You know what’s a little bit scary?

Trains. I’m not talking about the fact they go really fast and can kill people at crossings and all the genuinely scary parts of trains. I’m talking about the moment you get off them. When, for one terrifying second, it’s possible you might drop your phone down the tiny gap between the train and the platform.

Now THAT is terrifying.

Not my phone. Not my precious, precious phone.

This one-second-fear of my morning routine is often followed by another. I leave the platform and go to the escalator. My heart rate is normal, normal, normal, until the one second when I have to step off. And for that one second, my heart beats fast, as I unreasonably fear getting stuck in the teeth at the bottom of the escalator.

Yet I never have.

I mentioned these silly everyday fears to some of the Mamamia staff, and what followed? A barrage of unfounded fears, probably based on scary/embarrassing moments in ridiculous movies, that never actually eventuate in real life. And as each one was revealed, I realised more and more everyday fears that I never knew I always had.

25 things that we are afraid of daily (that will probably never happen).

So I don’t know about you, but now I’m terrified. I need a valium. And a bodyguard.