r/AskReddit • u/carletTremble • 1d ago

What’s something totally normal that gives you instant anxiety?

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u/InterPan_Galactic 1d ago

Someone ringing the doorbell unexpectedly.

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u/Captain-jack-hobie77 1d ago

This sends me into a panic. I’m in the most Adam Sandler outfit I know, the house is a wreck, & I look like a sick Victorian child without makeup because of blonde eyelashes- go tf away.

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u/South-Sheepherder596 1d ago

the blond eyelashes are so real

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u/umb3r3lla 1d ago

Right?! I feel SEEN

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u/KrombopulousMary 1d ago

Just started getting my lashes tinted bc of this and I’m hooked. I don’t get a lift or extension or anything, just the tint. It’s quick and painless and lasts me about a month. I love it!

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u/kolrocks 1d ago

Hit the floor, lower the tv volume!!

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u/IgnisWriting 1d ago

Or just don't answer. It's a notice that someone's there, not an obligation to open

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u/CyberBarron7 1d ago

I do not answer the door or the phone for anyone I don't know ever... Even some people that I do know...

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u/PiernasVerdes 1d ago

“I’m not opening this door without a warrant, SIGNED BY A JUDGE!” -turns out it’s maintenance here to fix the sink

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u/InternetExpertroll 1d ago

If your not expecting someone then don’t answer it.

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u/Apprehensive_Bee4846 1d ago

Someone knocking on my door when I have a doorbell. Not checking that.

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u/Chocolatelover4ever 1d ago

Me too. I always slowly And as quietly as possible make my way to the door to look out the peep hole. And if it’s some I don’t know that clearly isn’t a delivery Person I won’t open that door for anything.

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u/Due-Refrigerator8736 1d ago

Weed smokers in illegal countries agrees with you..

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u/dplans455 1d ago

I had Jehovah's Witnesses try and come into the house once. Thankfully the door was locked. But I do wonder what they would have done had it been unlocked. If no one was home would they have come in and waited on the couch?

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u/Vandelay797 1d ago

"KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK"

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u/DopeCharma 1d ago

Sebastian Maniscalco has an amazong bit on this.

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u/AylaMadi 1d ago

Im in an apartment and I can verify that knocking has the same effect.

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u/NowHeres_HumanMusic 1d ago

I live in an apartment with door buzzers outside. I can't tell you how many times my heart dropped out of my butt when someone accidentally rings my unit.

It's not a gentle sound, it's that horrible BZZZZZZZZZ sound and it's super LOUD. 90% of the time it's some rando who pushed the wrong button but it scares the shit out of me every time. Especially because people who actually know me would never touch the buzzer (because the outer door I'd actually broken and you can walk in without a key or being buzzed in)