# I'm Paranoid About: **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [May 23, 2002, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-paranoid-about/110414 "2002-05-23T01:15:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![leechbabe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7cd45c/32.png) [@leechbabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leechbabe)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2002, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-paranoid-about/110414/1 "2002-05-23T01:15:46Z")
I’ve developed a paranoia about stepping on peoples feet when I get off the train/tram/bus during peak hour. I always seem to sit near people with tiny feet and fancy shoes, I worry that I will stomp my big clunky shoes all over their toes and squish them to pieces. ---
**Author:** ![WSLer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a6a055/32.png) [@WSLer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WSLer)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2002, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-paranoid-about/110414/2 "2002-05-23T04:00:02Z")
No worries. It’s their damn fault for wearing fancy shoes;) . Seriously though, I don’t think that it’s something to get all worked up about. People seem to have an unconscious ability to get their feet out of harms way, at least most of the time. ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2002, 6:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-paranoid-about/110414/3 "2002-05-23T06:37:22Z")
I’m paranoid about being pushed down stairs. I don’t like heights (slowly improving acrophobe here) and I dislike being around groups of people in general, so having people close on behind me when I’m going down stairs is just very bad. I have to at least touch the rail as I go down. If there is no rail, I’m the last one to go down. Period. If there was a slavering maniac after me, well, he’d have to go first. ---
**Author:** ![Opengrave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/919ad9/32.png) [@Opengrave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Opengrave)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2002, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-paranoid-about/110414/4 "2002-05-23T14:23:54Z")
Virtually everything. (what was that sound!?!?) Seriously it is part of my job, I do lots of risk management type stuff. The paraniod are never suprised! ---
**Author:** ![Kilt-wearin\_man](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/82dd89/32.png) [@Kilt-wearin\_man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kilt-wearin_man)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2002, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-paranoid-about/110414/5 "2002-05-23T15:48:45Z")
{singing}…I’m worried about The baggage recov-e-ry System they’ve got At Heathrowwwwww… Blame the Pythons for that one… ---
**Author:** ![Total\_distraction](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dc4da7/32.png) [@Total\_distraction](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Total_distraction)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2002, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-paranoid-about/110414/6 "2002-05-23T20:35:20Z")
I’m not paranoid but everyone says I am. ---
**Author:** ![Lissla\_Lissar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8491ac/32.png) [@Lissla\_Lissar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lissla_Lissar)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2002, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-paranoid-about/110414/7 "2002-05-24T03:00:10Z")
House centipedes and heights. I once spent twenty minutes at a lecture watching a two-inch centipede (the kind with the legs that do ^^ instead of lying out straight from its body) run back and forth along a wire a foot and a half away from me. I almost died of terror. ---
**Author:** ![raz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9f8e36/32.png) [@raz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raz)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2002, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-paranoid-about/110414/8 "2002-05-24T03:46:02Z")
Spiders. There is nothing in this world that I am more scared of. Small spiders. Not the itty-bitty ones the size of a pinhead, but the medium ones with the long legs that RUN REAL FAST then theyre gone. \<\\>. Tarentulas don’t bother me. Go figure. ---
**Author:** ![raz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9f8e36/32.png) [@raz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raz)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2002, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-paranoid-about/110414/9 "2002-05-24T03:48:17Z")
i mean **tarantulas** , of course. ---
**Author:** ![HPL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3da27b/32.png) [@HPL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HPL)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2002, 7:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-paranoid-about/110414/10 "2002-05-24T07:47:34Z")
I’m paranoid about being robbed. Well, maybe not paranoid, but I have nightmares about being robbed and there’s NOTHING I can do about it( or if there is, it would be overkill).