Totally irrational fears that just won't go away.

I believe serial rapist and killers live behind shower curtains. In my own home the shower curtain (decorative and liner) are pulled back unless I am actually showering but when I pee at someone else's home I close the door then violently yank back the shower curtain. I sit down and do my business only after ensuring the shower is killer free.

Elevators and flying. I don't like big trucks either.

Last weekend we went to Laurel Caverns. It was a one hour tour of the cavern. I almost had a panic attack (just kidding, but was shaking!). I worried that we would have to go in an elevator in the cave. I didn't like the narrow parts we had to go through and it was dark. They even did a light show, but turned off all the lights first. I didn't like it at all!

I worry about something happening to the house, like fires or flooding.  I check through the house so many times to make sure nothing was left on or curling irons are unplugged and the toilet stopped running.  I will get out of bed to double check the oven, even if we didn't use it.  I don't worry about anyone breaking in, so I won't get up to make sure the door is locked.  Crazy!

I don't like being stuck in traffic on a bridge or overpass. I don't panic about it, but it makes me uneasy. It stems from all of the coverage of the San Francisco earthquake in '89. All those people stuck in rush hour traffic and the overpasses collapsed, crushing the cars in between. I also think about the bridge that was hit by a big boat and collapsed and people just drove right off into the water. There's a huge freeway bridge near me that I drive on almost daily when I'm home. I'm fine unless there is traffic and I'm stuck. That makes me nervous.

Hmmm. Is anyone reading this and adopting someone else's irrational fear as their own. And krazykatlady come on don't leave us hanging. I will add a couple more:


Squirrels
Geckos
Placing the filter back inside the Perfect Tea Maker

Ditto! 

I'd need an hour to list them all. 

my first drive on the interstate in a major city (denver) included a guy side swiping another car and one of them ended upside down on the cement barrier. I think being trapped between a barrier and a semi is a legitimate fear.


Mine is using the car wash at night. I figure that if a car came and parked behind and one in front I would have no where to go anf I would be killed.

Yeah - I have developed a fear of going down the ramp from our back steps at home.

In July, I hadn't realised there was a frost and I slipped on the icy wooden ramp - broke my wrist.
And since then I just can't make myself walk down the ramp, even in the middle of a hot day.  I walk out the door, determined to walk down the ramp, but I stand at the top and think that I just can't; so I have to go the long way around to my car. I can feel the sensation of my feet sliding out from under me.

I know it's irrational - I have only ever slipped once and it was because of the ice. I can walk up the ramp and I know my feet don't slip. But I can't walk down it incase they do slip.

Clowns! I know I'm not the only one. I have to look away if I see one. Krusty the clown, Bozo, regular clowns, they all freak me out. I used to work at a job where I helped a resident put on clown makeup for his Halloween costume.

I hate going on the down escalator unless it is narrow where I can hold onto both sides securely. Going up on the escalator is ok but I sure don't like going down them.

I have a fear of dentristry - don't like the procedures and I sure hate the cost (even with insurance).

My irrational fear is watching someone else use a knife. Can't do it.

This would be me too. I was shoved onto the shoulder once in Kentucky by a semi who decided to change into my lane as I was passing him. I'd had my license for a couple of months.

I'm well aware of blind spots with semis and I now won't sit next to one if a driver ahead of me hasn't passed completely. And I'll do the 80/85 to get past if I need to also. I don't panic, I'm just not going to tempt fate lol!

I know a lot of people just can't deal with that bridge. There's just something about it that freaks out so many people.

I have so many I don't know that I could list them all. Could be a full time job. Lol!

I don't like taking the trash out at night. I worry when I open the lid a raccoon will jump out at me.

The big escalators that are in stores and malls. When I was a kid my dad told me a story about a kid whose shoe lace came undone on the escalator and it got sucked in. The kid wound up skinned alive. I'm reasonably sure as an adult that my dad made that up. But I still cannot stomach the escalators. Whenever I have to get on one I am stiff and always sure that even if I don't get sucked in and skinned alive I will trip on the last step and wind up flying over the edge to my death.