Does something simple freak you out? If you dont mind everyone getting a giggle or two out of your phobia, post it here!
I'll go first and embarase myself:
I can't stand a fingernail file! I can't even pick one up, I can't stand it when my wife is using one....I freak, I really freak!
The odd thing is I can use sandpaper, until it gets near the top side of my fingernails, then I freak...
Now here is a strange one....My son can not stand the feel of R-TAPE CLEAR application tape! He freaks out when he has to use it! He hates the "feel" of it, the texture. I have to get out the paper application tape for him to use, but thats impossible to see through as we do a lot of pecise alignment in graphics.
Well, how about you? Care to share? This should be fun if you are brave enough to tell us! hahahahahahahah
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Those big jumping spiders that are so old and knarley they have shells that are hard like a crab. I really hate it when I feel their presence and turn on the light and find one walking around on my pillow.
Watching someone letter laft handed.
Wild dogs.
New building inspectors.
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those big brown spiders that look like they have two bodies and have a leg span that seems to approach 4 inches... and they always seem to be behind the signs that require extension ladders....
matte finish coffee cups. the feel just sends chills up my spine....
i have some lesser fears but i think they are more like dislikes than actual phobias.
have a great one!
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Claustrophobic here. Even worse if I'm in the company of any smelly chemicals. Waterbeetles (if they come indoors) The sound of anyone gagging throwing up freaks me .
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heights. Once I had to walk across a bridge that you could see thru. It was a long way down below. I froze. I could NOT move. The boyfriend had to take my hand...I had to close my eyes and walk slowly just to get back on solid ground.
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Well, for starters, we just paid $75 bucks for a frost-free jacket for my son at Old Navy to discover they went on sale 2 days later for 29 bucks and they are all out of them of course! I am cringing.
Really, the sound of fingernails down a chalkboard or a screen!
------------------ Deb Creative Signs "All the gold in the world cannot buy a dying man one more breath. So what does that make today worth?" Og Mandino
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Having to travel by air ! I was ok till a few years(more like 12)ago,I was having an extremely rough flight from Kansas. Every time we would fall a couple feet the little old lady across from me would start reading scriptures from her bible, now I freek just contemplating. Roger
------------------ Roger Bailey Rapid Tac Incorporated Waikoloa, Hawaii
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TV commercials for fastfood hamburger joints where someone's talking with their mouth full and slopping food all over themselves. I will never, ever eat at a place that has commercials like that.
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Stupid people who touch your work to see if its paint while you are painting.
Dumb questions when I'm working.
Brushes, when the hair falls out in the middle of a 1/32" straight line.
Paying top dollar for tools that don't last.
Stupid people who open a door on a vehicle when they can see the tape running along the sides and you with a brush in your hand.
People who tap you on the back or shoulder to get your attention while you have a brush in your hand, I'm sure it would be alot different if you had a gun in your hand.
I do have a phobia about heights..but it is more a phobia of "looking over the edge" when I am on a roof or "looking down" when I am on a ladder..so I avoid either situation if possible.
What I DO fear is that the Canadian equivalent of the IRS will want to know where the money comes from to go on vacation or to Letterhead meets!!!!!!!!!!!! hahahahahahahahaha
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The 2nd round of the NFL playoffs..... *sigh*
No, really, bees, wasps, hornets, anything that flies around and can sting. That's the only thing that actually makes me unreasonably fearful. Second place would be heights - I can't stand to get more than 20 feet up a ladder.
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I was painting a window in an area that was once a big field....I was almost done when I went to pull an outline on the last letter on the end of the window , one last stroke and I was done...my hand was about 2 inches from the metal extrusion...as i pulled that line down the glass,my eye caught the slight movement of something black and shiny right where my hand was passing. I jumped back when I realized what it was: a very BIG, shiny Black Widow Spider! Now, I see spiders all the time, Black Widows are not all that uncommom around here, it's just that it startled me and having come so close to her it just gave me the willies.....but what really made me come unglued was.....
I searched around for a stick to brush her off onto the ground so I could finish the job and get out of there.....finding a very small (very small) twig, I quickly brushed her off onto the ground where she lay on her back squirming (I swear she was hissing) with those long black legs waving in the air. I raised my foot up to smash her and be done with it when somehow just at the point that I was to make contact something made me hesitate, just ever so slightly. It was the thought that when I did step on it, it might make a 'pop' sensation which is one of those things that makes me freak!
Well, that very hesitation was what made it worse, for I tapped her with my tennis shoe just enough to make her marble size body pop like a boiled cranberry! And even worse.......
I LOOKED!!!!
Ohhh, MANNNNN!!!!!
What resulted was aprox 10 minutes of what I can only describe as a Heebee Jeebee dance! Thank god no one was around to see me dancing around, squeeling in horror and shaking my hands as if I had a million spiders all over me!
THAT,...is what makes me come unglued! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Oh, and worms...any kind of worms! Adrienne
------------------ Adrienne Morgan Splash Signs www.splashsigns.com "Rainkatt'
For years when I saw one in the house, I'd find a bowl, cover it and place books on top for weight so they couldn't get out. Hubby would come home to bowls and books here and there.
These days I'm much braver. I have a son now to protect ya know!
I don't like them, and I don't even like their name. And I don't like what an art teacher did to me one time. He held up a newspaper and opened it wide for the class. It was a huge 'you-know-what' covering two pages. Starts with a T. ECK!!!!!!! I freaked and hid my eyes and shook. He thought that was so funny, he'd do it throughout the lesson when he knew my eyes were on him. True phobias aren't a laughing matter and actually it was really cruel of him, but the rest of the class got a kick out of it.
"I don't like spiders and snakes, and that ain't what it takes to love me...."
Is that how it goes???
------------------ Deb Creative Signs "All the gold in the world cannot buy a dying man one more breath. So what does that make today worth?" Og Mandino
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Heights AND bridges, I'm starting to see a disturbing trend here.
Joey, yours cracked me up.........been there done all of that. You did, however miss one. The guy with the wiping rag that can't keep from rubbing on the vehicle while you are working on it. The vehicle will ALWAYS be softly sprung to where it really moves a BUNCH
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Spiders, and spider webs. My mother told me when I was 4 or 5 years old, I was sitting on the lawn watching her weed. (not vinyl, the garden variety) I big spider fell out of the shrubs onto her hand. She freaked and ran screaming into the house. She said since that day I was afriad of spiders. Now knowing what caused my fobia hasn't helped a bit. Now I CAN flick one away, stomp it, watch it, but to be surprised by one.... freak out time. And when I reach into something and feel spider webs, my hand will come out of there at the speed of light.
------------------ Dave Sherby "Sandman" SherWood Sign & Graphic Design Crystal Falls, MI 49920 906-875-6201 ICQ: 21604027 sherwood@up.net
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ok, so we're going to take this into the animal realm?...
sharks! never seen one up close, but i spend alot of summer weekends swimming in the gulf, and i know there's alot of them swimming around only 10 or 20 yards from me. rumor has it that they don't go over the outer sandbar until the sun goes down.
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I have attempted to work with any and every fear of things I have ever had.
You have to face it head on (or try a little bit at a time...). I am not afraid of heights and snakes and critters per say, all of the time. I always try to get a little closer to the situation and it seems to work. I used to hate going up on bleachers at a football game for fear my foot would slip, but I could stand up in the Rockies thousands of feet up (Pike's Peak) and look down. Go figure. I don't think I could go rock climbing, but I don't fear scaffolds very much as long as they are balanced. I just keep trying something new. and by the way, I think it did help that my dad used to tell us that the spiders don't each THAT much!
------------------ Deb Creative Signs "All the gold in the world cannot buy a dying man one more breath. So what does that make today worth?" Og Mandino
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Log trucks! Mine is passing a log truck. Not the ones with pulpwood but the pole trucks. I don't recall ever having a nightmare or bad experience with one, but I have a fear of the chain binders breaking and the entire load rolling off the truck just as it passes me, falling onto my car. Oh my goodness! I just had a terrible thought. I need to trade my car in as I drive a lincoln. I can see the headlines now. LINCOLN LOGS - DEATH OF THE SIGN GRANNY. Would a beaver hood ornament help me?
------------------ Kathy Joiner River Road Graphics Ponchatoula, La. Old enough to know better...Too young to resist.
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I aint afraid of hieghts.........just falling from a high one and hitting the ground! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Once when I was in New Orleans with some friends we visited this big fancy Hotel...can't remember the name.. We took the glass elevator up to the top...then got out to look down to the floor of the lobby inside, it was COOL!, but my friend shreaked and lunged back and grabbed the brick wall,I guess she saw it differently. It does give one a wierd feeling, regardless. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Adrienne
------------------ Adrienne Morgan Splash Signs www.splashsigns.com "Rainkatt'
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heights....have fallen a couple times....and when i was 18 i went on a construction job....was 200 feet up and froze..thought i was falling..took 6 guys to get me to turn loose of that I-beam. but i love to high dive, hope to dive the cliffs of accapulco before i die..... iam left handed rick.....and iam with don..sharks...and i was fishin in myaaka state park...83...had a couple bass on a(string) stringer that was tied to my belt..and i was wading close to waist deep...and i always wear a big knife on that belt anytime iam in the wild, well i felt a tug on the stringer....didnt pay much attention as the fish were nice sized....then i felt a real strong tug....and outa the corner of my eye i saw the ribbed back of a 5-6 foot gator near me....well now i knew he had the fish....grabed the knife and cut the stringer...and he swam off.....as close as i ever wana be to anything with teeth biger then mine...fear of anything with big teeth....hehehehe....and good lookin women..cause i know i cant behave myself....hehehehehehe
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Heights and spiders. Not necessarily in that order. Nothing gags me worse than uncooked eggs. I will not eat at any restaurant that shows sunny side ups in their TV commercials.
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It use to be changing diapers, thank God that's over with...and the other thing is touching potato sacks (Jute I believe they call it) terrible stuff
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Im so afeared a heights that I dont like bein 6 feet tall... Go figure this one tho....Im gonna take flyin lessons... Bees.......it aint the sting..its the anticipation.
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I hear you Michael...Bees- I have grown up with a detailed description of what happens to people that are allergic to Bee Stings and then told daily, plus every time we had to fill out paperwork, that I had a POSSIBLE REACTION TO BEE STINGS. My gawd that traumatized me as a child. Every time I saw one of those flying death bugs I was sure I was going to swell up to the size of my Aunt Laurel and die! (she was a very very large woman)
I've been stung and I lived through it and I'm ok now, but DON'T TOUCH MY TOES!!!!!
I don't even like seeing people's toes do weird things. My sister, the younger sibling that she is, LOVES to mess with me. She does what she calls "Which Toes" and has taught my first born to chime in with her. She takes her barefoot and spreads her toes out in a big span, like opening your hand, and then sticks her foot as close to my face as she can get it singing "Which Toes!" I know, gross huh? If she can't reach my line vision she touches my leg or arm with them and I freak right up one wall and down another. What is worse? She grabs MY TOES and wiggles her fingers around in them. Oh MAN this unhinges every freak nerve I have.
Bridges don't thrill me either. They make my butt pucker every time we have to drive over one. My husband gets a kick out of letting me know that we are on a bridge every time we are driving down HWY 50 into Lake Tahoe. The HWY runs alongside a cliff. Heights don't thrill me either, but being on a bridge while on a cliffside with a drop of at least 1000' really freaks me out.
A message therapist was working on the tension knots in my back one day and made the mistake of picking up one of my feet and telling me about Reflexology while beginning it... pushing on the pressure points in the bottom of your foot. Well let me tell you, he only did THAT once. I levitated off that table and nearly knocked him on his arse. He decided I was not a candidate for Reflexology. LOL
The Don't Touch My Toes side the Moon
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I'm still shuddering over Adrienne's story. I can remember trying to impress a boy I liked when I was 11 by letting jumping spiders and daddy longlegs crawl on my hand. uggh. I don't fear small spiders, just the big grey hairy house spiders you find in older homes in South Florida. Those things are as big as your hand and really freak me out.
My biggest phobia is ROACHES. When I was 8, and living in the Phillippines, my parents left me and my 11 & 14yo sister and brother home one night when they went out to the NCO club. First, let me tell you that the roaches in the PI were large, like Palmetto bugs. We had a torrential rainstorm and our kitchen began flooding from water pouring in under the back door. It had several inches of water in it and my sister and I were trying to push the water out with a broom while my brother went around back to try and block under the door. Suddenly we saw roaches pouring in under the door and they would try to climb up our legs to get out of the water, stinging our legs. At the time, I thought they were biting us, but I now figure it must have been the roaches spurs gripping our legs. Pat and I are screaming our heads off inside the kitchen, my brother begins banging like crazy on the locked back door. I was terrified to open the door, afraid of what was out there, even tho' I knew it was Mike. My sister finally forces the door open, and there was Mike beating at his arms, legs and chest, roaches swarming all over him. It's a vision I've never been able to get out of my head. To this day, I've never been able to kill a roach. I just know it's going to get me if I try to injure it. If I see one, I call in the swat team and I'm outta there.
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What irks me is when youre writing with a pencil and you run out of graphite and the wood of the pencil rubs the paper...... uuuuhhh i cant stand that! I cant stand nail files either! Or chalkboards even when using chalk!
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