What’s your smallest fear?

[Mimmy352]

We all know the common biggest fears: Dying, losing loved ones, spiders, etc

But what’s your smallest fear? The type of fear that has no bearing on your life other than being this strange little thing you worry about/dislike?

Mine is fish, and fish tanks. Why? Because there’s no such thing as a clean fish. They swim around in water and form that weird little congealed coating that being in water too long creates, and once they enter a fish tank, that fish tank is never clean again - no matter how hard you try. I hate fish.

I do, however, love sushi

I've never really thought about fish in tanks, but you're right, they are quite dirty.

My small scale fear is having really bad cramp in my foot or leg while I'm driving, the type of agonising cramp that takes your breath away. I get cramp about once a week, normally in the middle of the night and have to jump out of bed and walk around for 10 minutes. As I go back to sleep I think 'What if I was driving?'. Then I don't give it another thought until next time.

Wearing odd socks... even if they're slightly mismatched.
I don't know why, but I really worry what people would think if they saw, and they'd likely not think anything, but there you go.

Bananas. Disgusting things.

My tomato plants wilting because I didn't give them enough water. They seem to keel over at just the mention of a hot day. Tomato plants are very dramatic.

Bananas so mushy it’s like brown soup

They seem to keel over at just the mention of a hot day. Tomato plants are very dramatic.

Honestly?

Same

Portobello mushrooms...the thick black hair looking things..ugh

Being stuck in a portaloo and it tips over with the door down. It hasn't happened yet but it's a worry every time I use those things.

Dropping my keys or phone down a drain. Never done it but I get so paranoid and have to hang on to my things if I walk over one.

Missing the bin collection. Especially on recycling week cos that bin gets really full.
I'm more sane on non-recycling week cos that bin fills up slowly .
God help us all if the food caddy gets missed !!

One of those freak animal attacks, like a monkey stealing your keys or a squirrel making off with the tenner in your hand. Seems unlikely. Though a friend had an unfortunate incident with a fox and a wallet recently, so perhaps not that far-fetched?

Skin splitting on my thumbs in cold weather!

😂😂

@Drews

Toenail bloody fungus. Fungal nails, basically. Technically a "cosmetic" problem but I find it revolting.

My piano lessons. Low level anxiety every. single. week.

I did actually see someone do this once. It was on the Kings Road in Chelsea. Smartly dressed woman in a rush parked her sports car, got out, was carrying a bag, her jacket and clipboard with the keys balanced on the clipboard. She bent down to get something else out of the car and the keys slipped off the clipboard straight down into the street drain she had parked over! Poor woman 😱

I have a low level constant fear that I will faint in front of a tube/train/traffic.
I have never fainted in my life 😳

Wearing a maxi dress and a wasp getting stuck up it

And also being pushed off a tube / train platform

Mine is linked to an obsession, but tea towels.
l get so freaked out by the thought of people using tea towels to dry their hands and then using the same on the dishes. 🤢I've seen it happen in many communal kitchens/ staffrooms and it makes me scream and panic on the inside every time!
I don't have any tea towels in my house, just in case any guests would use them in this way...
Which is a very strange small fear, I know!

Brillo pads. The thought of them with bare hands makes me feel sick, can’t even have them in the house

It would appear to be pedicures, dd is currently doing dhs toenails. Urgh

My boss once walked down the street holding his blackberry, he dropped it and it went clean through the bars of the drain, like he'd posted it. It didn't even hit the metal. He was completely thrown. He was attached to it like an extra hand. I had IT get him a new one and all his info on it in record time.

I had a monkey try to grab my camera!

Falling while ice skating and my fingers being sliced off..