I am absolutly terrified of spiders, have been for many years. I can't be any where near them and if I do get close I totaly freak out. Like today for example, I went to the grocery store and was getting in line to check out when my brother said "Oh wow look at that man he has a taranchula(sp?) on his shoulder!" I looked, screamed and ran. I was crying and shaking so bad I could hardly write my check. I had to take a xanax to calm down. I am still trembling and that happend at 5pm.

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Penguin's

You're funny!

Britney Spears, Lindsey Lohan and Paris Hilton.

BTW, I am scared by incorrect spelling.

Do not tease...this is serious.
I am not terrified of anything but high on my list of fears are sharp knives in the hands of others and they are being reckless, chainsaws coming at me (has never happened yet so this is unreasonable), drowning, and being caught in an airplane fire.
Oh wait, I am terrified of leaches. The kind in Ontario lakes. I wear glasses and had to take them off to wash my face in the lake. I am sure I scooped one up in my hands. I get the willies just thinking about it. How about not knowing you have a leach attached to you them someone tells you. Oh god...I feel ill.

BTW........that scene in African Queen when Humphrey Bogart has to push the boat through the swamp and them he gets back on board and Katherine Hepburn sees all the leaches on him...aaaaaahhhhhhhh. Nightmare.

Ignorance and Arrogance; I am terrified of becoming one of the ignorant and arrogant some day. It's all around me and I don't want it to rub off on me.

If it's all around you, then you're already there. No man is an island.

Sonny

Yup, I guess you be right. Kind of like a thick, heavy stench from a foul landfill. It just sticks to you.

Reminds me when I was a kid; the Watsonville dump smelled like bleu cheese; I could not eat bleu cheese for more than 30 years after the dump experience.

And some are self made.

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Originally posted by goin' cruisin':
And some are self made.

Islands or dumps?

Both. And more. Much more.

Another thing that scares me; the image of Marlboros between pursed lips, mullets and paper hats with golden arches.

Pink Vespa motor scooters always scare me. My Dad had a green one when I was a kid.

Men that live in their parent's basement scare me too!

loucna2:

If you are afraid of spiders, then you were lucky not be in my bathroom in the early morning hours, about 2 months ago. It was in the wee hours, about 3AM when nature called. So I get up and go to the bathroom. As soon as I turn on the light in my bathroom, I saw this on my shower curtain:



Each one of those square checkered patterns in the shower curtain measures about one-half of an inch (or 1.25 centimeters for those outside the USA). So that should give you an idea of its size.

I grabbed my digital camera, snapped this photo. Then I realized I shouldn't kill it (at the very least I would have to clean-up the gooey mess). So I grabbed my broom and coraled it outside. So, it has another chance to eat more bugs that are bigger pests.

I then compared the photo to other photos of FLorida spiders on the Internet. So that is how I identified it.

Oh my!! I'm glad I didn't encounter any of those spiders when I was on holiday in Florida. I would have flipped!!!!!

Atlanta traffic and people that can not drive!

This sounds really lame, but I am scared to death to be near a moving train. I hate being the first car in line at a crossing when there is a train, I am absolutely petrafied to go under a trestle with one on it, even last night while helping friends who were flooded out, I had to go running out of their house when a train went by on the tracks behind their house which is about 200 feet from their back door. I can ride a train no problem though.