Weird thoughts other people must think...

[ReenaGee]

Surely everyone has a fleeting thought of the bath falling through the ceiling whilst they're in it?

Does anyone else have this thought?

And other recurring little thoughts people have that other people must also think?

My head has an absolute field day when it comes to weird thoughts! I just assumed that it is because I have an over-active internal voice, and because I spend a lot of time working on my own!

Sometimes the weird thoughts are hilarious (to me) and I have a terrible time of trying to keep a straight face in front of other people.

For those who worry about furniture crashing through ceiling: here are two funny things I remember from childhood.

The book “no jumping on the bed”, in which a boy in a high rise flat jumps on his bed which crashes through the floor, into the dining room of a elderly lady below, who says “I was not expecting company for my dinner!”, and they all fall through every floor in the building, taking a growing party of people with them.

There was an advert for a breakfast cereal in which greedy squirrels hear the family crunching, and they saw through the floor from below, so that the dining table crashes through the floor into the basement, and the squirrels get to eat the cereal.🥣 🐿️

Multi storey carparks. I always park on the top level an I have a fear of being crushed underneath.
Also when I'm sitting in traffic over a motorway I worry it will collapse.

Don't have the bath one.
But probbaly twice a week I look in the cupboards and work out mentally, if we had to leave and drive north immediately and not stop, like if there was a zombie attack, what food and other items would we take in the car. I mentally tot it all up in my head, would I take the pepper? would gold be of any value in the apocolypse, should I take my jewelry or will it become useless?, or should I take all the spices and use them to barter?

About how I would get out of a submerged car now you can’t wind windows down. Do you just wait for it to sink and fill up so you aren’t pushing against the water?

I haven't thought of that in the bath, but I did think of it while pounding the treadmills on the first floor in the gym!

I had one come true. I always wondered what I would do if being threatened by a man with a knife. Turns out I couldn’t scream or run - he was covered with blood and running towards me with a big blade. Luckily he ran straight past.

I often wonder if how I see colour is the same as how other people do. Like my brain knows what blue looks like to me but does blue look the same through someone else's eyes. Does that make sense?

Oh man I have the bath one every single day!! I swear my bath feels different under my feet than it used to and this has convinced me I’m going to go through the ceiling.

My grandad prepared me for that one: when I had a toy dagger with a retractable blade (children took these to school - unthinkable now!), he demonstrated using a dining chair as a shield. “You be the burglar, point that knife at me,” he said.

After watching Jaws when I was little, in the 70s, I was scared that a shark would come up through the toilet! It worried me for years.

Airplane toilet flush opens into the sky and it’s going to suck me out of the plane…

I sometimes sit in the cinema and worry that the screen will fall down and crush everyone! I’ve since learnt that they are a screen rather than a giant TV, but I still worry about it.

If I’m in a shop with high ceilings where you can see the lights and pipes etc I worry they might fall off the ceiling and crush someone.

In a church I worry the beams and the lights on the ceiling might fall on my head.

Walking passed tall buildings I worry something will crumble off them and fall on my head.

Walking over bridges I worry until I’m across them that they might collapse.

Walking through parks I worry a big branch might fall off a tree and hit us on the head.

There is a common theme with mine!

I had this exact conversation with my DD the other day, so this definitely makes sense to me!

I do this too, my bladder starts getting twitchy as well.

I live by the sea, at the end of my road is a cliff with a slope down to the beach, when I’m walking the dog I often think what happens if there’s a tsunami… especially the last few days as the sea was calm as can be. Makes me feel a bit eerie… tbh I’m a chronic overthinker so even though I can’t think of them all I guarantee you I’ve over thought something like this about every situation I’m in 😂

Another one is how I would secure the house in a zombie apocalypse 😅 watched a bit too much walking dead and played a bit too much the last of us, but I feel like I could survive…. Just not good at running 😂

I have a new fear about finding a rat or a snake in the loo.

@takealettermsjones I do exactly this too! Especially after watching an episode of Stalker after some chap in a latex suit, had curled himself up in the spare wheel space I think it was! Gave me nightmares for ages after.

Another one I often think of, well panic about, is being buried alive, never to be found again 😱

When I was in my teens my older brother (who is an aeronautical engineer) told me that you could be killed by being sucked out through the toilet on a plane. Now I know that this is impossible but I still think about it every time I fly and only go for a wee if I'm desperate!

Every time I drive across a railway crossing, I worry that the lights and gates have failed to activate. I always glance to my right, almost expecting to see a huge train bearing down on me and I breathe a sigh of relief when I get to the other side!

Two things mentioned here have happened.
Just this week the fire alarm went off at the gym while I was soaping up in the shower. A staff member came roaring in to tell us to get OUT, NOW. So I ended up outside in nothing but a bath towel for 20 minutes.

A few years ago a work colleague had been on a heavy night out in the pub. Got back to his apartment block and into the lift, which got stuck. He had to wait 45 minutes in the lift with a bladder fit to burst while engineers sorted the problem.

There’s a particular spot on my usual dog walk that I am convinced every day there is a dead body there. No idea why!

also lots of other ones that other people have said. I also think when I’m in bed how weird it is that all the other people in my street/town/county etc are probably doing the same thing. Lying in a big box on a smaller box to turn their brains off!