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Clowns make me angry. I know, it's weird, but I really dislike them, although not to the point of fearing them, but they leave me feeling really out of sorts. Does anyone else have odd phobias or am I really just that unbalanced???

Suefly wrote: "Clowns make me angry. I know, it's weird, but I really dislike them, although not to the point of fearing them, but they leave me feeling really out of sorts. Does anyone else have odd phobias or a..."

I have the same thing with nuns and Republicans.

I have the same thing with Clowns. As for odd phobias, I'm deathly afraid of millipedes.

smetchie wrote: "As for odd phobias, I'm deathly afraid of millipedes."

HOOOOO, me too!!! I'm scared of spiders, but there's really nothing unusual about that.

Oh, and when I was a kid, I was scared to walk in front of this one house where a vampire was rumored to dwell... it was really creepy looking - abandoned, dark. I'd cross the street when I had to pass in front of it. And when my friends and I were daring each other to something especially daring, we'd dare someone to ring the doorbell to that home and then stand there and wait for someone to come to the door... I did it once, but thought my eyeballs were going to boil right out of my skull, I was so freaked.

Slugs!!!! Anything slimy really.

clowns. and automatic car wash places, where your car is dragged through the thing.

when I was a kid, I had to walk past an old, unused church every day on my way to school. I even dreamed about that place ! I thought it was full of dead people, who walked and might come outside.
still on my mind, I recently looked it up on google maps and saw it was gone...but condos are there now... probably filled with dead people, who walk, and might come outside !

giant bugs and alien/bug hybrids.

Have you encountered many alien/bug hyrbids?

in my dreams i have. they have no sense of humor whatsoever.

I do often find that alien bugs tend to be jackasses.

Clowns are repugnant to me - in the same way that Hummers and Ugg boots are - but I wouldn't say I have a phobia of them.

The foot germs that linger on the bathroom floor from the previous occupants of each new house I move into and fingernail clippings. I once saw a fingernail clipping on on the photocopier/printer at work and spent the entire day avoiding that general area.

Not an odd phobia - but don't close me in. I need windows (the kind you can crash through if necessary). No sporting events where you exit through a cattle chute. And cremation is way better than being buried in a box underground.

sporting events where you exit through a cattle chute: oh dear god I hate that.

When you think of where cattle chutes lead ....

To a Vonnegut novel?

Book Shields wrote: "The foot germs that linger on the bathroom floor from the previous occupants of each new house I move into and fingernail clippings. I once saw a fingernail clipping on on the photocopier/printer ..."

That's vile.

Even viler is finding a hair in your food at a restaurant or even at someone's house. Quite unpleasant.

I find it vile merely to find someone else's hair in a library book. Which happens to me ALL THE TIME. GAH.

I think I've stated in another thread how grossed out I am by food stains in library books.

What's worse is finding a pubic hair in a library book.

Even worse is finding a library book in your pubic hair.

I have a terrible fear of roaches. Everytime a roach comes into the room, I run out of the room screaming.

I have a fear of apocalyptic and dystopian type stuff. Also, I freak when I see parasites - fleas, ticks, leeches, mosquitoes, etc...

I'm afraid of foxes: are they rabid?

Extremely graphic yes Barb.

I am afraid of anything that stings or bites like bees,wasps (which we have a lot of in NH because they fight gypsy moths), spiders,venomous snakes. When I lived in Minerald,VA I found a dead cotton mouth under the mobile home I was living in and another in my mailbox.

i remember when i was young, the advertisement clowns outside the restaurants really scared me off. i am afraid of darkness!! now that must be quite common no??

Welcome to TC Rawail.

fear of the future: aging and it's inevitable consequences once you hit 60....so much can go wrong. especially fear of losing eyesight and senility

I gave up worrying about losing my senility years ago.

says the mad hatter.

:-)

My dad lived with me the last 6 yrs of his life...alzheimers hit at 83...at the end he would have periods of lucidity. during one of these he asked me who was taking care of his money and I told him,"me,dad" and he said. "thank God, because I can't". we both laughed and laughed..he kept forgetting he had read the paper every morning and would reread all day long.

Alzheimers is scary - whether you have it or have to deal with it.