# The Thread Of Unreasoning Panic **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 21, 2003, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thread-of-unreasoning-panic/149976 "2003-01-21T14:26:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Legomancer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/779978/32.png) [@Legomancer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Legomancer)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2003, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thread-of-unreasoning-panic/149976/1 "2003-01-21T14:26:24Z")
Oh no! It’s Tuesday! My computer may be transmitting an IP! IT MAY SNOW!! What will we do!? ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2003, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thread-of-unreasoning-panic/149976/2 "2003-01-21T14:31:55Z")
Pull yourself together, man. Not good to panic at a time like this. Stiff upper lip. Still: ghastly business, what what? ---
**Author:** ![welby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/d78d45/32.png) [@welby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/welby)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2003, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thread-of-unreasoning-panic/149976/3 "2003-01-21T14:35:10Z")
Oh my GOD! I’m going to miss my chance to WIN BIG if I don’t respond!!! What to do? What to _do_?!?!??? ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2003, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thread-of-unreasoning-panic/149976/4 "2003-01-21T14:39:21Z")
I forgot to ask for that product that 9 out of 10 doctors recommend. Or is it 4 out of 5? What the heck was that product anyway? Doggonnit - and I’ll bet supplies are limited too. What do I do now?!?!? ---
**Author:** ![Amp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Amp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amp)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2003, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thread-of-unreasoning-panic/149976/5 "2003-01-21T14:44:16Z")
Oh darn, I didn’t call within ten minutes. Now I wont get the additional $50 accessories for free. Why oh why did I procrastinate? My life is over now. ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2003, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thread-of-unreasoning-panic/149976/6 "2003-01-21T15:36:02Z")
Oh no, it’s so cold out, what if I get frostbite outside? Or what if it **does** get warm, then the snow that’s around will melt, and then it’ll just freeze into ice when night falls - oh my god, there will be sheets of ice everywhere, and it’ll be too dark out to see them well! ---
**Author:** ![delphica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e9a140/32.png) [@delphica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/delphica)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2003, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thread-of-unreasoning-panic/149976/7 "2003-01-21T15:40:29Z")
Who took my special pen? It was just RIGHT HERE. You people are always messing with my special pen. A three hour tour? How can you expect me to sit right back? You know what always happens on three hour tours! I think it’s fate. My God in heaven, that object is MUCH CLOSER than it appears in the mirror! Will no one think of the children? ---
**Author:** ![Lsura](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7993a0/32.png) [@Lsura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lsura)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2003, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thread-of-unreasoning-panic/149976/8 "2003-01-21T15:41:48Z")
What if an airplane falls on my apartment while I’m not there? Or worse, what if I am there? I should live in a box under a bridge. But what if the bridge collapses? Then I’ll have no home. And what if I have to stop for a train on my way home tonight? While I’m waiting for it to pass, a semi could lose control of it’s brakes and crash into me, forcing me into the path of the train, unable to escape. Oh no! ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2003, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thread-of-unreasoning-panic/149976/9 "2003-01-21T15:42:30Z")
wait. wait. is it lather, rinse, repeat, or rinse (to get the hair wet), lather, rinse, repeat? What happens if you don’t repeat? And do you repeat the intial wetting, in ADDITION to rinsing? What happens if you don’t? I can’t handle these kinds of decisions first thing in the morning… ---
**Author:** ![Skelji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b38774/32.png) [@Skelji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skelji)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2003, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thread-of-unreasoning-panic/149976/10 "2003-01-21T15:57:16Z")
What if I die in my sleep and the cats eat me? I know that 4 out of 5 dentists recommend Trident for their patients who chew gum, but what did the fifth dentist say??? ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2003, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thread-of-unreasoning-panic/149976/11 "2003-01-21T16:33:53Z")
Will it rain today? Will it just be cloudy all day and not rain? If I take my umbrella and it doesn’t rain, then I’ll look all silly for carrying an umbrella when it wasn’t raining. But, what if it does decide to rain and I don’t carry the umbrella? I’ll get wet! Maybe I should just take along the wind breaker with the hood. But, do I keep the hood out all day in case it rains, or do I just leave the hood in its little snapped up compartment? If it rains and the hood is in its little compartment, will I get all wet before I can get the hood out? If I leave it out, will I just look dorky walking around in a wind breaker with the hood hanging out and it’s not raining? If the temperature gets into the mid 60s like its supposed to, then will I even need to wear the windbreaker at all? Oh look, a honey flavored Hall’s cough drop in the pocket of the wind breaker. Wonder how old it is? If I get a cough, do I use the cough drop? If it’s an old cough drop will it kill me? That does it! I’m wearing my tinfoil hat and hiding under the bed. [sub]But if I hide under the bed will the dust bunnies eat me?[/sub] :eek: ---
**Author:** ![CRorex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dfb087/32.png) [@CRorex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CRorex)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2003, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thread-of-unreasoning-panic/149976/12 "2003-01-21T16:41:48Z")
Hrrm we appear to be missing some primates. ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2003, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thread-of-unreasoning-panic/149976/13 "2003-01-21T16:55:02Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by CRorex \* > Hrrm we appear to be missing some primates. No fair, that’s a **reasonable** worry for you. 😛 (But certainly a valid reason to shift into unreasoning panic, I think!) ---
**Author:** ![Winston\_Smith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e95f7d/32.png) [@Winston\_Smith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Winston_Smith)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2003, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thread-of-unreasoning-panic/149976/14 "2003-01-21T17:07:00Z")
I think I left the Stove / Iron / Coffee Maker on. Uh-oh. ---
**Author:** ![panache](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c77e96/32.png) [@panache](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2003, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thread-of-unreasoning-panic/149976/15 "2003-01-21T18:19:48Z")
Dear Lord! Bill Gates was going to send me 25 cents for every friend I forwarded his letter too, and through my own foolish foolish judgement I LET THE CHAIN STOP. It’s ruined, ruined I say! What will I leave for my children? How will poor Bill EVER test his software now? It’s too awful to contemplate! ---
**Author:** ![The\_Mermaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a183cd/32.png) [@The\_Mermaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Mermaid)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2003, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thread-of-unreasoning-panic/149976/16 "2003-01-21T19:13:45Z")
:tears tag off mattress: Na na na na nana Uh oh—is someone at the door? ---
**Author:** ![dwc1970](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a183cd/32.png) [@dwc1970](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dwc1970)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2003, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thread-of-unreasoning-panic/149976/17 "2003-01-21T19:37:26Z")
On the last Friday the 13th I walked under a ladder to get around a black cat that crossed my path, and as luck would have it, I just happened to step on a crack while doing so, which caused me to stumble, drop and break the mirror that I was carrying. I should have held onto that mirror better since I was carrying an open umbrella in my other hand just as I was going into a building. Damn, how I hate it when I leave my rabbit’s foot at home! Oh Lord, what is going to happen to me now? ---
**Author:** ![Legomancer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/779978/32.png) [@Legomancer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Legomancer)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2003, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thread-of-unreasoning-panic/149976/18 "2003-01-21T19:41:14Z")
My co-worker just smiled and said, “Hey, how’s it going?” What could she _mean_ by that? ---
**Author:** ![kalex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/dfb087/32.png) [@kalex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kalex)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2003, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thread-of-unreasoning-panic/149976/19 "2003-01-21T19:49:06Z")
Okay, I’m logged on to SMDB, and I’m at work. My boss is probably reading this right now. I am so screwed. Also, I’m pretty sure a bug landed on my face while I was sleeping last night. ---
**Author:** ![kalex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/dfb087/32.png) [@kalex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kalex)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2003, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thread-of-unreasoning-panic/149976/20 "2003-01-21T19:50:54Z")
Okay, I’m logged on to the SDMB, and I’m at work. My boss is probably reading this right now. I am so screwed. Also, I’m pretty sure a bug landed on my face while I was sleeping last night. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thread-of-unreasoning-panic/149976.md?page=2)