I ain't skeerd!!!

[Andy Griffith]

Just to ask...

Does anyone have any phobias that are interesting?
No, not the usual ones like snakes or spiders or heights or anything, but something plumb unusual...

You know...like the fear of cheese, ants, Coca-cola in glass bottles, Glocks or something.

Just asking.

I've got one. I'm scared of paying too much for a new gun.

 

[CAJUNLAWYER]

Fear of cheese????????
fromage-a-phobia

 

[OKFC05]

I never bought anything that someone didn't tell me later he could have gotten better for half as much..............

I have a phobia of being trapped at a social function by such a person
(you shoud be buying cardboard futures...my cousin hymie can set you up an account...whats your cell phone number.....trade off that Dodge and buy an Escalade from Harry......)

 

[s&wchad]

Ants, especially the giant irradiated man eating type.

 

[godlessgael]

I can't have people touch my neck, get near my neck, or really even pretend to. I uncontrollable swing to get whatever is near my neck away. I can barely stand to wear ties or tight shirts.

About 3 weeks into my first job out of college, my boss came up to give me a pat on the shoulder for a job well done. Too close to the neck for me and I hit his arm away pretty aggressively. Lucky for me he is an awesome guy and just started laughing uncontrollably (most likely because of the future fun he knew he could have torturing me).

 

[ChinaSeaSailor]

delete due to

 

[Andy Griffith]

I really do have one thing that does bother me...

And that is of being cut with a knife.
Sure, I use knives every day- but pull one on me and see what happens.

Only had it happen twice.
Once by a hoodlum, and once by a girl I courted.
She wanted to cut me and see me bleed. I took her home promptly and didn't ask her out again.
That was the first time I learned about "cutting," and that was decades before I saw it on the news.

 

[kennyb]

since Vietnam I still can not sit with my back to a door i.e. at cafe etc. - have found many other vets like that also

+1 i NEVER sit with my back to an entry door...not an from an irrational fear perspective...more of a precaution

 

[oldfella]

I just can't stand it to see a young, beautiful chick looking at me, winking at me and flirting with me... I just can't stand it!... I just have to grab her and hold her in my arms and give her a long juicy kiss - please, some one wake me up before a have a wet one!

Pete

 

[Andy Griffith]

Here you go oldfella,
I'll give you one of my mine:

 

[CW Spook]

Fear of being unarmed...ever since my dad was held up at gunpoint back in '55 when I was about the same age as my eldest grandson. Didn't realize it until it got me in trouble a couple of months ago...fortunately not too serious, but expensive.

 

[WONTLETYOU]

fear of running out of mustard

 

[Forester]

I can't stand yogurt. It's not that I just don't like it, I can't be near it. Just the smell of it makes me gag uncontrollably. I just can't be near someone eating it.

 

[paladin42]

I have a fear of not being afraid.

 

[Jeepnut]

Luposlipaphobia....fear of being chased around a kitchen table by wolves, in my stocking feet, on a freshly-waxed floor.

 

[Centenniel]

Clowns, yes, I said clowns. I can't stand to be around one. I don't know why.

 

[Centenniel]

I can't stand yogurt. It's not that I just don't like it, I can't be near it. Just the smell of it makes me gag uncontrollably. I just can't be near someone eating it.

Ranch dressing has that same effect on me. What a vile substance!!!

 

[gunlovingirl]

I really do have one thing that does bother me...

And that is of being cut with a knife.
Sure, I use knives every day- but pull one on me and see what happens.

Only had it happen twice.
Once by a hoodlum, and once by a girl I courted.
She wanted to cut me and see me bleed. I took her home promptly and didn't ask her out again.
That was the first time I learned about "cutting," and that was decades before I saw it on the news.

This girl didn't live in Detroit did she?

 

[Wheelgunner840]

I suffer from "Rodiphobia". It is the fear of having a squirrel jump into my shorts!

 

[Sven]

I know you said nothing "normal" like heights, but what's strange is I can walk right up to the edge of a cliff, like the Toroweep overlook near the north rim of the Grand Canyon, and look straight down at the Colorado River 3000 feet below and it doesn't bother me. Guys at work can't believe where I drive my Jeep -- like on "cliffhanger" type trails.

But inside a building, like the boiler building here at work, and I look over the hand rail and see the ground floor 200 feet below me, then I get feeling weird.