(I DO TOO! What do YOU know? Who are you, anyway?)
Very few things get me rattled. Actually, the list is so small as to be practically non-existent. These are the things that knock me for a loop and make me freak out in my own special way:
1. Running out of toilet paper. That right there, is a biggie. If I notice that I'm down to less than half a roll and there isn't any more in the house, I lose it. No really, I do. I sent Dan to the store yesterday with $5 in quarters to get an emergency supply until I could go to Walmart to stock up. (I was sitting on the toilet when I sent him. It wasn't a proud moment, for sure... but it was effective.)
Me: *bellowing* "Dan! DAN!! We're almost out of toilet paper!!
Dan: "What?"
Me: *louder* WE'RE ALMOST OUT OF TOILET PAPER!"
Gah! I can hear myself echoing down the pipes and into Mr. Awesome's apartment.
(Did you get that, Mr. Awesome? Did you and all your friends that you had over yesterday watching football get that?)
Dan, of course, still can't hear me.
Dan: "Huh? Can't hear youuuu...."
Me: *grabbing my cell, because yeah... I'm one of those people who talks on the phone while I'm in the bathroom. Deal with it* "Ring ring...."
Dan: "Hello?"
Me: "We're almost out of toilet paper."
Dan:
Me:
Dan: "Soooooo...?"
Me: "So go get some. Take change out of my purse."
Dan: "Now???"
Me: "YES NOW! I'M IN THE BATHROOM AND I NEED TOILET PAPER!"
(Okay, that was a slight exaggeration. I had half a roll and I wasn't in dire emergency. But like I said, when that's all that's left, I panic. You never know what is going to happen. You just DON'T.
2. Running out of coffee. No coffee is a bad, bad thing. No coffee makes everyone very. afraid. We do not run out of coffee. Ever. It's too horrible to even contemplate. When I notice my coffee getting low I get a little frantic. I've been known to send Dan to the store at midnight just to buy me coffee in case I don't have quite enough to make a smooth, rich pot in the morning. (This is why I'm married, by the way. I don't like running to the store for anything. It's HIS job to hit the all night grocery stores for Tums, Kotex, Toilet Paper, Coffee, NyQuil, Tylenol, and Pamprin. It's my job to stay home relaxing on the couch while he does that.)
3. Mayonnaise: You can read all about that here: http://deathbycupcakes01.blogspot.com/2011/09/grosscondimentophobia.html
Because I WILL lose my shit over mayonnaise.
4. Bats: Anything that flies and could land in my hair. Because if it flies and lands in my hair, I will assume it's a bat and react accordingly. "Reacting Accordingly" involves Full Blown Stationary Panic, with screaming and slapping myself in the head and face until it's gone or dead. (My apologies to the baby bird I beat to death when it landed in my hair.)
Other than the above? I'm chill, yo.
And since Dan freaks out about literally everything else, we balance eachother out.
I'm with ya on #2 (the coffee, not in re: to the toilet paper). A couple years ago when on our way to the family lake cabin we stopped at the market. Among other items we bought coffee beans, because we are coffee snobs and we KNEW there was a coffee grinder at the cabin because we left it there the year before. It wasn't until the next morning when we went to make coffee and couldn't find the grinder that we realized we were fucked. We stared at the coffee beans and stammered and cursed for several minutes before packing up the kids and schlepping the 30 minutes around the lake. My cousin had absconded with the coffee grinder for some head up her ass reason. UNFORGIVABLE!!
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