{"id":4599,"date":"2018-08-31T12:03:50","date_gmt":"2018-08-31T18:03:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/?p=4599"},"modified":"2018-08-31T12:03:50","modified_gmt":"2018-08-31T18:03:50","slug":"myweirdfear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/?p=4599","title":{"rendered":"#MyWeirdFear"},"content":{"rendered":"

Have you seen the #MyWeirdFear segment on The Tonight Show<\/em>?! Basically Jimmy Fallon asks his audience to share their phobias using the #MyWeirdFear hashtag and then reads them out loud on the show.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s hilarious, natch, and makes you realize what a bunch of wackjobs there are in the world \u2013 or at least in Jimmy Fallon\u2019s audience.<\/p>\n

Not to be outdone, I surveyed my own family about their weird fears and here\u2019s what we\u2019ve got on this end\u2026<\/p>\n

Sonny is worried that a stranger might step on his head.<\/p>\n

Yep, that\u2019s pretty weird. And it might explain why he hasn\u2019t been having that great of a time in high school: Too many strangers whose feet you have to keep your head away from! A lot of pressure there.<\/em><\/p>\n

Sissy is worried that someone passing over our house in an airplane will be able to look through her bedroom window and see her naked.<\/p>\n

Well that\u2019s weird too. And basically impossible. While a stranger COULD step on your head,\u00a0I’VE\u00a0never seen anyone\u00a0naked in THEIR\u00a0bedroom from MY\u00a0airplane window. In general, though, getting dressed far enough away from an open, unshaded window makes a lot of sense because drones with cameras, duh. I explained all of this to Sissy and I think she has a new weird fear now; You’re welcome, Sweetie!<\/em><\/p>\n

So far so good in holding our own against Jimmy Fallon\u2019s audience. Now on to Hubby who is the most calm, cool and collected person I know. Almost like he\u2019s deliberately and permanently lowered his heart rate in preparation for a record breaking free dive. So he has no weird fears. None. Snooze, where\u2019s the fun in that?! Also don\u2019t go see The Tonight Show, Hubby. You won\u2019t be welcome there.<\/em><\/p>\n

And since Hubby is so rational and low key, I\u2019m forced to carry twice the crazy load to balance him out. I\u2019m also twice as fun but who\u2019s counting? <\/em>So I have two #MyWeirdFears to confide here.<\/p>\n

The first one is that the black garbage bag you periodically see on the side – or God forbid, the middle – of the road has a dead baby in it. Gah, I know!! Isn\u2019t it awful??! It\u2019s so awful, but I give those bags wide berth. You should too. And I think I just invented a few new hashtags called #MyHorrificFears, #MyReallyReallyHorrificFears, #MyUnbelievablyAwfulFears.<\/em><\/p>\n

Now to lighten the mood, I will share with you my other weird fear – which is that a hand lives under my bed and will one day trip me in the middle of the night when I\u2019m going to the bathroom. If I step too close to the bed as I\u2019m getting out, it will grab my ankle and face plant me (and then most likely crawl on my face). However, through constant, long term \u00a0diligence, I\u2019ve been able to outsmart it every night of my life by taking a biiiig step out of bed. Big enough so I\u2019m outside of grabbing distance. Yep. Nope, just a hand, and clearly a dumb one at that if I\u2019m able to outsmart it with the oldest \u201chand under my bed\u201d avoiding trick in the book!<\/em><\/p>\n

So there you have it. Pretty weird, huh? Jimmy Fallon \u2013 you should totally have your people call my people. There\u2019s a lot more material where that came from. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Have you seen the #MyWeirdFear segment on The Tonight Show?! Basically Jimmy Fallon asks his audience to share their phobias using the #MyWeirdFear hashtag and then reads them out loud on the show. It\u2019s hilarious, natch, and makes you realize what a bunch of wackjobs there are in the world \u2013 or at least in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[372,373,374,368,377,378,375,369,376,370,371],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4599"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4599"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4603,"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4599\/revisions\/4603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}