jenny - my best friend is afraid of mayo... she will not make a sandwich for her husband w/ mayo on it, she will not stay in the kitchen if the mayo is out and being spread (if its actually already on the food its ok), and god forbid she gets a deli sandwich by accident with mayo on it!
joe - we had roaches in our old apartment... college kids moved in upstairs, pizza boxes, beer bottles, and no cleaning on their part brought them... In my past experience, roaches were the big palmetto bugs like you find in FL - not these little "beetles" and plus they were out during the day!!! Well one day my mother was over and she goes ew, what are you doing to get rid of the roaches... we moved out a month and a half later, despite the successful exterminator visit..
lauren - I'm with you on the lakes -- I can't stand them either, though I wouldn't call it a fear more like "no thanks I'll hang out here and watch you swim" - I'll wade in the very shallows (like up to my ankle) but will not swim in it... I hate walking out and feeling that slimey bottom.... ewww! And what's up with those random freezing cold pockets of water?
DD - My best friend's father (yes, the one who is afraid of the mayo) is deathly afraid of the drive thru car washes... he said he doesn't like the rolling pins and the big vacuum towards the end.
My fears - Chuckie the movie doll, I cannot even flip the stations and catch a 2-second glimpse of him without having nightmares. Revolving doors, not to the point where I don't/can't go through them, but if I HAVE to go through them I have to grit my teeth, and tell myself it's a quick turn into/out of the building. Clowns to a degree - ever read Stephen King's It? For months after reading that I had to turn on my bedside light whenever I had to get up to pee in the middle of the night! But Bozo and the like are ok.
My biggest and probably most irrational fear has to do with my commute to/from work. I take the subway, and I am deathly afraid of two different circumstances: 1.) Falling or being pushed over onto the tracks and breaking my face (teeth specifically) or 2.) Falling or being pushed over onto the tracks and getting electrocuted on the third rail. I either stand with my back to the wall or sit on a bench to wait. I will not stand even 10 feet away from the "yellow safety line" unless there is a wall behind my back... you just never know.
~Tara