Rationalizing the weirdly irrational
Jun. 13th, 2009 06:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
serynI'd commented elsewhere about an irrational fear.
I don't like to answer the phone while I'm unpresentable. I'm completely convinced that the very second I do answer the phone while naked, they'll develop the equivalent of speakerphones for video calls and my image will be plastered all over the side of a building in Times Square. Not that I have even a webcam, so I know this is irrational.
I'm also afraid to step on spiders while wearing shorts. Obviously it's sensibly stupid to step on a spider barefoot. But I am also convinced that if the spider sees my foot approaching from on high, it will leap straight up into the air and glom onto my leg where its bite will be venomous but its teeth will morph into werewolf teeth and instant but hideously painful death will occur plus my blood will pool all over the carpet but will be contagious and anyone who even touches it will turn into a were-spider.
I don't like to buy milk when the date on the carton is turned away on the store's shelf. Sure, it's possible to turn the carton around and check the dates, but it bothers me that they tried to hide the information. I used to think this was irrational, until anecdotally I realized that stores where the dates are turned out shelf-check and remove expired items. Stores which hide the dates often have already past-date milk still for sale.
I don't like to answer the phone while I'm unpresentable. I'm completely convinced that the very second I do answer the phone while naked, they'll develop the equivalent of speakerphones for video calls and my image will be plastered all over the side of a building in Times Square. Not that I have even a webcam, so I know this is irrational.
I'm also afraid to step on spiders while wearing shorts. Obviously it's sensibly stupid to step on a spider barefoot. But I am also convinced that if the spider sees my foot approaching from on high, it will leap straight up into the air and glom onto my leg where its bite will be venomous but its teeth will morph into werewolf teeth and instant but hideously painful death will occur plus my blood will pool all over the carpet but will be contagious and anyone who even touches it will turn into a were-spider.
I don't like to buy milk when the date on the carton is turned away on the store's shelf. Sure, it's possible to turn the carton around and check the dates, but it bothers me that they tried to hide the information. I used to think this was irrational, until anecdotally I realized that stores where the dates are turned out shelf-check and remove expired items. Stores which hide the dates often have already past-date milk still for sale.
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Date: 2009-06-14 01:39 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-06-14 02:36 am (UTC)My usual store stocks from the front though.
I found the guy stocking one day and I asked him why he did it the wrong way and he said something like, "Oh, never thought about it, but it would cut down on all the milk that's put back in the wrong place if people didn't have to pick them up to look."