I’ve had a bizarre phobia since I was young. I do not trust the structural integrity of most buildings and am always worrying things will collapse/break. One thing that really triggers my anxiety is when I can feel a floor shaking. If my one year old, 25 pound son can run by and make the floor shake, how can it hold substantially heavier items (like a fridge, washer, etc.)? Please only reassuring comments – I can’t handle this phobia getting any worse 🙂
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Sports stadiums all wiggle. It’s because a stiff building would crack under all that weight of people tramping around. Regular building floors also wiggle and flex, but not nearly as much. There’s space between floors so that all the cabling and insulation and pipes and stuff can fit in, and again so that the actual flooring can flex without cracking every time something hits it.
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