The List: Irrational (or rational) fears
As a tip-o-the hat to Halloween, this week's The List is a bit different. I'd like to know about your fears, whatever it is that makes you sweat just from the thought (sexual innuendo was not intended).
I'll start with two big fears (irrational as they may be):
* Spiders, cockroaches and creepy crawlies. I HATE spiders, especially Black Widows. You know that scene in Arachnophobia where Jeff Daniels describes how we was like paralyzed by his fear of spiders as a baby in his crib? That is me. Not in the crib, but the paralyzed by fear part. OK, I'm probably exaggerating some.
But most bugs will make me run away.
* Bats, birds and things that can fly at my face. The chances of a bat (or a bird) swooping down at attacking my head are pretty slim. I know this. But any time a bird comes remotely my way it's like that kid in gym class who fakes like he's gonna hit you and them gets you twice for flinching.
Now it's your turn to share your heebies and your jeebies.
More from The List
Get the straight jacket.
1. Twin little girls. I blame Stephen King and The Shining for this. Though I don't mind adult twin girls that much, especially if they are hot. :D
2. Alien abductions. Out of all the crap I blog about, this scares me the most. I remember when I was 10 and saw something on Unsolved Mysteries about the subject, I had a nightmare that night I was abducted (knowing my luck I was actually abducted) and have been freaked out ever sense.
3. Ghostly children. Stemming back to irrational fear number 1, this was compounded when my best friend and I were investigating a cemetery out in Madera and both he and I heard two little girls laughing or giggling. The best way I can describe it is that it sounded like they were laughing because they knew something we didn't. So yeah, little kid ghosts also scare the hell out of me.
4. Spiders, only in that they creep me out in that I'm afraid they crawl into my mouth at night. But I heard they were high in protein so guess that's ok.
My turn
1. Squirrels. They are cunning, rude and like to punk people.
2. Mentally Disabled people. Okay, I'm totally gonna get ripped for this..but you said IRRATIONAL!!
So here's the story. When I was in 1st grade I went out on recess at school and two 6th graders who were mentally disabled found me, grabbed me, took me under the portables and held me hostage. They threatened to bite off all my toes if I screamed. All day they just stared at me. It took the school all day to find me and I couldn't sleep for like two weeks.
Then when I was pregnant with my daughter, I was riding the bus and it stopped in front of the Cerebral Palsey Center and they all filed on the bus. One woman sat across from me rocking back and forth talkin about how she was going to follow me to work and punch my stomach.
I have since had many pleasant encounters with people who have mental disabilities but those two incidents are never far from my mind.
But I fear squirrels more.
i'll go
1. sharks
2. swimming in cloudy water (see #1)
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