Things You Worry You Did

[TelephoneAngel]

Anyone else have these worries - you know it probably didn't happen, but it might have done?

For example, when driving if I pass a cyclist I will check back several times "just to make sure I didn't run him over without noticing".

At work, when I come out of the toilet, I worry I had a bit of toilet paper attached to my skirt which dropped off then someone picked it up and threw it away and now they won't tell everyone saw it...........

At a shop if I pick something up to look at it, worry that the security guard will follow me out and not realise I put it down again..............

[zombiequeen]

I worry like that too.
Yesterday I went to the fabric store with my husband, well I had a bag of scraps that were the colors I wanted. I picked out the bolts, walked to the cutting table, and hubby stayed in the fabric room to fold the scraps I had and put them back in the bag. I was so worried they thought I was stealing fabric, I almost started crying.

[teh_blumchenkinder]

My keys.
I am so, so afraid of losing my keys down a drain, grate, dropoff, anything. I was so paranoid at one point I was staring at my keys in my hands, up in front of my face at eye level, as I closed the (locked) door to my car.
And I still was scared that I shut them in.

Yeah, I have spares to get in, on the car even... but for some reason that doesn't matter?!
I'm like that rarely with other things, but it's usually my keys.
I don't think I have a traumatic lock-out story to go with it...

[Bronzebow]

My door.

I am so paranoid about whether or not I've locked my apartment door that I will actually turn around and double check. Every time I leave, I grab the key and lock so fast and so instinctively that I barely think about it. Then when I'm at work or traveling, I wonder if I really did this time.

There have been times where I've turned around two or three times just to make sure that I really did lock the door, as if I simply forgot to check the first two times I turned around.

Someone tried to break into my apartment about two years ago. Fortunately, I'd fallen asleep on the couch, and the idiot make a racket trying to take the bug screen off my window. I knocked on my window and scared him off, at least. Since then, I've just been worried about it.

I'm also paranoid about packing. Did I really pack my toothbrush? I better check a fifth time.

[zombiequeen]

I worry about clean underwear whenever I pack...I seriously will bring 6+ pairs for a two-day trip somewhere.
On the plus side, if I ever am in need of clean underwear or elastic, I have plenty.

My brother will freak out if you walk by the bathroom when he's in it. One time he got a phone call from his fiance, and I knocked on the bathroom door when he was in the shower.... He freaked out and I could her him jump and hit his head...I thought I had knocked him out by scaring him...

[blas]

I worry about everything. It's so not healthy.

I've worried late at night at work whether or not I locked the door. If I locked the car. If I unplugged the flat iron. If I shut this off. That off. I worry before I go to sleep if I will not hear my alarm. I worry if someone will try to break in. I worry late at night at work that one of my elderly neighbors will forget to shut something off and start a fire, or my neighbor who drinks too much will do the same and start a fire. I worry that I may forget something and start a fire. I worry about my car leaking fluid. I worry that I'll leave work and have a flat tire. I worry I'll hit a deer on my way to work.

The list goes on and on.

[firecat88]

I worry about a lot of different things, depending on the time and place.

1) Did I leave my flat iron plugged in?
2) Did I set my alarm for the right time?
3) Did I remember to start the dishwasher before I crawled into bed?
4) Did I remember to fill up my water bottle before leaving for school?
5) Do I have the right books and stuff for today?
6) What the hell was that noise I just heard outside? (This one especially if I'm home alone)
7) Did I have any homework that I forgot to do?

The list is pretty long.

[AdminAssistant]

I'm mostly paranoid about two things: 1) locking my car. I always hit the button, forget I did, check it, etc. I'm sure my neighbors love that. 2) Losing my ring. I am terrified that I'm going to lose it, flush it down the toilet, etc.

[TelephoneAngel]

[QUOTE=firecat88;7988377) Did I have any homework that I forgot to do?
[QUOTE]

Decades after I left school, I still occassionally dream that I am trying to do some long essay which has to be handed in in an hours time or they will take away the qualifications I gained at school.