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Post by Dragon Zachski on May 19, 2009 21:29:30 GMT -5
Oh gosh.
Insectophobe, and I'm a ridiculous arachnophobe. It gets worse if it's a black spider, as I'm paranoid about black widows. Butterflies are fine until they fly too close to me. Crickets and grasshoppers are the only bugs that don't freak me out. Mowing the yard is hell during the summer because of all the wasps. If I see one around me while I'm mowing, I run away.
I'm terrified of heights. Even a stepladder makes me nervous.
I have a strong aversion to anything germy. Dirty water is the worst.
I also have an immense phobia about the movie SAW, and I haven't even seen it. I got it from the library once to try to watch it, but I dropped it on the floor by accident and could not bring myself to pick it up again until it was due back. Even seeing the Jigsaw puppet freaks me out.
Which is why Deimos freaks me out.
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Post by Thejebusfire on May 19, 2009 22:11:17 GMT -5
I have a slight fear of small spaces, but my worst small space fear is elevators.
I just, I don't like them.
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Post by Deimos on May 20, 2009 18:25:47 GMT -5
Yeah, i hate the feeling of elavators too
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Post by antichrist on May 21, 2009 0:56:27 GMT -5
Huh, mines the stairwells, just too enclosed and nobody can hear you scream. Elevators at least have an emergency alarm.
My weirdest phobia is seafood. I cooked some lobster one night, sat down to eat it and thought "this is just a sea-going cockroach", next was crabs=spiders, then it was prawns. I can still eat popcorn shrimp, but that's as far as it goes.
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geekysock
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Post by geekysock on May 21, 2009 15:58:49 GMT -5
I don't have any serious phobias myself but I witnessed a very interesting one:
I was working at an ice cream parlor in college when a teenage girl and her father came in. She asked for a taste of something (which I gave to her on our standard wooden popsicle stick). She turned milk-white and threw her hands up while backing quickly away. Her eyes were huge and she started screaming, "Dad! Dad! Dad! Dad!" and pointing at the sample.
Her father stepped over and pulled the chunk of ice cream off the end of the stick and put it into her mouth and she calmly walked away. I stood there, agog. He looked at me and explained, "she's afraid of wood."
(There were a lot of jokes I could have made at that moment but I was still hoping for a tip.)
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Post by antichrist on May 21, 2009 18:54:25 GMT -5
How the hell do you get through life with a phobia of wood?
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Post by geekysock on May 21, 2009 21:31:48 GMT -5
How the hell do you get through life with a phobia of wood? I don't know. I'm still confused. Maybe he meant wooden sticks? Either way, it was...special.
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Post by Hades on May 22, 2009 0:07:50 GMT -5
I have a slight fear of small spaces, but my worst small space fear is elevators. I just, I don't like them. Movies have ruined me for elevators. I always think the cable is gonna snap. Or the elevator itself is gonna fill up with water or poisonous gas. OR the door is gonna open up and I'll step out into some subterranean labyrinth.
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Post by Mantorok on May 22, 2009 0:48:44 GMT -5
Movies have ruined me for elevators. I always think the cable is gonna snap. Modern elevators have brakes which activate if the elevator accelerates downwards faster than a predefined speed, and have several cables (each cable is able to support more than the maximum load of the elevator).
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Post by Mira on May 22, 2009 1:21:37 GMT -5
I have a phobia of large rooms. Well, mainly large and empty rooms. I love being out in a field or forest. Also, I love a cosy space. The more cramped the better up to a certain point.
Also, being in a crowd freaks me out as does the noise that comes with it.
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Post by malicious_bloke on May 22, 2009 5:51:16 GMT -5
I get mildly nervous on planes. Mainly because I understand the physics of how they work and know how tenuous a position I'm in when aboard them.
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Post by The Lazy One on May 22, 2009 14:14:23 GMT -5
Pit bulls and rottweilers scare the living shit out of me. Maybe because I know someone who lost her younger sister to a pit bull attack, and a rottweiler once decided that I looked like lunch. I was lucky to get away when I did.
But I'm also scared of crowds. I avoid going to crowded places if I can help it.
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Post by Jebediah on May 22, 2009 17:19:56 GMT -5
I have no problem with large crowds. It's groups of a few people that freak me out.
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Post by Cherokee Mama on Jul 12, 2009 12:46:46 GMT -5
Not sure if it's "weird" or not but I'm afraid of wax figures. I'm also afraid of anything that is HUGE (like the Worlds Biggest/Tallest ANYTHING or really big skyscrapers).
My normal fears are huge crowds of people, claustrophobic places, spiders, heights, clowns and tornadoes..
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Post by tygerarmy on Jul 13, 2009 19:34:19 GMT -5
Not sure if it's "weird" or not but I'm afraid of wax figures. I'm also afraid of anything that is HUGE (like the Worlds Biggest/Tallest ANYTHING or really big skyscrapers). My normal fears are huge crowds of people, claustrophobic places, spiders, heights, clowns and tornadoes.. So a tour of the Madame Tussuad's wax museum in Times Square is on not on your agenda any time soon.
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