Anxious Athlete Gifts

"My life is a powerful blast tocenter field easily snagged on the warning track."

"Strike three, strike three! Please, God, strike three!"

Fear of news.

"I just learned that my golden parachute was not properly packed."

'It's your babysitter, where do you keep your fire extinguisher?'

"And, of course, if I were to get the job and start feeling comfortable here I'd no longer need the security blanket."

'Your performance review is next Tuesday. You're allowed to bring a guitar and up to three backup singers.'

'No, you haven't missed much. Pretty well everyone called in sick.'

Before her first dressage competition, Kate suffered from Pre-Traumatic Stress.

'I'm sorry, but I haven't understood a word you've babbled since I turned left on red.'

'Please give me the strength to ask for a raise without my voice breaking into an annoying falsetto and my brow all sweaty.'

"Oh no, I never replied to Theresa's email! And tomorrow I must call Steve.... What does Yara think of me?"

"I've been getting the most intense workouts since I taped a picture of my ex on the heavy bag!"

The only way I can get through a nudist convention.

"I'm against pain killers for players, but I'm for them for supporters."

Tree growing

Agoraphobic Explorer

"They're from accounting, sir, they're not very verbal."

"Is it okay that I said yes to that costume party?"

The Job Interview

'You're in extreme danger because you eat too much. . .'

"I'd like to extend a special welcome to those of you who are joining us for the first time, as part of a nightmare you're having."

"Feel free to imagine you might have any of the conditions you read about in the magazines."

'Play among yourselves while I deal with my stage fright.'

'She will not call on me, she will not call on me, she. . .'

"Just get out there and be yourself – or better yet, someone like me."

"If you don't wish to hear the match result look away now."

"Call me a dreamer, but I see a world in which I give speeches without pants and find myself in the final exam of courses I never signed up for."

Idlewild.

Person is hiding behind book entitled 'Coping with shyness'.

"Did we switch everything off before we left?"

'What if I want to stop? Where's the pause button?'

"Look, I’m sorry. I didn’t mean to call you ‘a lazy, manipulative drama queen who’s incapable of genuine self-reflection.’"

Fear of frying.

Someone is always trying to force me to have more fun in my life phobia: 'Can you recommend someplace where nothing is expected of us? Wilbur can't stand pleasure of any sort.'