It’s super ironic and very stupid, but I am afraid of firetrucks. I say this is ironic because firetrucks are supposed to be my “friend.” They are supposed to help me and all other people when in need. They are a powerful, big, red superhero. I think their quality of being powerful and big is what gets to me. Now I don’t mean to jump to the worst possible scenario, but what what if a big powerful firetruck runs you over? You don’t stand a chance! When I was younger I would cry and hide behind my parents when firetrucks rolled past us during a parade. My favorite kind of candy is lying in the middle of the road. Do I want it? No! What if that oncoming firetruck forgets to brake and crushes my body? Again, this is a worst case scenario but in the world of intense fears, it is very real.
My fear of trains stems from the same place as my fear of firetrucks. Trains, in addition to being big and powerful cannot break quickly like a firetruck can. It takes a train upward of two miles to come to a complete stop and so if you get in front of a train it will squash you like a steam roller. Want another worst case scenario? You are in your car and suddenly it stops. On the train tracks. Then a train comes and hits you. You’re dead. Or another terrible event would be a train tipping off it’s tracks and into a lake. I’m talking about the narrow bridges that go across large bodies of water. Due to the weight of the train, anyone and anything in that train is going to drown and you are going to die.
What may be the weirdest part about my fear of firetrucks and trains is that I am not afraid of other large vehicles and machines like diggers and concrete mixers. One would think that if my reasons for being scared were because the vehicles were big and noisy, one would also think that I would be scared of all like vehicles. The other peculiar thing is that I have never had any sort of traumatizing event pertaining to firetrucks or trains. I think the problem is that Entertainment goes crazy with action movies and then my imagination runs wild.
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