5.
Standing on chairs. This is particularly
weird because I’m absolutely fine with heights in general. Specifically, I am concerned about falling
backwards off chairs, meaning that when I had to do a play once where I spent
almost the entire time standing on a chair it was one of the most terrifying
periods of my life.
4.
Being talked to on public transport.
This is because I am (a) very shy with strangers and (b) too British to say
if I’m feeling uncomfortable.
3.
Brushes being dragged across carpet. One
of the scariest things that ever happened to me working as a catering assistant
was when a colleague dropped a tray of champagne glasses on a carpet and we had
to use a brush to clean it up. I had to
feign needing the toilet so that I could escape, otherwise I probably would
have just stood there screaming.
2.
The skin that forms on milk. Once I merely
saw that some milk had formed a skin and I fainted.
1.
Dead spiders (live ones are fine.) There’s something about the way that dead
spiders crumple up that makes me absolutely terrified of them beyond anything
else in this world; one time I accidentally TOUCHED one and, after being
literally frozen with fear for 40 minutes, the first thing I did was scrape all
the skin off the part of my finger that had touched the spider until I
bled.
I love that you shared these! I used to gag on grapes unless they were peeled and be afraid of rocks (mainly because they might have had worms under them, or more likely skeletons.) Your description of fainting at milk made me lol because it was so familiar. Thanks for this!
ReplyDelete(BTW, being afraid of brushes on rugs isn't irrational at all, it makes the worst sound after fingernails on teflon.)
You scraped the skin off your finger?!
ReplyDeleteUntil I bled, yes! I didn't scrape it down to the bone or anything...
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