What do CT Residents Fear the Most? The Answer is Hard to Pronounce

Each year, US Betting Report runs a study to see what people are most afraid of in each state.

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Each year, the answers get weirder and Connecticut's most common fear is really bizarre. According to News 8, the answer is “trypophobia." That is the fear of clusters of holes. I should have been surprised but I wasn't because I wrote an article about “trypophobia" last year (2022) when it was named the most common fear in America.

I don't get this fear, what are clusters of holes going to do to you? There are a lot of other things worth fearing like:

• Being asked to "sit down" for a meeting
• Standing in line at the water park next to a goblin who couldn't be bothered to clip their toenails the last 30 years.
• Going to the Danbury Costco on a Saturday around the Christmas holiday.
• Forgetting my wife's birthday.
• Being in line at the grocery store and realizing my wallet is at home.
• Someone saying, "you don't remember my name, do you?"
• Writing an article about a drug dealer being arrested, making fun of their attempt to elude the authorities and then being stabbed by their underlings in a dark alley.
• Seeing someone from high school at the grocery store.
• Cutting my hand while cutting open a bagel. I actually think about that a lot.
• Congratulating someone on their pregnancy when they're not pregnant.
• Ordering ethnic food and doing too good a job of pronouncing it.
• Learning new things.
• Success.
• Happiness.
• Dancing.
• Attending multiple social engagements in a single day.
• Being asked to help someone move.
• Finding out you have a "family party" on a Sunday during the NFL season.
• Packs of monkeys with cigarettes and razor blades.
• Pronouns.
• Lie detector tests.
• Job interviews.
• Wet socks.
• Being late to something.
• Being early to something.
• 50/50 raffles.
• Phone calls about my auto warranty.
• My parents finding out what time I wake up on Saturday.
• Musicians asking me if I can play their song on the radio.
• Being asked what my favorite book is.
• Renewing my license & registration.
• People talking to me about life insurance.
• People talking to me about the stock market.
• Being asked what I do for a living.
• Hanging out with a couple who doesn't drink, at all.
• Soduku.
• My phone battery dying in a waiting room.
• People who want "just one minute" of my time.
• Being asked if I have plans. That is always a trick, if you say you have no plans they will corner you into making plans with them next.
• People looking at my phone.
• Geography questions.
• Math.
• Hearing my wife say, "So, I was thinking......."
• Driving off with the gas pump still in my car.

Those are fears, not a jumble of holes.