Irrational Fear/Hate

IcSyU

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I freaking hate when people don't turn into the corresponding lane at an intersection.
If red light cameras could ticket for this I'd be in favor of them at every intersection. You don't get to pick what lane you feel like turning into...you get to turn into the nearest lane.
 

BoxsterCy

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Some mod here deleted my previous post? wtf?

1) people who get out their checkbooks after their items are rung up....witing out their check slowly, deliberately, including the memo...and even balance their checkbook while everyone waits

2) Old retired people (and stay-at-home-moms) at the drug counter, grocery store aisles, or clogging a restaurant's waiting list (i.e.;Olive Garden) from 11:30am-1pm on a WEEKDAY. Stay the hell away on a WEEKDAY, and let us working folk get our business done and back to work on time so we can make money to pay for your social security and food stamps. Do your thing from 9am-11am....and go home

3) fat, large, lonely, older dudes at convenient store counters buying cigs and powerball/scratch-offs by the dozen, but first making the clerk check the other dozen tickets, plus chatting about some inane personal story to a female clerk they have a crush on, while 10 people wait behind this guy enjoying his daily social highlight

I think your irrational hatred here is a product of your irrational fear of patience. This is a double score for you for a fear/hate thread!
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Jambalaya

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Anyone chomping gum with their mouth open....especially chicks....effing rude and low class

Belching in public (see above)

Some white dude with the flat-billed hat wore backwards and crooked. grow up. you're not tough, nor a thug wanabee, or a rapper... You're a doosh
 

urb1

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I hate ISU losses and the total doom and gloom that is sure to be painted in eleven different threads on CF.
 

baller21

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Since my first attempt is apparently illegal, let's try again.

What are things that you irrationally hate/fear?

My biggest one is small spaces.......so I suppose that means I'm somewhat claustrophobic. When I was about 8, we were playing hide and seek in my house, and I had a really, really good hiding spot. The empty hope chest. If you don't know what those are, it's like hiding in a casket. Bad idea.
So I climb in, and smartly keep my fingers between the lid so it can't close on me.........and then my nose itches.

*click*

instant panic. Screaming, crying, absolutely freaking out. It felt like forever, but probably within in 20 seconds, my brother opens it up because the whole damn house could hear me.

Ever since then, I just get panicky at feeling "trapped". DH found out the hard way that it might be funny to jump on me when I'm in bed, but I instantly freak out if my arms can't move because of the covers. Watching shows where someone gets buried alive? Nope!


that's my big one, but others would be house centipedes, cockroaches, and the "creep" face.



I had a similar experience when I was 5 except it was a footlocker. Well my sister knew where I was and thought it would be funny to lock me in and watch me freak out, which I did. So after she'd thoroughly enjoyed the show she went to let me out but found out she couldn't get it open. Turns out she had to call my dad at work to come home and break me out. I probably spent 20-30 minutes locked in there but suprisingly am not claustrophobic. The only time I've ever felt uneasy in a small space was when I had a MRI. That tube is seriously small.


My irrational hate would be for hypnotists and psychics.
 

cowgirl836

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I had a similar experience when I was 5 except it was a footlocker. Well my sister knew where I was and thought it would be funny to lock me in and watch me freak out, which I did. So after she'd thoroughly enjoyed the show she went to let me out but found out she couldn't get it open. Turns out she had to call my dad at work to come home and break me out. I probably spent 20-30 minutes locked in there but suprisingly am not claustrophobic. The only time I've ever felt uneasy in a small space was when I had a MRI. That tube is seriously small.


My irrational hate would be for hypnotists and psychics.


Ugh, that would be awful.
 

cloneswereall

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Anything with more than 4 legs will end up getting me to scream and run if it surprises me. I know I won't get hurt, as I'm 6'2" and all, but damn do bugs need to stay away from me. If you hear a high pitched squeal, see a full grown man running away, it's possible that there was a bug near me.

Funny story, I had a silverfish bug in my classroom a few years ago, and I jumped when I saw it. I had this tiny kid in class (a girl nonetheless), and she walked right up to the bug picked it up, brought it to my face and said it won't you, see? I just told her that if she wanted to pass my class that she'd kill it or put it outside.
 

bugs4cy

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Irrational hate. (Obviously I spend too much time in my car)

1) People who cruise slowly in left lane on the interstate, mucking up traffic as everyone must squeeze around them on the right.
2) We're coming up to a bottle neck on a multilane road and instead of getting over and plodding through it, Very Special people have to fly up to where the lane shuts down and weasel their way in. I hate the person who can't just take their place in line and I hate the person that lets them in.
3) People who can't put their registration sticker on their license plate correctly. People, this is not a game of blackout bingo. If I was a cop I'd shoot their tires right out from under them.
4) CAVE (Citizens Against Virtually Everything) and whiners. There are the people who show up at city council, etc., and complain about everything, but never lift a finger to help.
6) People who park like jack***es. They squeeze in somewhere that isn't a parking space, mucking up traffic flow. People, there's a spot 30 feet away. Park in it.
5) Liars.

Yah, I use my horn. A LOT.
 

CapnCy

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1. Confined spaces. When I hear stories on the news of people trapped in a car for several days in a ditch or something, I get real queesy. Same with the thought of being buried alive.

2. People at sporting events that are beyond irrational. You know the types, calling for Tiller when he is in the game, etc. Or the types that grumble on a penalty against us that clearly was a penalty (o lineman standing up and getting the false start, etc)
 

Trice

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Irrational hate. (Obviously I spend too much time in my car)

1) People who cruise slowly in left lane on the interstate, mucking up traffic as everyone must squeeze around them on the right.
2) We're coming up to a bottle neck on a multilane road and instead of getting over and plodding through it, Very Special people have to fly up to where the lane shuts down and weasel their way in. I hate the person who can't just take their place in line and I hate the person that lets them in.
3) People who can't put their registration sticker on their license plate correctly. People, this is not a game of blackout bingo. If I was a cop I'd shoot their tires right out from under them.
4) CAVE (Citizens Against Virtually Everything) and whiners. There are the people who show up at city council, etc., and complain about everything, but never lift a finger to help.
6) People who park like jack***es. They squeeze in somewhere that isn't a parking space, mucking up traffic flow. People, there's a spot 30 feet away. Park in it.
5) Liars.

Yah, I use my horn. A LOT.

This, a thousand times this. I seriously wonder if driver's ed teaches "slower traffic keep right" anymore. The sheer obliviousness of some people, just hanging out in the left lane all day. And worse, when they quickly pull right out in front of you from the right lane to escape a slower-moving vehicle they are approaching, only to go slower than you in the left lane.

I need to start using my horn more. It is enraging.
 

Jambalaya

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Irrational hate. (Obviously I spend too much time in my car)

1) People who cruise slowly in left lane on the interstate, mucking up traffic as everyone must squeeze around them on the right.
2) We're coming up to a bottle neck on a multilane road and instead of getting over and plodding through it, Very Special people have to fly up to where the lane shuts down and weasel their way in. I hate the person who can't just take their place in line and I hate the person that lets them in.
3) People who can't put their registration sticker on their license plate correctly. People, this is not a game of blackout bingo. If I was a cop I'd shoot their tires right out from under them.
4) CAVE (Citizens Against Virtually Everything) and whiners. There are the people who show up at city council, etc., and complain about everything, but never lift a finger to help.
6) People who park like jack***es. They squeeze in somewhere that isn't a parking space, mucking up traffic flow. People, there's a spot 30 feet away. Park in it.
5) Liars.

Yah, I use my horn. A LOT.

:twitcy:
+ 10,000,000 !
 

Jambalaya

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Turn signals. Please use them....located on your FRICKING STEERING COLUMN.

--- floating back and forth through lanes sans signaling? dooooshbag
-----switching lanes on interstate while driving 70-80 mph......cutting you off....w/out signaling? doooshbag
---slowing down abrupting in front on me..then turning into drive, w/out signaling? doooshbag
----facing doosh at a four-way stop sign..the driver turns into you w/out signaling? doooshbag

Headlites: for you to be SEEN....not 'to see' with under these conditions:

---- Dusk? turn on your headlites....dumba#s
----morning? if it's still dark...turn on your headlites
----heavy fog? (my favorite) I can't believe the a-holes who don't have their headlites on. WE CAN'T SEE YOU...dumba#s
---heavy rains/snowstorm. If you drive a silver, grey, of white car--WE CAN'T SEE YOU dumba#s
 
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baller21

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Turn signals. Please use them....located on your FRICKING STEERING COLUMN.

--- floating back and forth through lanes sans signaling? dooooshbag
-----switching lanes on interstate while driving 70-80 mph......cutting you off....w/out signaling? doooshbag
---slowing down abrupting in front on me..then turning into drive, w/out signaling? doooshbag
----facing doosh at a four-way stop sign..the driver turns into you w/out signaling? doooshbag

Headlites: for you to be SEEN....not 'to see' with under these conditions:

---- Dusk? turn on your headlites....dumba#s
----morning? if it's still dark...turn on your headlites
----heavy fog? (my favorite) I can't believe the a-holes who don't have their headlites on. WE CAN'T SEE YOU...dumba#s
---heavy rains/snowstorm. If you drive a silver, grey, of white car--WE CAN'T SEE YOU dumba#s

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Buster28

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Turn signals. Please use them....located on your FRICKING STEERING COLUMN.

--- floating back and forth through lanes sans signaling? dooooshbag
-----switching lanes on interstate while driving 70-80 mph......cutting you off....w/out signaling? doooshbag
---slowing down abrupting in front on me..then turning into drive, w/out signaling? doooshbag
----facing doosh at a four-way stop sign..the driver turns into you w/out signaling? doooshbag

Headlites: for you to be SEEN....not 'to see' with under these conditions:

---- Dusk? turn on your headlites....dumba#s
----morning? if it's still dark...turn on your headlites
----heavy fog? (my favorite) I can't believe the a-holes who don't have their headlites on. WE CAN'T SEE YOU...dumba#s
---heavy rains/snowstorm. If you drive a silver, grey, of white car--WE CAN'T SEE YOU dumba#s

You're assuming people are smart. As a species, we generally are not. Far too many people only think of and for themselves and simply either do not care about anyone else or have concern/awareness that their actions affect those around them. But that doesn't mean it doesn't p!ss off the rest of us!
 

bugs4cy

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1. Confined spaces. When I hear stories on the news of people trapped in a car for several days in a ditch or something, I get real queesy. Same with the thought of being buried alive.

2. People at sporting events that are beyond irrational. You know the types, calling for Tiller when he is in the game, etc. Or the types that grumble on a penalty against us that clearly was a penalty (o lineman standing up and getting the false start, etc)

Wow, I can't agree more with your #2. I can't stand ISU fans that gripe, whine, yell, boo and generally crab about/at ISU coaches and players. If you are this freaking miserable why do you come to the game? Since you're so smart, why aren't you the coach or on the field/court? I was getting really close to crawling up the butt of the guy beside me at the Kansas game last week when he left at halftime. Lucky for him.
 

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