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Angie

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Thanks so much to @Farnsworth for this topic! Here it is:
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Please tell us your irrational fears. Not talking like spiders and ****. Like everyday life things.
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I have this bizarre phobia of semis while I am driving. I so respect the drivers and what they are doing to keep the country going… but I have to fight a mini panic attack anytime I have to drive by one on a narrow road, or especially when I am stuck between two in a three-lane situation. I am not a great driver by any means, so I think maybe it is that I feel like I am going to accidentally veer into one and get decapitated? IDK, but I don’t love it when other people are driving - but HATE driving between them when I am driving.

That is my totally bizarre, irrational, no logical reason for it fear. What are yours?
 
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Living one right now. Inquired with an employer who underpaid me last year, just to see what I overlooked. I'm more than a little concerned that they're going to come back today and tell me they somehow managed to overpay, and they "need" that back right now.

And I absolutely hate bridges.
 
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JP4CY said:
Hotels not actually washing bedding and just remaking it.
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I have a “check for bedbugs” routine at every hotel, since the bedspreads for sure aren’t changed.
 
Home intruders is one for me as well. I live in a very safe area and don't know anyone personally who has ever been broken into. But I'll be damned if I don't convince myself about 3 times a week there's someone in my house.
 
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Angie said:
Thanks so much to @Farnsworth for this topic! Here it is:
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Please tell us your irrational fears. Not talking like spiders and ****. Like everyday life things.
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I have this bizarre phobia of semis while I am driving. I so respect the drivers and what they are doing to keep the country going… but I have to fight a mini panic attack anytime I have to drive by one on a narrow road, or especially when I am stuck between two in a three-lane situation. I am not a great driver by any means, so I think maybe it is that I feel like I am going to accidentally veer into one and get decapitated? IDK, but I don’t love it when other people are driving - but HATE driving between them when I am driving.

That is my totally bizarre, irrational, no logical reason for it fear. What are yours?
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I can think of a well founded fear that @Mr Janny probably has
 
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Angie said:
Thanks so much to @Farnsworth for this topic! Here it is:
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Please tell us your irrational fears. Not talking like spiders and ****. Like everyday life things.
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I have this bizarre phobia of semis while I am driving. I so respect the drivers and what they are doing to keep the country going… but I have to fight a mini panic attack anytime I have to drive by one on a narrow road, or especially when I am stuck between two in a three-lane situation. I am not a great driver by any means, so I think maybe it is that I feel like I am going to accidentally veer into one and get decapitated? IDK, but I don’t love it when other people are driving - but HATE driving between them when I am driving.

That is my totally bizarre, irrational, no logical reason for it fear. What are yours?
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Speaking as someone who had a run in with a semi 3 months ago, I feel you! Thankfully, I haven’t developed a huge fear of them but I’m always aware.
 
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After driving on a dark, rural road during a flash flood, I developed a real fear of driving while it was raining for several years. I was driving home after a summer job and was almost home, when there was a flash of lightening and I saw a ton of water. I turned around and was too afraid to go home and promptly stayed at a hotel. I’m actually not sure how much water I drove through that night or how close I was to bring swept away, but it was almost worse not knowing. It was probably not much.

For years, I’d panic if it was raining more than a drizzle while I was driving. I seem to have overcome the worst of it, but I still sort of tense up if it’s raining hard when I’m driving.
 
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Angie said:
He almost always drives!
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My wife is a good driver except in parking lots. No spatial awareness. Our previous new car got slid along a concrete post at the Hy Vee pharmacy drive through (knocking off the rear view mirror on the passenger's side and continuing down the door), and the hood of our new car got scraped along a stop sign in the main Hy Vee parking lot. On the first one, she was mortified and I guess thought I would be mad, but I was too busy laughing.
 
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I hate two lane highways. Especially on a hill. I'm always worried I'm gonna meet someone in my lane at the top. Or some jackass posting on CyFan while they're supposed to be driving. ;)
 
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My wife is a good driver except in parking lots. No spatial awareness. Our previous new car got slid along a concrete post at the Hy Vee pharmacy drive through (knocking off the rear view mirror on the passenger's side and continuing down the door), and the hood of our new car got scraped along a stop sign in the main Hy Vee parking lot. On the first one, she was mortified and I guess thought I would be mad, but I was too busy laughing.
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Janny is a fantastic driver, but not the best parker. I was taking photos of some of the doozies and putting them in a “Janny Parking Shaming” album on social media, but that was less-than-appreciated. (He could easily have made one of “**** Angie has backed into accidentally.”)
 
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Cyclonepride said:
My wife is a good driver except in parking lots. No spatial awareness. Our previous new car got slid along a concrete post at the Hy Vee pharmacy drive through (knocking off the rear view mirror on the passenger's side and continuing down the door), and the hood of our new car got scraped along a stop sign in the main Hy Vee parking lot. On the first one, she was mortified and I guess thought I would be mad, but I was too busy laughing.
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One of my best friends growing up did that going through a Burger King drive-through with his learners permit. We all found it hilarious at his expense.
I've seen him once in like 35 years, but I still double-check in drive-thrus to make sure I don't do the same, like it's somehow going to come back at me.
 
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Not sure if this counts, as it's not every day. While I don't have a fear of heights, I do have a fear of looking over the edge at high places. My wife and I were looking at an apartment building in Jersey City that was probably 40 floors. Viewed apartments on a couple floors that were 25+ floors up and told her I wouldn't feel comfortable leaving this high up, especially since I'd be working from home.
 
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Angie said:
Thanks so much to @Farnsworth for this topic! Here it is:
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Please tell us your irrational fears. Not talking like spiders and ****. Like everyday life things.
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I have this bizarre phobia of semis while I am driving. I so respect the drivers and what they are doing to keep the country going… but I have to fight a mini panic attack anytime I have to drive by one on a narrow road, or especially when I am stuck between two in a three-lane situation. I am not a great driver by any means, so I think maybe it is that I feel like I am going to accidentally veer into one and get decapitated? IDK, but I don’t love it when other people are driving - but HATE driving between them when I am driving.

That is my totally bizarre, irrational, no logical reason for it fear. What are yours?
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I definitely try to avoid being too close to semis or motorcycles. I deal with safety a lot in my job and it just makes sense to reduce the risk by not driving directly next to a semi so they don't merge on top of me if they aren't paying attention and for motorcycles I'm more worried about something happening to them since they are more vulnerable.
 
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