i am neurotic.

every time i fly, i MUST be reading something during take-off and landing. if not, the plane will crash and/or explode into a fiery ball of destruction, killing all onboard. so therefore, i read as a public safety service.

“The Reader’ actress and her director spouse Sam Mendes insist on traveling separately because they are terrified of being involved in an air crash which would leave their children – Mia, Kate’s eight-year-old daughter from a previous relationship, and five-year-old son Joe – without their parents. … The couple’s phobia is said to stem from different air incidents they were involved in.”

[ONTD]

When I’m traveling or have a lot of bags or items with me, I always have to check behind me when I get up to leave, in order to make sure I haven’t left anything behind or that anybody around me hasn’t left something behind. Sometimes, I even check under seats, especially on airplanes.

Whenever I ride a bicycle I can only get on it from the left side, because as a child I always pretended my bike was a horse, and a horse is mounted from the left side. I still follow this habit.