# What's your boggart?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-boggart/843087>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [November 6, 2019, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-boggart/843087 "2019-11-06T18:28:43Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Post date:** [November 7, 2019, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-boggart/843087/41 "2019-11-07T23:13:27Z")

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> [@chela](#):
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> Bears  
> big snarly dogs  
> sliding off a mountain side  
> sucked out to sea

I wanna see a creature turn into the last two.

I don’t want to see a creature turn into the first two. :eek:

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**Post date:** [November 8, 2019, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-boggart/843087/42 "2019-11-08T01:01:14Z")

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The Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man, of course.

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**Post date:** [November 8, 2019, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-boggart/843087/43 "2019-11-08T01:07:30Z")

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> [@Moriarty](#):
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> I find this to be very sad (and I say this as somebody with a scar on my nose from a dog bite). I mean that sincerely, and I hope it is not considered condescending. Some of my best friends have been dogs.  
> …  
> Like the OP, mine would be a ringing telephone; specifically, a call on home from an angry client. I have a horrible habit of putting off difficult calls because I have such anxiety about the discussion, even though the actual experience is never as bad as I expect.
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> Can a boggart just be “anticipation”?

Don’t feel like you are alone, nearly every manager I have had has the same issue. I think that’s why they like me so much.

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**Post date:** [November 8, 2019, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-boggart/843087/44 "2019-11-08T16:43:11Z")

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> [@Inigo\_Montoya](#):
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> I grew up in western Washington. I had a nightmare about slugs when I was a kid. Didn’t mess me up to the point of phobia, really, but I was always a bit uneasy around them after that. And yeah, banana slugs are amazing and gross.

Satan’s boogers. :shudder:

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**Post date:** [November 8, 2019, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-boggart/843087/45 "2019-11-08T18:01:57Z")

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Had to think a while. I have as many fears and anxieties as anyone, but having read this far, I’d have to say “one of my family dogs – with rabies.”

This packages several devastating circumstances:

[ul]  
[li]A violent, nay, _malevolen_t animal[/li][li]Risk of losing one’s “self” (as rabies replaces the mind)[/li][li]Fear of contagion[/li][li]Seeing a loved one erased and changed into an enemy[/li][li]Having to kill a loved family member[/li][/ul]

Ugh, just no. Our girls are of course vaccinated, and kept away from wild animals generally.

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