JCC Irrational fears

All women should glance in the car before getting in.

 

He was around briefly during the late 80s/early 90s....was meant to appeal to adults and advertise McDonalds being open late. Basically he rode around on a flying piano while singing the praises of McDonalds to the tune of "Mack the Knife".

Though there is one noteworthy thing about him....he was played by creature performer Doug Jones.

AKA the guy behind every creepy crawly in every Guillermo Del Toro movie.

 

Spiders, heights, and most insects are the big ones. I know those are common phobias and even primal fears to an extent, but that doesn't make them any less irrational since the likelihood of anything bad happening to me because of them is slim to none.

I also have a similar one to Kyle Katarn. When I was a kid I watched an episode of Goosebumps where a girl was scaring her little brother by making up a monster called the "Toe Biter" who grabbed and ate your toes when you dangled bare feet over the bed or walked barefoot near some bushes or something. It was a little throwaway idea that had nothing to do with the plot of the episode at hand but the concept has always stayed with me and to this day I feel a slight sense of anxiety when I put my feet on the floor when sitting on my bed. Ugh.

 

I have to join the legit "I don't have any irrational fears" camp. I don't even really have any normal fears, other than I guess general caution at night in urban areas. But mostly I'm extremely difficult to frighten or shake up. I tend to look at actual risks and consider them before I ever let my imagination run wild. This could either mean that I'm just a severely rational person or that I have no soul. Probably the latter.

The end result of this is that no matter where I go or what group of people I'm with - males or females, all ages, nationalities and creeds - I always wind up having to kill/get rid of a spider while some fools cower in terror from a tiny creature that is causing them no harm and in fact only doing them the favor of getting rid of flies and ants for them. smh

 

Tom's post reminded me that I do have irrational fears!
1. Leaving the stove, iron, coffee maker, etc. on. I will go back into the house after checking that everything was off before leaving. We drove to Colorado for vacation one time and I was both positive that I had left the iron on and that it was just a paranoid fear.
2. Even though I know no one's in the house, I will have to check it to make sure. I don't get that one very often anymore but when it happens I have to do the rounds.

 

Then hury quickly home! To do the ironing and make sammiches.

 

How does on check a trunk through the window? Do you have an all glass trunk? A see-through back seat?

 

I'm so proud of you, Wocky. I never would have guessed that you were even familiar with the newfangled and confusing concept of trunks.

 

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I can see in my trunk through my back window...

 

****ing furries.

 

Haha what I do is get into the car and lock the doors before doing anything else. I'm paranoid that a carjacker might suddenly get into the car and force me to drive away at gunpoint

 

I don't like going into coffee shops and sitting with my back to the door. I'm afraid some knife wielding assassin will come in and sneak up behind me.

 

Phobias. Phobias freak the hell out of me.

 

I think this forum is full of accounts run by a god-like creature pretending to have a discussion with itself, and all the accounts are fake except your own.
Also, I'm afraid a snake might come up through the toilet while doing my business.

 

Mods. There is nothing worse.

 

@mods Please merge this thread to the mental illness thread and ban tony so he finally can go to hell.

 

nvm

 

I am the same. Ditto pretty much anyone in my family which drives my wife nuts but were a bunch of Italians who know all too well what can happen with your back turn at a resturant.

 

Dentists. A hygenist once injected my gums three times intending to do a mega clean and the adrenalin sent my heart rate up to 180. I couldn't feel my legs and ended up in hospital. Since that day I genuinely hate going. Fortunately, I'm British so wonky teeth are essential.

 

I don't know if I have any currently, but as a kid, there was one: when visiting my grandparents in Florida, we would drive down one street and there was this one tree that looked scary to me. I would close my eyes until we had passed it.

The thing was, it was just an ordinary tree and not like the ones made to be scary looking in the scene from Snow White.

How's that for irrational?

 

@PCCViking, was it eating kites?

 

No. I think it may have been the size itself.

Like I said, it was an irrational fear for me at that age.

 

Does death count as "irrational"? I'm terrified of dying. Like, terrified.

 

Spiders on my butthole. Yeesh.