What is your phobia?

C'est Moi said:
I can't watch shows like Deadliest Catch; those fishermen in those churning sea waters...creepy.
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My kid's fishing career started out on those king cab boats.
His first time out, he asked the captain if they were gonna die.
The captain laughed, and continued reading his novel.
That captain was Phil Harris.

Yeah, those waters creep me out too.

My kid keeps asking me to come out with him, just fishing off the Oregon coast.

He just wants to make me scream.
 

Snakes

Any

Creepy things

‘Slither’ says it all for me

The very reason I never lived east of the Oregon Cascades
….until I found out they can’t take pumice, of which makes up most of our ‘soil’ in our particular location, at the foot of Mt Mazama, aka Crater Lake.

I'm good

However, one does get used to things, I guess.
Worked a private golf course in Houston.
River Oaks
Moccasins were a daily sighting.
I’d just shiver, and move along.
Sometimes, if they got the drop on me, I’d shriek out a ‘NGNAH!!!’, and get the phook outa there.

Aggressive unnerving things….come right atcha.

(shudder)
 

I've seen pictures of glass bridges and walkways in high places. There's even a skyscraper in L.A. with an outside glass bottom slide. The very thought gives me shivers. I like terra firma, and the firma it is the less the terra. ( that's something I heard a long time ago.)

I can't imagine anyone jumping out of a perfectly good airplane for just for fun.

Don
 
oldbeachgal said:
I am TERRIFIED of rats and heights!
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We got a rat in our house one time. I think it got in through the dryer vent because the dryer hose had come loose from it and that floppy door on the outside had broken off. I chased it all over the house. That thing was amazingly fast and even more amazing in its jumping ability. It cleared an entire couch in a single bound. I finally cornered it in the kitchen. It was trying to squeeze into this tiny crack in the woodwork but it couldn't make it. I had picked up a wooden canoe paddle to chase it with and I just kept jabbing it with that until it was dead. When I had finished killing it I looked down and saw that I had peed my pants. Pretty embarrassing.

 
Gary O' said:
Moccasins were a daily sighting.
Aggressive unnerving things….come right atcha.

(shudder)
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They are scary for sure. Most snakes will run when they see a person. Not water Moccasins. They stand their ground. When I was a kid in Florida we lived near a lake for a while that was chock full of them.

 
Trade said:
We got a rat in our house one time. I think it got in through the dryer vent because the dryer hose had come loose from it and that floppy door on the outside had broken off. I chased it all over the house. That thing was amazingly fast and even more amazing in its jumping ability. It cleared an entire couch in a single bound. I finally cornered it in the kitchen. It was trying to squeeze into this tiny crack in the woodwork but it couldn't make it. I had picked up a wooden canoe paddle to chase it with and I just kept jabbing it with that until it was dead. When I had finished killing it I looked down and saw that I had peed my pants. Pretty embarrassing.

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Ohhhhh. I had to read that just before bedtime.
Eeeeeehhhhh! Eeeehhhhhhh! I don’t have the words
Yep! I’d squeal , & loud!
 
Trade said:
We got a rat in our house one time. I think it got in through the dryer vent because the dryer hose had come loose from it and that floppy door on the outside had broken off. I chased it all over the house. That thing was amazingly fast and even more amazing in its jumping ability. It cleared an entire couch in a single bound. I finally cornered it in the kitchen. It was trying to squeeze into this tiny crack in the woodwork but it couldn't make it. I had picked up a wooden canoe paddle to chase it with and I just kept jabbing it with that until it was dead. When I had finished killing it I looked down and saw that I had peed my pants. Pretty embarrassing.

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We had a possum wander into our house one evening. It came through the doggy door. They don't run and they have a mouth full of teeth. My son was there, and he threw a towel over it and carried it outside. My hero. Now we keep the doggy door closed after dark.

The last couple years we've had huntsman spiders in the summer. These guys are huge. One had come under the front door and climbed up the wall. I whacked it with a newspaper to knock it down and beat it to death. Now there's a sweep on the door to block that path.

Don
 
Trade said:
They are scary for sure. Most snakes will run when they see a person. Not water Moccasins. They stand their ground. When I was a kid in Florida we lived near a lake for a while that was chock full of them.

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Dont be scaring our poor Gary. He’s terrified of them.
They probably weren’t real . I bet they were rubberized snakes. He’s just kidding.
 
Just looking at this picture gives me chills.


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There's a documentary on it on youtube. It's staged of course, but it's not a photoshop.

 
jujube said:
I do not like spiders. My fear isn't as bad as it used to be but it's still there.
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Raised around outhouses most my life.

NW Oregon does not have poisonous anything.

Grade school had a nice outhouse.
I was sittin’ there, doin’ my business.

This big azz beetle wanders in

I stick my ruler in his face

He grabs it with his claw like appendage, and jerks it outa my hand.

Didn’t take me long to take care of my hind end, pull up my bibs, and git the heck outa there
 
Keesha said:
Dont be scaring our poor Gary. He’s terrified of them.
They probably weren’t real . I bet they were rubberized snakes. He’s just kidding.
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I grew up in Florida in the 50's and 60's. There were snakes everywhere. There aren't as many now. A lot of them have been killed off by development. Especially the rattlesnake population. They've been decimated.
 
It may sound odd, but reading about all our phobias kind of makes me feel relaxed

I think I'll sleep well tonight. :) I may dream of falling off a cliff or jumping out of a plane. But I think that may be okay, too.

Just be happy you're not living with those 747 winged cockroaches that we have here (and not joking).

How would you like to have one of those flying around your room when you're about to go to bed?
 
This is not a good thread to read before bed. Mr first rat encounter was when i lived in a condo with detached garage. I had just had a baby and didn’t think I should leave the baby inside the house, so I carried the baby under one arm and the laundry under the other. When we arrived at the washer, there was a dying rat on top of it. I screamed and thew the laundry out of my arms. It was a miracle I didn’t baby Alex. My neighbor came over to kill with a golf club.ugh!!
 
Olivia said:
It may sound odd, but reading about all our phobias kind of makes me feel relaxed

I think I'll sleep well tonight. :) I may dream of falling off a cliff or jumping out of a plane. But I think that may be okay, too.

Just be happy you're not living with those 747 winged cockroaches that we have here (and not joking).

How would you like to have one of those flying around your room when you're about to go to bed?
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I feel for you Olivia...horrible, disgusting things.

I would have a phobia of them if we had any here, but thank God we don't...but I first came across them in Spain... ohhh Dear Gpod, I had no idea what this flying small bird like thing was when I first saw them fly through the open door at night in a rented property the first time we ever visited Spain.. and then we saw a whole line of them marching down the road to a drain on a new building site where the rental was ...ewww disgusting!!

I hope we never. ever get those things in the UK..they've got to be the most repulsive things, even worse than Rats, and I hate those , but again very rarely see one .
 
Olivia said:
Just be happy you're not living with those 747 winged cockroaches that we have here (and not joking).

How would you like to have one of those flying around your room when you're about to go to bed?
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I haven't seen one of those for a while, but I know what you mean.

They remind me of that crop duster scene in North by Northwest.

 
What bothers me is watching people taking chances that are dangerous such as diving into water from a height. Daredevil stuff.
I can't stand watching stupid people doing stupid things.
 

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