Top 5 things that scare a Badger ...

1. The dark ...

2. Getting trapped in my clothes. This is a very real fear. I have a head that is very slightly too large for my rather small body. I have the body size to fit perfectly into age 13 boys clothing. I do not, I discover, have the same head volume. Therefore my head gets stuck in the head hole exit of my clothes. If I put my arms inside to aid removal and get stuck. This is when the panic begins, because its dark, my arms are stuck and I am trapped inside my own clothes. Ugh.

3. Water that you can not see the bottom of. This includes murky sinks and deep seas. You simply don't know what you are about to encounter, be that a huge shark or a sticky, sloppy mass of congealed food particles. The anticipation anxiety is too great.

4. Aircraft. I have a strong love/hate relationship with planes. I think they are amazing, I love that they are magic and can fly. But.... I worry that the magic will end. I worry it will end when I am under it and the plane will drop on my head. I worry I will get sucked into the engine because they are so big. I worry that it will drop out the sky when I am on it.

5. .... The future.

Hmmm, it would appear that all my fears relate to that of anticipation. Fear of the unknown. Fear of what might happen.