QOTW - 2008/07/21
And the Question of the Week is…
Is there anything irrational that you continually do?
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Besides screaming at spiders as if I were still a little girl, and making Tim squash all large roaches that make an appearance in the bedroom after I'm in PJ's...?
Posted by Lorena on July 21, 2008 at 12:10 PM | #
I can't touch spiders at all. And I mean alive, dead or in a picture! It is totally irrational, but I just can't do it. I can't even suck one into the vaccuum cleaner. I'm afraid they will climb out and exact revenge on me.
I can't kill them, I can't pick up their dead bodies with tissue and throw them out, nothing. I make my kids kill them for me and throw them away.
I can't kill them, I can't pick up their dead bodies with tissue and throw them out, nothing. I make my kids kill them for me and throw them away.
If the Patriots or the Celtics have a really important, close game, I still think that I'll jinx them if I watch.
Posted by Liz (the crazed weasel) on July 21, 2008 at 12:37 PM | #
Totally a wuss about spiders.
Also really weird about leaving the house. We had a fire at our house growing up, and I think that carried over into adult weirdness of "something WILL happen when I'm away for the day/weekend/week." I embrace it, though, and make lists up the wazoo. And then I know, when my to-do lists are done, that it's okay to lock up and leave.
It doesn't make sense - really, anything could happen at any time to anyone. But it makes me feel secure knowing I've done all *I* can do.
Yes. Weird.
Plus, I bring a stuffed panther with me whenever I travel.
Also really weird about leaving the house. We had a fire at our house growing up, and I think that carried over into adult weirdness of "something WILL happen when I'm away for the day/weekend/week." I embrace it, though, and make lists up the wazoo. And then I know, when my to-do lists are done, that it's okay to lock up and leave.
It doesn't make sense - really, anything could happen at any time to anyone. But it makes me feel secure knowing I've done all *I* can do.
Yes. Weird.
Plus, I bring a stuffed panther with me whenever I travel.
Posted by Betharoopie on July 21, 2008 at 12:42 PM | #
I am 37 years old and I am still afraid of the dark. I have to have a night light or some sort of light on when I am sleeping. Now that I am an adult I see this as irrational but I have not been able to change how I feel.
I keep the blinds open in the window by my bed. I have them pulled all the way up, day and night. The moon shines in my face and wakes me, but I need to be able to see outside when it wakes me. The sun wakes me at unreasonable hours. But I need to be able to see outside when it wakes me. I'll close every other set of blinds, but I must be able to see outside from bed.
Posted by Quinn on July 21, 2008 at 08:09 PM | #
I do injurious things, like drinking and eating stuff I know isn't good for me. But I can't think of anything I regularly do that's irrational in the usual sense of the word. Big spiders, I trap in a jar and escort outside. Feel crawly about cockroaches, but that's reasonable, I think, and I can pick a big one up and let it walk on my hand. (That's the Madagascar Hissing Cockroach that shows up in zoos and fairs.)
Unca Joe
Unca Joe
Posted by Joe Haldeman on July 22, 2008 at 08:54 AM | #
I think I've posted this before, but I have to be sure the closet doors are closed before I go to sleep. Even if they're open an inch, I can't sleep -- cause you know, something might escape out.
Oh, and on some days, most of my life seems irrational.
Oh, and on some days, most of my life seems irrational.
Today I screamed at the lightning. Like that is going to help matters. LOL. I'm not normally scared of storms, but this summer has lowered my ability to deal with the crashing thunder.
Even though I want nice hands, I continually pick at the skin on my fingers. Defeats.The.Purpose! And I can't make myself stop.
Even though I want nice hands, I continually pick at the skin on my fingers. Defeats.The.Purpose! And I can't make myself stop.
Posted by glimmerite on July 22, 2008 at 10:41 PM | #
I suppose it might be irrational to think that if I eat oatmeal, fresh fruit and non fat yogurt for breakfast and exercise for an hour I can do anything else the rest of the day food-and-drink wise and still stay perfectly healthy. At the risk of grossing out the vegetarians - with McDonald's selling those 59 cent cheeseburgers, I brought two home for lunch but rationalized the health issue by loading them up with lettuce and tomatoes (and bacon, hee hee.) Yum.
Posted by alicesenior on July 23, 2008 at 04:29 PM | #
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