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Irrational fear thread

Rideforfun

Monkey
Nov 23, 2009
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I really don't like turning my back on and walking out of a room I've just turned the lights out in. The basement especially, even when I know it's empty and the door is locked I feel like someone is going to follow me out.
 

sunny

Grammar Civil Patrol
Jul 2, 2004
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Sandy Eggo, CA
I'm good with heights, falling from heights, flying, snakes, snakes on a plane, needles (I'm O negative and get stalked by the blood bank)... But the one truly irrational fear I have: the garbage disposal. I have gone to the neighbor's house before to ask someone to please come retrieve a fork, because I knew I couldn't hold out for two months till the husband came back from deployment.

But outside the garbage disposal, not much scares me. Inside the garbage disposal... (shudders).
 

sunny

Grammar Civil Patrol
Jul 2, 2004
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Sandy Eggo, CA
OO! OO! Men with hairy backs in speedos. Who sweat a lot.

(yeeeeeks.)

OK. SO the very worst!! A very hairy man in a speedo who has come to retrieve a fork that has fallen down into my garbage disposal.

OK. I'm done playing.
 

Full Trucker

Frikkin newb!!!
Feb 26, 2003
10,484
7,531
Exit, CO
I'm fairly certain most of my fears are pretty rational, really. Pretty standard stuff, honestly. My girlfriend, on the other hand, has a truly IRRATIONAL and absolute FEAR of bananas. She is legitimately scared of them, and there is 100% no reason for it. She's getting better since dating me (I like bananas, they're delicious and good for you) but when I first met her she could barely stand to be in the same room with a banana, and holding a bunch was out of the question. She would squirm. It was funny. Her fear was so complete that she would often tell people she was allergic to them (she is not) just so people wouldn't ask questions.



Bananas. :banana:
 

stoney

Part of the unwashed, middle-American horde
Jul 26, 2006
21,519
7,068
Colorado
I'm fairly certain most of my fears are pretty rational, really. Pretty standard stuff, honestly. My girlfriend, on the other hand, has a truly IRRATIONAL and absolute FEAR of bananas. She is legitimately scared of them, and there is 100% no reason for it. She's getting better since dating me (I like bananas, they're delicious and good for you) but when I first met her she could barely stand to be in the same room with a banana, and holding a bunch was out of the question. She would squirm. It was funny. Her fear was so complete that she would often tell people she was allergic to them (she is not) just so people wouldn't ask questions.



Bananas. :banana:
I could have fun with this...
 

JRogers

talks too much
Mar 19, 2002
3,785
1
Claremont, CA
Flying kind of scares me. I even have taken some basic flying lessons, but was still scared. I'll be all cool and then if the plane hits some turbulence, my first thought is "omg we're all gonna die."

Also, good call on the garbage disposal. I was always a bit scared of that, but can now make myself throw a hand in if there is something in there I can see and can't get with tongs or something. It doesn't help that the disposal we have now turns on by a light switch mounted right below the sink. It has been turned on accidentally before- if you bump it with your hip while standing at the sink, it'll go on.
 

JohnE

filthy rascist
May 13, 2005
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Front Range, dude...
Just remembered I have a fear of something reaching out from under my bed and grabbing me by the feet, dragging me underneath it and messily devouring me...I will not stand nextt o my bed at night. I flop in quickly after flinging open the covers. Mrs JohnE thinks its because I find the bed so inviting...