Weird phobias

[x-g.o.p.er]

My sister in law is phobic about butterflies flying into her ear. Whenever a butterly is around, she FREAKS.

We were all on a pontoon boat one sumer, and a butterfly landed next t her. She jumped up, off the boat, and into the water to get away from it.

Me? Being in a car that goes off of a bridge. I don't get wiggy going across a bridge in a car or anything, but my heart rate goes up.

[yvr girl]

1. Snakes hiding under lampshades

I always check for them before I turn a lamp on or off. I think it stems from a movie I saw when I was 10.

[darkstar]

2. Don't show your sister this...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNSfiho54rM&feature=related
I find this footage strangely compelling.

Plus, bridges don't do me in so much as bridges with really steep grades, especially the uphill. Ugh....

[Rosemary2205]

3. going home from work

i get nervous, my heart rate goes up. Sometimes i get so upset it's all I can do to not start crying.

I think it's because I have come to just expect there to be some sort of fight when I get home.

[darkstar]

6. Oh, man...

That's awful sounding. Please be good to yourself. Working through stuff has its own admirable merits, but even if this is just a temporary thing, try and find a way to carve out a sanctuary of some sort for yourself.

:hug:

[redwitch]

7. that's awful.

:hug:

[yardwork]

11. I don't think that's a phobia. Phobias are irrational fears.

From what you've posted before, I'd say that your feelings about going home are rational.

:pals:

[Drunken Irishman]

4. Feet!

And it isn't that I just dislike feet, I HATE THEM. I can't look at feet, I can't even stand not wearing socks. Ugh, feet scare the shit out of me.

[quakerboy]

5. Utah

[bookworm65t]

8. Balloons

my mom is terrified of them. She is 73 now , and yet is just as scared of them as when she was 3 yrs old.

[Catshrink]

9. Cooking with a wok

or any other form of hot crackling oil. My jammies caught on fire when I was a kid and I've been terrified of that ever since. Guess that's why I can bake awesomely but can't cook worth a damn.

[hedgehog]

10. Having one of my children push a shopping cart behind me.

Unbelievable, but my 19 1/2 year old daughter was behind me yesterday in the store and I was just flinching waiting to be hit on the back of the ankles with the cart. I had to get the cart back from her.

The funny thing is that she's always wanted to push the cart since she was little, so she kept maneuvering to get the cart from me as we went through the store!

[Glorfindel]

12. I know a man who's terrified of little yellow baby chickens

He has no idea why, he just IS. They scare him to death.