens at night, it is all on me.


purpleme - I used to be terrified of bridges. I don't have many issues anymore, but that picture freaks me out.

When I was 16, my friend was driving around a curve too fast and rolled the car. To this day, I get really scared when going around curves. Also, snakes. I am terrified of snakes.

[G22]

KaraOrNot, I hope my post didn't cause your anxiety about fire this morning! Id rather have a plan in case of emergency, than freak out and waste time. Who knows, I'd probably still freak out. At least I'm not alone in this thinking. Makes me feel less crazy for thinking about it :-)

[trufflefries]

Mar 5, 2013 19:09:48 GMT -5 BNL2 said:

I'm terrified of drowning in my own bathtub. So I won't shower if I'm buzzed because I think I'll slip, hit my head, and then drown. Since Newtown I'm terrified of a shooter coming into one of my buildings. I worry more about not being able to protect students than protecting myself. I regularly have to talk myself out of locking myself in my office. I also fear losing my husband unexpectedly. I know that's a common fear, but I start to get anxious when he is late or if he doesn't answer his phone. Another fear is that a major disaster will happen and DH and I won't be able to reach each other. We work in opposite directions about 80 miles apart. If the zombie apocalypse starts midday, I don't know how we'll reach eachother.

A shooting is another one of mine. I work in a hospital and I'm part of the response team if we ever have an active shooter (I'm the operator) so I've had lots of training but I know in the back of my mind I would FREAK if it ever actually happened.

[murdock]

G22
Something happening to my dogs freaks me out, too. They're just so-helpless?

Since Sandy, our house flooding ( water stopped basically 2 n 1/2 blocks away on 2 sides). And some off the other ridiculousness of people that ensued afterwards.

Getting in a car accident as I commute up the parkway.

[mae141]

Breaking a bone. I've never had a broken bone before (knock on wood; I'll probably break one now) and the thought freaks me out. I think I could deal with a little fracture, but a bone totally snapping freaks me out. I believe this fear was brought on by the youtube video of two people arm wrestling and the one girl's arm snaps. Don't watch it. We had some Chinese acrobats come to school for an assembly and they were balancing on top of each other and I kept picturing their arms breaking. 

purpleme- Long bridges over water freak me out, too. Especially when it's windy. 

[degal99]

Mar 5, 2013 23:37:20 GMT -5 KaraOrNot said:

G22 - This morning, for no reason, I started getting really anxious about a fire and not being able to get my animals out. The only thing that gets my grey cat out of hiding is soft food. For a minute, I was thinking that I should keep a can with me at all times. Than I realized that would be weird, but I do need to come up w/ a game plan. H works 3rd shift, so if something happens at night, it is all on me.

When DH and I lived in an apartment, the fire alarm went off, and when I opened the door, there was actually smoke in the hallway.  We literally had to move our bed away from the wall so we could grab one cat, and then we had to move the sofa to grab the other one!  Hilarious now, then not so much.

[aliciar6]

1) we will have a fire and I wouldn't be able to get the cat or I wouldn't be home to get her out. So I'm thinking of getting one of those signs to put near the door to alert any rescue personnel that we have a kitty (and a dog) and to rescue them.

2) that we would have a shooting where someone bursts in while I'm in the bathroom. The thought of being offed while on the crapper seems to really bother me.

[pamela]

I used to have a fear of getting lost. Now my biggest is negative feedback at work. That I'll be going along thinking I'm awesome and BAM! you suck!