Flying. Pure and simple.
First flight in my life was over to Russia. I totally loved it, especially when passing over the fjordic ice flows as the evening light lit them red. I remember thinking that if this was flying then bring it on ! Great flight back (even though from an ice bound -20degree Moscow airport) and thought it was great.
However (you knew there would be one of those, didn't you...) my first flight to the USA was a complete hit bad weather in the extreme and it was "drop like a stone in an air pocket" every few minutes at one point. Air masks dropped down, people screaming and we even saw a member of the flight crew cross herself. All you could smell was sick for an hour.....not the most settling thing......
Since then even the tiniest bump or wobble just freaks me out and even standing in an airport watching the planes makes me very nervous indeed. In fact, typing this brings it all back.
A common one, I know but it's mine !
I like spiders, it's flying things that buzz I have a problem with.
The sound of a wasp, even if it's not really a wasp, compels me to kill. I can't run away in case it follows me, I have to kill it and I cannot rest until it's dead. If it flies, makes a noise remotely like a wasp, and is smaller than a Goodyear blimp, it dies, end of story.
Ice
I must join ice on this, no problem with blood, guts, spiders, snakes, etc. However a wasp and I will never be friends. Whole new areas of my brain have been employed looking out for the sound that gets me out of bed 'quicker than a whippet with a bum full of dynamite'... (No idea where that quote from but always wanted to find an excuse to use it)
Oh and I also have a healthy fear of heights, but I working on that one.
God. Wasps. You've mentioned my other one !
The line about just having to know it's dead before real life resumes is spot on.
I was stung 11 times in the face and neck by an angry swarm when I was small and that insidious tiny moped noise they make just sends the hairs on the back of my neck to attention.
Evil little bastards.
{shudder}
Spiders (horrible shudder)
Belly Buttons (just mine, no LAUGHING!)
People playing with their eyeballs.....Its enough to make me ill!
Silky xxx
i have an odd one!! no jokes
i hate that yellow foam stuff that goes in cushions cant stand the feel of it or someone rubbing it uurrrrrrgghhhhhhhhhhhh
Okay, time for mine then I suppose....LoL
I'm terrified of the Ocean, doesn't matter which one, any will do....the reason? Terrified of Sharks....YES I know that man-eating Sharks are in the minority, and I also know that those few sharks (like Great White's) are only in certain oceans, but I always think, what if a shark got lost and I happened to be swimming in the Ocean off Blackpool Beach and I got eaten by a Great White Shark...... :shock:
I also don't like Spiders, Wasps, Butterflies and Pigeons.....LoL
Gee thanks for that Ice.....so if I don't mind losing a leg or an arm it's okay? :shock:
I've mentioned it in another thread, but I'll say it again here. Needles. Broken glass. Sharp pointy skin-penetrating things in general. Don't even talk about needles when I'm around, or there's a very strong danger that I'll turn white and fall over.
I'm the nutter with a glass and a piece of paper scooping the spiders up and putting them outside. I've even got a resident one which spends it's year wandering all around my living room ceiling, how it survives I'll never know but it's so good to wake up to find a web across the leaves in the window box.
Hate heights - got halfway up Trump Tower on those escalators and didn't really want to go any further. Got scared once giving plasma (see relevant thread!) and won't do it again. Need to put sock/shoe on right foot first each time, I KNOW it's stupid and sometimes put left side on first but it's uncomfortable!
Think we are mixing up 'fears' and 'phobias' here!!
PS I kill wasps and save bees - bees are good, wasps are evil.
Hesitated about replying to this because just thinking about it makes me feel ill, seriously-for once.
I'm not scared of much, or anyone, although, to be fair, I am mildly uncomfortable at heights--(I count that as being sensible)-but am mind-numbingly, stomach-churningly, all embracingly TERRIFIED of confined spaces. Just looking at pictures of pot-holers makes me reel. If I'm dropping off to sleep, and inadvertently think about a small space, I immediately panic and have to go and sit under the stars until I return to normal. Maybe that's why I live in wide open spaces...
To be serious Sarge, I used to be terrified of mushrooms....specifically a great big one appearing on the horizon just after a lot of sirens started wailing.
I spent most of my teenage years convinced that we would end up fried ....
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