Roaming black holes
Sometimes I look at the wide open sky and think “What if gravity suddenly reverses and I fall up into the sky and then space? That would be really dangerous.”
This is like a non-Christian version of my childhood fear of “The Rapture.”
You should anchor yourself to things.
A, yes, quick sand, the bane of my childhood.
My mom once actually stepped in quicksand (thankfully only up to the top of her boot). It was in Canada. Yes, Canada has quicksand! She was visiting my uncle in Saskatchewan.
Unlike the movies, it fits its name. One minute she was walking, then suddenly it was like she fell into a pit, but couldn’t get her boot out. I can’t remember how the story ended. This was like 35 years ago that she told me about it.
Judging by she telling you this story I’d say it went quite okay.
Yeah, I just mean I don’t remember how she got out.
I remember freaking out when the last season of Friends aired - what, there are people vacationing in Bermuda? Are they insane? I was in my late teens
By now, satellites and GPS can just navigate us around the triangle, kind of like with hurricanes.
When I was in my late teens, I ended up on a boat from Ft Lauderdale to the Bahamas. Theres no way no to go through just a little bit of the Burmuda Triangle. I remember freaking out / being super excited, wondering what crazy stuff things would happen on our journey. Of course, nothing happened. I was so disillusioned.
Watched a childrens show that showed a snakebite. Was unable to enter my bed for years without searching it for snakes throughoutly.
Every time i was somewhere where i could see a big fall, i would get scared, thinking i would intentionally go there and fall to my death without noticing
I’m mildly scared of railings overlooking lower floors and such, thinking “I would get seriously injured if I somehow accidentally lean over this railing so much that I flip over to the other side and fall down.”
I had the exact same fear when I was a kid, and crossing bridges was always very stressful for me. Even today, as an adult, it still bothers me a little, and when I’m driving I keep having these intrusive thoughts like: “What if I accidentally drive off this bridge?”
When I was a kid there was a Norwegian children movie called “The hunt for the kidney stone” where a kid travels into the body of his sick grandpa to find out what’s wrong with him (kidney stone). After the movie I asked my mom what kidney stones are, and where they come from. “You can get them if you eat too much salt, for example” she says, and after that I was TERRIFIED every time my parents would put salt on anything.
I read a story somewhere of someone getting them from the oxalates in peanut butter.
They were eating like 1 kg a week for a month or two though.
Reminded me of the Bakers emperor where one of his alchemists is trying to split atom with hammer.
I was always worried about perfectly round holes in the ground and falling into them. Looney Tunes really over-represented how common they were.
They also led me to believe that quicksand would be a bigger hazard in everyday life.
Especially since anyone can paint them on the floor anywhere!
Chubbyemu made me fear gas station sushi.
gas station sushi
I didn’t know those 3 words existed in that combination and I’m frankly appalled that they do
For every time someone eats gas station sushi, someone has to eat a PB&J from a 5-Star restaurant to maintain the balance of the universe; otherwise you get weird things happening like The Fruit of the Loom logo losing the cornucopia, or Donald Trump becoming president.
Chubbyemu made me fear a lot of things
Reading all these adventure books and comics made me really fear quicksand as a child… I was living in East Berlins suburbs. The most comparable thing to quicksand would have been a mud puddle!
Tbf kost things a child will cut contain atoms so it’s not as far fetched as it sounds
And you’d deserve it for saying “on accident”
Don’t forget ‘for no reason’. As opposed to reasonable accidents.
Are accidents an accident if it didn’t happened accidentally?
Then they’re incidents.
Isnt “for no reason” referring to why the person feared that, not that the accident had no reason?
