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Entries relating to anxiety.
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The anxiety-inducing destruction of your car's transmission while desperately trying not to roll backwards into a lorry.
Read full entry →The visceral, dripping panic of sitting on a congested motorway praying the fumes in your tank get you to the next service station.
Read full entry →The weekly terror of hearing a neighbor dragging plastic wheels down the driveway and realizing you don't know if it's recycling week.
Read full entry →A suffocating, inescapable anxiety that hits at exactly 4 PM on Sunday, destroying the remainder of your weekend with thoughts of work.
Read full entry →The intense physical anxiety of trying to bag groceries quickly before the robotic voice accuses you of theft.
Read full entry →The intense pressure and total loss of spatial awareness caused by an audience judging your parking abilities.
Read full entry →The absolute blind panic of trying to guess which lane you should be in when the road markings eroded in 1998.
Read full entry →The sudden, terrifying realization that you might be doing 34 in a 30 zone, resulting in dangerously slamming on the brakes.
Read full entry →The stomach-churning anxiety experienced while sitting in a greasy garage waiting for a mechanic to hand you a £800 repair bill.
Read full entry →A standardized corporate falsehood meaning 'I have filed this away and will panic about it tomorrow'.
Read full entry →A cowardly software feature utilized to banish a difficult task back into the ether until tomorrow.
Read full entry →The anxiety of having to invent a socially acceptable, fulfilling narrative for two days spent entirely horizontal.
Read full entry →A manufactured, corporate anxiety that makes you feel like a criminal for fulfilling your exact contractual hours.
Read full entry →A rising, helpless physical panic induced by watching the clock tick past 8:55 AM while trapped on public transport.
Read full entry →The panic-stricken pat-down of your own clothing while a queue of angry commuters sighs behind you.
Read full entry →A hospitable falsehood masking intense anxiety about damp outerwear touching pristine furnishings.
Read full entry →The frantic rescue mission to retrieve towels from the line before a drizzle turns into a downpour.
Read full entry →The modern terror of an unannounced visitor, prompting the residents to army-crawl away from the windows.
Read full entry →A high-stakes cup of tea that must be the precise color of He-Man's face to avoid silent judgment from a plumber.
Read full entry →A reflexive, defensive falsehood deployed to banish shop assistants, even when you desperately need to know where the shoes are.
Read full entry →A greeting strictly meant to be answered with 'Yeah, you?', which becomes a hostage situation if answered honestly.
Read full entry →The tense, anxious suspension of a debit card over a reader, silently praying your bank doesn't decline a £3 coffee.
Read full entry →The high-stress attempt to ensure your sandwich, drink, and crisps all possess the correct red label so you don't accidentally pay £7 for lunch.
Read full entry →A relentless descent into anxiety caused by consuming an endless feed of global catastrophes while lying in bed.
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