running water

I don't know if it's just me being paranoid, but there's one thing that bothers me very much. It really scares me when I walk into a public restroom and a water faucet is running. The first thing that always comes into my mind is that someone's in the restroom, hiding, and is going to murder me. It's a silly thing, but there's something about the water running that truly creeps me out and makes me extremely nervous. I remember that a few years ago, I guess at the end of junior high and the beginning of high school, I was very paranoid. For some reason I always thought that really bad things would happen when I was all by myself. I used to run in the early mornings before I had to go to school, and those were the worst times for it. I was running down my empty country road and I always thought that people were hiding in the bushes that lined the road and they were going to jump out, rape me, and kill me. I got over that, but I guess the water in the restroom thing is left over from then. I always think: Why would someone leave without turning the water off? That's so weird. It used to happen to me all the time at school in the restroom by Printing and Postal. And it freaked me out then. I don't understand it, why I'm so paranoid. I know no one's out to murder me and, for some reason, I think the worst in those kind of situations. It just bothers me much.
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i thought i was alone in being terrified of clean aloneness.
empty public bathrooms.
my house in the morning.
the kitchen or bathroom in the middle of the night.
im always on edge.and jump and shake violently at the sight of my own shadow.
silence is like limbo to me.
you can never be safe.and never let your guard down.
michelle.
i am afraid of the boogeyman; a murderous and harmful being, and always out of sight. but only when i am alone. especially in the dark. eep.
girly
[Anonymous]
yeah. I think it's wierd that people leave the water running too. Unless of course it's an automatic faucet, but that seems to never be the case, because I am always able to turn it off.

the only thing I can figure is that the person is a germ phobic, and doesn't want to touch the handle after they wash. Though, that's what towels are for.