+1 on sitting with my back to a door. Anytime I go to a restaurant, be it with girlfriend, buddies, or family; they all know to let me sit w/my back towards the wall, not the door.
As far as an odd one...I'm scared of owls. When I was a kid, this ol' great horned owl lived in a tree outside of my second floor bedroom. He'd bring rabbits up there in the middle of the night and kill them. Have you ever heard a rabbit scream? Ghastly! I'd have dreams where the characters in them would hoot instead of talk...they'd turn their heads all the way around like an owl, then hoot at me. I'd wake up and that ol' owl would be out there hooting. Beautiful, graceful animals...that scare the hell out of me.