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

Morris dancers. They wave a white flag, which is the universal sign for surrender and then hit each other with poles.

I am fine with border Morris, which seems to forgo this part.

I did this once in the grate outside my house. A passing charity salesman tried to fish them out if I made a direct debit to whatever charity he was pushing, which I agreed to and then cancelled because I was a poor student 🙈 and I ended up having to pay the council £50 to drain the thing and get them out. Luckily they still worked and DH never found out!

Mine is those small “invisible” socks. They give me the ick.

Those stairs for getting out of swimming pools. I always think they’ll give way. Heft my self out of the side of the pool instead.

The sea

As a piano teacher I really need to know why so I can avoid making any of my students feel like this 🤣

That my knife will scrape across the plate while I'm eating and cause that horrendous screech.

Flies

I'm not frightened of them, but I simply cannot bear their existence, their maggots, their persistence.

Also moths.

Damaging my nails, gives.me the fear! Licking my fingers are eating 🤮🤮🤮

Yeah this too 😳

I also get occasionally worried that there will be an apocalyptic type situation and I won't be able to get my medication from the pharmacy.

Thank you for reminding me its bin day tomorrow 🤣

Opening crisp packets upside down. Completely ruins the taste of the crisps and makes me feel like something might go wrong that day.

I can't walk over those metal grilles in pavements, or on drain covers in case they break and I fall down the hole.

I also fear disappearing through the slot at the top of an escalator. Hah! I should be so skinny! 😆

Crash test dummies 🤣

There's something terrifying about the blank faces 🤣 <I am not mental>

The huge climbing tower at our local park, I always have a fear one of my kids will get stuck up there and need rescuing, or worse getting stuck in a tunnel/ tube at soft play 😂

Toasters. I had one, 30 years ago.

Put it on one morning and a mouse jumped out! Got such a fright and can't bear the thought of its little feet getting burnt.

No more toasters.

I worry that I'll suddenly forget how to unclip and will fall off my bike. It hasn't ever happened ... but it could. Also balloons and other things that might go bang make me nervous.

… I now have 42 new fears

I'm afraid of surviving a plane crash, being adrift at sea and being eaten by a shark. When I'm in a plane travelling over land I'm absolutely fine. It's a very odd and specific fear.

Not mine but my friend has a fear that a pigeon will get caught up in her curly hair and she'll be running through the streets screaming, with the bird flapping trying to escape.

That made me think about people scraping their knife over the prong end of the fork when putting their food on. Makes me shudder!

I am a massive introvert and, while I am absolutely fine in most social situations, I reach a limit where I absolutely need a bit of head space or I start to feel like I'm hyperventilating! So situations involving lots of sitting around talking with no polite way of escaping worry me!

I've actually done this!

I got out of my car and my house keys slipped out of my hand and down the drain outside my house.

Luckily DH was home but I had to search for a wire coat hanger to fish them out.

Keys go in my bag EVERY time now!

So many of mine already mentioned

Fish - hate everything about them and the thought of eating anything remotely fishy is a no no (won't even eat prawn cocktail crisps 😂 crazy I know!)

Maxi skirt and wasps/bees

Oh and I did drop my keys down a drain outside a local shop a few years ago, a lovely lady over the road came out with one of those long extending magnetic poles and got them back for me ⭐️

My small fear not yet mentioned (I don't think) is someone making me jump while I'm cleaning my ears with a cotton bud (I know you shouldn't go too deep but it feels sooo orgasmic good) to be fair it's not that irrational as something similar happened to an old work colleague years back and it's stuck with me.

Having to say my name and what I do in a work meeting. You know where one by one everyone introduces themselves. I'm not listening to any of them, I'm just planning what I'm going to say when it's my turn and hoping I don't fuck it up.

If I lean over anything to take a picture I am completely convinced I will drop my phone. I never worry it’ll just drop it randomly any other tone. Just then.