So do you have a “worry stack”?

[Ralphie ★]

I do.  I come from a long line of worriers.

Alfred E Newman is like a God to me.

 

[Further]

I do a lot of worrying, but I don't have a stack   

[Bikeguy]

No...  that's WoBG's job.  She worries more than enough for both of us.

What me worry?

[Ralphie ★]

2 minutes ago, Further said:

I do a lot of worrying, but I don't have a stack   

Sure you do!  One is on top for a while, until it goes away or a new one comes in. So it is nominally a LIFO stack. Last in, first out.  Those old ones on the bottom can fester pretty darn badly.

 

[maddmaxx ★]

Worrying is one of my strengths.  One of my work tasks was always to find potential problems before they happened and prevent them from ever 

Show me something and I can probably point out the "might be bad".

[Ralphie ★]

3 minutes ago, Bikeguy said:

No...  that's WoBG's job.  She worries more than enough for both of us.

What me worry?

I guess I am the designated worrier in the fambly. 
That’s ok. She is the designated driver.

 

[Road Runner]

As a certified OCD'er, worry is my middle name.  Yesterday, I turned a 30 min job in my yard into a 4 hour extravaganza.  It does look good, though.

[Ralphie ★]

Just now, maddmaxx said:

Worrying is one of my strengths.  One of my work tasks was always to find potential problems before they happened and prevent them from ever 

Show me something and I can probably point out the "could be bad".

My sister likes to call me Debbie Downer. Wah wah.

 

[Airehead]

Yes, I do. 

[Bikeguy]

3 minutes ago, maddmaxx said:

Show me something and I can probably point out the "might be bad".

OSHA is probably hiring... 

[Ralphie ★]

2 minutes ago, Road Runner said:

As a certified OCD'er, worry is my middle name.  Yesterday, I turned a 30 min job in my yard into a 4 hour extravaganza.  It does look good, though.

This is the main thing I look forward to in retaarment. Setting my  own pace. Glacial it is!

Excwpt now even the darn glaciers are in the rats race with melting and all. Wah wah.

 

[Further]

1 minute ago, Philander Seabury said:

Sure your do!  One is on top for a while, until it goes away and a new one comes in. So it is nominally a LIFO stack. Last in, first out. 

Ok I guess I do, probably 2 or maybe 5

Ya got the constant worries, like retirement and medical care

Ya got the big picture stuff, like the state of the world, that you can only watch from afar

And then you got the rotating issues, like the rust on the Elements bottom

And then niggling running score of minor shit "do I have my wallet'  "is my fly zipped"   "do I have booger hanging out of my nose"

 

[maddmaxx ★]

3 minutes ago, Bikeguy said:

OSHA is probably hiring... 

It was a worthwhile talent during software design.

[Bikeguy]

1 minute ago, maddmaxx said:

It was a worthwhile talent during software design.

Yeah... when I wrote Excel macros for various tasks at work.  I'd have to consider,  'What could Nate do to this?  What could he possibly do to blow up this spreadsheet?'   I'd have to include data validation and/or error traps.  But... I didn't worry about it..  I just assume the worst could happen.  And it usually did... 

[AirwickWithCheese]

22 minutes ago, Philander Seabury said:

My sister likes to call me Debbie Downer. Wah wah.

 

That's odd considering you bring a lot of laughs here.  

[Further]

 

[Ralphie ★]

1 hour ago, AirwickWithCheese said:

That's odd considering you bring a lot of laughs here.  

This is where I come to flee from worrisome thoughts. 

[maddmaxx ★]

7 hours ago, Philander Seabury said:

This is where I come to flee from worrisome thoughts. 

Hmmm.  That worries me.

[Ralphie ★]

36 minutes ago, maddmaxx said:

Hmmm.  That worries me.

As well it should!  Me too. 

[petitepedal ★]

Yes...I worry..however I tend to jump in with both feet..damn the torpedoes..full speed ahead.

[Kirby]

Worrying is my spiritual gift. 

I always admired my Grandmother - she worried a lot about little things, but when something bad actually happened, she stayed calm d handled it rather than getting upset.

[Kzoo]

no

[Razors Edge ★]

12 hours ago, Bikeguy said:

No...  that's WoBG's job.  She worries more than enough for both of us.

What me worry?

Yep - I'm more the "worry extinguisher" which can be a full time job!

[Parsnip Totin Jack ★]

I’m like @Bikeguy, my wife worries for both of us. Hers is more anxiety than worry though. Uncertainty triggers her anxiety. 

[MickinMD ★]

My late cousin Barbara, one of us twenty grandchildren of Joseph and Martha Griscavage, used to call it the "Griscavage Guilt Complex."

We were raised with absolutes like, "Don't make shame for the Polish people," etc. and always worried we didn't do something as well as we should have and worried about things we had no control over.  Some in that group, more than others outside it, asked me how I managed to cope with the hassles associated with getting my house rebuilt, saying it would have driven them crazy with worry.

But there may be a silver lining here.  Maybe that's what drove us, a coal miner's grandkids with up-to high school grad, Depression-raised parents, to accomplish so much compared to those we grew up with who didn't climb as far out of poor backgrounds: two who became Vice Presidents of IBM and Sandoz Pharmaceuticals, a Mayor of a small town in NJ, a Dow Chemical subsidiary's Chief Research Chemist, the U.S. representative in a NATO arms development commission, the Bone Marrow Transplant Coordinator at Johns Hopkins Hospital, two high school physics teachers, an elementary school teacher, and most of the others in some management-level jobs or owning small businesses.