What is your strangest phobia?

[skygazer]

I have this weird belly button phobia - I can't stand to have my belly button touched. I think it stems from when I was a kid. I must have been poking my belly button and my mom told me not to because it would come untied and my skin would fall off! ;(

My mom was full of terrifying cautionary tales!

[Shine]

1. Mine isn't strange, but it's basically my only one: claustrophobia

I can't STAND being closed in very small places, it freaks me out. The whole running out of air thing.... :scared:

My mom was in labor with me for almost 3 days, maybe that has something to do with it...

[skygazer]

7. Three days - yikes!

I was blessed with quick and easy labors and never used any painkillers or even had an episiotomy. When my sister was pregnant with her son, she was apprehensive and asked me what childbirth was like - I told her it was a piece of cake, a few hours of labor pains, three pushes and boom! You have a baby.

I've always felt bad about that because she too went through three days of excruciating labor, much of it back labor which I understand is horrible, and ended up after all that having a Cesarean! :(

[xchrom]

2. spiders. i'm afraid of spiders.

not very unusual -- but there it is.

[Arugula Latte]

70. Me too.

:scared:

Nothing creeps me out more (well, maybe fundamentalist Bush-loving Republicans).

[xchrom]

81. oh yeah -- those too.

[LostinVA]

3. I can't drink after people or watch people drink after each other

It literally makes me dry heave. And yes, this includes people I kiss.

[skygazer]

19. That's an interesting one

Original - I don't think I've come across that one before.

[LostinVA]

78. There was an ad on TV a year or so ago that made me sick

People on a ferry reading newspapers, the deck would tilt, their sods would shift... gag.... I emailed Pepsi about it. I think other people must have, because it didn't last long.

[aePrime]

87. I can't do it either!

In junior high, people always wanted to have a drink of my soda or something. I didn't want to seem like a jerk, so I'd usually just hand it to them and tell them to finish it.

I don't even drink from my wife's containers, and it irritates her. She always says, "You KISS me!" I keep trying to explain to her that it's a phobia -- by definition, it's irrational. Her being irritated by it after all of these years irritates me.

She'll probably read this, too.

[Dangerously Amused]

92. I'm SO with you on that one!

I am overly protective of anything I drink and will not touch it again if it has been out of my sight, or if someone else drinks from it. I am not that way about food, just beverages. I think it stems from when I was a kid and would eat dinner/supper at my next door friend's house. They had a boatload of mischievous children, and if any of them left their milk unattended at the dinner table, one of them would invariably but something nasty in it, and everyone would have a good laugh when the victim discovered the nasty at the bottom of the glass. But it grossed me out so bad!

Today, NOBODY messes with my drink! If I'm at a bar, the drink comes along with me into the restroom and gets a little bed of clean toilet paper on the toilet tank. If I'm out somewhere and don't wish to appear freakish, I'll make a mental note of the beverage level before I use the restroom.

[Phillycat]

4. I can't stand when people put their fingers in their eyes

Like, to adjust a contact or something. Ooh, that is so gross. Blech!

[johnnie]

5. I have the same one as you

I don't have a theory as to why though.

[mikeytherat]

6. No shower head/water coming straight out of the pipe

Don't know why, but I really do not like a shower without a shower head (water just coming out of a pipe on the wall). That really, really gives me the willies!

mikey_the_rat

[Mz Pip]

8. I cannot stand the sound

of paper being creased with fingernails. It has the same effect on me a nails on a blackboard. I would give away secrets if someone threatened me with it.

I have no idea why. I have never met anyone else who was bothered by it.

I don't like snakes, either.

Mz Pip
:dem:

[skygazer]

20. I would probably drive you crazy then

I have this strange habit of crinkling the plastic covers on library books while I'm reading them - I find myself running my fingers up and down the edges and ... well, crinkling them. I try not to do it when others are around because I recognize how obnoxious it must be but I can't seem to help myself!

[Broken_Hero]

45. I am that way with

Styrofoam...i hate the sound of ANYTHING rubbing against styrofoam, it chills my freaking spine! Funny though, when i was watching Dumb and Dumber the first time, and Jim carey asked that dude "Hey, wanna hear the worlds most irritating sound?"....I thought he was going to bust out with two pieces of sytrofoam, and rub them together....and a close second, is the ...

Whining of a puppy dog. I know, i know, puppy dogs are cute, and all that...but damn, after minutes, and hours of hearing a little puppy wail, and whine...its enough to test "my" nerve at least...

[TimeChaser]

9. Elevators

I can and do use them a lot, but I still get the creeps.

[Ariana Celeste]

15. I hate those things

I'm the one in the corner gripping the sides, feet totally braced for a fall, staring at the floor. I have to hold my breath, too. I just can't breathe in those things, *especially* when other people are in it.

Ugh. They make me sick. I always hated going to the clinic to see my doctor or Psychiatrist because of the damned elevator. :cry:

[Left_Winger]

53. You are not alone

This past summer I led a class trip to Germany. While we were in Berlin we had an excursion to the TV tower which has an observation area 300 meters above street level. We were all packed into the elevator like sardines and it moved so fast that it was almost like taking a ride at an amusement park - at least from my POV it was. Coming back down felt like a free fall. I could not back out because my students wanted to go - I have a hard time saying "no" to reasonable requests from good kids.

It was the first time I've been on an elevator in years. Needless to say, I was terrified but couldn't let it show.

[underpants]

10. Jewelry and balloons/rubber bands

I have never liked to touch or be anywhere near jewelry. The gaudier it is the worse it is. I had trained myself (very okay with it now) to wear my wedding ring.

The balloons and rubberbands thing is just that I am afraid they will pop or break and end up in my eye(s).

[Left_Winger]

11. Elevators

I guess it all comes from having been stuck in one when I was a teenager. I was alone, it was about 6 am, and I was trapped in there for about two hours before help arrived.

[The2ndWheel]

12. Phobophobophobia

The fear of fearing to fear.

I'd have to say elevators too. Always take the steps when I can. It could be 10 floors, 15, I'll still take the steps.

[El Fuego]

13. Steep bridges

I have recurring nightmares that I'm driving over a really steep bridge and my car falls off. I get nervous when I drive over high bridges. :scared:

[tallahasseedem]

14. Cranes.

Cant look at them. :scared:

[Taverner]

16. Wasps and Yellowjackets

Honeybees I'm just fine

:scared:

[leftyladyfrommo]

25. My brother hates yellowjackets and wasps.

He just goes completely nuts. Its pretty funny.

[Ariana Celeste]

17. Maybe it's not so strange...

But I have an issue with dolls. I have a couple of porcelain dolls that I'm okay with. But their eyes don't move.
Anywho, Dolls with eyes that move, or eyelids that move. Dolls with the twisty key on their backs that make them move around or whatever. Those monkey dolls with cymbals. And more than anything else, clown dolls. But then, Real clowns scare the crap out of me too. So I guess mixing clown with doll makes it really bad.
Nothing will freak me out like the thought of these dolls or clowns. Seriously if I read a stupid little story about clowns or dolls, I have to go around my apt and turn every light on, and I spend the rest of the night in uber alert mode. I jump at every noise and sometimes the loud ones make me cry.

x(

[Phillycat]

21. Oh no, dolls are creepy. And clowns. That's not strange at all.

That's normal.

[leftyladyfrommo]

23. Heights - I don't like my feet to be off the ground even a little.

And I don't like spiders but I have learned to co-exist with them. They are good for the environment.

[Ariana Celeste]

30. Yup. I'm the same way.

The thought of falling freaks me out in the worst of ways.

[azmouse]

18. I can't stand water in my eyes.

When I was a kid I almost drown in someone's swimming pool. A so-called friend knew I was a little afraid of water even then and pulled me under the water. I remember my eyes being open under water and not being able to find my way out. Finally an adult realized I was in trouble and pulled me out. But to this day I get a little panicky when water is in my eyes. I even shower facing away from the shower head. I could never put my face in the spray.
Now for the really weird part... I have a pool in my backyard. I will go in the pool in the summer but I never go in alone and I never, ever put my head under the water. I can't swim and don't see myself ever being able to learn.

[skygazer]

22. Oh azmouse, I can so relate to this

I too nearly drowned when I was 8 (in a river) and I have some strange water phobias as well. I too hate to get water in my eyes (I've actually fallen over in the shower when someone has left the dial turned to shower instead of tub and it hit me in the face).

I will go in the water but not with anyone else near me and I freak out if someone splashes at me. :scared: And I can't swim either - I've tried to learn but I tense up so bad that I just sink like a stone! :hug:

[leftyladyfrommo]

24. I don't like water, either.

I even check the bathtub for sharks.

My dad used to tell us all kinds of wierd tall tales about fish. Now I just can't stand water except to bathe and do dishes.

I'm OK in a boat. And I like to walk along the shoreline - I just don't want to be in it.

[azmouse]

34. That reminds me of a comic strip

where a little boy gets in the bathtub and has to do a check for the drain monster that wants to grab his toes.

[leftyladyfrommo]

89. Well, I have to check for monsters under the bed.

When I was little I thought there were monsters everywhere - had to check the closet and close the door. And couldn't have any part of me off the bed because I was afraid of monsters under the bed.

[azmouse]

31. This must be more common than I thought.

I'm glad we both survived... the world needs all the liberals it can get. :hug:

My mom was surprised that I would buy a house with a swimming pool in the backyard but thankfully my phobia isn't debilitating. I can be around water I just don't want to be in water where people will splash me. Here in AZ nearly everyone has a pool so I've been invited to several pool parties. I'll wear a swimsuit but I always find an excuse not to go in the water. I'm afraid that they'll treat my fear as a joke and try to pull me under.

[skygazer]

33. And they just might

I've had people do that and I don't understand that cruel form of "humor." Well, if you're ever in California or I'm ever in Arizona, we can sit around your pool or go to my beach and respect each other's phobias! :hug:

[azmouse]

35. I'd like that.

I just had my pool redone last summer and now I'm having a bbq built next to it. It'll be perfect for lazing away a hot summer day with lots of cold drinks and grilled food.

[Ariana Celeste]

41. I had a very similar thing happen to me as a young kid

It was a babysitter's guy friend. Apparently I took his place in the pool (:eyes:) so he pushed me under and held me there. I was still learning to swim and had only been in the deep end a few times- and needed to just hang out in the corner for a moment before swimming some more. Needless to say I quit going swimming after that and have been freaked out by water on my face since.

[skygazer]

42. We need to start a "water phobia group"

Seems like there's a bunch of us who've been traumatized this way. :hug:

[Ariana Celeste]

43. Shocked to see others are the same!

I've never met someone with the same issues, and honestly have been laughed at for it! :hug:

[azmouse]

84. This is one of many reasons I like hanging out on DU.

Support from all around on all kinds of issues. :hug:

[Ava]

26. roaches

i have always hated them. when i was little i even had nightmares about them!

[NewWaveChick1981]

27. I don't even think this has a name, but...

...I cannot STAND to put my bare feet down on a muddy lake bottom or ocean floor. I don't like to step down on something I can't see, especially with bare feet. It's also squishy and gross. I know it comes from doing this when I was a kid and getting somewhat freaked out about it. If I HAVE to wade or swim in a lake or the ocean, I wear flip-flops or waterproof shoes. Needless to say, I usually don't do either. :yoiks:

[IsIt1984Yet]

65. Totally with you on that one.

I am FAR better with an ocean's sandy bottom - but lakes/rivers... :scared:

[NewWaveChick1981]

94. Yeah, the ocean is not quite as bad, but

they both creep me out. :yoiks:

[fizzgig]

28. sharks

there is no earthly reason for me to be afraid of sharks, as i have lived my whole life in a landlocked state, but i am. i can't even watch shows about sharks

[Oeditpus Rex]

29. I ain't tellin'

I've kept it to myself for like 45 years. There's maybe two people on the planet who know.

:P

[skygazer]

32. So let me guess

Your strangest phobia is your fear of revealing your strangest phobia. :P

[azmouse]

37. I bet you don't like to be tickled because

you giggle like a little girl... :P

[Oeditpus Rex]

38. That's not a phobia

That's an aversion, or something. I consider tickling a form of torture and just plain immature and not very nice. Tickle me for more than about five seconds and I'll get rather angry. x(

[In_The_Wind]

74. *note to self*

no tickling

[LeftyMom]

36. Roses

It's not really a full blown phobia but they do make me uncomfortable.

[Oeditpus Rex]

48. Huh

I don't feel quite so silly now. :P

[LeftyMom]

62. Yeah, it's a wierd one isn't it?

It makes a little more sense when one knows the context, but I suppose it's still odd.

[Oeditpus Rex]

63. Y'know what, though?

When I was a little kid, I was scared of calla lillies. Y'know, "elephant ears."

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

68. were you part of a cult

and they were gonna make you eat an arm with a rose tattoo on it?

[LeftyMom]

69. No, but the answer is equally wierd and does involve dead people. nt

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

72. eep!

:scared:

:hi:

[Broken_Hero]

39. Sharks...

Ever since, I watched Jaws at a tender age of 8 or so, my whole life view of swimmming in the ocean and or lakes, has been severly skewed. I cannot swim in the ocean, without thinking...is that great white shark, waiting to gobble my fat ass up? and i actually do get nervous, and when i swim in the ocean, always playing in the back of my mind is this scene...

Jaws
"When the old bastard fisherman fell into the water, and he was swimming back to the broke down dock, while Jaws was in hot pursuit" That scene, is always in my head, whenever I swim in the ocean. needless to say, i always have a little pep in my strokes, when i swim in the ocean, and or lakes...

I was in vacation in Long Beach, in summer of 96. My friend jason took me to the beach, to go body surfing...did i go into the water? Yeah, up to about my knee cap, i didn't go any further out...cause of this phobia.

Meanwhile my friend was WAY the hell out there...taunting me, he knows about my fear as well...but every time i read a story about a surfer, or someone getting attacked i'm like "See my phobia's justified!"....:)

[LaraMN]

40. Chalk.

Cant. touch. it.

:scared: :scared: :scared:

[skygazer]

44. Now there's one I haven't heard before

You may win for originality! :applause:

And your prize -

:hide:

[Sugar Smack]

49. I know what you mean!

Especially if my fingernails scrape it. *eew* :scared:

[IsIt1984Yet]

66. *eww* your post gave me the goosebumps.

:scared:

[rockymountaindem]

55. Me too

Althought I've forced myself to use it on occation.

[Tikki]

46. I don't like to....

wear shoes that touch the sides of my feet...I wear a size larger and it seems to help.






Tikki
p.s.....my mom used to tell us if we weren't good little kiddies....she would 'boil us in oil'.....:shrug:

[Sugar Smack]

47. Styrofoam-

Styrofoam cups don't really bother me, but the stuff inside some chairs or cushions makes my skin crawl if I touch it.

Yes. I'm afraid of styrofoam.

[Radio_Guy]

50. Heights

Not just being inside a building and looking out a window, but being on top of a roof and looking down. You will NOT see me on a Ferris Wheel either.

[hyphenate]

51. I don't think my major phobia is strange

but I have a tremendous fear of bugs--insects, caterpillars, anything that is a creepy crawlie. Some are worse than others, though, and unfortunately, they're common, like ants, roaches and flies. Strangely enough, however, I don't mind dragonflies or butterflies.

The only other real fear I have is that I will die anonymously. But that's pretty common, too.

[Lance_Boyle]

52. spreadsheets

I'll work on an abacus with electrified beads before I'll fire up Microsoft Excel. Spreadsheets are EEEEEVIL!

[Trigger Hippie]

54. I'm scared of really tall men, like basketball player tall.

I hope I never see Shaq. :scared:

[Texasgal]

56. I absolutely LOVE going to the beach

But I cannot STAND all the sand, getting in my hair and eyes, between my toes....stuck in my nether regions! :blush:

I am also too damn scared to swim in the ocean, I was once attacked by a man-o-war jelly fish when I was young, ever since then I refuse to swim in the ocean.

Weird thing is... I LOVE the beach.. :blush:

[amitten]

57. Flying balls. Like from volleyball or baseball. I'm always afraid

one will hit me on the head.

And on occasion, I have been hit.

[Roon]

58. I am scared of belly dancers

I don't know why.

[i kiss first]

59. ants, lots of em

i have a fear of ants in large quantities, especially in a house or car!

[nytemare]

60. This may be a compulsion rather than a fear, but

I can't stand the feeling of sticky hands, oily hands, dirty hands, etc.

I hate walking outside in the humidity and having my palms get sweaty and sticky, and I can't stand oily lotion or soap on them. I don't like them feeling gritty.

[TheFriendlyAnarchist]

97. I'm with you there, I wouldn't call it a fear, but it does drive me insane

though

[terrya]

61. Homophobiaphobia

I have this phobia of certain people...

[Akoto]

64. Mayonnaise.

The look, the smell, the taste, even the sound of it being scooped out of the jar. The stuff just gives me the downright willies, not to mention nausea. Blaaargh. :)

[BlueIris]

107. THANK GOD I'M NOT THE ONLY ONE.

Man. You are the first person I've encountered who can really feel my pain about that. Jeez. I really thought I was the only person on the planet with that phobia.

[AlCzervik]

67. Clowns.

[pointblank]

71. Not a strange one

but AIRPLANES

I do, and will fly, but I have to be on at least a mg of xanax and some beers before I board and then I drink the whole flight and am pretty much in a terrified frozen state the whole time.

Its weird. I am not afraid of heights or dying really and I am only slightly claustrophobic. Its really a shitty phobia to have because every time I go on vacation somewhere I am wasted by the time I get there already..I wish I could, but I just cant fly sober.

[AlienGirl]

77. I fear AIRPORTS

The flying part is just fine,but my limbic system always craps all over me in the airport security lines. (It is an offshoot of my fear of bureaucracy combined with fear of crowds and lines.)

Tucker

[Duer 157099]

73. Bridges (not strange, I know)

But makes living near the SF Bay area a little difficult...

[Wetzelbill]

75. Monkeys... I can't even look at the TV if they are on

also Mustard. It took me most of my life to even eat in the same room as a bottle of that shit. Ugh.. I am so phobic about it that just the thought of it can make me throw up. I'm getting a little ill just typing this.

I do almost everything in even numbers too. When I put a glass on my coffee table I have to tap it twice. I even say my prayers in even numbers. The only odd number I like is one. As in "I'm number one." Literally, that is the only reason I can stand it.

[AlienGirl]

76. Spiderwebs, bureaucracy, puking, and going to the doctor

[BlueIris]

106. You have a vomiting phobia? Don't you have kids?

Seems like that would be a rough thing to try to overcome for the sake of having a family. Although, I have one or two friends who (in my opinion) want kids, but have built up elaborate, complex, and intractable defenses for why they won't have them soley because pregnancy can involve puking a lot. Not that there's anything wrong with remaining child-free for any reason, really, but I think their situations are a little sad. Not because of the non-kids thing, but because they've totally written off a potential major life experience soley because of a single, terrible fear. Looks kind of unhappily limiting to me.

[AlienGirl]

115. Yep--and we just went through Puke Nightmare

I was lucky through pregnancy and childbirth--no morning sickness, didn't hurl during labor, or anything like that. But having kids means catching *everything* that goes through the school system. In this case it was a "Norwalk-like" virus. My blog has the gory details. Ecch. I don't know *how* I do complex tasks like change sheets while in full-out puke-panic, but somehow I go on autopilot and do. :shrug:

Tucker

[Evoman]

79. Puke

I am dead scared of throwing up. I am 26 years old and I havent thrown up since I was about 8 or 9. I cannot stand being around anyone that throws up. I will under no circumstances stay in a room with someone throwing up...I won't hold their hair, etc. I won't even get REALLY drunk because I'm scared that I might get sick. I don't like going out drinking with people for the same reason.

Its also kind of extended to having children. I'm scared of having children because I don't want to have to clean up puke, or a hold a kid who might puke. Kids are like puke machines...my girlfriends nephew threw up last time we visited her brother...it was like a projectile....I almost lost it, it grossed me out so much. It may sound bad, but I didn't even wanna hug the kid the next day when we were leaving. I did though. Her family, luckily, did not notice it because I've learned to hide it well (I don't visibly freak out).

Its just disgusting.

[AlienGirl]

83. I am an emetophobe too--and we're just getting over the 24-hour bug

:scared:

[Xipe Totec]

80. peithoarchophobia

A fear of submitting to authority.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

91. Hey, I have that too! nt

[gollygee]

82. cotton puffs

can't touch them, can't see anyone else touch them. UUUUGGGG it gives me the heebie-jeebies just to think about it!

[leftyladyfrommo]

90. wow, that's a wierd one.

[flamingyouth]

85. Bridges. Getting water in my eyes.

Actually, quite a few things. I'm very phobic.

[BlueIris]

105. Gephyrophobia (bridges, especially crossing them) is actually common.

One of my exes had it. He also had hydrophobia and...whatever the term is for pathological fear of death. I think the bridges/water or water-in-eyes phobias are probably linked somehow.

ETA: Thanatophobia is the fear of death or dying.

[Catchawave]

86. Interstate Highways

Driving on them that is. Takes me forever to get from Point A to B.

[Catchawave]

120. How embarrassing, I'm the only

highwayphobe ?

[Nikia]

121. I don't like driving on them either

My mother has pointed out to me that they are safer than 55mph two lane roads that aren't always in good repair. I guess my main stress points are getting on and off them and worrying about merging and if they are busy.

[UncleSepp]

88. Incandescent bulbs covered in protective grillwork.

Freaks me out every time. Also, pipes and electrical wiring on the outside of a concrete wall. It can make me go very close to panic.

[hholli11]

93. I hate the feel of suede, raw wood and unfinished cardboard...

I guess I have anxiety and my hands sweat a lot. So rough things like that TRIGGER my sweaty palms. It is just awful.

[hedgehog]

95. Whatever those giant slug things were in King Kong

When they started eating people I was making so much noise my kids were poking me to keep quiet. I couldn't help it, though. "OOOOOOOOOOOOOOO, yiiiiiiii!"

[Solon]

96. Sex...

I need therapy, any volunteers? :hide:



:evilgrin:

[Wetzelbill]

118. that was a worthy effort

One I am surprised I didn't think of trying as well. :)

[Race4Peace]

98. dandruff-phobia

not including mine, or kitty.

just on other people's heads...:shrug:

[Blue_In_AK]

99. I do not like open closet doors

in the bedroom when I'm trying to go to sleep. Not even a crack. The monsters might get out.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

100. People.

:scared:

[SofaKingLiberal]

116. That one is well justified.

:scared:

[reyd reid reed]

101. I have two of 'em

Totally irrational...I hate rubber bands. Can't stand 'em.

And, I love to swim (I was on the swim team in high school) and I love the beach. I have no problem with deep water in a swimming pool...I can see the bottom, though. Get me into the ocean past the point where I can touch bottom...and I'll freak.

[deadparrot]

102. Those police composite sketches of criminals.

Don't know why, but they creep the hell out of me. :shrug:

[miss_american_pie]

103. Garbage disposals

I have an irrational fear it'll automatically turn on while I've got my hand in there digging up all the things that fall down the sink.

[joneschick]

104. Birds.

Wild ones generally don't bother me too much. It's parrots and their people that want to shove them in my face to show how wonderful they are. The kids had a jungle themed vacation bible school a few years back and someone brought a macaw. I totally seized up, couldn't move, couldn't breathe, just stand there like an idiot hyper-ventilating and the tears rolling 'til my husband caught up and steered me out to the parking lot.

[Immad2]

108. Rattle Snakes! Don't like them one bit. n/t

[BlueIris]

109. Marriage.

Well, that's my strangest one. I'm not admitting whether or not I still have these phobias, but at various times, I've suffered from lockiophobia, coitophobia, rhabdophobia, and latrophobia. See the relationship there? All of those phobias absolutely BITE, by the way. Especially coitophobia. Don't develop that phobia as an American, everyone. It takes a long time to shed.

[DawgHouse]

110. The closet door must be completely closed

because things live in there and watch you sleep. But I don't believe this is a "strange" phobia, do you?

[skygazer]

111. No, I'm not really comfortable with an open closet door

And this is the longest thread I've ever started! :bounce:

[DanCa]

112. Republican only Theocracy

I am scared to death that one day that the GOP will make it a law that says republicans only can go to church. Wierd isn't it?

[jane_pippin]

113. Getting hit in the face by a bird

Ugh. Imagine, here I am, walking down the street and some bird isn't paying attention as it's flying around, I don't see it either, and *bam* next thing I know, bird in the face. That would not be fun.

[KayLaw]

114. Frogs!

Just being on the same planet with frogs makes my life awful! I'm also araid of electricity and crazy people.

[SofaKingLiberal]

117. law enforcement

:hide:

[YellowRubberDuckie]

119. Clowns.

Clowns FREAK me out. :scared:
Duckie

[Nikia]

122. Canadian geese

My high school running partner and I were running early in the spring in a park. The geese were out with their new babies and there was still snow on the ground. My friend said, let's throw snowballs at the geese. We did and the adult geese immediately started chasing us and hissing. Everytime after that, they would do the same thing when they saw us. Soon geese in other parts of the area were chasing and hissing at me where ever I went even a couple of years later. I visited a place two hours away and my family was standing peacably near a flock. When I approached, they hissed and chased me.
When I went away to college a few states away, those geese did not chase me but I was still afraid of them and tried to keep my distance when possible.