Put me down for phones. It takes me a couple of hours psyching myself up, and a couple of stiff G&T's, just to check my voicemail.
And ants. Which I put down to seeing at an impressionable age a film where a US cavalryman is buried up to his neck in an ant hill. (If anyone can tell me the name of the film, I would be grateful, as watching could help me confront my demons...)
And my sister-in-law.
Quote: Rachel @ May 29 2008, 8:28 AM BSTI hate talking on phones too! I used to be terrible, when there was an awkward silence I put the phone down. xD
LOL
Quote: Rachel @ May 29 2008, 8:28 AM BSTThere was also the most massive thunderstorm the other night that woke up the whole of Essex at 3am because it was so loud (it lit up the entire road enough to turn sensors on and off and set off car alarms, eek), I was petrified and hid under the covers after taking a quick peek.
Ooh ooh, we had that out here near Slough! I wasn't yet in bed at the time (f**k knows why), but I doubt it would have woken me up!
Quote: Timbo @ May 29 2008, 9:44 AM BSTAnd my sister-in-law.
Built like a tank, with a personality to match?
(Wife's sister, or brother's wife?)
Having to have a spinal tap.
My biggest fear is someone I love dying.
On top of that I am scared of breaking rules. I physically can't break rules, no matter how trivial.
Heh heh heh.
I'm scared of setting off the little red light motion sensor in my room when I go to the loo in the middle of the night. I dunno why-it just makes me jump every time!
Has your dad got CCTV wired up all over the house? And robber traps?
Haha no! My brother and I used to construct robber traps out of Blu-tack, marbles, rubber bands, and Ker-Plunk pieces. 
I always thought mouse-traps would be good burglar catchers when I was a kid until it was pointed out to me that they don't walk around in bare feet 
They might do if they were particularly polite about their victims' carpets.
Quote: EllieJP @ May 29 2008, 3:30 PM BSTMy biggest fear is someone I love dying.
Yeah the rest of us are excited about that happening...
Quote: Alan C @ May 29 2008, 3:53 PM BSTI always thought mouse-traps would be good burglar catchers when I was a kid until it was pointed out to me that they don't walk around in bare feet
Ah, but they might take their shoes off so as to be quiet and not wake anyone up...
Quote: Timbo @ May 29 2008, 5:56 PM BSTAh, but they might take their shoes off so as to be quiet and not wake anyone up...
Very true, perhaps I was sharper as I kid than I am now
Quote: Aaron @ May 29 2008, 10:50 AM BSTBuilt like a tank, with a personality to match?
(Wife's sister, or brother's wife?)
More like a one woman minefield. You never know when you are going to put your foot in it and trigger an explosion.
Brother's wife. As best man I feel perhaps there was more I should have done, but somehow the Registrar managed to escape from the broom closet...
Quote: Timbo @ May 29 2008, 6:07 PM BSTMore like a one woman minefield. You never know when you are going to put your foot in it and trigger an explosion.
Brother's wife. As best man I feel perhaps there was more I should have done, but somehow the Registrar managed to escape from the broom closet...
Well you could have shagged her. Your brother would have had to have been pretty thick skinned to let that one go.
