Irrational fears
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Topic: Irrational fears
Posted By: baalamb
Subject: Irrational fears
Date Posted: 25 May 2007 at 9:38am
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I think we've had a thread similar to this before, but I just realised I have some crazy fears.
1. When coming to a traffic light intersection and I have a green light, I'm really paranoid that an ambulance/fire truck/police car is going to come blaring down the street with it's lights and sirens on and smack straight into me from where they would have had to stop at red lights. (make sense?!) 2. I love singing in my car to whatevers on the radio. I'm paranoid that somehow, my cellphone in my bag has leant on something and dialled a number for some random person and they're listening to me sing.  I feel so silly admitting those! Add yours...
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Posted By: caraMel
Date Posted: 25 May 2007 at 9:47am
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Whenever I straighten my hair I am paranoid for ages after that I've left the straightener on and its going to burn the house down, despite the fact its got an auto shutoff timer.
I often panic when I've left the house in a hurry that I've gone out in my pyjama pants or something equally embarrassing There are heaps more! just need time to remember them  ------------- Mel, Mummy to E: 6, B: 4 and: 
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Posted By: nikkitheknitter
Date Posted: 25 May 2007 at 9:47am
Pregnancy.
Oh wait, that isn't irrational. But even when it is irrational (ie on injection) I still worry. |
Posted By: BabyOnBoard
Date Posted: 25 May 2007 at 10:08am
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Lol
Biggest fear is ringing people! Absolutley freaks me out! Ants also, there to little they can climb in anywhere ------------- http://lilypie.com">  
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Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: 25 May 2007 at 10:15am
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My biggest fear is spiders. (gets chills thinking about it) But I also have a fear of hurting people's feelings. I try to make everybody happy even at my own expense.
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Posted By: BaAsKa
Date Posted: 25 May 2007 at 10:35am
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Oh i have SSOOOOOO many irrational fears that i would bore you to death..or laugh you to death!! telling you them!
Heres a few (dont know if they are my craziest though! lol). - I fear that iv left all kinds of appliences on at night or when i go out. - I fear that DH is going to have a car accident or bike accident every morning!! 
- I fear that our storage unit holding all our house at the moment is going to burn down!! (soooo random!) - I always think i have food or something on my face when in public! - I always think my undies are showing or something simlar like that!! GOD! im crazy! lol 
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Posted By: baalamb
Date Posted: 25 May 2007 at 10:36am
I'm kinda the same. I would rather speak to the person, in person instead of over the phone! Wonder why that is... |
BabyOnBoard wrote:Posted By: Peanut
Date Posted: 25 May 2007 at 10:39am
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I have a fear of being the only person in a swimming pool as think they will realise sharks as a wee experiment.
Strange, yes, irrational, def! -------------  
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Posted By: busymum
Date Posted: 25 May 2007 at 10:46am
Gosh funny, I far prefer to call someone - actually email is even better - than meet in person. It feels more "safe" to me
I almost feel sick, just thinking about (the possibility of) mice in the house. Absolutely hate it (we had them at one stage when I was a kid). One day my sis rang me at my bf's place (he's now my DH) to tell me that she found a dead one under a pile of stuff just outside our (hers and my) bedroom. He had been squashed flat.  I screamed and dropped the phone!! 
We had a cat trapped in our garage for 3 days, a couple of months back. Now everytime I see the garage door not properly closed, I always do a quick scan of the place to check there are no more eyes peering out. Ugh. Totally freaked me out when I walked in there that once and found a cat just sitting there, looking at me. -------------  |
Posted By: daikini
Date Posted: 25 May 2007 at 11:44am
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I have a fear of insects (especially flies) flying into my ears at night. I have to sleep with the sheets up over my ears to protect myself, and cannot sleep if I don't! If I'm hot, I have the sheet up over my ears but pushed away from my back (so I'm basically cuddling the sheet)
If I get dive-bombed by a flying insect at night, I freak out! Nat just laughs. He doesn't mind too much because I cuddle into him until I feel better. He's been known to put his hand over my ear until I settle down  ------------- Becca, mum of 2 girls & 3 boys |
Posted By: Freesia
Date Posted: 25 May 2007 at 11:47am
Me too I spend so long preparing for the phone call and deciding what and how to say it all, that when I finally call, I get it all mixed up and am a blubbering mess. Would much rather do everything in person.
My main irrational fear is about car accidents. We travel a lot and have to text before I leave and after I get there just in case I've gone off the road and no body knows. DP rides a motorbike daily and that REALLY worries me too. -------------  
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Posted By: KH25
Date Posted: 25 May 2007 at 12:03pm
I'm always paranoid about falling down the stairs and breaking a leg/knocking myself out or else getting really sick (brain embellism or something strange)when I'm home alone with Ashleigh and she'll be stuck screaming in her cot for hours until DH gets home  ------------- Kelly, mum to DD, 19Jun06 (26wks 1lb15oz) DS1, 24Oct10 (32wks 4lb11oz) and DS2, 31Dec11 (32wks, 4lb11) http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: KH25
Date Posted: 25 May 2007 at 12:05pm
Oh and thanks for this - I had never thought about it before   Will now!!------------- Kelly, mum to DD, 19Jun06 (26wks 1lb15oz) DS1, 24Oct10 (32wks 4lb11oz) and DS2, 31Dec11 (32wks, 4lb11) http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: luna
Date Posted: 25 May 2007 at 12:10pm
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Mine is:
Driving onto a bridge, then having to wait in a line of cars while the lights are red/the round-about is backed up. It freaks me out that the bridge might fall into the river. Seriously, I have no idea where that comes from ... have been like it for a number of years now, and the Waikato is a looong way down, so I'd probably die when I hit the water ... god, that's morbid! ------------- Selina http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: Bubbaloo
Date Posted: 25 May 2007 at 12:25pm
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My fears are that if I'm walking under a bridge it's going to collapse on me.
My other is when me and James a out walking that when I'm crossing the road someone going to be speeding or not see us and hit the pram that one freaks me out the most. ------------- http://lilypie.com" rel="nofollow">  Was danni-chick Mum to James My Angel 28/07/08 |
Posted By: caraMel
Date Posted: 25 May 2007 at 12:51pm
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I thought of a few more.
I'm terribly afraid of birds. I hate hate hate them! I don't mind them too much if they're high up in trees but if they're near me I freak out. I also can't stand rats. We've had a couple in this house and luckily DH has been around to deal with them, but I am petrified of a rat or bird visit happening when I am home alone with the kids. I turn into a hyperventilating mess around them. ------------- Mel, Mummy to E: 6, B: 4 and:
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Posted By: .Mel
Date Posted: 25 May 2007 at 1:00pm
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[QUOTE=baalamb]
1. When coming to a traffic light intersection and I have a green light, I'm really paranoid that an ambulance/fire truck/police car is going to come blaring down the street with it's lights and sirens on and smack straight into me from where they would have had to stop at red lights. (make sense?!) QUOTE] I'm the same, we live by the Onehunga firestation and I shudder when I hear them coming and I'm in the car or even waiting to cross the road to go home. My other fear is something happening to me on my way to picking Nyah up from preschool, and hubbie not knowing what bus I caught or which way I went to get her... ------------- Mr Mellow (16) Miss Attitude (8) Destructa Kid (3) 
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Posted By: BaAsKa
Date Posted: 25 May 2007 at 1:39pm
Hell yeah!! i have this insect-in-ear-at-night fear too!!! except its mainly earwigs that freak me out cos they cant back track out of your ear like most other insects!!!
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Posted By: miss
Date Posted: 25 May 2007 at 1:52pm
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I have that intersection fear too, but these days not just emergency vehicles!
My irrational fear is that when I am walking round a shop people think I am stealing things and the store detectives are following me waiting to pounce! (And i don't have anything for them to find of course!) And when i see a cop, in the car or in person walking around, I always think they are coming for me for wahtever reason, even though I know that I haven't done anythign wrong! -------------  
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Posted By: Jay_R
Date Posted: 25 May 2007 at 2:01pm
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Hey Mel, just seen that you are in Onehunga - me too!
Sorry - *un-hijack thread now*
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Posted By: Bumble
Date Posted: 25 May 2007 at 2:24pm
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My fear is something happening to me here, and Ethan notbeing able to help. Expecially when DH is away on business.....
Other fear is being in a car accident and dying... leaving Ethan and DH all alone... dont ever want that to happen! rats,mice, spiders dont freak me out really... You should see the size of spiders in Oz.. creepy... size of your hand kind of thing. Am used to either taking them outside of squishing the heck out of them!!! ------------- formerly known as "Bee" Ethan ~ March 2003 Big 6 year old school boy! Micah ~ Aug 2008 ~ Smiley pants who loves telephones! |
Posted By: Andie
Date Posted: 25 May 2007 at 2:31pm
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Ah, that cellphone/radio one is a crack-up!! Thanks for the Mine used to be wolves - absolutely TERRIFIED of pictures of them, and this haunted me so much as a kid! I don't like them now but I'm not haunted by them. I'm not afraid of mice, spiders, snakes, but I am scared of squashing small creatures, which is why I shake every piece of wood from the woodpile before I bring it inside - I want to free any wee creatures that may be hiding on them. ------------- Andie |
Posted By: my2angels
Date Posted: 25 May 2007 at 4:12pm
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I have to many to name but I also worry bout store security. I hate walking past those things that go off cos i know security cards etc.. can set them off and everyone will look at me. I wont walk out past them unless someone else is walking at the same time so people think its them.
I hate spiders of any shape or size, have to check room before i can sleep. Hate moths that dive bomb you. Hate being stuck on the inside lane of traffic. I always worry someone is going to break in and get me or my children at night. And i hate eating in front of people |
Posted By: miss
Date Posted: 25 May 2007 at 5:33pm
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Oh my2angels, those beepy things in shops are awful, aren't they - you know you haven't got anything that should set them off, but you also know that they do go off randomly too. -------------
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Posted By: SMoody
Date Posted: 25 May 2007 at 7:30pm
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You guys are going to laugh about this one. I sometimes get scared going to the toilet thinking a snake is going to come and bite my ass. Then I have to get up and look if there is a snake in the toilet. Dont even ask me where this one is coming from. ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: busymum
Date Posted: 25 May 2007 at 7:32pm
Man I bet your DH totally laughs at that one! ------------- |
Posted By: meow
Date Posted: 25 May 2007 at 7:36pm
lmao I have had that too.. but only while I was in Australia!! is it because you've lived in South Africa maybe? ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: thunderwolves
Date Posted: 25 May 2007 at 8:01pm
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I am afraid of farm animals... ------------- http://alterna-tickers.com"> 
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Posted By: SMoody
Date Posted: 25 May 2007 at 8:42pm
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I think it was because of an incident at a snake show. My father explained to us three kids that we shouldnt get to close up as the snakes were getting quite high up and you never know when one of them can get over the open enclosure where they had the show. My brother got a bit bored and decided to throw his pet on me and called snake. I freaked out thinking it was a real snake and started shouting ect.
Some people laughed and my brother got a hiding of his life that day. A few moments later the snake handler asked me if I was okay. Dont know where the toilet part comes in though. I also sometimes have this irrational fear of there might be a boogy man under the bed. Then hubby needs to look under the bed. ------------- http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: Kels
Date Posted: 25 May 2007 at 8:55pm
Im scared of old people . When I was young I had a nightmare the 80yr old lady next door tried to kill me. In real life she was lovely but since that dream I've been freaked out. When I was doing my nursing training we had to work in a resthome for 6wks, I was terrified of being alone with the little old ladies------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
Busy mum to Miss 15yrs, Miss 10yrs and Master 4yrs |
Posted By: Leish
Date Posted: 25 May 2007 at 9:03pm
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I actually did LOL at that Kels... Hilarious.
I can't really think of much. Smoody's snake one is a simalar one I have but I always think of a weta being in the toilet so I have to have the light on if it's dark and I always look inside the bowl before I sit down ------------- http://lilypie.com">  http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: SMoody
Date Posted: 25 May 2007 at 9:22pm
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I am so happy I am not the only one looking in the toilet. I dont always do it. I will just be sitting there all of a sudden thinking and then just have to "hurry up" before I seriously freak out. lol. ------------- http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: Mazzy
Date Posted: 25 May 2007 at 9:44pm
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I get completely paranoid that I've left something switched on in the house when I go out (iron, heater, stove), even if I haven't even used it that day. Or that I haven't actually locked the door. To the point where I will turn the car around and go back home to check. I am so scared of being responsible for our house burning down or getting robbed! Never mind that I forget to close the garage door all the time...
General fears that I consider 'normal' - spiders (HATE them), hieghts and getting hurt/DD getting hurt/DH getting hurt/anyone I love getting hurt. |
Posted By: Maya
Date Posted: 25 May 2007 at 10:04pm
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I'm not reading this thread, just hearing other peoples irrational fears makes me develop them myself
I have far, far too many to list (I tend towards being a little OCD) but just for starters: I am absolutely, deadly afraid of birds. I refuse to have the windows of the house open more than a crack in case they come inside the house, I can't even walk past a dead one on the ground, and the thought of touching a bird makes my skin crawl and me feel literally ill If the microwave timer goes off and I don't get to it before the reminder beep a couple of minutes later I think something bad is going to happen. Ditto the cellphone text message/missed call reminder - I've even disabled that function on my phones coz it freaks me out too much. Before I go to bed at night I have to check the gremlins, check Maya, brush my teeth and take my crazy pills, check Maya then check the gremlins again, check the doors are locked and then go to bed. In that order. If I don't do it in that order, I start all over again. See, I'm odd. And I don't need to pick up any more irrational fears! ------------- Maya Grace (28/02/03)
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The Gremlins:Sienna Marie & Mercedes Kailah (14/10/06)
Lil miss:Chiara Louise Chloe (09/07/08)
Her ladyship:Rosalia Sophie Anais (18/06/12)
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Posted By: Jennz
Date Posted: 25 May 2007 at 10:19pm
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Hehe what a bunch of nutters we are! I can sympathise with almost every fear listed
Especially the toilet snake one and sharks in the pool. Ridiculous as I have never lived anywhere that has snakes. I always think there are spiders crawling on me- you'll often see me have a little freak out and swat at some random place on my body as I think there is a spider there. I still can't sleep with a leg or arm hanging out over the side of the bed- just a fear of 'something' under the bed getting said limb. Whenever I have my period I always get scared my tampon is going to fall out onto the floor in front of someone (yes, even though I am wearing underwear and I have never ever had a tampon fall out). I hate people dressed up in big animal/charachter suits, or those street performers. I always get scared they're going to be crazy and attack me- when really I'm the crazy one lol! ------------- Jen, Charlotte 7 & Kate 3 
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Posted By: fattartsrock
Date Posted: 25 May 2007 at 10:25pm
me too, I hate hate hate snakes even though I have never seen a real one. yuck. I fear smashing my teeth? dumb, aye. and getting side smashed my a car at an intersection that I haven't seen. empty swimming pools, you know, the big concrete ones. I hate large bodies of water, so dams freak me out. I freak out on the ferry. uuummm. lots of irrationsl fears... I call them crazy pills, too, Emma, lol! ------------- The Honest Un PC Parent of 2, usually stuck in the naughty corner! :P |
Posted By: Maya
Date Posted: 25 May 2007 at 11:11pm
It is a sad indictment on society that I am as nutty as a fruitcake, yet I am the sanest person I know... ------------- Maya Grace (28/02/03)
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The Gremlins:Sienna Marie & Mercedes Kailah (14/10/06)
Lil miss:Chiara Louise Chloe (09/07/08)
Her ladyship:Rosalia Sophie Anais (18/06/12)
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Posted By: Rachael21
Date Posted: 25 May 2007 at 11:26pm
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I worry that if something happened to ben and me how long it would take for someone to realise and poor jack would be alone for all that time.
I hate driving next to rives cos I get scared the cars going to roll upside in the river and I wouldn't be able to get jack out. When I'm singing in the car I get all paranoid other people have the same radio station on and can see me singing. I also hate ringing people. Lol at the tampon thing I always get paranoid the tampon has leaked and everyone behind me is laughing. |
Posted By: Bubbaloo
Date Posted: 26 May 2007 at 12:00pm
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I just remembered a couple of more.
I'm scared of Mimes they freak me out we went to Venice beach when I was about 13 there was a Mime there and he was trying to impress me and I just started balling it freaked me out so much. I also can't have any parts of my body hanging over the bed or the wardrobe open as I'm scared something will come and get me. ------------- http://lilypie.com" rel="nofollow"> Was danni-chick Mum to James My Angel 28/07/08 |
Posted By: Glow
Date Posted: 26 May 2007 at 12:34pm
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HAHAHAHA Im having a great laugh
I guess i better share mine... When i go to the toilet, i cant lock the door. Even in the public's. Im terrified of being trapped in there.... forever....!? LMAO!! previous experience as a 3yr old scared me for life. And driving my car; i cannot overtake anything..... Occasionally something possess me & i freak that my wheels are going to fall off & my car is going to blow up. I have had a horrific accident & very very lucky to be alive. Maybe if we cant remember how these fears came about, they have something to do with our experiences in a past life? ------------- Mummy of Two Boys B: 2004 K: 2007 |
Posted By: lizzle
Date Posted: 26 May 2007 at 12:49pm
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I HATe the Dr Who music....even just thinking about it gives me the shivers. When I was just over one my mother got very sick and I went to stay with the neighbours. They had two kids older than me (i don't remember any of this - i was told later). anyway, the older boy used to lock my in the closet when I was supposed to be napping, and play dr. music over and over (singing I'm guessing). he bullied me a lot so I guess it's subconcious from that - BTW when my dad found this out (after two weeks), he moved me to live with my nana - no more emotional scarring.
Taine, back to the subject, is TERRIFIED of my swiss ball. weird child |
Posted By: Chovynz
Date Posted: 27 May 2007 at 1:46am
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When I've been out scuba/snorkeling I freeze near or over crevises (sp?) and trenches. Absolutly hate them. Fear of disturding a moray or shark. I dunno where this fear comes from as it's never actually happened to me.
I usually gain enough confidence to go over it at least twice. Take me a little while though. (offtopic: one of the most eerily, mystically beautiful places I have EVER been is 10 meters below the surface, off the coast in gisbourne. A school of fish swam past me, followed by a couple of blue penguins. I was floating in another world. I could see the ocean floor and there was light enough for me to see colours and fish and flashes and ...wow...) ------------- Defending the male species since 1980
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Posted By: baalamb
Date Posted: 27 May 2007 at 9:37am
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OMG, Liz I'm exactly the same with the theme song from MASH. I frikken hate that. It terrifies me no end. I have no idea why.
Chovy, that sounds amazing! I love snorkelling, but unfortunately haven't been able to in years. |
Posted By: miss
Date Posted: 27 May 2007 at 12:13pm
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Oh, the one about the fear of the toilet reminded me of another really odd fear I have. Hopefully noone from Huntly will be offended...
...I have this fear that if I stop in Huntly when heading south, I will get trapped there for ever and never able to leave, like some crazy Stephen King novel. Evven if I am busting for the loo, I won't stop, just in case! I don't know why, I just associate it with things like Children of the corn and things like that! -------------
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Posted By: fattartsrock
Date Posted: 27 May 2007 at 8:27pm
Thats because we are sane enuf to know we're crazy... Another STUPID fear, borne of my love of horror movies. ZOMBIES. Yip, good old brain eating ZOMBIES. Have to lock the door if I am home alone and going for a shower, lest one gets me. Am terrified I will look out the window and THERE THEY ARE. ------------- The Honest Un PC Parent of 2, usually stuck in the naughty corner! :P |