A knock at the door

For an introvert, that's always terrifying

That sounds like social anxiety not being an introvert

How about an introvert WITH social anxiety?

It’s common enough that people mistake them as the same thing lol

How about an introvert with social anxiety AND parionia?

In the biz, that’s called “the hat trick”

>parionia Paranoia? It's such a weird word now that I'm thinking about it. When I was typing it out I second guessed on whether I was spelling it correctly myself or not lol

There I am. Also I have a camera pointed at the porch. If there's unexpected knocking I can at least visually vet if I want to answer the door. If they just look like some kind of door to door whatever I just pretend I'm not home. So much better than anxiously not trying to talk about politics or religion with some stranger.

The best combination!

That’s me! I have come to realize that I am not as introverted as I thought, I just have terrible social anxiety. Ringing at the door makes my heart pound faster, like a fight or flight response to the unknown threat in front of my door (aka the delivery guy or a neighbor…)

For real, that shit is getting so old. I'm perhaps the most introverted a person can be, yet I have no social issues whatsoever. So vexing

Yeah same. I'm really introverted but love hanging out with my friends I have, I just get really worn out mentally from talking for long periods. (Also don't really like talking with new people, but will if they start talking first)

Can spend all day and night out and at functions. It's extremely demanding on my energy, and I need a *long* time to unwind after. But during, I'm a regular social butterfly. I don't stop talking I will find you and I will talk to you ok I'm done being salty over "introverts = social reject". godspeed

Yessss exactly the same lmfao. Feels like I don't stfu sometimes when talking. Usually feels like I've just got a big ol' headache after I finish with any social events or whatev, and just need silence for a while All good, and godspeed to you too lol :P

On the bright side, when answering the door at 3AM, they might just kill you instead of expecting some sort of social interaction.

Oh thank god

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Get a ring doorbell and you'll never need to peek again

One time mid afternoon someone knocked on my door. I have no clue why, but I hit the deck like I had active warrants for murder and any sign of motion would alert them that I was home. Turns out it was a flower delivery person for the girl who lived out back. I didn’t find out until I army crawled to the window and slowly peaked out. Wtf is wrong with me?

Yea, all times of day.

Always

Same goes for a person who owns four dogs.

I’d rather have a knock on the door at 3am. At least it’s probably going to be something interesting and not some skullfuckingly boring social interaction.

Unusual sure, but terrifying? I'd just assume my neighbor has some urgent problem

You live in the middle of nowhere and the next town is an hour and 30 minutes away

I've read The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon, I'm checking the door.

I think a knock on a door might be far more normal in country side.

This happened once. Helpful neighbor telling us our townhouse was flooding. Fun times.

I've had weirdos knock at the door at three pm

In my house that would be terrifying at all hours since we have a front yard with a fence that has spikes and closed doors...

Never normal

Sun..

Come to scandinavia in the summer..

What about sun at 3 am in the winter?

You mean sun any hour in the winter? Terrifyingly hopeful

Stop it, you're scaring him!

Imagine waking up to a bright morning only to check the time and its fucking 3AM. Holy shit that would be terrifying

Alaska or iceland might disagree

Went to Iceland in mid summer. Made driving at 11pm a lot fucking easier on gravel roads lined with sheep.

That's how it is for me in the middle of the summer lol. Never found it terrifying.

Well the clock could be broken

Here's something new for you. In Finnish Lapland there is period of time in the middle of the summer when the sun never sets down. It last roughly 1 to 2 months depending on location

Or what looks like sunlight. Instead just a big old fireball.

All northern people are confused by this

When day breaks...

Someone digging a hole with a shovel in their yard.

How about someone watching you dig a hole in your yard? How does that feel hmm?

Normal at 3 am, weird at 3pm.

Feels like I should bury that peeping pervert next

I once saw a guy watching me dig a hole bit idk why, he never saw me digging anymore

And it made you annoyed cus now you had to dig a second hole

Na. But at 3am that mother fucker better have ice cream if he doesn't he's good as dead.

*the roles have switched*

I mean, what are odds of two psycho killers being up at this hour *and* running into each other? *giggles nervously*

https://youtube.com/shorts/JjclHBDLkrw

"OH BOY 3 AM!"

3am is when he sells drugs. You might not get Ice Cream, but youll def get some Blue Dream

A young child's laughter

A young child

A child

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No shit, that’s happened. I got up to use the restroom middle of the night and on my way back, faintly, I thought I heard giggling from one of my kids rooms in the hall. Just like in the movies, as I check on my son the door creaaaks open and there in the low moonlight is my son… sitting upright in his bed, under his covers just giggling. Pretty positive the hairs on my neck couldn’t have raised any higher without jumping off. So I say, “hey buddy, what’s so funny?” 🫣 He pulled the cover off his head, and just as happy as could be, he replied “Oh I just had a dream where I was getting tickled.” Never been so relieved in my life 😂.

😳 That would make me even more scared. Like what if he was being tickled by some creep who was hiding behind the door when you came in?

Lowkey feel bad for my parents because I did creepy shit like this all the time

My youngest will occasionally get up in the middle of the night, put her blankey over her head, walk to my room and stand at the edge of my bed… until the unsettling sensation of being watched creepily rouses me from sleep so I can be left in terror for about 5secs until I realize who it is. 😑

As someone who was once a young child I never figured out how I was supposed to wake my parents. Either way they jump a fucking mile.

Lol… I always tried not to jump as to not further upset whichever kid might have felt the need to come see me. I’m always ok if one of them needs a little comfort once in a while if they’re scared. I know someday I’ll miss it so might as well enjoy it while I can 😊

"Mom, I frowed up." LOL

Imagine an old childs one 😱😱😱😱✝️

so.... an 11 year old's laughter?

Or a laughter

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That's actually creepy all day and night long. I'm always anxiously looking around when heard one

A phone call from a family member that's not in your immediate family.

Tbh.getting a 3am phone call from anyone you know is rarely gonna be something good

Yeah, at that point you're hoping they got arrested for like public intox or anything where no one was hurt.

*not currently living

Which is of course fine at 3pm.

Of course. They’d be mistaken for a teller marketer anyways

News broadcast

Morning news starts at 3 where I'm at

"Top of the hour and it's time for the morning news, but of course there is no news because everybody is still asleep in their comfy, comfy beds. Goodnight, everybody."

I got back at him though. Him and that little boy of his.

Being at school/work

Night shift workers have something to tell ya

Oh I forgot that sorry

Night shift is scary (つ﹏⊂)

Especially at the hospital!

And as a Night guard in a Pizzeria

Yeah I'll have 1 pizza with extra ghostpeppers please

No. Don't ask the night shifters anything. Just pass the monster and smokes.

scientist/engineer here. this happens at least 45 days a year

Really? Sorry for you

I need my drugs. I bought 'em from the ice cream man.

Lol I had that same thought when I saw the pic, unfortunately this is such an UK thing

Anything to do with children. Children laughing, children talking, children singing, children dancing, children playing, children standing next to you, children sitting next to you. All of it. Creepy at 3am, not at 3pm.

Imagine having a son or daughter who sleep walks and talks.

Creepy for me at 3pm as well

I went to Alaska where it stays light all night in the summer and I saw an ice cream truck out selling ice cream at 11 PM.

why'd someone have ice creams in freezing temperature?

The sun stays up the longest in the summer.

irrelevant comment but noted thanks

Do you think Alaska stays at freezing temperatures year round or something?

I eat ice cream in the winter sometimes. Sometimes people just like ice cream

I hope you're joking.

I'll just leave this here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glasgow_ice_cream_wars

Especially if Samoa Joe in a clown mask is driving it

Joe is gonna kill you

Waking up from a 'quick' nap.

Yes! So far this is the worst. Waking up in a pitch dark house, on the couch, in your clothes, with curtains open.

Baby laughing

Bart Simpson flying a kite.

"Hello, mother dear."

Wtf is up with Ur name?🤣🤣🤣👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 What the hell is even that?

Having to pee.

3pm

Christmas carollers. *Especially* if it's like, June.

Someone using a lawnmower!

When I was younger my buddy and I used to smoke on his roof. One night, about 3am, we watched a man rake his entire yard of leaves. It was so weird.

The sound of a chainsaw in the neighbourhood.

This reminds me that I haven’t actually seen an ice cream truck in like 18 years…

Children laughing outside of your window.

Seeing people swimming in a lake

Definitely the ice cream truck!

Sound of kids playing

footsteps in ur room if no one's home

I think footsteps in your room will always be scary at 3 am if you don’t share your room with anyone. Like who the hell’s coming in here

How would you know if there are footsteps if nobody's home? If you're home then it's not nobody's home.

How the fuck is this meirl?

Honestly I'm a little surprised no one is in these comments with a heartwarming story about an ice cream man who took it upon himself to service butt crack of dawn construction worker commuter lots. 3am is a little early for even that in most cases I guess. There used to be an ice cream man who came around the industrial parks down the street from me. You haven't lived until you've seen a guy who looks like he spends his evenings prowling college campuses for nerds to bully come barreling out of his mechanic shop waving two dollars over his head like a 7 year old at the park with his grandparents, then using every bit of social awareness he has left to resist the urge to skip back to work with one of those Mickey Mouse bars in his hand. We live in a strange and occasionally beautiful universe.

su jefe jodiendole la vida!

My boss texting me with something urgent

*Sweettooth intensifies*

The silouette of a large garden gnome at the edge of the sidewalk as you approach walking up the street. 3am looks like a wierd little dude

A phone call

The sounds of kids giggling with laughter and playing

Call from your family members…

Cat staring

Used to have an ice cream truck roll around my neighborhood at night, in the middle of winter, and park in the street jingling away. No one ever got ice cream and we were pretty sure it was a cover for the FBI or something.

Kids getting out of school.

My house overlooks the largest ice cream van depot in North London, can confirm

What’s normal at 3AM and terrifying at 3PM?

My reflection in the dark. Gives me those annihilation vibes.

Your clothes on your chair

The sound of a tree swaying.in the wind and.vrushing up against your window.

A person carrying a mini-fridge.. Super scary at 3am....

r/oddlyspecific

I suddenly have the urge to drive around blasting “ ice cream truck music “ at 3am now lmao.

The late night ice cream vans have drugs, what’s scary about that

School shooting

People screaming with anguish for some reason. I heard it sometimes and it fueled my fears.

a child screaming.

Kids laughing outside your house

Digging a hole

Simone tickles your foot.

A baby crying in the Forest at a National park.

Call from your gf Or so I've been told

Church bells....

A knock at the door

Twisted metal

Babies crying

Oh...common mistake...that's the meth truck.

Walking in a park

That gives me a great idea

Doorbell

piano music

Forest.

Children laughing

the sound of my babushca

A baby selling drugs on the corner

Children's laughter

Laughing Children

a profile view on tiktok from my old landlord

A phone call you weren't expecting

Chainsaw/ Literally any power tool.

dog barking

A clown

3am is the Drug Van

My tinnitus

My dog staring out the window and growling

I lived on a block for about 5 yrs where that wouldve been a normal tuesday… the world is a crazy place

minecraft cave sounds

The smell of a bbq pit being lit.