What's something ridiculous that you're afraid of?
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May 28th, 2011
Like my best friend is afraid of butterflies. How weird is that?
I’m afraid of dragonflies, and hairy backs… Ridiculous, but true. XD
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Any and all bugs. I am not bug friendly!
I’m compelled to admit, a fear of butterflies does seem unwarranted.
spiders, bee’s…people watching me…. O.O
Dead, dying or injured bugs. Live and healthy ones are just fine, but if I see a bug carcass or even worse, a bug with missing limbs, or worst of all – a bug on it’s back in the throes of death, I will freak.
The ravenous bugblatter beast of Traal.
The American far-right.
Ridiculous… and scary.
My daughter has always been afraid of dolls. Now that’s weird:p
@FutureMemory,
Curly hair? Really?
Haha. Bet you’re glad for the flat iron. :D:D:D
ACK! OMG What happened to Carrot Top? That’s going to give me nightmares. It’s like he’s morphing into Bette Midler.
@keobooks That curl has made him insane. I’m convinced he’s trying to look like a circus clown.
Balloons and open-backed stairs.
Clowns. Just joking.
I’m scared of cockroaches… otherwise I can handle spiders, snakes the lot.
My stuffed animals. I swear on my life they talk and move around in the night so I bagged em’ up and tied it tight!
@rock4ever This made me laugh because when I was a kid I used to get creeped out by some of my stuffed animals at night. I was scared of this Kermit the Frog doll I had and I’d wrap it up in a pillow case, tie a knot and throw it in the closet. Then I felt bad and considered letting it out, but I was terrified it might seek revenge for its abuse.
Haha that’s how I feel. Sometimes I talk them to apologize…. (:
I have around 100 of them so I just shove them in a trash bag and squish them.
@FutureMemory,
... Wow. Just wow.
Thank you for giving my nightmares a new monster. :P
bees, spiders, and dudes with a moustache
Spiders, and anything that resembles a spider.
@tom_g,
Mustaches? Haha.
I remember in seventh grade I was deathly afraid of the kid whose locker was next to mine, because he was thirteen, and already had a mustache. Haha.
Birds with long legs like a Heron or an Ostrich or Flamingos. Yikes!
Also, these fucking things.
I’m very afraid of dogs. I think maybe it’s a phobia. But I’m also petrified of worms, any kind of worm, and I know that’s a phobia.
Not like my fear of dogs, which seems so much more primal to me. Seeing a worm or several worms makes me want to cry, run away or blackout. But everytime I see a dog or hear one barking, or even hear a rattling chain sound in the distance, all the hairs on me stick up and I’m ready to bolt, away and away, or fight, if I have to. I get all sweaty and my heart starts pounding, seemingly wanting to come out of my mouth. This happens to me even with small, tiny dogs you could just step on. There’s hope. With worms, I just wish I was dead when I see a mass of maggots feeding on something gaah.
My dog thing, it’s a ridiculous fear, as I’ve long learned that, when I get familiar with a dog, most of the time it’s just fine and the one dog won’t scare me anymore. But any stranger dog freaks me out. I can hide my fear from people, but maybe not dogs. Then again, people say that dogs smell fear, and I won’t argue it, but most dogs actually don’t act up, and I’m sure they can sense how fucking petrified I am when I see them.
Not too long ago I’m walking to bring back some movies to the vid store, and a random, unchained German Shepperd just busted out of the bushes, bumped into my legs and strolled off. There is NO WAY he did not sense my panic and fear. Yet he didn’t do anything to me. I just held in my breath and walked away as fast as I could. I waited at the video rental store for like forty minutes lol, hoping the dog would have strayed off and I wouldn’t bump into him again on the way back.
Still I get confused. My skeleton basically pops out of my skin when a dog is around, yet they never act on my fear.
Although when I was little, I was chased by dogs constantly. Seriously.
I guess worms are a ridiculous fear too, but I don’t give a shit I hate hatehahtehate them and nobody is gonna change my mind.
@Joker94 Well for some reason that looks yum! ( with butter and lemon too ) Lol.
@mazingerz88 Oh, I’d omnomnom on that like there was no tomorrow, I just don’t want to see it living. Just imagine if that thing charged at you. That thing is totally fucking aware that it’s a Spider Crab, and it would fuck your day up just because it knows it can.
@Symbeline Your fear of worms is definitely irrational… just wondering and snooping, why do you think you have this fear?
@Joker94 Oh ok, yes of course. Hmm, give me a katana and maybe I could deal with that. Better yet I’ll hide behind a Japanese chef! ( ready with my chopsticks! )
Ok, women with hair on their armpits make me cringe. (whhyy?)
@rock4ever I could tell you what scares me about them, but I have no idea what spawned said fear, no idea at all. Maybe I was just born being scared of them. Haha it’s so weird too, because I know worms can’t do anything to me, even if I fell into a pool of them. I’d just get out and that’s it. But the fear is still there, despite reason, so I denno.
My mom told me that when I was little I was playing in the backyard, and I walked up to her, with an earthworm hanging out of my mouth. Strangely, this story never seemed a big deal to me, but prolly that’s because I don’t remember this.
It took me a while to work out what fear I had, but I really do have an irrational fear. I’m afraid of throwing things away in those public trash cans. I’ll hang on to a piece of garbage in my pocket until I get home rather than throwing something in one of those bins.
A morbidly obese porn star “gittin jiggy wit it!”
A little bit of sick just welled up inside :¬(
i’m scared of being in a room with the door open. mind you, it has to be a smaller room, like my bedroom door or an office door….those need to be closed at all times if i’m in that room. no idea why. and spiders, too….but that’s more rational i figure.
Being on stairs. I am convinced that I will slip, fall, and crack my head open, snap my neck, or otherwise injure my back.
This is a real fear of mine. The only reason why I label it ridiculous is that both my home growing up and the current home my significant other lives in are two-story homes, which means I climb stairs on a daily basis.
Dentists and my phone ringing.
@ddude1116,
My brother is going bald and he’s only eighteen. Horror story.(:
I hate spiders!! I’ll shit myself if I get a spider on me.
Did you know that you’re never more than 12 feet away from a spider in your entire life time? Sorry arachnophobs.
I’ve heard this before, and find it quite disturbing.
Hah. I like Spiders. Just dragonflies… Shudders
clowns freak me out, hate them.
@FutureMemory
Curly Hair?
Well then..
Thank god for the flat iron!
I have curly hair but I straighten it.. so were good.. haha
I’m not sure. It just gives me the terrible willies when I cross train tracks. If a train is coming I just freeze up, certain that my car is going to stall out for no reason in the middle of the tracks. I don’t know why! Maybe it goes back to when I was teaching one of my sisters how to drive. My other sister was in the back. It was a standard shift (a Vega) and she actually DID stall out in the middle of the tracks. I was coaching her how to get it going again when a train sounded. You’ve never seen anyone move as fast as I did to get in the drivers seat! I think it’s tied in with that, and the fact that I was very, very protective of the “little kids.” I used to lay in bed at night and I start having horrible imaginations of this or that happening to them…
Personally, I don’t care for elephants. I saw a video once where a parade elephant lost it and went on a rampage stomping people in the crowd…
@Dutchess_III Eeek. Yeah, an experience like that would do it. That musta been scary as shit.
@HungryGuy I think I’ve seen that exact same video, but it was in a documentary about animals. Was it a circus elephant? They ended up going after it and shooting it? (although that wasn’t shown in the video)
—I wish I could find the picture of my, my ex-husband and my then four year old daughter riding an elephant! I don’t think I’d do that today because I’ve seen the video too!!
@Symbeline – I don’t remember exactly, but that’s probably the same one…
Nothing tangible that I can think of except when they grab your feet at the houses of horror. I end up kicking the living shit out of the people : ( It totally freaks me out so I usually avoid them. Other then that my biggest fears are being buried alive, drowning in a car, out living my children and some days my own imagination : )
Hello @EnchantingEla! Those aren’t ridiculous though. I’ve had a quiet dread of all of those things too.
@Dutchess_III No partying on a circus horror train ride across the Mississippi for us!!
What??? No partying??? Count me out!!
@Dutchess_III Yes partying!! Just not on a horror circus train ride across the Missip! LOL I will fall off : ( I always fall off my chair when I have too much fun…
LOL! Does tequila make your cloths fall off?
Hey…did you hear about the party in the “Watering hole” chat room in about an hour? Rumor has it we’re going to try and set a record for the most number of people in a chat room….. what a splendid way to spend a Sunday afternoon!
@Dutchess_III Can I bounce a quarter off tequila’s butt and abs, then hell yeah!! LOL
I’m afraid of blank answers. D:
:) And a pill too, I’m sure!
Hey! XO made a video of the chat room thing earlier. It’s pretty cool. Thanks for coming @EnchantingEla!
Hey…I didn’t do bad on resurrecting this thread!
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