Remember last week how I made everyone feel better about themselves and also slightly less crazy when I shared some of the ridiculous things I’m afraid of? Well, friends, get ready because I’m about to do it again.
That’s right. I’m coming at you with a whole new list of completely irrational things that I am genuinely terrified of for no other reason than my brain is broken and I clearly have major issues.
1. Cocaine. Not only have I never tried this drug because, you know, it’s cocaine but also when I was in 8th grade or so I read that Sweet Valley High book where their friend Regina tries coke at a party and DIES of a heart attack. Best “just say no to drugs” campaign ever.
2. Being poisoned. I can’t even explain this one away with a back story but I legit fear someone putting something in my drink or food and then I die.
3. Falling. Specifically, down a flight of stairs and breaking bones. I did fall roller skating when I was 7 and broke my wrist and spent 6 weeks in a cast so this one actually has basis in fact. But that was in a crowded public place. I fear doing it down the stairs in my house and being stuck and not being able to get my phone and call for help.
4. Being impaled. See also: being stabbed. Like being poisoned, I have no reason for being scared of this but I just am. I should probably stop watching violent crime shows. It might help ease this particular fear.
5. Losing my luggage. Not that I am a world traveler nor do I fly more than twice a year, so the odds of this happening are slim, but every time I do fly and I have to check my luggage, I have a panic attack that my suitcase winds up somewhere I’m not and someone else has my stuff and then I have to buy all new things or be smelly and dirty.
6. Getting on the wrong plane/bus/train. Sort of the same as losing my luggage except this time, I’m the one who gets lost. And then I wind up somewhere I don’t know and I have a horrible sense of direction and I get even more lost and my phone is dead and I can’t call for help or use a map and no one will help me and then I just cry. Or maybe get abducted. Either one is totally plausible.
7. Trucks. Specifically, driving behind trucks. It terrifies me when I can’t see traffic lights or other cars, and when I’m stuck between two trucks, I’m fairly confident I’m going to get smushed. I realize this puts no faith in the drivers of said trucks and I have more respect for them than that but it does nothing to ease my fear.
8. Home invasions. Again, it’s probably too many crime shows. And news stories. But this is a fear I’ve had going back to my childhood in one of the safest, crime free places on the planet. It won’t go away. It’s also the reason that when we first moved into our house, we kept our dog locked away in our room while we were out. Just in case.
9. Foul balls. I love baseball. I love going to baseball games. But unlike everyone else in the stands, when a foul ball comes my way, I don’t charge for it. Not only do I think I’ll take a tumble over my section (see: fear of falling) but when I was 16, I got hit in the face with a line drive and I can’t shake the thought that it’ll happen again. So when a foul ball comes my way, I cower.
10. My dogs being stolen. If I take my dogs with me and I have to run a quick errand, I will leave them in the car (weather dependent, of course). In the less than 10 minutes it will take to run said errand, I am paranoid that when I come out, my dogs will have been thieved from my car and I’ll never see them again. I also fear that someone will climb our fence and take them from the backyard when I let them out. It doesn’t mater that I watch them like a hawk (which, incidentally, I’m also afraid of). The fear is real.
Bonus fear, as told by a dog:
I think this is it for the irrational fears. The rest that I have are completely rational and make sense and I don’t like to talk about them that much because they’re not really very entertaining.
Did I miss any? What other ones do you guys have? Do you think this list covers any of them?
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Haha. I love these! And I’ve totally fallen down a flight of stairs .. going INTO a bar. I’m graceful. I know. 🙂 Luckily, there were no serious injuries other than my injured pride. You can read all about it:
http://www.wanderlyn.com/wanderlust-wednesday-making-an-entrance/
I fell down outside a bar, on the sidewalk, in front of cops. This was not the first time (see my response to Kathy), and there are more than I should admit. I’m a mess.
hmmm a few of these have actually happened to me:
1) falling down…luckily no broken bones but it was down the stairs of the school atrium WHEN I WAS A FRESHMAN IN HIGH SCHOOL ON THE 2ND DAY OF SCHOOL so that’s worse than actually breaking bones, amirite??
2) losing luggage – yep, the airlines lost our luggage when we were on our babymoon, i was 7months pregnant with no luggage and we didn’t get it back for about 4 days. that wasn’t fun.
3) got on the wrong bus while travelling and ended up in no man’s land. which actually turned out to be somewhat of an adventure.
on a heavier note, i read a tweet yesterday that a 4yr old somewhere in the US took HEROIN to daycare and gave it out because she thought it was candy. WTF IS UP WITH THE WORLD
-kathy
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I saw that about the heroin at daycare. I can’t even process that correctly.
I have definitely fallen down the stairs but usually on my ass so no broken bones. I wiped out in the middle of the street in Cancun on spring break. Sober, too. I feel your embarrassment.
I’m totally with you on Cocaine, I’ve always been to scared to try it even if my friends were. I’ll just stay sober thanks.
On an unrelated and random note, did you know there is a store in Alabama some place that sells people’s lost luggage?
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I did not know that and now I kind of wish I didn’t because now I have something else to be afraid of!!
I don’t get why people would purposefully do cocaine. They clearly didn’t read what happened to Regina.
Over the past 15 yrs or so, this is how I have responded to my fears- the worst- something happening to any of my people,especially my chickens.
I immediately surround them with the white light and angels and whoever else I think can help. I believe in it and it’s free and easy and calming. I light us all many times a day. It works for me.
As for the fear factor- this was on a fortune cookie fortune.
“Fear knocked on the door, Faith answered, no one was there!!”
It works for me!! Especially last night at 1 AM on the NJTpk, pouring rain surrounded by trucks!!! Many lights and angels called on and many thanks when we arrived home safely!
Love, SMD’s Momma
That driving situation makes me panicky just reading it. The turnpike is unpleasant under dry and perfect weather conditions. I’m glad you made it home safely!
I never travel anywhere without fear of losing my luggage.
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It’s a horrible fear, especially if you’re travelling outside the U.S.
Oh my gosh, I have so many irrational fears, and some of the same as yours! I’m a worrier, so I pretty much worry about anything and everything.
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I am definitely a worrier. And clearly, I’m crazy, too. It’s okay, though. I get by.
LOL you are so great.
OK so funny story about your “truck” fears. I used to have a convertible. One day when I was 16, my brother and I went to pick up dinner for us and my mom/dad. On our way home, I had to slam on breaks because I was about to miss my turn. There was a tractor trailer truck behind and he had to literally swerve off of the road to avoid hitting me. My brother saw the whole thing in the mirrors and because we had the top down and was screaming at the top of his lungs and has had the most horrid fear of them ever since. Like it is so sad, but I cannot help but laugh !!!! LOL
That is a terrible story. But in my version, I’d be the one swerving or running a red light because I couldn’t see over the truck and then I am stuck in a ditch with cuts and bruises and broken bones. I get your brother’s fear. It is real.
um can I tell you I am still so sad about Regina dying? Seriously. Poor Bruce. I am always terrified of losing my luggage because it’s been delayed so many times, one time i’m certain they are gonna lose it all together! carry on for the win.
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It was a traumatic loss. I’m still haunted by it. No joke.
I approve of carry on luggage. I found a couple of pins to become a packing ninja. I need to practice those.
I fell down this summer, in the woods, at 8am on a weekday. As I was desperately grabbing for the dog leash I dropped in the process, I had two fears. 1) That I wouldn’t get the leash and my Beagle would run off (this is not irrational, she loves to run off, especially in the woods). 2) That I would be stuck there on the ground until after 5pm, when someone else would be walking those trails. (Completely irrational, as I had my cell phone in my pocket). But I totally get your fear of falling.
If it helps, I have a fear of wind. It used to be on the phobia range, but now, I can actually sleep on a windy night. That happened sometime in my 30s. As a kid, I was always afraid that the tree in our front yard would blow over into my window and kill me in my bed. Nevermind the fact that the tree would have barely reached the house, and my bed was on the far side of my room.
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I would classify that more as a “fear of falling trees” phobia rather than one of wind. And honestly, it’s totally rational, even under the circumstances you describe.
Your fears after falling in the woods? Also completely rational.
If only I were afraid of falling trees. It’s wind. I can be in the middle of a field of tall grass, no trees anywhere in sight, and if it gets windy, I tense up and freak out.
And put me on a beach in wind, with people trying to fly kites, and I’m a nervous wreck!
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That’s definitely weird 🙂
I totally fell off a ladder once, not fun. I am always afraid of losing my luggage, it happened to me on a trip to Arizona and took 3 days to locate it.
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LADDERS!!! I forgot about ladders!!! Add this to the list, too.
Another lost luggage story. I’m never checking a bag again.
So just to expand on our twitter convo… I only read like 5-7 of those SVH books, because the people in those books were super annoying. But ONE of those 5-7 books was THAT one with Regina. It was traumatizing. I couldn’t even grasp the magnitude of what I was reading. I was like Oh my God, this can actually happen?? Why are the drug campaigns just saying “Don’t do drugs”, when they should also say “Because you can die the very FIRST time you try it”. All these years later, still haunted by that book…
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Love that we are both suffer from freakishly irrational fears!
I am certain I am setting my kids up to fear big trucks, among other things. I literally scream out loud anytime I have to pass one. I just about have a panic attack anytime I have to drive along side of them because I am certain I am in their blind spot and they are going to crush me!
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Sadly, have had to live through one of your fears – our dog got stolen a few years back. Barely 6 months old and taken 🙁 The part that hurt us the most was that she was probably got taken for breeding and she had just got fixed – so was probably abandoned somewhere. I HATE to think about that.
I have irrational fears of plane toilets – just the sound and the confined space… everything’s going to get sucked down!
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Our luggage was lost once but thankfully we got it back the same day. My grandma told me that she and my grandfather used to put a few items of their stuff in each other’s suitcases in case one of them got lost they would still have essentials like underwear, change of clothes etc. I thought that sounded like a lot of work but I considered it when our luggage was temporarily lost.
Funny thing about the home invasions is that I have actually planned my escape route in case someone breaks into our house while I’m home alone.
One time, drunk in Cancun, we were on a city bus -hanging out with a local – and I had a sober thought. What if this local is totally leading us somewhere crazy while we are wasted?!
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My post deleted! Anyways, I talked about having planned an escape route in my head in case someone breaks in.
We lost our luggage once but it was returned to us a few hours later – thankfully! My grandparents used to pack a few items in each other’s suitcases in case one of their luggage was lost.
In Cancun we were wasted cruising on their city bus with a local checking out the sites. While on the bus I had a sobering thought – what if this guy is crazy and leading us to our doom!!!
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I don’t know if this counts, but I did have a nightmare once (completely based on one of Eminem’s songs), where my friend overdosed on mushrooms and died and it was all my fault. So if our dreams are indicative of real emotions, I suppose it’s sort of a fear… But then again, I’ve had some really bizarre nightmares, so maybe not.
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Uhm girl, I’m terrified of rouge balls/pucks/items from sports activities because they alway shit me! I also had a football go through my windshield at a game in high school. Oh and I’m totally terrified of a home invasion. Basically I always assume there’s a murderer lurking in my apartment ready to grab me.
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Meghan
The foul ball thing is hilarious! I totally duck when they come anywhere near my area. Ha! My mom got hit in the head by a hockey puck at a game and had to go by ambulance to the hospital for stitches in her head. She is TERRIFIED now when we go to hockey games. Good thing we sit on the ice. Haha!
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