Daft things that make you nervous

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I'm.sat waiting for new cleaners to come and I've got the wobbles - onlybhad 1 before was rubbish and only dh met her

I don't know where to put myself or what to say when they get here

I'm leaving for work while they clean so just need quick intro etc

I'm.a professional woman for fucks sake!

What daft things make you twitchy to make me feel less weird?

Hair appointments, always get paranoid I've suddenly caught nits or something.

Argh - me too, especially when I was teaching primary!

I used to stand in the living room and do a hard hair brush on the wood floor to listen for nits 🤣🤣

When my cat sits on top of the fridge looking down ( like he is waiting for something 🫣😬🥺.

Going through security at the airport.

I know I'm not carrying bricks of heroin.
I know I don't have a bomb up my arse.

But what if...?

This too! Dh looks like Bez from the Happy Mondays and has a "I might have drugs up my arse vibe but it's ALWAYS me that gets stopped and drug swabbed. I'm a fat, middle aged teacher and look like one! 🤣

anyone walking behind me up the stairs.

Penguins..... They know things

Yes I’m like that as well but only when it’s dark .😶

Making a phone call 🤦🏻‍♀️ I have to talk myself into it which is silly i know,I always do it but get so nervous before hand & when my ex partner messages or is due to collect our boys,my tummy starts to go,he's always picking at something (For no reason) example we walk to school it's a 25 minute walk he told me I should be getting a taxi instead at a cost of €50 a week, we love the walk we talk the whole way & exercise 🚶🏻‍♀️he pays no maintenance mind (working on a court date for that) but it's always a non issue he tries to make an issue & says ok back to court to try intimidate me,he doesn't but it stresses me out as I try send the kids off with me being happy,smily so they feel good going as they are v v attached to me 🤷🏻‍♀️

The dentist. Lifts in skyscrapers. Crowded tube train.

when someone holds the door open for me

when I am going through a series of doors behind someone and they keep holding the door for me

also when I see someone I know on the tube

Going to work
ive worked there for 6 years,I’m good at my job,I get on great with 99% of my colleagues and customers and I work damn hard
and I still shake with nerves as I turn the corner and the building comes into view

Health visitors and doctors checking up on my obviously loved and cared-for children. I panic that there will be some sort of perceived abuse and I will wind up on Social Services' radar, or worse, my children will be taken away from me.

I'm the same op, I would be like that too ditto any form of workman / plumber etc in the house. Hate it.

Also
Hairdresers
Phonecalls
Bumping into friends on the train
Bumping into acquaintances and having to do cringeworthy small talk eg school mums that I don't actually know.

Driving down really steep roads, not only does it make my stomach flip I'm always concerned the brakes will fail. I take mum to Wales every Summer where a lot of tentative brake checking goes on!

(mine actually did fail once but luckily I was on a flat country lane and on my own!)

Zoom calls! Reminds me of when I used to have to leave voice messages on the old style tape machines. Tongue tied and stammering but now I get seen too. Daft I know.

Talking on the phone. Both inbound and outbound calls. I get so worked up.

Any medical appointments and meetings where there’s an ice breaker question or a get to know you question.

I’d just like to get on with the meeting rather than tell people who I work with all the time a fact about myself!!

Seeing only one magpie! Irrational I know but if I see two I'm happy 😊

Meeting a police car on the road or seeing one behind me in my rear window. Thinking l will do something wrong even though they are not even looking at me. And l have never been in trouble with them.

I have the phone call anxiety too. Found out last year its a symptom of ADHD which I suspect I have. That knowledge made it slightly easier for me to make the really unavoidable calls. Dh is used to doing all the rest for me.

Having to get a taxi. I hate both chatty drivers and quiet drivers. I never know whether to give them directions or wait until they ask. If I'm in an unfamiliar place I worry that they are deliberately going the long way. I spend most of the journey trying to work out the tip and inevitably over or under do it.

Workmen or in general, strange people in my flat

Driving
Workmen , not sure why as it's always ok
Oddly , trying on new shoes or clothes , hate it !
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