Weird Fears…

I’ve convinced myself that everyone has at least one weird fear.  I’m not talking about the typical things such as spiders, heights, or flying.  We’re even delving deeper than fears such as birds (they’re erratic and creepy) or toasters (they scare me when they pop).  I’m talking about those random and abnormal thoughts that pop into your head and make you think "Holy crap, I hope that never happens to me!"

I live in the Great Lakes region of the United States.  We are cursed to have three mini seasons (spring, summer, fall) and one mega season (WINTER).  This annoying, gray, windy, freezing, dark, slushy, icy, snowy season lasts about half of a rolling year from approximately October to March.  It’s during this chunk of the year when my weird fear occurs.

Let me paint the picture…but don’t think too much about it because I’m naked in it!

It’s nighttime.  It’s (checks Weather.com) 19 degrees (Fahrenheit) but it feels like 8 degrees due to the wind.  It’s snowing.  There’s about 2-3 inches of snow on the ground that already made my morning and evening commute treacherous due to 2 kinds of people: those who can’t drive even in favorable conditions and those who think they are impervious to driving mishaps of any kind simply because they drive a large vehicle.  But I digress.  So it’s blustery and miserable outside.  I’m in the shower.  My long hair is soaking wet and even with a blow dryer it would take about 20-30 minutes to dry (6-8 hours without the blow dryer).  It’s right about then that I think to myself "Holy crap, I hope my house doesn’t catch fire and then I have to evacuate into the freezing cold with wet hair!"

Told ya…it was weird.