<p>Speaking of driving, I am afraid to take cabs, especially in NYC. I also hate being a passenger of a bad driver. One too many close calls. I don’t spend enough time in cars to become immune to these fears.</p>
<p>On the other hand, I have no fears about “crack heads and gang members” as someone mentioned earlier.</p>
<p>I don’t jump at bugs, snakes or rats, but I do wait up till my kids come home & if they haven’t replied to an email or text fast enough, I check their phone usage online.</p>
<p>Well, I’ve been adding fears by the minute, reading these posts, but not June bugs. Maybe they are different in VT.</p>
<p>bethievt, I grew up in the Midwest, and from what I’ve seen, the bugs are perfect sized in VT. Small, and not too many strange ones.</p>
<p>I think it’s interesting that many folks here weren’t as fearful when they were younger, but added these fears as we got older. I think my heights thing kicked in around the time I became a mom, either that, or it’s coincidental around the time I started watching CNN, which tells me too many ways to get hurt, attacked, or sick.</p>
<p>I am afraid of what my kids call the Big Girl Roads. I don’t mind the highways I’m used to, but when I travel and need to take 495 to 95 in the DC area, for example, I’m very anxious and worry about it the entire night before. I’ll force myself to do it, but that much stress can’t be good for me.</p>
<p>Ferris wheels, roller coasters, and other “wild” amusement park rides. When the kids were little, we visited Disney a lot. I’d bring a good book and sit in the shade. “It’s a Small World” was about my limit.</p>
<p>Because of this thread , I dreamed about a snake being loose in my house last night :(</p>
<p>^^^^^I dreamed I had a baby and was changing a poopy diaper and the baby kept squirming and got it on my shirt.</p>
<p>Add that to my list of fears.</p>
<p>I have baby pooping dreams frequently…and I am not prepared with supplies at all !</p>
<p>^^^^LOL. This thread is a wonderful glimpse of human nature! I’ve thought about posing this question here many times, but I was afraid I might be met with my DH’s mentality: “Fears? What fears? Don’t you have anything better to do with your time? Life is too short! What are the odds that a tornado is going to hit this one spot? We’re on a bridge-thousands of people have been on this bridge and they’re fine! Lighten up! Enjoy life!” Etc., etc. Somehow I’m glad to know others are as messed up as I am! :o</p>
<p>Poor DH, he really is a wonderful man; busy guy doesn’t do the internet, so he can’t defend himself :D</p>
<p>It’s all right Nrdsb4, we are married to the same man.</p>
<p>Only, secretly, I think he just “lets” me be the one with the fears. One time when I was too involved with work to freak out over a thing with one of our kids, he kept bringing it up to me and bringing it up to me until I got worried and then he said, “I don’t know why you worry so much.”</p>
<p>LOLOLOL></p>
<p>Fortunately you and I have enough psychology to know that one spouse often carries the anxiety for both. If you didn’t worry, he would have to.</p>
<p>All that said, I"m glad you started this thread. I feel much less anxiety about my anxiety. :D</p>
<p>I’m afraid of the dark…seriously. I have to have some tiny light of some sort.</p>
<p>I’m also very afraid of loaded guns. I respect people’s rights to have guns, but I’m very, very scared of them.</p>
<p>When I fired one at a range, I cried.</p>
<p>I’m afraid to drive near oil/gas trucks.</p>
<p>And, I hate narrow, high bridges.</p>
<p>But…I stood “toe to toe” with a group of gang members who wanted to rob me at a ATM…and I was 8 months pregnant!</p>
<p>Ok, how about this one? My D2 brought it up when she saw it on the news.</p>
<p>Have you ever been putting gas into your car and accidentally topped off just a little bit. And you think, "Oh my, if someone flicked a cigarette at me, POOF! That could be a terrorist attack to scare us all. " I’ve also seen video bits of someone putting gas into their car and then as they touch the nozzle, static electricity sparks and they all go up in flames. Really bad.</p>
<p>LOL, I can hear my husband now saying “ARE YOU SERIOUS?!?!” :D</p>
<p>^one of the reasons I am glad we can’t pump our own gas in NJ.</p>
<p>My cousin in PA was pumping gas a few months ago, when the hose all of a sudden split and spewed gas all over her and inside her car. Talk about a nightmare! She soaked herself with water as best she could in the rest room, then drove home scared to death and dizzy from the fumes. At first, they claimed she’d caused it–till she showed them the split hose. The station did, I think, eventually pay to get the car cleaned, but–yikes!</p>
<p>This thread has made me feel much better about my phobias :)</p>
<p>After last week, I have also decided I am buying a safe (the huge, extremely heavy ones) and bolting it to my basement floor. My #1 fear is losing my genealogical data and artifacts to a tornado. I know the data can be put on the cloud, but I became family repository for 5 generations of things that can’t be replaced.</p>
<p>^^^^Not to add to your fears, but make sure it’s also fire and flood resistant. :)</p>