8. Things that go bump in the night!
If I am home alone (which luckily isn't too often) I can convince myself that every creak and bump in the night is an intruder. In high school, my dad converted one of the bays of our garage into a rec room for us. I had a sleepover out there with all of the girls one night. It was maybe 1 or 2am and we heard this THUMP, THUMP, THUMP. Then it sounded like someone was moving heavy furniture around in the attic above our heads. The exit from the rec room required walking through the other bay of the garage. We were too scared to do that in case someone came down from the attic and saw us.
Logically, we called the house phone with our cell phones.
No one answered.
Then we called each of my parents' cell phones.
No one answered.
Then we called each of my sisters' cell phones.
No one answered.
Then we called the boys we had hung out with earlier that evening.
No one answered.
Finally, the noises were still happening and we were getting really nervous. One of the girls suggested we call the police. We decided to wait 10 minutes to see if it would just go away. 10 minutes later, after a couple minutes of quiet, we heard what sounded like footsteps.
We did it. We called the police.
They answered.
They came and checked everything out and couldn't find anything! The window was open so they assumed it was an animal or something. Regardless, we made it out of the rec room and into the house safely!
Best part: The next morning at breakfast, my parents didn't even believe that the police had been to the house in the middle of the night. It wasn't until we showed them the missed calls on all of their phones that they believed us!!!!
7. Small, tight, dark, airless spaces.
6. Breaking Humpty Dumpty style.
Breaking my bones isn't too scary. I lost count around 20, you know, that whole OI thing. Please refer to the movie Unbreakable for further details. Samuel L Jackson was way worse off than me, but you get the gist.
Anyway, I'm scared of breaking Humpty Dumpty style. I figure I'll be okay as long as I avoid boxing or the X games.
5. Failure.
School and things like that have always come easily for me. I've been really lucky in that regard. Grad school in a field I've never studied before, sort of intimidating!
4. Angry Dogs
Dogs normally love me and I normally love them. However! Those scary angry mean dogs that charge people from behind their chain link fences. They scare the living daylights out of me!!
3. Sour Milk
I am scared to drink milk anywhere but from my mom's fridge. I always seem to be the one to find sour milk because I never drink it unless I really really am craving it. So then, I pick it up and take a huge gulp, only to find out it's sour. This has happened multiple times and it is incredibly GROSS.
2. Ferris Wheels
Do you see the terror in my eyes and the barely concealed grimace? I'm fine going up high, it's the slow movement and the stopping and starting that kills me!
1. Hurting people's feelings.
I hate hurting people's feelings. Well, obviously a lot of people do. This isn't a quality that makes me unique. You'd probably be a bad person if you enjoyed it. But, it breaks my heart. On occasion it is unavoidable and that's so unfortunate.
