Do you have an unreasonable fear of revolving doors?

AlmostAtheist

Do you have an unreasonable fear of revolving doors? I do. I work in a place that has them all over, even a few of the automatic ones. Like it wasn't harrowing enough slipping into those things, now they move on their own. Yikes!

I am by no means over it, but I have decided to just live with it. It's clearly an unreasonable fear -- nobody is ever hurt in these things, at least not the manual ones. I've never been hurt in them, or even almost hurt. But everything about them just makes me uncomfortable. I always step away from them with a case of the willies.

The automatic ones actually have caused some injuries and at least one death, but I had the fear of the stupid things long before they had the automatic ones.

To make matters worse, they took out the regular doors with the signs that say "please use revolving door" to make room for the automatic one! So even if I'm feeling particularly unnerved, I still have to submit to the thing. Ugh.

If this phobia has a name, I don't know what it is. And I doubt it truly counts as a phobia, since it's very deal-withable, for me at least.

Anybody else?

Dave

blondie

Yes, and escalators (saw someone whose clothing was sucked in), and elevators (have been stuck 3 times in one, once for 3 hours, doing the pipi shuffle).

Blondie

upside/down

Is it me, or do elevators just make you HAVE to fart...?

u/d

Finally-Free

Is it me, or do elevators just make you HAVE to fart...?

No, it's me too, but I kind of enjoy it. You just have to learn to convincingly glare accusingly at another person.

W

Cygnus

I call such things "irrational phobias." It's a good conversation piece. Flying on airplanes, spiders, being robbed, and common phobias are not irrational. My irrational phobia is shrimp. My father is extremely allergic to shrimp and I"m probably not but I refuse to eat it. My sister shares that same "irrrational phobia." BTW AA you have a PM from me.

upside/down

I used to have an irrational phobia...the fear of NEVER getting laid.

u/d(of the it's not paranoia if everyone IS OUT TO GET YOU class)

Finally-Free

My father is extremely allergic to shrimp and I"m probably not but I refuse to eat it. My sister shares that same "irrrational phobia."

I wouldn't call that phobia irrational at all.

I'm thinking of developing a phobia to 9 volt batteries. The dj on the radio yesterday said 3 people die every year testing 9 volt batteries on their tongue.

W

FlyingHighNow

I like them, but stepping onto escalators scares me a bit. I have to time it very carefully, which annoys people behind me.

Do you have an unreasonable fear of revolving doors?

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