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?

I have the one where I feel the urge to reach out and touch a train or tube train as it rushes past. I feel drawn to it.

I actually did something similar. I was on Library duty and was scooting backwards and forwards along behind the library desk, checking what the children were doing around the library. Scooted too hard, fell off the stool and landed on the floor. I wasn't hurt, dignity in tatters though-except amazingly, no-one noticed as children were all concentrating on whatever they were doing on the computers or whatever. (The computers were arranged so staff could see the screens so children had their backs to the desk)

I got up, dusted myself off and tried very hard to look nonchalant. One of my many epic fails.

The bath falling is a recurring fear of mine. I even asked a plumber to check the integrity of the floor.

When I was a child, I was terrified by the guillotine, and because France was celebrating the 200th anniversary of the French Revolution, guillotine imagery was everywhere.
In my school there were old toilets with a chain to trigger the flush. It reminded me of the trigger for the guillotine and I was TERRIFIED to flush. i could almost hear the roaring of the angry crowd.

When I ride I bike, I see myself leaning forward and putting my finger in the spokes and see it being sliced like a baby carrot.

The ‘upside down’ think is just the way optics work. But the way our brains can compensate is remarkable - this ‘inverted glasses’ experiment for instance

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_M._Stratton#Wundt's_lab_and_the_inverted-glasses_experiments

Yes - basically, when the car fills up, the pressure will equalize and you can open the door. They did this on Mythbusters and as long as you stay calm and don't panic (easier said than done), you should have enough air left. Or get one of those pointy things to smash the window.

Yes to the bath one but I actually know someone that this happened to..... I always triple check before driving away from the petrol pump that I haven't left the nossle in the car.

I’m always scared to close my eyes in the bath or shower in case a spider dangles from the ceiling and lands on me, no idea why, maybe I’ve seen it in a film at some point

Well thanks a lot! I have never thought this before but now I wont be able to go into the bathroom without thinking it!😂

I feel like this, but with the extra drain hole thing that the plug dangles from (is it part of the drain? 🤔) - I always imagine one folded up in there and suddenly climbing out.

But then, won’t the water cause the electrics to fail and the central locking might activate or jam?
Maybe I just need to plan my routes so I don’t drive near or over any rivers?! 😫

You can get a little tool that’s for cutting seatbelts and smashing the window.

Handy for any accident really if for some reason the seatbelt it stuck or caught up from a. Crash.

You mean the overflow? In some older houses this may be a pipe going straight outside (newer ones usually loop down into the bath drain pipe) so if no one ever overfills the bath to that point you could have things living in it.

Yes, that’s the word I was looking for.

And now my worst fear is confirmed I think I will be sticking something over it next time I’m in the bath!

Can spiders really come up through the plug hole, if the trap (u-bend) underneath is full of water, as it usually is?

The book “a house inside out” by Penelope Lively describes wood lice living in the bath drain pipe, and an important rite of passage for young wood lice is to go out through the plug hole, and try to climb up the side of the bath, and to fail magnificently.

I have a slightly similar one... if I'm walking through woods or secluded area I wonder how many dead bodies have been hidden there

I live my life with stupid thoughts. It can be delibating when bad.

A car will drive into me from the other side of the carriageway.
A train won't stop and will crash.
The boiler will burst and scald us all to death.
A rat will come up the toilet.
Family members or I will be kidnapped going to the shops.
Chargers will catch fire and burn the house down.
loads more that I can't think of.

I haven't done the bath one but may now. 🤦‍♀️

I also have most of those. They are thankfully fairly fleeting so not too debilitating. But just to say a faulty charger did set on fire in our house, we lost 80% of our belongs and had to live in temporary accommodation for a year. Don’t leave things charging!!

Yep, my friend woke up with a smouldering pillow after she left her phone charging under it!

I randomly panic a snake has come up the toilet.

I think i saw an article about it as a child i know its nonsense but i still do a panicked check once in a while