# Poll: What Most Frightens You ? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 27, 2003, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-what-most-frightens-you/204159 "2003-09-27T14:30:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![MmmDonut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d6d6ee/32.png) [@MmmDonut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MmmDonut)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2003, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-what-most-frightens-you/204159/1 "2003-09-27T14:30:23Z")
for me it’s: sociopaths. you? ---
**Author:** ![xejkh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/22d042/32.png) [@xejkh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xejkh)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2003, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-what-most-frightens-you/204159/2 "2003-09-27T15:36:44Z")
Life. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2003, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-what-most-frightens-you/204159/3 "2003-09-27T15:52:50Z")
I’m afraid of polls. ---
**Author:** ![Muck\_Muck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@Muck\_Muck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muck_Muck)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2003, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-what-most-frightens-you/204159/4 "2003-09-27T16:19:02Z")
I don’t remember really being afraid of anything until I had children. Now everything scares me. Strangers that look at my kids for too long. Staircases. Teenage boys (well, not all teenage boys, just the one in particular that lives down the street). Large crowds when I am with an unruly 2 year-old. Reports of missing children are the cause of my most heart-stopping nightmares. Basically, now that I am a mother, I am afraid of everything. Oh, and I am deathly afraid of raw chicken. ---
**Author:** ![Vlad\_Dracul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/50afbb/32.png) [@Vlad\_Dracul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vlad_Dracul)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2003, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-what-most-frightens-you/204159/5 "2003-09-27T16:47:21Z")
I’m not sure if this counts as a “fear”… I am disgusted by creatures that have no skeleton (worms, snails, etc.), but I’m not actually afraid of them… they offend me, and I kill them with great relish. ---
**Author:** ![Sylkyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/da6949/32.png) [@Sylkyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sylkyn)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2003, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-what-most-frightens-you/204159/6 "2003-09-27T16:59:29Z")
Insects. Dentists. Not necessarily in that order. I am phobic to a Mt. Everestian degree about both. ---
**Author:** ![elfbabe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b782af/32.png) [@elfbabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfbabe)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2003, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-what-most-frightens-you/204159/7 "2003-09-27T18:15:05Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Qadgop the Mercotan \* > \*\*I’m afraid of polls. \*\* You always told us it was sock monkeys! ---
**Author:** ![kung\_fu\_lola](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f4b2a3/32.png) [@kung\_fu\_lola](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kung_fu_lola)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2003, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-what-most-frightens-you/204159/8 "2003-09-27T18:17:41Z")
Samara. ---
**Author:** ![Wumpus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8c91f0/32.png) [@Wumpus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wumpus)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2003, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-what-most-frightens-you/204159/9 "2003-09-27T18:59:31Z")
“The most frightening thing I know is that everyone has their reasons.” - Jean Renoir ---
**Author:** ![Baron\_of\_Graymatter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/74df32/32.png) [@Baron\_of\_Graymatter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_of_Graymatter)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2003, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-what-most-frightens-you/204159/10 "2003-09-27T19:40:35Z")
@%% Hippies. ---
**Author:** ![MmmDonut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d6d6ee/32.png) [@MmmDonut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MmmDonut)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2003, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-what-most-frightens-you/204159/11 "2003-09-27T19:53:31Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by kung fu lola \* > \*\*Samara. \*\* “You don’t really want to hurt anybody, do you?” ---
**Author:** ![CorBlimeyGuvnor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7c8e57/32.png) [@CorBlimeyGuvnor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CorBlimeyGuvnor)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2003, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-what-most-frightens-you/204159/12 "2003-09-27T20:08:20Z")
growing up running out of beer or worse, running out of beer and finding out i’ve run out of smokes too ---
**Author:** ![Baraqiyal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ecccb3/32.png) [@Baraqiyal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baraqiyal)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2003, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-what-most-frightens-you/204159/13 "2003-09-27T20:17:03Z")
I’d have to go with hippies too. ---
**Author:** ![Orange\_Skinner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/3be4f8/32.png) [@Orange\_Skinner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Orange_Skinner)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2003, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-what-most-frightens-you/204159/14 "2003-09-27T20:36:57Z")
Trains. They just freak me the hell out. Especially at night. _shudder_ ---
**Author:** ![Optihut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/edb3f5/32.png) [@Optihut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Optihut)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2003, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-what-most-frightens-you/204159/15 "2003-09-27T20:46:47Z")
George W. Bush ---
**Author:** ![Icerigger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icerigger/32/432_2.png) [@Icerigger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icerigger)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2003, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-what-most-frightens-you/204159/16 "2003-09-27T21:03:55Z")
A tie between cancer and loneliness. ---
**Author:** ![CaptBushido](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a88e4f/32.png) [@CaptBushido](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaptBushido)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2003, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-what-most-frightens-you/204159/17 "2003-09-27T21:08:22Z")
Bears. ---
**Author:** ![Cranky\_Hermit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/13edae/32.png) [@Cranky\_Hermit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cranky_Hermit)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2003, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-what-most-frightens-you/204159/18 "2003-09-27T21:11:12Z")
Being completely dependent on others. ---
**Author:** ![Yumblie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/76d3ee/32.png) [@Yumblie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yumblie)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2003, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-what-most-frightens-you/204159/19 "2003-09-27T21:16:52Z")
Death. ---
**Author:** ![carlotta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/898d66/32.png) [@carlotta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carlotta)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2003, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-what-most-frightens-you/204159/20 "2003-09-27T21:18:20Z")
Torture. The prospect of myself or anyone else being tortured. By a state or a lone nutjob or any entity in between. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-what-most-frightens-you/204159.md?page=2)