SOCIAL STUDIES 20 Things I Vaguely Fear (With No Explanation)
Molly McAleer

  1. Corduroy shorts
  2. Diane Sawyer
  3. Carefully groomed facial hair
  4. Clove cigarettes
  5. Fathers that read the newspaper at breakfast
  6. Sweet pickles
  7. Consuming dairy or eggs at someone else’s home
  8. Dubstep
  9. Enlarged images of dust mites
  10. Everything that happened in the movie Brokedown Palace
  11. Possums
  12. Other people’s cellars
  13. Bubonic plague coming back
  14. Sea pigs
  15. “Maggie May” by Rod Stewart
  16. Freeways
  17. Kody Brown from Sister Wives
  18. Sambuca
  19. James Taylor
  20. Grocery stores in Joshua Tree

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  1. This will terrify you: my aunt used to keep really old eggs in her fridge. It was kind of like a secret collection of sorts. Some were probably more than a year old. She had a friend over once and HE ATE THEM not knowing they were way passed expired. He, understandably, freaked out.

  2. cheap wood panelling and linoleum tiling…

  3. i fear velvet. can someone explain that one?!

  4. Molls, one time I dreamt that Kody Brown wanted to make me his 5th sister-wife. The scene was like the apocalypse. Like, tumbleweeds and an abandoned city. Then he carried me. *VIOLATED* I haven’t been the same since. So, yea, totally understandable.

  5. I’m so glad I’m not the only one with an unreasonable fear of sweet pickles.

  6. mustaches :(

  7. I’m afraid of balloons. Intact, already blown up balloons is fine. But if there is risk of poppage, I freak out!

    Everyone hates public restrooms. I’ll go find a bush to crouch down behind before using one. It’s gotta be a grade A emergency for me to use one. Other than at Target, theirs are always really clean. Well, as clean as such things can be.

    Also, I’m not afraid of the dark. But I can’t walk around my house in the dark. It’s like I’m waiting for the boogey man to sneak up behind me. And not kill me, just startle.

    • i’m not afraid of the dark, but not if i turn out the lights and then have to walk up dark stairs. ever since I was little (I am 30) i have to sprint up the stairs and uncontrollably this scared little mumble comes out of me as I jump into bed or to a light switch,
      also close ups of food on TV. Gives me the willies.
      Going to bathrooms in other peoples houses kind of freaks me out…especially if the shower curtain is closed

  8. When my brother was younger he was afraid of vacuums

  9. Oh my god I have the same ting about eating dairy at other people’s houses. I’m such a weirdo. LOL Kody Brown is NOTHING to be afraid of, though. He makes me laugh and laugh.

  10. Bubonic plague is back! A few years ago it was popular for pet stores to sell prairie dogs (gophers) and it turns out they carry plague.

  11. I think dubstep is the music that plays when you’re dying of a drug overdose in a movie.

  12. Right there with you on Brokedown Palace!

  13. I was afraid of flushing the toilet when I was younger.

    • @Victoria I was afraid of flushing the toilet at my friend’s homes when I was younger. Nowadays I make sure to ask if the toilet is in working order!

  14. #1, 3 and 9…definitely!

  15. One time I went to this guy’s house and his mom had a calendar on the refrigerator with what they were having for dinner for the rest of the month. It really freaked me out and I feel like it fits with this list.

  16. Your fear of Kody Brown needs no explanation. And neither does consuming eggs or dairy at other people’s houses, really. You can never be too careful.