I have a phobia, anyone else?

[cuntryuppiechick]

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[KenK]

Cats. Just common ordinary house cats. The friendlier they are the more they terrify me. I won't go in someones house if they have a cat loose.

 

[goobhen]

Here are my phobias:
MRI Machines (feel like I am being buried alive, not claustrophobic in any other situations, just MRIs!!)
Bats, I leave them alone, they are very important for so many things, just stay 50 feet or more from me!!
Ants, okay if they are outside & just don't crawl on me.....

 

[KenK]

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We get a bat in the house every year or two. If somebody could video tape me and my wife running around like idiots trying to get the thing it would be a hit on youtube. Have actually shot a couple inside the house with my .22 rifle.

 

[goobhen]

One got in my house 3 months ago, my son was asleep (he is 25 yo) screamed for me, I get the broom & chased it out of the house..... Of course I was screaming also! Jake, the chicken dog in my pic, was helping me by jumping up trying to get it.... I would have been a you-tube sensation, cause I am sure it was quite the sight to see my dog & I running around the house! My husband still chuckles about it (and teases me)!! My dentist said he keeps a tennis racket in his coat closet for any bats that get in his house!

 

[sumi]

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Thank you! We're surrounded by farmers who spray their crops. Apart from sinus infections we get a host of other symptoms, but the sinus problem's the worst. The best pills I could find also contains codeine, doesn't go down well with me! I'll try your natural meds instead.

 

[sumi]

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We get a bat in the house every year or two. If somebody could video tape me and my wife running around like idiots trying to get the thing it would be a hit on youtube. Have actually shot a couple inside the house with my .22 rifle.

We shot a mouse in house with a .22 once. A chicken walked past, grabbed it and ran off with it. I'll never forget DH's face!
We don't have a bat problem, but now and then we get these huge, and I mean HUGE spiders. You should see me running around those things. They totally freak me out. Now the clever people in the white coats tells us they are actually ants, not spiders... What?! Freaky overgrown ants from Mars? If DH is not handy to remove the offending ant/spider I usually go a bit crazy, then screw up my courage and fetch the broom. That's the closest I'll go to them.

 

[JulieNKC]

Don't laught but mine is....junebugs. Hate the things. Scare me to death. I have actually hurt myself quite a few times in my panic to get the suckers off me if they land on me and get stuck in my hair. When I was a teenager and got in my first car accident I was sitting in the cop's car giving my report. In comes a junebug, and of course tangles itself in my hair. I was out the door, half a block down the road screaming pulling my hair out with a policeman running after me before I got it gone and calmed down.

I fell off our front stairs and smacked my head good on the concrete another time trying to dislodge one. I panick and feel like I can't breath and don't really realize what I'm doing until it's gone and I calm down a little. Thank goodness since getting my chickens the junebug population has shrank drastically, lol.

 

[Wisher1000]

I was a swimmer, competitively. I swim like a fish and love going to the beach. A boyfriend in college was planning a white water raft trip and I wasn't interested. I was always up for a road trip before but for some reason the trip didn't appeal to me. I told him to go on and have fun. A year later we were coming through that area on the way back from a family visit. I was asleep in the car and he woke me up. He said he had something to show me and told me to get out of the car. It was pitch black dark and as soon as I stepped out I heard the roar of the rapids. We were at "Hell Hole" on the Ocoee River. I froze, began hyperventilating and saying, "Get in the car, get in the car!" If he hadn't gotten back in and driven when he did, I would have bolted. I was terrified that the bank we were parked on was going to collaspe and we were going to be in the water. I discovered that day that I have a fear of churning water. The only clue I had prior to that was the lack of interest in the raft trip and not liking looking at the water at the bottom of a spillway. Waves at the beach don't bother me at all! Luckily, I don't live near any fast moving water...

 

[sumi]

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I'd never laugh at someone having a phobia. It's hell. I know a guy who has a frog phobia. His loose-lipped son told me. It's hard to imagine this big, strong, macho, alpha male type having a fear of something so cute, but there you go. There is no rhyme or reason to phobias.
I've been attacked by so many dogs, I stopped counting at 30. Seriously, the things don't like me. I've sat on an ants nest when I was 2 and got bitten so bad, I'll never forget it. I've been bitten by spiders, snakes... I'm not overly scared of dogs, or ants or snakes or spiders. But I'm scared stupid by the thought of burning or seeing someone else, human or animal, burn. Silly, hey?