Okay, we are scared of all the same things....weird! I also include raw chicken in my list though.

See, it's not the mini vans that scare me. It's I-4 in general that scares me. Fun Fun! You have tourists who don't know where they're going, old people who can't see more than 2 feet in front of them, soccer moms who can't keep their Expedition in one lane, high school boys in their spruced up stock cars going about 30 mph over the speed limit (and weaving in and out of traffic), the people who cannot speak/read English and don't realize they're exit is coming up until last minute ("Oh! There's my exit. Must cross over 6 lanes of traffic and cut everyone off and just smile at them if they honk their horn at me. Teehee!"), and the angry middle age men who will try to run you off the road if they feel they've been wronged in any kind of way.

I'm scared of the dark. I cannot be a room that has no light coming into it whatsoever. I must be able to see some light of some kind whether it's through a crack in the door or the glow of an alarm clock. I'm not scared of monsters or anything. ;) I heard when I was little that if you stay in a dark room for too long that you could go blind. I've been frightened ever since.

I am also scared of winding mountain roads that have no guardrails. If I'm traveling along the outer side of the road and there's only about a foot between the road and a huge drop-off I will freak out. Luckily, I live in Florida but when I was in Cali last Spring Break my friend drove me through the mountains. My hands were so sweaty and I had to close my eyes.

Kind of along the same lines, I don't like big glasses or cups. I'm not scared of them I just don't like them and don't like to use them.

I am scared of terrorist attacks and my friends give me a hard time about it. I'm flying cross country over the July 4th weekend and I really don't want to and they think I'm being so ridiculous. Maybe I am, but I can't just get over it. And I'm going to be in DC this weekend and I'm freaked out because they are saying the WWII memorial dedication is a possible target.
Make fun all you want, but you all are scared of weird stuff too. :p

I ALWAYS stare at the people around me when I'm waiting on platforms that are like little islands surrounded by tracks. I'm freaked out because at least once a year you hear about some homeless man who is schizophrenic and off his meds who pushes someone off the platform.
And whats with the third rail ::shudders::

I also hate bridges. During a Little League game way back in the day, I stared at a tractor trailer half hanging off the Bayonne Bridge, cab side off of the bridge and have hated bridges ever since. Every time I think I'm over my fear, something else happens (comming back over the verrazzano, some old lady in a civic merged into my car, yeah...then there was the empty 5 gallon bottle of poland spring water that came off a truck and cracked my windshield).

So now my list reads:
1. Punchy the Robot
2. Subway islands
3. Bridges

I didn't think to mention that, but I too have an honest-to-goodness water phobia. Can't handle any body of water larger than a whirlpool without my heart pounding, getting faint, etc.

I don't know where it came from, but my mom has the same thing, so she probably transferred it to me somehow. I still don't know how to swim because of it - when my parents tried to put me in swimming classes as a kid I would just scream, continuously, until they took me away from the pool.

We have the same exact phobia. I can't stand those subway islands especially when I have to walk beside an escalator or stairs. It is so narrow. I plan my route before I get on the train. Sometimes I will wait until the next train comes so I can walk by without fear of falling in.

When I was little, I used to be afraid of escalators (the down escalators in particular) and beards. I am OK with them now though.

I'm very bad at ball sports because when the ball comes sailing toward me, I duck instead of trying to catch it or hit it. :D

And I like to look at fish but I don't like to touch fish. Eww. I think this stems from when I had a fish tank as a little kid, and the top was off one day and one of my fish jumped out of the tank and onto the floor...and I stepped on it with bare feet. EEK!

I'm also scared of any water that I can't see the bottom of.

When I was very little, I was TERRIFIED of toilets flushing.

Bugs and stuff that just drop out of nowhere. I can handle them if I see them first, but when there's nothing and then WHABAM! a spider right in front of my face, I freak. I can trace this back to a sweet corn picking incident when I was about 6. There I was, happily running through the rows when WHABAM! I ran into a huge garden spider web (those things are freakin huge and uuuugly if you've never seen one.) I ran back out screaming my head off. Scarred me for life, it did.

Other than that, I can handle pretty much anything else.

I'm afraid of clowns. Other than that, I'm more intolerant as opposed to being afraid - I can't sleep with an open door or closet.

Oh, I agree with people who are scared of frogs. We have these frogs that perch themselves right above the door to my parent's house and I swear to god, I have to make the mad dash through the door because I am sure they are going to jump on my head(getting heebie jeebies just thinking of it!!).
I also don't like to have my shower curtain closed at night. Its fine closed during the day but if I get up to go to the bathroom in the middle of the night and the curtain isn't open, I am SURE there is someone in there that is waiting to jump out!!

I don't like birds. They freak me out and I don't know why. I was in the vet last night and some kid brought in a bird with a broken wing he found on the street. The thing freaked me out. LOL.

Movies about the world coming to an end or something weird happening. i.e Indy Day, Signs, The Day After Tomorrow.

Any games that require balls to be thrown or kicked. Had a bad experience in gym as a child.:(

Clowns!!!

The potential of having my skirt or dress getting caught up in my stockings and unintentionally flashing people.

Having horrific flatulence, snoring, or talking in my sleep when I am sleeping in a group setting (church retreats, airplane etc).

The smell of the metal part of a plastic retail hanger, and other cheap metals. It smells so disgusting.

Tripping and knocking my teeth out.

The scary worms and compost my mother has for her organic gardening.

When there are PLENTY of open available seats, and someone has to sit RIGHT next to you.

Fellini's movie "Satyricon", it is very disturbing and I had to watch it twice in the past two weeks for class.

Butterflies. :eek:

They creep me out BIG time....always have. The way they flit around and try to land on you with those wiry legs (AAAAGH). My husband and I went to a fair once and they had a MONARCH display. Hundreds of those mofos flitting around. Thought I was going to DIE.

ETA: post 1450 woo hoo :D

I forgot to add one.
I remembered this today while I was at a meeting at the top floor of our office building. My office is on the first floor so I usually never have to worry about elevators.
I won't ever stick my hand out to stop an elevator door from closing. I've heard too many stories about the elevator doors failing to sense an object against it and taking off someone's arm.
Some poor woman was running up to the elevator as the doors were closing. I tried to press the door open button but couldn't get to it on time. I could've held my arm out but I have a weird fear that the thought of sticking my arm out gives me the heebie jeebies. The woman probably thinks I'm such a bitch.

spandex... especially on those who shouldn't be wearing it:(

Edit: I take that back, no one should ever wear spandex. Thx

My sister (the one who gavew me the drain phobia thing) and I were talking about this today and she is deathly afraid of roaches. Shes a teacher and she saw one in the hall today near her classroom, made another teacher go kill it and the teacher was all, "You do it!" so my sister said, "I'll buy your lunch if you kill it." She did. Lunch was on my sister. We were raised together and roaches dotn phase me at all. One even fell on me, and ran down the inside of my shirt a few years ago. No big deal for me.

My sister wont live in north Houston becasue she heard that Roaches like to live in the pine trees there.

Ok, tell me this thing doesnt look scary?

I can just imagine being tumped off next to it and gettign sucked down...

http://www.news-star.com/images/072398/com_water.jpg

Then being sucked into something like that? chilling...

I need a xanax now...

High bridges with low guard rails - Think Sunshine Skyway for the Florida people... Oddly enough I am not normally afraid of heights :rolleyes:

Also, losing my hair and teeth (I dream about this all the time :( )

I am terrified of peacocks. I dont know why. My dad's company always has their yearly picnic at the zoo, and I remember I was about 16 the last time I went. The peacocks roam freely through zoo grounds, and one came near me, I jumped on my dads back. At 16, I probably could have done some major damage to my father. Everyone thought it was the most hilarious thing they had ever seen. I thought it was the most traumatic event of my life at the time. I cant even stand to see one. They turn up in the darndest places. Magazine ads, television commercials, movies, the middle of a major roadway were I live (this was interesting since i was in a convertible and the thing wouldnt get out of the road, I almost hyperventilated as I was putting the top up in the middle of the road). My boss even has feathers in his office. I kindly asked him to remove them, he said no. I cant go near the shelf they are on.

lol, I guess you don't like Spider Man, or varsity wresling, then?

Oh, my parents used to own a peacock in their backyard. And I remember one day when I was about 10, I approached too close to it, and the stupid peacock was attacking me and scratched me all over my pack with its talons and pecked my head, while I was holding on my dear life. Since then, I am not too fond with peacocks.

Nahh.. spidermans cool as hell.. i get more of the... richard simmons or huge hairy sweaty jogger lady in spandex image... haunting dontcha think? *shivver*

-matt

I agree ... but that is more 80s feeling. And sometimes 80s makes me scared ...

OMG, when I was a child my father used to take those winding roads without guard rails at the fastest humanly possible speed.

Going down was worse than going up though. Going up felt lik there was control. Going down, well he would just let the car coast and build up speed. And the turns would get sharper and sharper . . I used to close my eyes and put my seat back.

Thanks a lot ZTAngel, I had forgotten all about that. I am going to go hyperventilate now. :(

For those of you who are terrified of peacocks, this thread will give you another reason to be scared of them AND crows:

Reasons Why a Crow Will Kick Your A$$

Even two years later, sometimes I lay awake at night listening for the Cry of The Peacock. I know he's out there somewhere looking for me. ;)

Bingo! I was trapped under a boat in the ocean once as a child. I was swimming under it and the waves kept going in the same motion as me. Yuck!
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i was scared shitless of the oompla loompas as a kid. ok not. i still am.

and i am scared shitless of Jose. Mr. Cuervo and I have had several bouts and he has won every single time.

Big Ol' bumparoo...


I refuse to plug in anything other than my hair straightener and my blowdryer...Im terrified of electricity so plugging things in is a BIG deal lol

Thats pretty much the only really strange thing

Thanks for bumping this. I have a few weird ones to add. I also have a fish phobia. Icthyphobia? Hehe I'm a word nerd. It's funny cause I've had pet fish at several times in my life. Here's the worst parts about them:

1) I can't watch fish while I'm eating. I think I imagine their slippery bodies in my mouth and it's sooooo gross. If we're ever in a Chinese restaurant with a fish tank, I have to turn to face another direction.

2) I'm TERRIFIED of stepping on a fish. Reading Sister Havana's post from 5 years ago about stepping on a fish made me gag a little. I've seen a fish on the floor that got stepped on twice in my life. I started shaking and crying the last time.

Little aquarium fish freak me out more than a trout would. I've caught and killed trout several times, but they don't really weird me out.

My roommate is obsessed with the beach. We have shell patterned pillows, pictures of light houses, etc. all over our apartment. She's terrified of the ocean and what's in it, though. Go figure.

OMG. When I saw the title of this thread the first thing I thought about was my fear of electricity...and then I thought that I didn't want to share cause everyone would think I'm crazy. I'm SOOOO glad I'm not the only one!

I think it's because both my parents work for the electric company, and my dad has shared many stories of field workers getting seriously injured/killed from accidents at work.

elevators. enclosed spaces, getting trapped, etc. not being able to escape a situation. sitting in the back of a two door car. raw meat touching things that aren't about to be washed. paper cuts, mosh pits (getting crushed or trampled), anything i can't see into like murky water, deep water, pitch black rooms, etc. i'm high strung.

I hate the anxiety of a balloon about to pop. I get angry when a person threatens to pop a balloon in front of me.

I'm also claustrophobic so I can empathize with tri deezy.

This is only weird because I love mice, rats, and tarantulas, but I'm scared to death of house spiders, mice (like the ones that get in the house) and sewer rats that come through the toilets?..:eek: What's weird is my tarantula has grown to fill my whole hand now and I hold her a lot, but I'm petrified of a house spider no bigger than my fingernail.:o

Falling backwards. On an escalator, a car going backwards over a cliff or down a hill, anything like that. I do OK at the amusement park on the pirate ship & when they had the loop that went forwards then backwards though.

I am also terrified of bats but I think that's pretty common.

I'm scared of bridges, but not driving over them, or being in a vehicle on them. I'm only afraid of walking over bridges; I think it's because I don't trust that the people I'm walking with won't push me over. When I was in middle school the nearest movie theater was in walking distance but it was over a huge drawbridge so I always made my friends walk several feet in front of me and not look at or talk to me until we crossed.

Elevators! I'm very claustophobic.
Insane people or insanity in general
Smurfs. I'm not actually afraid of them but they freak me out.

And lately this photo keeps popping up on my usual eBay searches. It freaks me out and makes me instantly gag. I don't even know what it's for. Whatever it is, I wish they'd stop selling it.

Eyes. Like human eyes. I am absolutely terrified of them.

When I was 14 and in a cheerleading competition, a cheerleader on another squad had finger nails that were too long. She was catching one of the flyers on her squad, the flyer fell, and the long-nailed girl hooked her nail into the white of the flyers eye. It was disgusting and chaotic and everyone just went into a complete panic.

After that, I couldn't even walk down the aisle of the drugstore that contains eye products without freaking out. Every single thing about eyes completely terrified me.

I'm getting better but I still can't watch someone touch their eye, can't touch my own eyes, can't look at pictures of eyes, can't put eyedrops in...the list goes on.