I am so scared of spontanious human combustion. Not just that I might combust but that anyone I know might. My brothers always always tease me about it but it totally freaks me out.

I hate any surface that is shaky or wobbly in any way. Especially chairs and tables that are uneven and shake from side to side. This fear goes back to when I lived in CA and went through the Loma Prieta earthquake of 1989, also known as "The Big One." After I was traumatized by that as a kid, I have hated shaky things with a passion. I hate being in portable classrooms, I hate it when someone sits behind me and shakes my desk by tapping their feet on it, I will switch chairs in class until I find one that has 4 even legs, the same with tables at a restaurant (I will move, or get coasters to try to put underneath to steady it).

A funny joke that my friend played on me because she knows my fear:
My freshman year roomate took my bed (which was up on cinderblocks) and took 2 of the cinderblocks away and just balanced the bed on the remaining 2...the top left and the bottom right. So the next time I went to go sit in my bed, the entire thing collapsed, I started screaming hysterically and my roomates just sat there laughing. I still have yet to get her back for that. Luckily she's my roomate again this year...any ideas? ;)

Static electricity shocks!! I hate this time of year when you pull off your coat and touch something metal and it shocks you. The former Mr. tinydancer would purposely drag his feet across the carpet and then poke me with one finger and shock me. I wanted to knock his block off!!:mad:

Knives. :eek: :eek:

It makes me nervous when other people are using it...like last night, my friend used a knife to cut a piece of tape (don't know why)..I was standing on a chair..and she had the knife pointed upwards.. I couldn't take my eyes off of it cause I keep thinking of me falling on it..

Funny thing is, I dont have a problem when I'm using one, just when other people are!!

I have the same fears as Dionysus (vomiting) and Honeychile (gas stoves, but not as much I as used to be).

I also have a fear of flying in small planes. When I lived in Fayetteville, I had to fly in those thing between Fayetteville and Dallas. It was scary. Last year, I flew from Albuquerque to Phoenix in one of those small jets to catch a connecting flight (an Airbus 320) from Phoenix to JFK and I was scared s***less.

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I am also very afraid of knives. I won't use sharp ones if I can help it. And when they are sitting and need to be washed I will do all the other dishes and make a different sister do the knives. This made dissection in science really difficult cause I was afraid of the scalpels.

I'm scared to death of guns...I'm always afraid that they're going to go off, even if I KNOW there isn't a bullet in it. Which is strange, I don't know where this fear came from, because I grew up around guns and know how to use them/how they work. I guess what I'm more scared of is whether or not the person who's holding the gun knows what they're doing and knows all the safety precautions, but still....guns just freak me out.

I also have a fear of those large mack trucks when I'm driving - behind one or next to one. I'm afraid I'm going to get sucked under the truck or that he's not going to see me and cross into my lane and squish me.

I don't like people touching my knees.

And, finally, I don't like anything covering my face, ESPECIALLY my nose. HUGE fear of suffocation (it took me a loooong time before I would ride in an elevator).

Oh, and I won't ride in a car without all the doors being locked either. :)

I know, I'm a freak. ;)

I used to be afraid of getting on escalators first when I was with people - I used to think my parents would leave me and just let me go up or down and run off. I had to get over the escalator fear, as the law school has an escalator, and it really is the most convenient way of getting up/downstairs.

I'm deathly afraid of lizards, geckos, etc. I almost touched one the other day and again this morning. Almost gave me a panic attack.

My weirdest fear is that I'll get really fat and end up one of those faceless stomachs that ends up on the evening news in a report about obesity.

I'm impressed! I have never known another person with the gas stove phobia before! :eek:

Showering too close to the drain

I would REALLY prefer not to be in wide-open spaces, such as huge parking lots or festival-style concerts.

I hate bridges. I can deal with driving over them, but in Georgetown, there is the Key Bridge, which can't be more than a quarter of a mile long. I can't even step ON the bridge, much less walk across it. (It's over water.)

I am also scared of clowns. The are very scary. We were at the mall, some group was collecting money for something, and one of the collectors came up to us dressed as a clown. I kept weaving behind my family, trying to stay away from that thing.
My family thinks it is funny and loves to point clowns out to me!!!

-wendi

The dark.
I don't mind when I can see some form of light such the street lamp light coming through my window. If I'm in a room that's pitch black, I freak out. I won't go into a room that doesn't have any windows because, if the power goes out, I'll be in pitch black. If I have to be in a room without windows, I get really antsy.
My family and I took a trip to Tennessee (I think it was in TN) about 10 years ago and we were going through some underground caverns. I was completely freaked out the whole time. At one point, they turned out the lights on us and I grabbed my dad's hand and just started screaming. When they turned the lights back on, everyone was looking at me really weird.

axes

mice and rats

driving over water (I don't mind small bridges). There is a bridge in my home state (The Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel in Virginia) that scares the sh*t outta me

guns

edited to add my #1 phobia: Needles...I am SO not a shot person

My other phobia is............

THE DENTIST!!!

AHHHH!!!

You have no idea! I HATE HATE HATE the dentist. I had a BAAAAAD experience at one about 7 years ago and ever since, I have this extreme phobia. If I hear the sound of the drill, I go into a major panic attack. I was watching Finding Nemo with some Phi Mu Alpha guys the other day and the dentist scene came on and I literally went into the fetal position and started crying.