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John B.

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I hear everybody has a phobia for something out there. Mine is large water pipes and water wells. Just about anything to do with water. I'm just not a water person.
 
Since a phobia is defined as an extreem or irrational fear of something, I can honestly say I haven't got any phobias. Granted there are things that will make me jump, like finding a spider sitting in my welding helmet just as I start to put it on, a lizard dropping down off the roll up door onto the brim of my hat and then running across my face, but I can't really think of anything I'm truely scared of.

Now if we carry this on to things I don't like, I have a saying that pretty much covers it all....."I hate stupid people".....
 
That someday I will turn on the computer and find NO Yesterdays Tractor! Probably gonna have nightmares about it now. My second worst fear probably has to do with water. I can swim as well as the next guy, but I just don't trust it if I cannot stand in it with my head out of the water.
 
My greatest phobia is hearing a knock on the door, and seeing one of the kids there. They usually want money.....
 
Well I guess I can say I have 2 for sure. #1 is water, ya former Navy guy and I do not like to swim and if I get in water up to my chest I have trouble breathing.
My other one well if I post it this will get poofed but lets just say it has to do with D.C.
 
I hate to admit it but, when I was little a Big Rooster knocked me down. I have been scared of them ever since, or should I say wary. :) Vic
 
I used to have a phobia of being left alone. I think it came from the time my mother got polio when I was six months old and I was taken away and cared for by another family for six months. I've been told that when mom came home from her six months stay in the hospital I'd forgotten about her and had acepted the surrogate family as my own. So I was forced to leave my 'family' again when I went back home. I was in my forties when it finally went away. Getting away from my family while traveling on the wheat harvest also helped.

I too used to have a phobia of losing a child. And then it really happened. Marilyn helped me through that one. Jim
 
Being badly burned. Worked with a customer who were burned by molten glass in a fiberglass plant accident. There wasn't much left of his arm. He said the recovery was much more painful than the accident.
 
If you mean like corner of end table or something pointed at you then I am there with you. That and I have no love for snakes
 
Yup, that's it. Guess I should have said protruding corners.

I have this uncontrollable urge to cover my temples when I am around them.
 
Fire. After having a difficult time escaping the fire in my farmhouse back in 2007, I didn't move back in after the house was rebuilt. I do miss living on a farm though.
 
Telephones.

I get sweaty palms just thinking about having to pick one up and dialing it....

I'll drive 10 miles to go ask a person a question vs calling.

--->Paul
 
Beautiful large breasted blondes. It might have something to do with growing up in a German/Scandinavian environment. (;>))
 
I know what you mean. My entire family makes fun of me over this.

I too, thought I was the only one. Especially, how everyone else gets a good laugh from my phobia. They say they never heard of anyone ever having this fear.
 
Heights......... I get much more than 6-10 feet off the ground.... it is hard to work. Funny thing is I repair combines and sprayers for a living.
 
Bats! Not baseball kind. The furry flying kind. Im 6'1", 225 pound male. I turn into a 5 year old girl at the sight of one! Get all freaked out just looking out a window as one flies by at dusk. My room growing up was in the attic of the old house. At night they would fly around and occasionly brush against my face. Gotta go pull the covers over my head!
 
I have 2 phobias, #1 is being buried alive and 2nd is the knock on the door and seeing a uniformed Army officer at the door to tell me that my son has been killed by some backwards nnalert individual is a supposed secure zone in Asscrackason.

Leonard
Retired USAF and Abn Inf USA
 
dont let that eat on ya ,, if that is so,it ain't healthy , see a GOOD Pastor ,HE will Lead You Thru it //////, i hate the site of snakes ,LOL../// i am claustraphobic ,, and can go into panic mode real guick if i feel restrained and it is hot with no air..dont like working in a crawl space , or laying under a vehicle ..
 
Worst fear, being completely incapacitated, but having my mind still work, so I know what is happening around me, but I cant do a thing about it, or tell anyone what is wrong.

Everyday things, I hate snakes. Even garter snakes. I dont kill them, just want to see them first so I can run away.

My parents said it was from when I was little 2-3 years old I would pick up big garter snakes in the strawberry patch or kick at them. Finally one day a big one coiled around my arm and I could get to release, I took of running and screaming, I imagine like a 3 year old. I dont really remember.
But thats my story and I am sticking to it.
Rick
 
Needles, and not like at the doctors office, more when working livestock and someone else has the syringe. If they get within four feet of my face I worried I'll get poked in the eye, the wife thinks I'm crazy, she on the otherhand has Vomitaphobia. She just cant be around people that might vomit, it does come in handy when I want some time alone, all I have to do is say I'm not feeling well and she disappears.

Nate
 
There was the winter day years ago, the dog chased a rat - he was a good rat terrier - and it ran up inside my pants leg.

What does a person do? You just kinda don't plan for such a thing, you know?

Grabbed the lump under my jeans, close to my hip. Instict is to always call the dog when you see a rat, but as I was doing that, realized maybe one animal in my pants was enough of a problem, don't need a second one trying to get in.....

Well, I put on a good show that winter day, standing there in the shed door in my underware. Rat stayed cradled in my hand through the jeans until I got freed, and the dog even ended up getting the bugger when I let it go.

That was a bit of excitement that day. Was a long time ago, but I can remember it pretty clearly!

--->Paul
 
NOT afraid of much including DEATH, just the angry beaver that I am in a legally binding contract with "til death do us part!
 
Popcicle sticks... It"s that coarse fuzzy feel that really gets me. Can"t really go velour cloth( always buy vehicles with leather seats), sand paper or corderoy either.
 
Flying. I have only been in a plane twice in my life and that was 45 years ago. Those were small single engine planes which I'm told are more dangerous then the large jets but I don't care. The older I get the more determined I am not to go up in a plane. Always think that the one I'm on will go down. Friends and wife tell me more people killed per mile in a car but I always tell them more people survive car crash then plane crash. Tell me anything you want, I'm still not going up in a plane.
 
This is going to sound bad for a farmer....but I can't stand snakes...the only good one is a dead one. I once hopped into the seat of a truck in the barn after leaving it set with a load of square hay overnight, there was about a 3 foot long bull snake stretched across the seat. I about went through the roof of that old truck.
 
several:
Barakophobia
Cuomophobia
Feinsteinophobia
Pelosophobia
UNophobia
Destroyedconstitutionophobia
Liberalidiotophobia
Nomoretermlimitsophobia
NogunswhenOBturnsthenationovertotheMuslimBrotherhoodophobia...list goes on!
Oh...heights also!
 
Don't like to be in confined places too much, but greatest fear is going broke. I am not in any financal trouble but, my depression eara parents made a big inpression on me. Just can't through away things , need to work, and know where that next months money will come from. Not so much this month as the next month and the next after that, and so on. Always worried about running out of, everything, Hay , corn ,fuel tators you name it, always trying to stock ahead. Bruce
 
how about stupid lazy people I was driving home last week and as I was coming around a curve there was a car in my lane pulled up to the mailbox on the wrong side of the road on a curve on a state highway good golly too lazy to just pull into their driveway and waddle across the road to fetch the mail and too stupid to think about the other people using the roads peobably a selfish twit also
 
Don't care for heights, being burried alive and not comfortable alone in the dark. Too many horror shows, alien invasions, and a bear picture with two canoeists being threatened. It hung on my aunt's wall and I was left alone while the adults had coffee in the kitchen. I'm better now, but my heart still races in the dark alone.

Larry
 
SSSnakes: one 6 ft black snake suprised me in my garage one morning. Created a whole new dance step and parts of a new language. That's before I could tell it was just a black snake.

Heights: Fallen off enough stuff to know what its like. Old Cooper River Bridge in Charleston, SC used to cause a death grip pucker.
 

That happened to my grandfather - he just grabbed it and crushed it right in his pant leg.

Shook it out dead on the floor like nothing happened.

Ever since then I've always wondered if my grip was strong enough to just crush a rat dead like that.

Never had the opportunity to find out. I'd take your approach before the thought of killing it even entered my head.
 
uggg - Spiders.

I don't know what it is about the damn things but they just creep me out.

Big ones, small ones, doesn't matter.

Snakes, bugs, rats, I couldn't care less if any of them crawled right into bed with me for the night. But if I so much as spot a spider on a wall 20 feet away, my heart rate goes up and I get all jumpy.

Totally involuntary.

And I'm ashamed to admit I've hurt people for thinking they're funny trying to scare me with them once they've found out about my phobia - it's THAT bad.
I'm pretty mellow laid back guy - but that phobia is the one thing that'll set me off in the blink of an eye, it's not a joke.

I wish I could get over it, and probably have to some degree over the years, but I'd still call it a phobia without a doubt.
 
(quoted from post at 14:00:50 01/23/13) SSSnakes: one 6 ft black snake suprised me in my garage one morning. Created a whole new dance step and parts of a new language. That's before I could tell it was just a black snake.

Heights: Fallen off enough stuff to know what its like. Old Cooper River Bridge in Charleston, SC used to cause a death grip pucker.
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BA, the old Cooper River bridge was so narrow it would cause a pucker factor of +10 to about anyone that had not driven over it before. We took my country raised cousin across it going to the Isle of Palms, on the way back she hid her face between her legs all the way back across it. We teased her about it the rest of her life . It was a little scary, especially if you met a tractor trailer coming from the other direction.
 
Snakes,snakes ,snakes. I am like JR Sutton I"m afraid. There have been several guys that have gotten hurt for trying to exploit my fear of the things.
 
Claustrophobia. I can't stand to be cooped up.

I once rode an LST from Japan to Taiwan, and our compartment was about two decks down. I could go down there to shower, shave and change clothes, but come sleeping time, I headed for the seat of a truck up on the open deck.

There's no way I could ever go on a submarine.
 
Tim, The narrow lanes, lack of REAL support on the sides and the fact that one time I crossed it and had to dodge a HUGE hole where a piece of the deck had fallen out. Heard on the news just hours later that the lane was CLOSED cause it wasn"t safe. No KIDDIN"!!
 
Deep water. Tried scuba diving at one time and got so freaked out looking down into the abyss I couldn't breathe.
 
After being car #5 of being stopped in traffic and being rear ended by a loaded semi that almost killed the driver of the first car struck, I have allot of anxiety when coming to a stop in traffic or on any highway. My eyes are focused on the rear view mirror and my mind is working on what to do if the car approaching from the rear doesn't seem to slow down.

I have a phobia of driving on the mix masters that are way up there. ...which is strange considering I never worried about repelling out of a helicopter when I was in the 101st.

All my other phobias have been over come by with the purchase of my new .40 cal.
 
Ah you mean you know about that 100 foot or so deep swimming pool they have in Groton CT??? Well of course I swam to the top. Did I enjoy it NO did I do it and make it the first try heck yes I did not want to have to do it again that was for sure LOL
 
I remember the Cooper River Bridge well. Back in the 40's I used to live in Sullivan's Island, across the Cooper River from Charleston. I won't go into any detail, but one evening we were coming back from Charleston when a ship hit the bridge and a span fell out into the river. It made for a very interesting evening.
 
Funny thing, I can"t climb a 16 foot ladder without shaking, but I had no qualms about hanging my head out of an open-door Huey at about 2000 feet. Guess it depends on how I get up that high to start.
 
When I was a Millwright Superintendent I got to see lots of tough construction guys turn into whimpering momma's boys. Had one kid stand at the base of a ladder for a few minutes and then try it. He made it up about 10' came back down said he had to go to the porta pot before he went up...he never came back. Tight spaces where I have to crawl in make me nervous.
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I live about 100 miles from Charleston. I loved traveling that bridge. I always thought it was fun to travel over. One trip was memorable. I crossed it in a dually pulling a 32ft. travel trailer at around 55 to 60mph. Needless to say no one tried to pass me on that trip.
 
I agree on flying. i've been up twice! And, that'll be IT! Ain't going to go up again, until my last days, and maybe not even then!
Way i figger-if God had meant for me to fly---he'd of given me wings!
As for high bridges, they don't sscare me, but back when we dragged around a bunch of camping trailers, my wife would get antsy when we had to cross a high bridge! Especially the Newburg Bridge, up in New York State. Woo-ee! That sucker was relly high. And, over in Rhode Island, i think, we came around a large hill, and there in front of us was a high bridge, crossing an inlet. Ruth said that she wasn't going to go across it! I told her to pick out a nice plot of ground, buy it, and stay there, but the rest of us were going to cross the bridge.
Well, she closed her eyes, and we got across ok.
And, up near Niagara Falls, we were on a trip, when we saw a sign saying draw-bridge ahead--CLOSED! When Ruth saw the ocean freighter plowing its way across a field of hay, I thought a lion had snuck into the car! She was scrambling around, thinking we were going to sink into a river! Took a lot of years to get her used to seeing those kinds of things! Fun, though!
 
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