[justabeachbrat]

Fears:

--Boredom: I am the one in my crowd who tends to shake things up or get things going.
--Needles (medical): from a long hospital stay.
--The Santa Ana freeway at Euclid: a crash there led to the long hospital stay and fear of needles.
--Not clowns but magicians: When I was 7 or 8 yrs, at kiddie birthday for a neighbor, they'd hired a magician. He started to set up, went to his car to get something, and curious me, I picked through items he'd had out for tricks. He came up behind me and told me he could make me vanish.
--Tarot cards, oji boards (can't spell it, tried spell download, doesn't work)--anything like it. They were used at a party and were too dead on regarding friends, myself.
--High heels. A newborn colt would do better in them. In heels, I have tripped/fallen at formals, wedding receptions, on stairs, getting in/out of cars and simply trying to walk across the carpet at home.
--Living plants. The fear is mutual.
--Having a marriage like my mom and dad (22 yrs, then divorced). Enough said.)
--That the Fresno State bulldogs won't have a good season.
--Multiple choice tests. I can pull off essay tests knowing just a bit of facts.
--Oh yeah, add: alligators. While visiting a friend in Texas, we stopped at a nature preserve near the coast. It had marshes fenced off, warning of alligators. My friend and I learned way over the fence, were dismayed we didn't see one. Then, my friend looked down, and very near the fence was one that had been covered in vegetation. It looked right up at us, and I guess, was considering us for dinner. We screamed and ran to the car, probably leaving behind a laughing alligator.