I agree. I will do ANYTHING to avoid using a public restroom. I’ll drive all the way home if I have to. I think with me it’s more of a sanitary thing than a fear of getting attacked in there though.

One time I was in Target and I had a cart full of stuff and had to go REALLY bad – there was no way around using their restroom. So I go in, put down all the sanitary shields on the toilet and go. There was no way I was going to touch the switch to flush, so I stand on one leg and put my foot up there to flush and promptly drop my flip flop into the toilet. Ugh!

Shoot!!!!!....I'm on my daughter's computer and I can't get the smilies. If I could get them I would have a row of smilies laughing their heads off!!!

Dentist scare me too!!!

Im also scared to death of public speaking or talking to a crowd of people I dont know. I had to do a toast at my best friends wedding (which by the way she told me she wasnt going to have me do a toast but the wedding coordiantor made me do one and literally gave me 2 minutes notice) and I thought I was goign to die. I get all red, blotchy and itchy when I am in a situation like this. I think I am actually allergic to public speaking!:D

I have the same phobia as you do. I hate spiders, can't look at them or anything. The creepest thing is their eyes, eeeeeeekk!!!!!!!!! My grandmother and my mother are the same way, I guess it runs in the family... I can't kill a spider or any creature for that matter, it is just how I am, I would feel so guilty for taking a life even a spider. Luckily my cats will take care of that. If they see a spider they will kill it and eat it, grroooosss!!! but hey as long as I don't have to deal with it, it is fine for me. That is probally the main reason why I have cats, they get rid of all the bugs and spiders. I am also afraid of hights. I hate those tall buildings that have those huge windows that make up a wall. I can't go by the window because one I don't want to see how high up I am and two I am paranoid about the fact that glass is the only there and it would be so easy to break and fall out. :0

OHMYGOSH! I just remembered that when we were living in Wichita Falls, I saw a spider by our fire place. Anyway, upon inspection of this unnatural creature, I noticed that it had these weird tiny little bumps all over it's backside. Yup...you got it...a bajillion little babies!!!! :eek: I ran to the kitchen to find some bug spray...NONE!!!!:eek: So, I grabbed what I felt would kill those little nasty things...EASY OFF OVEN SPRAY! Yes, it worked. Sprayed momma and babies were running EVERYWHERE!:eek:

Megan, you forgot:
BLOOD WORK
I swear to you, she passes out if I just say it! Never mind get it!

Any kind of bug but the ones that fly really freak me out. Hights, We painted our living room and we have cathedral ceilings in our front room and I could not start walls that were too high because I CAN NOT climb a ladder. So I had my husband do all high walls. The funny thing about that is he's afraid of hights as well. He will climb the ladder if he has to but he has this petrified look on his face and you can just tell he's hating it being up there. I am also claustrophobia big time! My cousins used to mess around and put a blanket over my head (not to where I can't breath or anything like that) and I would panic big time. I can't even sleep on the bottom of bunk beds. I don't handle elevators well either. But will use them if the roomy inside.

Oh! I just found one more thing that gives me the heebie jeebies!

JUNE BUGS! - the metallic greenish looking ones lol.. i think that's what theyre called LOL..

they freak me OUT! not fun when they get stuck in your hair and will not let go of yoU!

Here's a story for ya! I was living in a cabin behind my mom's house...full lake view, everything. ANYWAY, I was EXTREMELY hung over one Saturday morning and had to go into the bathroom. There I was sitting on the pot, taking care of business and all of a sudden, I see the shower curtain move. Out from under the shower cutain comes this snake!:eek:

I jumped up off the the pot, didn't even pull my clothes up and ran outta there! Went and got the bb gun and must have shot that thing 20 times. I calmly shut the door. It wasn't till hours later when my boyfriend showed up and he was asking about it. I opened the door and he was shocked that I had left it in there! YEAH, RIGHT! Like I was going to touch it! NOT!!!!!

It was about 3 foot long and was a corn snake or something like that!

<g> I never had a problem with claustrophobia until I got pregnant with my one and only daughter. I had hopes that when my hormones settled, the malady would leave. But, though it has lessened, I still shy away from elevators carrying more than a couple of people, and I will NOT wear shoes unless I absolutely have to.

Too funny!!! And yes, I have to say snakes are my weakness too. I'm secure enough with my masculinity to say this... if I see a snake, I drop whatever I'm holding and RUN AWAY like a little girl!! :eek: I usually don't scream but have been known to let a few expletives fly!! Once I was looking for my golf ball in some high grass and saw a snake and dropped my club and ran away and my golfing buddy had to go get my club for me ( I was just going to leave it there and buy a new one), and yes, I've NEVER heard the end of that one!

And those GIANT cockroaches don't sit too well with me either!

LOL Hmm... I understand the elevators and clausterphobia thing, but what do shoes in an elevator mean?

KIRRRBBBYYYY! You must help 'dad' keep up, here, dahlin'. ;) It's not about "shoes in an elevator" - it's about wearin' shoes, period! Some of us can't breathe with shoes on our feets! Or, things 'round our necks. Or, watches on our wrists!

Ah I see!! I did read back in the thread to try and figure out what you were talking about but I didn't read back far enough!!

Okay, I'll buy that, I prefer not to wear shoes too!! BUt my watch is hardly ever off my wrist, I even sleep with it on which is pretty weird I've been told.

MOTHER!! grrr <shivers>

I know that several of you are scared of snakes but living in the country we've had plenty of snakes around. I've been known to have snakes, tadpoles, black widow spiders, lizards, bugs, and about any think else you can think of sitting in a jar or in cages on the kitchen counter. Life is very interesting here.

While we have all of these things around doesn't necessarily mean that I'm comfortable with all of them. I can handle having snakes around as long as I'm not surprised by them, but my family doesn't have any problems with them. For instance, one day my daughter caught a snake and put it in a pop bottle to bring it home in. That was ok until she needed help getting it OUT of the pop bottle. She asked me to hold the pop bottle and sorta' dump it out. I'm thinking "Ok, I can do this!" but when I turned the bottle upside down the snake went to the topside of the bottle, which was the bottom of the bottle and, of course, I couldn't get him out that way. My daughter is trying to hold the bucket that she wanted the snake in while I'm "dumping the snake". Are you getting a picture of this? I DON'T care to handle snakes but I'm being a good mom and helping my daughter. Well, I finally figured out that I need to turn the bottle over and let it crawl out the opening, but the snake was a fast little snake and he came flying out of the bottle so fast.....Here I am trying not to let the snake get away, he's half in and half out of the bottle, and my daughter is still holding the bucket!! I am NOT going to grab the snake for anything!!! Well, my daughter calmly took one hand and, as quick as you please, she reaches out and grabs that snake!! She was so quick and not bothered at all. She holds it awhile and then put it in the bucket. I was so amazed by her and her actions.

Well, I let her know that "that snake was not to come in the house!" But the next morning she comes to me and says "Remember what you told me yesterday about having the snake in the house? Well, Dad said I could keep it in the house and I'm afraid that it got loose." :eek: :eek: :eek: I was not a happy camper!!!!! Just to let you know.....We never did find that snake!!!

MICE!!!!!!! :eek: :eek: I get the HEEBIEGEEBIES when i think of them, i will run for life or jump on the table if i see one and stay there till it's GONE!

PUBLIC TOILETS... i refuse to use them unless someone i know is standing by MY door. Beside's the fear of them, i don't think they are all that hygenic anyway :eek:

BLOOD... makes me freak out, i hate the sight of it.

WORMS & CREEPY CRAWLIES.... i won't touch ANY of them, the thought that my dogs might have worms freak me out, that's why i deworm them more than what i should.

DARK PLACES... i like to see where i'm going.

Heights big time: We went to the Bahamas last year and we got into a plane that was like a pack of gum with 8 people in it. And I swear to you even before we starteed to taxi out onto the runway. No wait before we even started to move I threw up twice.

Little innocent paled looking kids from those old fashion pictures. Scary!!:animal-pa

YES!!!! And those old fashioned doll's all dressed up, they look like they gonna start walking anytime! EWWWWWWWWWWWW they freak me out :eek: :thumbdown

I don't remember posting on here before so -I am phobic of buffet lines- I don't like touching the serving utensils that everyone else has touched- it just makes my skin crawl!! Other wise I rarely think of germs. I also became nervous in crowds living in South Korea- it is very crowded there and the people like to shove up against you and carry you along with the tide. There is no personal space there- I didn't like that. But I can Kick butt on bugs and snakes. No one else in this family will, so the task has fallen to me. And those infamous Houston Roaches- look out cause I will hunt you down and squish you.

Something happening to Rosi....Snakes...Heights !

Snakes and heights. Even baby snakes. Gross gives me heeby jeebies.

Heights is worse, I get a vertigo feeling like the floor is falling out from under me. If I'm walking downtown Seattle or something, I will not walk on the grates, I go around. I'm convinced I'll fall through if I step on one. One time we went to the fish ladders. You had to walk on this see through grate type walk away. I froze and panicked. My husband not realizing how bad it was, grabbed my arm and pulled me along. I thought I was gonna die.

Backwash
 

I can't stand to drink the last 1/4 of a canned or bottled drink. Let alone share one with someone. All I can think of is the amount of spit that washes back into the drink. I could get physically ill thinking about it.
Yuck

I have a completely insane fear of FISH! Any fish, big fish, little fish, I won't go near the water if I see a minnow! It's awful. I gotta psyche myself up for like an hour to go swimming if I see a fish. I can't let myself look, if I see one I'm out!

I'm kind of like that...in certain situations. Like, last year we went to the Bahamas and I spent most of my day snorkling with the fishies. but then we went to a place to swim with dolphins and this huge fish was by me and I freaked out. Then another time at camp we had to take a swimming test in the lake and I was terrified to go in because I thought a fish would eat me.

Gross!:eek: I agree! I NEVER finish anything 100%...always leave some in there!