Irrational worries.
 

Sometimes when I reach up in a cabinet to get a bowl on a high shelf, I wonder if a tarantula is in the bowl and will either bite my hand or fall out onto my upturned face.

Does anyone else worry about this?

I think you are rich (bmw) so every fear you have is probably healthy, keeps you running marathons and not dead. Good work.

I sometimes have a concern that there's something in my shoe before I put it on...

Does that apply here?

I'd worry more about the spiders you don't see...those subtle little bastards, like the brown recluse...are there tarantulas in CO? But, after having had that scenario set for a bit, yea, broke into a light sweat.

I thought about today setting up a shotgun to blow off someones head if they try to break into my apt, but I decided that a guard spider would work better.

I have the tarantula in the high bowl problem too.

Plus, whenever I go to sleep I'm afraid I'll wake up without any arms.

FAX

I worry that KC will accept Orton as the QBoTF

Two weeks ago, Colts fans had irrational worries about losing out on Luck. Now they have a tarantula on their face.

I was worried about the lights hovering above my house the past few nights. And then someone told me that Christmas is this Sunday and I thought it was still September.

There was this girl I knew in Carmel who read a lot of Carlos Castaneda books. She told me that, if you're going to die, Death will appear over your left shoulder. It kind of freaked me out and I worried about it for a long time. I was always sort of looking over both shoulders in case she was wrong.

Then, this one time, she peeked over my left shoulder to see what I was doing with my hands and I instinctively reacted with my right fist and smacked the living crap out of her face.

FAX

I worry you don't understand the difference between future and present :)

I have a blade for a food processor that I keep on the top shelf of a cabinet. It's like the sharpest thing in the world. Sometimes I think it sits there, waiting for the day when it can fall on me.

I don't have the food processor blade falling on me problem. Thank God.

But, sometimes I worry that one day I'll be on ChiefsPlanet and somebody will say something that makes perfect sense, then I'll click on a link and I'll immediately be transferred to a freaky web site with spinning spirals in rainbow colors that instantly hypnotize you and then a spooky, low voice says ... "Remove your clothing ... Remove your clothing ... Go to the kitchen ... Go to the kitchen ... Take the peanut butter from the pantry shelf .... Yes, I said the peanut butter ... Now spread the peanut butter on your nutsack ... That's right ... Now go into the street ... Now dance like a chicken ... Yes, I said dance like a chicken ... No ... Not like Jim Morrison ... Like a chicken ... Chick ... en ... Good ... Now keep dancing until the police arrive ..."

FAX

I've always had this feeling that stairs will eventually kill me.

I have an irrational fear of white, non-descript people wearing suicide bombs. The least they could do is put on a kefijeh or something as a warning. Don't suicide bombers have any sense of diplomacy?

I think you were bored with CP for the last 2 days like I was and you like to make polls.

I sometimes worry that the box of Cheerios that I just brought home from the market has been tampered with so that when I attempt to gain access to the Cheerios by pulling apart that wax-paper bag thing that they seal at the top (that is almost un-freaking-possible to open because they have either sealed it too tightly or you can't get a grip on the bag parts or they mistakenly used some kind of flexible aluminum/titanium alloy instead of wax-paper to make the bag thing) that it will activate a bomb and the Cheerios and the kitchen and me and my bowl and spoon and everything else I hold dear will be blown to all hell and gone.

I worry about that some. But I don't really think that's irrational.

FAX

Oooh - that actually happened to a friend of mine once but I think he did it on purpose because he was terminal due to a bad case of cancer he caught from putting his tattoo in the microwave. You are not supposed to microwave your tatts. Everybody knows that.

I have an irrational fear of the tarantella...

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I don't worry so much about the bowls on the shelf.

Spiders don't bother me. I consider them beneficial to keeping out even worse insects. Mice can't stand them though. On the few occasions one has gotten into the house I always jump for joy, laugh like schoolgirl and smash them flatter than a pancake after I have caught it. Which brings me to, I don't know how people can eat tree rats(squirrels). Who the hell wants to willingly eat a rodent? Gross.

I sometimes question the sophistication of your thought processes, Mr. RubberSponge. You are far too literal which, no doubt, explains your choice of name.

You see, Mr. Rain Man is posting metaphorically. The "reaching for a top shelf" represents Mr. Rain Man's desire to seek and obtain a higher level of personal, spiritual understanding. The bowl stands for his subconscious mind while the spider is his un-evolved, base, primitive, prehistoric self contained in the medulla oblongata. The "tarantula" falling on his upturned face symbolizes Mr. Rain Man's inability to contain his most primal instincts such as farting and spitting in public and his innate inability to trust his own judgment as demonstrated by his constant need to take polls in order to discover, then base his decisions upon, the thoughts and opinions of others.

I mean, it's pretty obvious.

FAX

A subdivision near my house supposedly has a problem with tarantulas. They like going onto the tennis court there for some reason, so when people go out to play tennis they see tarantulas sitting there on the court.

Too cold here. If they got past that my dogs would eat them.

My wife got bit by one of those little bastards last weekend. Not good.

What the ****??

man that video creeped me out. Can't stand spiders. Just a phobia of mine. Things are just creepy looking.

Seriously where the F is that bathroom with spiders like that?

yeah, I would have ran like a woman out of there.
I went camping last summer and after we packed up our tent and stuff I saw a tarantula on the ground. Made me not want to go there again.

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I think it's funny the dude even bothered raising the seat there. I would have just aimed for the middle.

And what if the spider jumped out on your junk!?!?!

NO NO NO!!!! :cuss:

And if there's that many spiders right there it means there's enough food supply to keep them there. Which means it must be covered in insects and other spiders.

I have an irrational fear of the brown recluse biting my junk while I'm on the shitter.

That is a real fear here in Hawaii. We keep our shoes outside the front door (as does everyone) so you have to make sure there are no centipedes in them before you put them on. My next door neighbor, who keeps his shoes right next to mine, found one in his shoe one morning. I guess this isn't an irrational worry.

Why?

It is customary here. There is a lot of Asian influence here, a lot of Japanese, Korean, etc., here. Under their customs you do not wear shoes in the house. It keeps your carpets clean. The majority of people here are of Asian descent, and the custom was passed down from their parents, grandparents, etc.

When people go to another's house it is expected that they will take off their shoes. Most people wear flip-flops here, so that isn't too hard. Even when a repair man or delivery person comes into your house (plumber, cable guy, whatever) they take their shoes off.

Fear of centipedes would trump customs for me.

I was bitten by one once - it wasn't in my shoe though. I got home late, 2:30 am, and went into my office to check my email. I pulled the keyboard drawer on my desk out and felt what I though was the keyboard or mouse cable land on my ankle. It wasn't a cable. It bit me three times. My ankle got really swollen, and the pain shot up my leg for hours. I felt very sick, and couldn't sleep. I survived though, but now they really creep me out when I see them.

Once there was one in the overhead light fixture in the kitchen. I was afraid to take the glass cover down (it was inside) because I was afraid it would jump on my head. I sprayed and sprayed inside with roach spray until it was soaking in it, and it still took 10 minutes to die. Creepy.

Man, I think centipedes are even worse than spiders. Are they like all over the place down there? I didn't know that.

It depends on where you are on the island. I live up in the mountains, and we don't have as many here. But down in the flat areas between the beach and the mountains there are more. When I worked the night shift at Pearl Harbor I would see them fairly often. They are hard to kill.

If I showed this to my wife, she wouldn't sleep for a week.

I sent it to my wife, with the preface that it would make her scream like a girl and not want to pee for a week. She watched it anyway. Now she's mad at me.

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Looks like a scene from Arachnophobia.

We had a tarantula for years so they're not scary to me. Occasionally I'd take him out of his cage and let him roam around the floor. Maybe you should get one and keep it as a pet. Maybe your phobia would go away.

What you really should be scared of are Black Widows since they live in every state of the union. I found 3 of them outside in one of my basement window wells. That fear IMO would be justified.

Goddammit Mic, me too now. And I gotta shit. Thanks.
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Substitute tarantula for camel cricket then yes.

I am not worried about tarantulas, I even had one as a pet as a kid - found it in our cabin at the Ozarks. However, I hate small spiders - you can't see the little ****ers until they are right on you. Tarantulas you can see from a long ways away.