What's your irrational fear?

Being accused of something heinous that I didn't actually do. Especially when it comes to kids; I just don't trust them. Kids see the world very differently than we do and can easily twist a situation to look like something it isn't.

For example, a few weeks ago I was at the movies and needed to use the restroom. As I enter the men's room I notice it is completely empty aside from this one kid maybe 7 or 8 years old just running around waving his hands under the sinks making the faucets turn off and on, and just basically wandering around in the restroom. Right away I'm a little uncomfortable because this kid is hanging out by the urinals so I go into a stall to take my piss. I can sense the little shit just hanging around outside the stall and when he hears the toilet flush he scampers away in a big hurry so that when I open the stall door he's practically running out of the restroom. Only thing is, he ran to the custodial storage room and is frantically trying to open the door. Thinking that he's locked in, and probably assuming I had something to do with it, the little bastard starts screaming for his mommy.

I don't know how I kept it together in that moment but I looked that in the eye and in a very stern voice (the way you would talk to a drunk friend who's acting up to get him in line) and said "dude, the door is over there, get out."

Wiping tears away he ran outta there like a dog that just got smacked in the nose with a newspaper for shitting inside and I finished up washing my hands. I then watched Star Wars but before I did, I saw little shithead again with his mom going in to see The Good Dinosaur. Which I'm glad because I heard that movie sucked.

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