What are you afraid of?

[Gypsy-Rhiannon]

Originally Posted by amber

LOL, I call that "my dad's method" and I call me and my Mom's method the "flee from the house screaming" method. Although, now that i don't live with a boyfriend or a dad, it's been newly renamed "Spanky (my super cat) Just Eat The Bug!!!!! Don't play with it forevah!" method. .. And yes, my supercat has many of the qualities i would like my boyfriend to have, LOL Sometimes I call him Buddha...

Hah! My former cat used to eat bugs. I used to hate it when he would sit there with a spiders leg protruding from his mouth....

[sparky]

Spiders only creep me out if they are REALLY large. Other than them I only fear trashy neighbors and cancer.

[DeeGeMe]

Originally Posted by amber

So, it would appear that almost everyone is scared of bugs...some type...but, i bet none of you are really scared of ants. sure, they're gross, but...I grew up where you expect periodic ant infestations, but we hardly have those giant, stingy ants...a few, we call them "big red" but nothing too bad..
Anyone scared of Ants?

How about being deathly allergic to them? No kidding! We've got fire ants here in the South and I'm allergic to them. I have to get allergy shots and I have to carry around an epi-pen on me at all times because the damned little critters are everywhere. I used to enjoy gardening but now it's too dangerous for me. It's really theraputic digging in the dirt but I can't do that anymore. &^%$% Ants!

And Bats also eat bugs. So more reason not to fear them but to admire them for their public service to mankind!

[GateandGarden]

Originally Posted by Nixxxed

But you had to watch her, or she'd crawl inside your clothes and seek the warmest, dampest place to play house. Yes, I mean there....

See, I used to really like spiders, but then you told us that part, so now I don't know.


I understand that most people don't care for bugs at all, but I happen to absolutely adore the vast majority of insects. I really love cicadas and praying mantises, and I have to play with them when I find them. I'll walk up to someone and I'll have some huge bug on my arm and I'll be all awestruck. And they'll be inching away from me. Typical scenario. But there are a few exceptions to this. I hate, hate, hate walking sticks. First off, I don't know if anyone notices, but they're always having sex. And I'm never getting any, though I imagine they don't particularly enjoy it, anyway. But the thing is, they spray this acidic liquid at you if you bother them; I found out the hard way by getting it in my eyes. After them, I can't take horse flies and wasps. I've never been bitten by a horse fly, but they're just incredibly scary looking to me. Their size just seems unnatural to me for a fly. They're like house flies on steroids. And wasps are just evil. I run away screaming when one comes around.

And I'm afraid of heights. I can't stand on the second floor of like, Barnes and Noble without feeling queasy. And murder, violent death, and death in general freak me out. I used to be really afraid of rape, particularly when I first moved into a dorm room in college, but I overcame that and I'm not even sure how.

And was it Krista who said she has a thing about veins and giving blood and all? I'm seriously afraid of needles. I can't watch needles being used on TV. I've never given blood because I think I would just pass out.

Hillary

[sara1998]

I get lots of spiders around the house, and I hate them. I'm the one who either has to live with it or kill it. My lil' one and I found a spider in between the glass in the door of our microwave the other morning. It freaked me out, because I couldn't get to him to kill him! My other big fears are cancer, tornados, and house fires in the middle of the night.

Maria

[heyjupiter678]

Originally Posted by Lisa1769

Years ago when I was pregnant with my son, we lived on a farm. I use to put together jig saw puzzles. I had my puzzle pieces on a card table, with the legs folded up underneath it. I bent down and picked it up, as I was walking with it, I knew something felt different. I set it down on the footstool and I had my fingernails in a huge black snake. I'm surprised I didn't go into labor right there. That will make you do a dance!!

Yikes!!!! What happened with the snake?!

Originally Posted by Lisa1769

But my phobia is water. I am petrified of it.

I'm really afraid of the ocean, but pools and stuff don't bother me.

[Violet]

Originally Posted by sparky

Other than them I only fear trashy neighbors and cancer.

After spiders, cancer would be my next biggest fear. I've been going for a yearly mammogram since I was 25.

And to whoever mentioned ants (Amber?), they only gross me out when there's an over-abundance of them. Totally makes my skin crawl to see hundreds or thousands of them crawling around...Eww...

Carol

[heyjupiter678]

Originally Posted by Violet

OMG, I can't believe you took a picture of that nasty thing! Did you kill it after you snapped the pic?

Believe me, I couldn't get within 10 feet of that thing -- that's what the zoom on my camera is for. My boyfriend captured it in a glass, took it outside and smashed it.

Originally Posted by Violet

Spiders would be at the top of my list. While living in FL I had a panic attack when a big, hairy wolf spider crawled out from behind my desk. I went outside and coaxed some stranger inside to kill it (after I chased it around with a broom for a while).

LOL! Good call! I probably would've done the same had I been home alone.

[Violet]

Originally Posted by Nixxxed

I love spiders! My friend Alex has a tarantula that we used to let crawl all over us .

Wow...you're braver than I am!

Carol

[Violet]

Originally Posted by heyjupiter678

Believe me, I couldn't get within 10 feet of that thing -- that's what the zoom on my camera is for.

But did you have to leave the room to get the camera? I wouldn't let it out of my sight...'cause then if it's not there when I came back, you can bet I wouldn't be sleeping in there that night!

Carol

[heyjupiter678]

Originally Posted by DeeGeMe

Oh--and one more thing--the thought of another four years of Shrub in office really scares me to death.

Me, too. Seriously.

[heyjupiter678]

Originally Posted by Violet

But did you have to leave the room to get the camera? I wouldn't let it out of my sight...'cause then if it's not there when I came back, you can bet I wouldn't be sleeping in there that night!

No, luckily my camera was on the dresser across from the bed. I definitely wouldn't have been able to sleep in there if the spider had gotten away from us. Ugh... I don't even want to think about that. ::shudders::

[heyjupiter678]

Originally Posted by Gypsy-Rhiannon

Hah! My former cat used to eat bugs. I used to hate it when he would sit there with a spiders leg protruding from his mouth....

My cat won't touch the spiders. She prefers torturing and killing poor little crickets.

[heyjupiter678]

Originally Posted by sara1998

My other big fears are cancer, tornados, and house fires in the middle of the night.

I'm with you on the house fires thing. My parents' house burned down back in 2000, and my mom, my brother, and I were lucky to get out in time. It was terrifying. And since then I've been so worried about fires. It's crazy.

[DeadliestPoison]

Originally Posted by heyjupiter678

I think it has something to do with what I found a few weeks ago on the curtain behind my bed - about a foot above my pillow:

(INSERT SCARY PICTURE HURRRR)

It's leg-span was well over two inches - probably closer to three. Ugh, it's still creeping me out . . .

OMFGTHNX4POSTINGTHATPICTURE. -_-

I? Hate spiders. Seriously. If I'm at a website? And there's a picture of a spider? My legs are off the floor and on my chair. I get huge spiders in my room (where the HELL do they all come from?!) and they like to taunt me by staying in one place. After the initial screaming and running across the room, I bust out the shoe. And THEN they decide to move. Bastards.

Also? Heights suck.