Irrational fears

I am terrified of frogs! I was once trapped outside my house at 11:30 at night because there were 4 frogs sitting on my front doorstep. Luckily my neighbor came home and noticed me outside and shooed them away for me. My husband got a huge laugh about that since he was wondering why I was outside so long. :bigsmile:

Ok so last night my daughters and I were making Pillsbury biscuits (you know the ones from the can). I absolutely HATE opening those cans!!! Yes, I know how stupid this sounds but there is something about not know when it is going to *pop* that scares the crap out of me!

The funniest part is that my daughters, who I have been able to con into opening them the last few times, are freaked out by it too. It was quite a sight.

What irrational fears do you have? I need a good laugh this morning

thats my favorite part of them.. I dont even really like the biscuits, but I like opening the can. LOL!!



My Irrational fear is semi-rational... Ive spent years commuting and riding sportbikes. on a sportbike with super sticky tires, you have massive traction in dry pavement... but in cold rain they become ridiculously slick.
my irrational fear is when i am in a car with someone else in the rain.. I am constantly screaming in my head as we approach a corner that we will slide... I know we wont.. but it messes with my head.
Strangely, i dont get it when Im the one driving.... and no, I dont express it outward.. no one really knows it. but its still there.

Thunderstorms...and we get some wicked ones where I live. I have to watch the lightening and count until the thunder hits so I know how far away it is. I plug my ears and close my eyes when the thunder gets to loud for me to handle. My son (who's 10) doesn't normally notice storms, but when he doesn, he comes and checks on me lol

Deer....I've had a few "run-ins" with deer, but this one particular time when I was in high school scared the heck outa me. I fear that I will one day be killed by a deer that comes through my windshield. If you've seen the movie Haywire with Gina Carrano, there's this part where she hits a deer. Scariest movie EVER because of this one scene!

I'd love to share with you... but last time I 'shared' over a blog. Someone posted a picture of it. ='( So I'll keep it to myself. I do have to tell you.. you aren't alone with those cans! I'm the one that gets stuck opening them most of the time =p

I really hate being stuck in traffic on a bridge so that you feel the bridge shaking and swaying. I always worry it's just going to collapse.

(Yes, I know it needs to flex so it won't collapse, but it really puts me into a panic when i have to sit there bouncing around.)

Lawn/garden gnomes. I hate them. Freakish things that have eyes that follow you everywhere you go. Sends shivers up my spine.

Totally irrational, but it never gets any better!

This is kinda gross but when I'm driving along the highway and I see something dead lying on the side of the road, I won't breathe until I get way past it. I don't wanna breathe in 'death germs'.

When I was a young girl, I was at the library reading a book about hurricanes with a friend. The cover of the book featured a picture of high tension wires that were completely destroyed and knocked over. I then gained a fear of hurricanes, and whenever I saw high tension wires as a kid I would freak out and scream. This was irrational because A) I live in Chicago, which it is pretty physically impossible to get hit by a hurricane, and I thought that the high tension wires ATTRACTED hurricanes so that's why I was scared of them.

Actually, I had a ton of weird fears as a kid. One of them was Gaston from Beauty and the Beast, and the other one was when I heard the Emergency Broadcast System do weekly tests. That fear actually still applies to this day...it just makes me feel like the world is going to end lol.