Haha, nursie! Me too! There's a Latin pronounciation thread in the plants section...so I looked in the Oxford English Dictionary to find latin roots of "echino" for "Echinodorous" species....and what do I find!? It has ties to tapeworms!!
Matak is right; when you are afraid of something, you always notice it. It seems to be everywhere!
Between my pool skimmer and spyders, you guys would never make it through my back yard!! I have spider webs that literally STOP me in my tracks while mowing the lawn. They're like a vertical trampoline!! Bannana spiders and these little hard shelled ones that look like crabs. I'm not afraid of them but if they get on my, I get them off quickly. Then we have the occasional brown recluse, those are the really bad ones.
Snakes eeeccchhhh! I once threw a lawnmower at one. Just thinking about them makes me get all goose bumped and edgy
Clowns. They just really creep me out. Clowns are evil. Ever since I saw the Pogo the clown/John Wayne Gassy Biography I just can't watch them or be near them.
Flying. I DO NOT fly. When I was coaching at Northwestern University's football camps from 97 to 01 I would drive. Montreal to Evaston. 15 hours.
I drive to Florida, Kentucky I won't step on a plane. I flew once from Montreal to Winnipeg (3 hours) and nearly had a nervous breakdown.
I was so freaked that I took a train back from Winnipeg to Montreal instead of flying. The train trip took 2 days.
My fear increased ten fold after 9/11. Now I even get into fights when my wife wants to fly somewhere, especially if she wants to take my son.
I know it's stupid but and that it is safer than driving but it is just the whole "not having any control" over what happens. Add the fact that hitting the ground at 500 mph isn't too appealing either.
The first one is Bees. Ever since I was a little kid, if I so much as hear a buzz anywhere near me, I'm off in a flash. Picture this, I was about 7 months pregnant, we were up in the mountains fishing. I was sitting at a picnic table talking to my mother in law... I hear that dreaded buzz... She tells me it's next to my shoulder and just to hold still. No, I take off running down a rocky shoreline.... and my 60 year old MIL is chasing me down the shore screaming at me to stop or I'll fall and hurt the baby. Then my hubby and father in law are chasing her because they heard the screaming and they think something is seriously wrong with me.... Yea, I still catch hell for that episode.
The second one is SO looney I can't even believe it. When I was little, my older brother told me that in the middle of the night, razor sharp saw blades come up from the floor around the edges of the beds and chop off anything that's hanging over the side. To this day, I absolutely cannot go to sleep with even so much as a pinky finger hanging over the side of the bed! I've TRIED to force myself to do it, and I absolutely cannot...
I wonder how many irrational fears are started by horrible big brothers...
When my old cat was alive, I could count on him, just call, point and munch, munch, problem solved. My new cat is totally useless. If my son or husband aren't home to rescue me, I'm totally useless, too.
Aknif - I can't let anything dangle over the edge either!! My dads mom let me watch some Freddie Kruger movie when I was like five (um...HELLO?!) and something about it freaked me out in regards to having things near the edge of the bed.
When I was little, I had to push my bed up against the wall on one side and sleep right up against it!
Ah.....irrational fears. Good stuff. Not.
I am afraid of spiders, too. Big time. Ugh. I just got shivers! Two years ago, I got bit by a spider (it was determined). I can't remember the name...Yellow something. It makes a zigzag in its web and waits near it. It turned into a big solid welt that didn't heal for 2 months. I should have gone to the doctors. It was really really hot and would peel. Ew. Enough of that!
Let's hear more fears guys! At least we're not alone in occasionally acting like a five year old
Yes, I too, have the fear of spiders. My fear is movies. I have a VERY imaginative mind and I think in the back of my head all movies are real.
I will close all my doors, keep my lamp on near my bed & turn off all the other lights. I also keep my airsoft gun near my bed as if it will do anything to keep away Freddy Krueger.
I also fear the dark. Not sleeping kind of thing, but being by myself in the middle of my house in the middle of the night with all the lights off or being by myself in my neighborhood at like 1 AM. I just FREAK OUT.
Me spiders too. I think I'd been the one with the 3" one on my head, I wouldn't be here now. I'd have had a heart attack or a stroke right there.
I've got THE WINNER for ya
I'm a nurse assistant in a hospital. Things always happen in groups. Cat bites, appy's, kidney stones. It was brown recluse spider bite day. We got report that we were getting a patient from recovery (surgery) that had benn bit on the tip of his penis. He was in surgery because they had to SCRAPE the dead tissue off. He was in the most pain I have ever seen anyone in, as you can imagine. Later that afternoon, his wife is looking through the lovely flowers that the nice elderly lady volunteer brought up that was from a friend.....guess what was in the flowers......a spider.
