Please tell me about times you have massively overreacted so I don't feel like such an idiot!

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DD aged 5 is home from school today as it i shut.

DD and I were in the living room while I was doing the hoovering when suddenly I had this overwhelming feeling someone was stood behind me, i turned round to see the back of a man dressed in black slipping in to my kitchen.

Absolutely crapped myself, left hoover running, ran to DD whilst motioning for her to be quiet, the terror in my face mesnt she actually complied for once. Grabbed the only threatening item I could see around me which was a bloody plastic shoehorn! My head went a million miles an hour but figured if we went out the back patio doors from the living room i could put DD over the fence to next door and then climb over (its only 4ft).

So I'm backing up to the patio door so as not to turn my back on the murderer in the kitchen, clutching a terrified DD and a shoehorn when the man steps out of the kitchen.

Its fucking DSS! I had forgotten he was here (though he has been here a week) he had just woken and come down for a drink, he just stood there looking at us all confused, shrugged and then trotted back up upstairs.

Now feeling like a right twat! Has anyone else massively overreacted like this!

Not me...
Adult ds.
Arranged his motorbike gear in his bed.. Took the light bulb from his room.
He screamed just ever so slightly when he went to bed!

I was on a train and there was a man with a backpack talking on the phone, simply trying to explain where on his journey he was. My mind decided he was a terrorist looking out for the optimum location to detonate. Leaving my friends to get blown to bits I haul-assed down a packed commuter train to the next carriage where I’d have been so well-protected by one of those lame slidy connecting glass doors.

I also refused to go up the Eiffel Tower despite having stupidly expensive tickets because I was certain there would be a terrorist in the lift. I waited at the bottom whilst DH and DS went up in the self-same lift.

Years ago when I was in bed and it was dark, something down the side of the bed and the bedside table caught my eye, I was absolutely convinced it was a rat. I jumped up like I'd shit the bed and screamed at my then partner that there was a rat! He quickly gets up, grabs the brush puts his boots and gloves on (just in case) and starts poking where I saw it.........it was a dark.....grey...sock

All of these had me on the verge of tears but I have absolutely lost it at managed to dragon kick dd across the room.

Honestly can't compose myself😭😭😭

Not me, but my sister's lodger once called me in a total panic (sister was on holiday) to say someone had broken into the flat and was locked in the bathroom as the door was locked from the inside.

I asked them to hold off calling the police and went round with my large boyfriend of the time.

There was no burgler.

The towels from the back of the bathroom door had fallen down and somehow got lodged under the door, preventing it from opening.

Still laugh about it.