Phobias anyone?

Along with everyone else..lol! But I do have a pretty funny story about a spider. It was last summers & there was a medium sized black furry spider on the back of one of the lawn chairs. I knocked it off with something & it fell to the ground. So of course I stepped on it, then looked down to make sure it was dead. When I went to raise my head up, the spider came up after me!!!!OMG! It's still alive! I let out a blood curdling scream & my husband looked over at me & laughed, it wasn't alive, it was just hooked to the web! :rolleyes: Good thing he was the only one around! Spiders coming back to life to attack me, what a dork!

LOL Anna! I know it is funny when we read it, but I KNOW it sure wasn't funny for you! Few years ago I was visiting my friend, and we were sitting on the patio having a coffee. Her fiancee was just coming to bring more coffee when he heard two times a very loud YIKES and saw two blonds running inside. He said that was the most funniest thing he'd ever seen, and to know that we did it because we were afraid of a spider that was walking on the table :rolleyes: . I tell ya, we didn't find it funny at all....

Does anyone know what Ailurophobia is?

Fear of cats.

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Originally posted by Dixieland Dancer
Snakes are the worst for me but I also hate spiders, rats, mice and cockroaches! I become paralized with fear when I see a snake. I can't even go near the snake exhibit at the zoo and close my eyes when they are on TV.

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I knew we had a lot in common! I can't stand the thought or the sight of a snake either. Not even rubber ones!! :eek:

I am not sure if I can post this without getting the creepy crawlies!

COCKROACHES!!! Years ago, we stripped all of the wallpaper and paint off the walls of our old home. It was in late summer and very hot outside. The house is old and there were layers and layers of paint and wallpaper. We had the windows open for ventilation and we attracted the largest cockroaches I have ever seen. Apparently they love glue and we had certainly stirred up the old glue on the wallpaper.

These guys (two) definitely needed saddles..they were huge!

Where do they come from? YUCK!!

And they just sit there like they are saying "I will be around long after you are gone, Honey!!

Mice make me really afraid! I believe it comes from when I was young and my mom would scream and jump up on a chair if she saw one in the house! But spiders and snakes don't bother me - in fact I found a spider in the house last week (alive in this cold weather) it would freeze if I put it outside so put it in the basement (if you kill a spider it will rain & that we don't need).

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Spiders coming back to life to attack me, what a dork!

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LOL Anna......
Here are some of my not so funny spider stories,,,,
When my and my hubby were dating I went to visit him at his and his roommates house, and there was a swing on the front porch. It was night time and me and the hubby were sitting on the swing and his room mate was standing in front of us next thing I know brandon, the room mate put his hand on my head and pushed it down and i fell off the swing onto the ground.... My hubby jumped up at him cause that was mean right.... well he did it cause there was a HUGE SPIDER about two inches in diameter coming down right at my head.... let me tell you I was walking around looking up for a looooooong time!!!

And one time me and my mom were going somewhere and this spider came down right in front of my face (real close to my face) and i leaned over to the left and was screaming my face off...... my mom slammed on the breaks and was looking around all crazy..... the look on her face was priceless.... she though I was screaming because we were about to have a wreck or something.

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Originally posted by gini
I am not sure if I can post this without getting the creepy crawlies!

COCKROACHES!!! Years ago, we stripped all of the wallpaper and paint off the walls of our old home. It was in late summer and very hot outside. The house is old and there were layers and layers of paint and wallpaper. We had the windows open for ventilation and we attracted the largest cockroaches I have ever seen. Apparently they love glue and we had certainly stirred up the old glue on the wallpaper.

These guys (two) definitely needed saddles..they were huge!

Where do they come from? YUCK!!

And they just sit there like they are saying "I will be around long after you are gone, Honey!!

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ICK!! I just got the creepy crawlies reading this! LOL Count me in on this one. Bugs and spiders too!
Anna, your story made me chuckle, but I know it probably wasn't funny at the time! LOL Looking back on situations like this at least seems funny after the fact, right? LOL LOL :D
I'll never forget the time I went up to bed when I was in junior high. It was springtime in Indiana, so all the bugs were starting to come out. Anyway, I pulled back my bedsheets...and there...smack in the middle of my bed was the largest garden spider I had ever seen!! ICK! YUK! EWE!!! I screamed and ran to get my dad to get it off of there. Of course, when we got back to my room...it was gone!:eek: I couldn't sleep in my room that night because I knew it was in there somewhere, and I was terrified about it crawling on me!
Oh, and just last night, hubby and I were watching TV and he started fussing, and it turns out there was a spider crawling up his arm...and it bit him!!! Ugh!!! How rude, huh??? eek! :eek:

Sara*your right, those are not so funny stories about spiders, I think I would of had a cow if a big one was coming towards my head, good thing you didn't know!
Wolflady*I know what you mean about having them in bed! I sometimes have nightmares about the bed being covered in spiders & I guess it's like I'm asleep, but not totally & will find myself throwing the covers off the bed & off my husband telling him to get up because they are under the covers! Of course, he reassures me there isn't any spiders & we go back to bed:rolleyes: LOL!

SNAKES AND SPIDERS! BURR!
I get the willies just thinking of them. I had a spider bite me on my big toe once. It was not a pleasant experience for either of us. My toe swelled up real big and itched for days. I murdered the spider and don't regret it a bit!:eek:

Salamanders! Yuk! Once I was digging in the dirt and I saw a yellow eye look up at me. One was buried, apparently hibernating.

To make matters worse, my (then) 6 year old daughter was fascinated with them. I found out one morning that she had SLEPT with one in a basket in her bed. I asked her if it could get out and she replied, no it was covered with a tissue!

When I went into her room to see, the basket was empty. I called my husband home from work to look for it. My daughter had forgotten to tell me she had taken it ouside on her way to school that morning!

Spiders here too. Actually any small critter or large bug INSIDE my home. I am an outdoorsy girl. I can go camping or hiking or things like that and I don't really mind the animals OUTSIDE! It's when they come inside that I mind them! Then it's fair game. I'm allowed to use all means to GET THEM OUT!!!!!

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Whenever I see a bee or a wasp I run (I'm not kidding), and during my 18 year of life I have never been stung by one and hope to keep it that way.

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This is EXACTLY what I do. I dont' listen to what they say to do which is sit there and ignore them! I run like the wind and I've never ever been stung either. So obviously our way works better!!!!:D ;)

Snakes don't bother me. I don't think I've ever seen a cockroach in real life and I dont' ever want too!! When I lived in NYC I saw more rats and mice than I ever care to see for the rest of my life!!!! I still keep all my food in plastic containers if it's not canned!!! And I NEVER go to bed with any food or dirty dishes left out! I guess I am a little paranoid about mice!!

To be honest, I'm scared to go to states like Texas and Oklahoma and Arizona because they have BIG bugs and BIG spiders there!!!

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Originally posted by jennifert
.....I dont' listen to what they say to do which is sit there and ignore them! I run like the wind and I've never ever been stung either. So obviously our way works better!!!!:D ;)

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I agree Run, Run like the wind. The ONE and ONLY time I did like they say to do and ignore them, I got STUNG:mad: OCHIE!:( ...That's when we learned I am also Allergic to them.:eek: ... So, I agree RUN LIKE THE WIND!!!

One summer when I was in college in Tucson, AZ a friend and I rented an apartment. It was a ghastly apartment in a horrid neighborhood. We were young and stupid. I don't normally have a problem with "disposing" of bugs but one night I went in the bathroom and came out and told my roommate that I had just seen the largest, hairiest spider EVER! I told her that swatting it would be like squashing a mouse! I closed the door and stuffed a towel under it so the spider couldn't get out.

So I decided we would go and get my boyfriend (sometimes feminism goes by the wayside!) We were in the car and I kept saying "the biggest, hairiest spider." Then it hit me....it was a tarantula.

He captured it and set it free outside.

That is when I would HIGH TAIL it out of AZ! I could not live where the bugs are so big they make that crunchy noise when you try to kill them...you know that ccrrrrnnnncccch YUCK!!!

I once saw a bug so BIG when I lived in NYC..This bug was between me and the front door of my apartment building so I had to go by him to get out. I moved all the way to the right to try to squeeze by him in the hallway and he FOLLOWED ME!!:eek: And not only did he get closer to me, when he walked, I could hear all 6 of his legs tapping on the tile floor!!!!!!!!
I left NYC shortly after that. Someone told me that even though they are big bugs, called clocks?, (maybe Thelma will know?) but they can squeeze themselves into small places. I spent the remaining two months in New York with a towel stuffed around my window and my door. I would not open that window, not even when it got to 110 degrees INSIDE my room!!!! (Someone had also told me that rats can climb walls and I was scared of them too!!!) I just took more showers and had the fan blow on me! I was terrified of that bug! My mom still laughs how I called her hysterical that day from work and told her I was getting a hotel if I ever saw that bug again!!