Blog Every Day in May : Day 7 "My Fears"

Day 7, Tuesday: The thing(s) you're most afraid of

(The Blogging Every Day in May challenge)

Aside from the obvious answers of losing my children, my husband, my family & my friends.....

I'm not really afraid of much.

When I thought about it, I came up with : Lifts, Spiders & Hills

I'm not mad on confined spaces....I can handle a lift/elevator if there are just a couple of people in there but when it's packed, my pulse does quicken slightly and the thought of what would happen if it stopped between floors starts playing on my mind.

I get the same thought when I'm on the London Underground, the carriage is packed solid, I'm squished up against someone....and the train stops in the tunnel.   

That has happened to me many times over the years but I still get a moment of anxiety each time it occurs.

Snakes or large spiders....I can deal with medium sized spiders in my home if I have to, but the large ones (the name of which I cannot even type!), I could not even contemplate being in close proximity too.

My son went to an "animal" party last year  & I had to arrange for someone else to collect him because I knew one of these particularly large spiders would be there....eeek!!

My strangest fear is hills, specifically driving up them!!
Muswell Hill, where I live,  is surrounded by hills so it's pretty difficult not to have to drive up them really....I have only driven up the steepest of them once when I absolutely had to since I had a friend in the car and I was too embarrassed to admit that I was afraid of the hill....
it's completely ridiculous I know!!

I think my fear is stopping on the hill with some kind of brake failure or rolling backwards down the hill....
both highly unlikely to happen but there you go....