I swear I posted this somewhere else, but...

1. Handlebar mustaches. Gangs of NY was my worst nightmare.
2. Identical twins dressed exactly alike.
3. Carnies.


Really though. **shudders**

I'm claustrophobic, but I really don't find that weird. I'm also terribly afraid of doctors and medical procedures. I'm like an incomplete hypochondriac -- I'll always diagnose myself with terrible things like tumors and West Nile, but I'm afraid to go to the doctor to find out for sure. I'd rather be blissfully ignorant until I keel over dead one day.

As am I, but mine is in a weird way

...when 50 people are in a close proximity of me I start to freak out. Funny, especially since I go out to parties and clubs with large crowds of people almost every weekend.

Bugs scare the crap putta me

Sharon Osbourne is scary

Add me to that list. Lakes TERRIFY me. It comes from when I was a kid and we went to the club pool and my sister used to tell me that if I got too close to the drain it would suck me on to it and I wouldnt be able to move. Didnt help that the grate for it was all evil looking and kinda only partly on.

Well that fear transferred to lakes. When I was probably 9 our neighbors took us on the lake and the bastard neighbor wanted me to get on the skidoo. He was OCD about me getting on that damn skidoo. I told him I would if he'd let his son go on with me (I thought he was so cool being 14...). He said yeah, and then when I got on, pushed me out by myself. Started the boat and it was the most terrifying 4 minutes of my life till he crossed the wake and tumped me over RIGHT BY THE DAM. It was the longest 30 seconds ever till they picked me up. I think I jumped straight from the water into the boat. I was convinved I was gonna get sucked in by the drain thing and end up in someones drinking water.

My sister has since vehimently apologized for creating the phobia.

The thought is enough to push me over the edge. Being all sucked up against the grill of the intake, not being able to get away. I think I need a paper bag....

this reminded me of what my sister told me. she said that if i walked across the grates in the sidewalk it would open up and i would fall in and i wouldn't be able to get and and would die under there. to this day i have trouble walking across those, i almost always walk around. i did it last night when i was walking to dinner with a friend. he was like seriously, you need to get over that fear.

Me too! That's why the idea of having kids terrifies me... I wouldn't be able to deal with them when they throw up! I also have a pretty strong stomach... haven't thrown up for real since I was 10 (unless you count the college days when too much alcohol caused it ;)). But yeah, I do get nauseous all the time. Hmmmm... maybe people with strong stomachs are afraid of people puking because we're not used to it!

Currently, scared of terrorists
The devil
Heights-Colorado mountain roads-like Engineer's Pass-LITERALLY
freak me out not scared, FREAKED OUT. Being near a cliff without a rail
Eating spoiled food
Men who have a LOT of tattoos.
Ocean and sharks
Lakes and water moccasins
Bumble Bees and wasps

Oh, I forgot... driving, and being next to a big truck really makes me nervous! But I know where that fear comes from... my senior year of H.S., when my family was taking a road trip so I could look at a college, we almost got nailed by a trucker who had either lost control or fallen asleep or something. He came flying straight across 4 lanes, heading straight for us as we were merging onto the interstate. :eek:

hahah i have a friend that i swear has carnie hands- and kinda looks like a carnie... i don't talk to him much though but he's my best friends boyfriend... he kinda freaks me out lol

SSS1365 BOY, I almost forgot!!! 18 wheelers!!!:eek:
...especially those with drivers from Mexico!:eek: :eek:

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.