Weird thoughts other people must think...

I randomly panic a snake has come up the toilet.

I think i saw an article about it as a child i know its nonsense but i still do a panicked check once in a while

I also have most of those. They are thankfully fairly fleeting so not too debilitating. But just to say a faulty charger did set on fire in our house, we lost 80% of our belongs and had to live in temporary accommodation for a year. Don’t leave things charging!!

I live my life with stupid thoughts. It can be delibating when bad.

A car will drive into me from the other side of the carriageway.
A train won't stop and will crash.
The boiler will burst and scald us all to death.
A rat will come up the toilet.
Family members or I will be kidnapped going to the shops.
Chargers will catch fire and burn the house down.
loads more that I can't think of.

I haven't done the bath one but may now. 🤦‍♀️

I have a slightly similar one... if I'm walking through woods or secluded area I wonder how many dead bodies have been hidden there

Can spiders really come up through the plug hole, if the trap (u-bend) underneath is full of water, as it usually is?

The book “a house inside out” by Penelope Lively describes wood lice living in the bath drain pipe, and an important rite of passage for young wood lice is to go out through the plug hole, and try to climb up the side of the bath, and to fail magnificently.

Yes, that’s the word I was looking for.

And now my worst fear is confirmed I think I will be sticking something over it next time I’m in the bath!

You mean the overflow? In some older houses this may be a pipe going straight outside (newer ones usually loop down into the bath drain pipe) so if no one ever overfills the bath to that point you could have things living in it.

You can get a little tool that’s for cutting seatbelts and smashing the window.

Handy for any accident really if for some reason the seatbelt it stuck or caught up from a. Crash.

But then, won’t the water cause the electrics to fail and the central locking might activate or jam?
Maybe I just need to plan my routes so I don’t drive near or over any rivers?! 😫

I feel like this, but with the extra drain hole thing that the plug dangles from (is it part of the drain? 🤔) - I always imagine one folded up in there and suddenly climbing out.

Well thanks a lot! I have never thought this before but now I wont be able to go into the bathroom without thinking it!😂

I’m always scared to close my eyes in the bath or shower in case a spider dangles from the ceiling and lands on me, no idea why, maybe I’ve seen it in a film at some point

Yes to the bath one but I actually know someone that this happened to..... I always triple check before driving away from the petrol pump that I haven't left the nossle in the car.

Yes - basically, when the car fills up, the pressure will equalize and you can open the door. They did this on Mythbusters and as long as you stay calm and don't panic (easier said than done), you should have enough air left. Or get one of those pointy things to smash the window.

The ‘upside down’ think is just the way optics work. But the way our brains can compensate is remarkable - this ‘inverted glasses’ experiment for instance

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_M._Stratton#Wundt's_lab_and_the_inverted-glasses_experiments

The bath falling is a recurring fear of mine. I even asked a plumber to check the integrity of the floor.

When I was a child, I was terrified by the guillotine, and because France was celebrating the 200th anniversary of the French Revolution, guillotine imagery was everywhere.
In my school there were old toilets with a chain to trigger the flush. It reminded me of the trigger for the guillotine and I was TERRIFIED to flush. i could almost hear the roaring of the angry crowd.

When I ride I bike, I see myself leaning forward and putting my finger in the spokes and see it being sliced like a baby carrot.

I actually did something similar. I was on Library duty and was scooting backwards and forwards along behind the library desk, checking what the children were doing around the library. Scooted too hard, fell off the stool and landed on the floor. I wasn't hurt, dignity in tatters though-except amazingly, no-one noticed as children were all concentrating on whatever they were doing on the computers or whatever. (The computers were arranged so staff could see the screens so children had their backs to the desk)

I got up, dusted myself off and tried very hard to look nonchalant. One of my many epic fails.

I have the one where I feel the urge to reach out and touch a train or tube train as it rushes past. I feel drawn to it.

Yes I have the bath one frequently. 😅

Also I'm getting on with my daily life and then the thought "Ooh I haven't fallen over in a while" pops into my head.

Then I usually trip over the doormat or something.

Oh that’s another one of mine. How come we all go into a different room, lie down on a piece of furniture and MAKE OURSELVES UNCONSCIOUS?!!

And one last one from me - dancing. Why do we think it’s perfectly acceptable ( but only in certain places) for people all to stand in one room and move their arms and legs around in a funny way?

When I'm on the underground, I try to imagine that I'm deep under London. However, it's not easy, because the stations and trains are so brightly lit, it doesn't feel like being deep underground.

I had the childhood fears of the dark (I needed the landing light on at night), and getting lost; I was terrified of both until I was about seven. However, as I got older, I found them both weirdly fascinating. I loved getting lost in mazes, and that moment in "pin the tail on the donkey" when I had just been spun round, and didn't know where I was. I loved it when we did a science experiment at primary school testing our directional hearing, in which we took turns to be blindfolded and spun round. We were told to point at where we thought the door was, to prove that we were disorientated, and then one person would clap, and we had to point at the sound. I then tried all sorts of experiments at home: I asked my brother to blindfold me in the garden, and to spin me round, and then to lead me to a chair in a random place, so I could sit in it and try to work out where I was, simply from what I could hear: I told him to leave the garden as quietly as he could, so I wouldn't hear him go. All I had to go on was distant traffic and birds flying around, and after ten minutes I guessed, and looked... and I was completely wrong about where I thought I was!

When I'm unloading the dishwasher and holding a pile of heavy plates, I often think how the cupboard (above the bench) is strong enough to hold them all, and one day it's just going to break and the entire contents of the plates cupboard is going to come crashing down on the bench.

But how would you prove they didn’t find the right on?

solve for that and I think you’re on to something!

@saltinesandcoffeecupsinteresting, my current favourite hiding place is by having thousands of paper clips hidden / in plain sight so that they get distracted and slowed down. .