In honor of Gibson, I thought I would tell you, and hope you share any irrational fears you have.........here is mine.

In our town, the tornado sirens go off at 10am on the first Tuesday of the month. My fear is that there will be a tornado that day and I will not take cover.

I am also terrified to go to the Grand Canyon. What if we stop at the Grand Canyon and my kids are so excited to see it, and they run to see it and they go over the edge? Too risky.

I have some more about zoos and spontaneous human combustion, but I will save those for another time.

Zombies. Absolutely terrified that zombies are going to attack. I talk about it so much that I actually received a "zombie attack survival guide" book for christmas.

But I don't know if that would qualify as irrational. Fearing zombies seems pretty rational to me.

Oh man, I am snorting and laughing here. Michelle I think you and I are way too much alike! I don't think those fears are irrational at all! LOL

Oh, and don't even get me started on spontaneous combustion.

I hesitated whether to post or not, as my fear is not irrational...it is perfectly sensible. It is a well-known FACT that in underground parking garages, you will be murdered. Any number of highly reliable sources including movies, tv shows and books have identified that the moment you enter that subterranean artificial structure, you will be murdered. Therefore I either park on the street or take public transit places. I will not willingly go into one.

I hesitated whether to post or not, as my fear is not irrational...it is perfectly sensible. It is a well-known FACT that in underground parking garages, you will be murdered. Any number of highly reliable sources including movies, tv shows and books have identified that the moment you enter that subterranean artificial structure, you will be murdered. Therefore I either park on the street or take public transit places. I will not willingly go into one.

I think that you are forgetting one major part though. People only get killed in the garages when there is scary music playing in the background. No matter where I am, if that creepy music starts, I AM OUT OF THERE!!! That my friend is not irrational, that is survival.

I have an irrational fear of cockroaches.

I have an irrational fear of cockroaches.

Irene, there is NOTHING irrational about that. They are scary and gross looking. I think I might add that to my list.

Irene, there is NOTHING irrational about that. They are scary and gross looking. I think I might add that to my list.

Thanks for that! They ARE gross and dispicable.

If I ever see one at someone's house that I am staying over at, I'm so afraid one will try to crawl on me while I sleep, so needless to say, me no sleep. At all.

What if I open my mouth and it tries to crawl in there while I'm talking... or what if one accidently gets mashed into the food they are cooking or...

need I go on?

Ack!

I think that you are forgetting one major part though. People only get killed in the garages when there is scary music playing in the background. No matter where I am, if that creepy music starts, I AM OUT OF THERE!!! That my friend is not irrational, that is survival.

Do you mean to suggest that not everyone hears the scary music?

oh sorry about the music tapshoes. I like to follow lone people around in dark garages with a boombox playing creepy music. Its just a hobby.

......"if Creepy Music plays in a garage and no one hears it..." does it count as 'Creepy'???

It's still creepy, even if no one hears it. So I say yes.

Speaking of creepy, that is how I feel about clowns.

Heights!!!!

To the point that I took my 5 year old daughter to Disney and decide to climb the Swiss Family Robinson Tree House, well my pansy ass manages to get half way up then I wrap my arms around the tree and cling onto the tree like its a life raft and I can't take another step, meanwhile DD is happily climbing farther and farther away from me. "c'mon mommy this is fun!!!" UHH NOO ITS NOT!!!:rolleyes2:

The freakin 16 year old that was "manning" the ride had to come and walk my silly butt down.

Not one of my brighter moments:lol:

ReadySteady - You are a sick sick woman. You just wait, you'll get yours! Bet you are a real laugh at Halloween with all those people dressed up as zombies...at least you THINK they are dressed up. But are they??? Mwah mwah mwah (or however one spells that sound)

What if I open my mouth and it tries to crawl in there while I'm talking... or what if one accidently gets mashed into the food they are cooking or...

Related, but different. My mother (THE font for information you didn't want to know), has advised that every human has injested a number of spiders which have dropped into their mouths whilst they sleep. Oh ick!!!

ReadySteady - You are a sick sick woman. You just wait, you'll get yours! Bet you are a real laugh at Halloween with all those people dressed up as zombies...at least you THINK they are dressed up. But are they??? Mwah mwah mwah (or however one spells that sound)

Yeah the apple shaped Angel running down the street being chased by the 10 year old zombie on the news...that will be me.

What if I open my mouth and it tries to crawl in there while I'm talking... or what if one accidently gets mashed into the food they are cooking or...

Related, but different. My mother (THE font for information you didn't want to know), has advised that every human has injested a number of spiders which have dropped into their mouths whilst they sleep. Oh ick!!!

Interestingly enough, that statistic doesn't even faze me. Yeah, I probably ate some spiders - but to think about ingesting those nasty little cockroaches makes me want to unload my lunch.