Relatively Normal Things that Make Me Noivous

i do what i can...

something else that makes me noivous --
upheaval at work.

like when someone's leaving the company... or we have to move to another floor... or we have some big honkin' meeting to address the recent layoffs.

even office outings and parties give me pause.

i just wanna sit at my desk.
is that too much to ask?

No. Upheaval = portent.

Now, does that make you feel better?

You poor noivous wreck of a fern.

Note to region's managers: Leave the guy alone. Most people are only too happy to be away from their desks doing nonwork, semiwork, and pseudo-work related stuff. Take advantage of the situation and let reg sit at his desk and work.

if by 'work' you mean looking at A2k all day, then... yes!

Lightning. It didn't bother me until about ten years ago when a friends niece got struck and has never fully recovered. After that... Scares me to death. I think I also made the connection about that time that I have extra electricity that makes watches stop making me think I might actually attract it, and a woman that was working for Bear said her car speaker got struck... so cars aren'r really grounded.

Lightning. I hide in the corners from lightning.

And I always worry about metal eyeglasses...

Sorry, wasn't trying to be argumentative, that is something I'm afraid of, never mind "what are the odds?"

Who knows, maybe someone reading this will one day be unfortunate enough to go in the drink, and they might think about what was said, and remember enough to get to safety.

Cripes!

Thanks. I'll add that to my list.

receiving a PM makes me kinda noivous, but it's a good kinda noivous...

Banks can make me nervous. Probably cause step-daughter works at one and has been robbed several times. I'm pretty cautious about going in. Prefer drive-throughs now.

I'm with the phone people. Hate dem phones.....



But, it's just because of:

a. Work........phones mean constant possibility of massive dramas that you're supposed to be able to sort out, scary clients, all sorts of bad things...over the yerars it gets to everyone.

b. Being stalked...at work (bastid never got my home number)....added to my phone phobia, since I never knew when the phone meant this madman threatening me.....

Thinking....re the phone business.

The landline ringing doesn't make me nervous, and my cell phone is one of those pre-paid jobs, my husband is really the only one who calls me on it.

BUT, if like most people, I gave my cell # to everyone, especially my boss, I'd be dreading every time it rang. She doesn't do it anymore, but a couple of years back my boss got in the habit of calling me at night, about stuff that she just as well could've said in the morning. I put a stop to that. Even so, she still on occassion asks for my cell #, but in the course of a conversation where I don't end up answering her.

Years ago, when people used pagers a lot more, I had to carry one when on call. When it went off, the only thing it could mean was a problem. I dreaded when it would go off at 11:00pm, it meant a nurse hadn't shown up for work yet, or, where calling off the 7am shift. Which meant me waking everyone up.

Yes, that would make me nervous.

I hear that!

The land phone and the doorbell.

Friends and family either knock, or come right in. The warning that they are near is their loud talking and laughing.

Only someone who wants something from me rings the doorbell.

I'm more skittish about big banging knocks on the door or even little night noises since the fire next door at 4 in the morning. Not sure when it was, now, without looking it up, probably late last October, or in November. There's remodelling there ever since, but no one living there.

I'll be glad when they're back in the place.

But, hey, that's realistic fear.

Chai, Didn't view you as argumentative, just helpful.

The can of worms I was referring relates to is all these fears--genuine life-threatening concerns. I had no idea these would come up in a discussion of nervous-making things.

To me, nervous is something akin to uncomfortable. Life-threatening is scary stuff--beyond nervous. But we've got a fair number of nervous-making contributions as well.

Fascinating stuff--both varieties. Things it would never occur to some of us to be concerned about are a source of concern to others. The reasons for the concerns are also fascinating.

What else makes me nervous? Too much quiet.

BOOM!


Glad there was finally something I could do to help.

first off I find all this fear of and nervousness concerning bears absolutely ridiculous...

heights.. court... this mole that hangs off one of Gracie the beagles' nipples....and moving things in my stool....

Thanks, roger, I needed that.



No offense intended, Bear. If I'm gonna get nervous about something that isn't there, it might as well be a big something. And let's face it, bears are the biggest land carnivores.

As for your list of nervous-making things, the last one has definitely registered on my nervous meter. (thud)

Hey phone folks. I keep the ringer on my phone turned off. Don't know I'm getting a call until the message starts. Not a perfect approach to phone calls, but not bad either.

Add me to the "bridge nervous" list.

I don't like driving on them (especially when they're way up high! They might collapse or I might get blown off, or go over the edge!) & I don't like being under them when traffic is rumbling along above me .... especially when my line of traffic is at a standstill & I just have to sit there! Eek!

...oh & driving through tunnels. Especially long, dark ones! Claustrophobia!

I think I must be about the only driver in Melbourne who hasn't driven on the Westgate Bridge or through the Burnley Tunnel.

Crowded stores make me nervous. I am already back from food shopping at the supermarket. I am in the store every Sunday morning, as soon as it opens. I get in an out as quickly as I can. No dawdling around.