What are your phobias and habits

[mruffruff]

I am claustrophobic. I can go into small spaces, but I can't stay long. Elevators are OK, but under the house in the crawl space freaks me out.

And I can't stand heights! I try not to look out of second story or higher windows. But I like to look off a mountain into the distance.

I can't tolerate open doors or drawers. I'm forever closing the files at work.

I hate mis-matched clothes. My mother had a bad habit of wearing odd combinations. She also had a pair of PINK HIGH TOP TENNIS SHOES! So now I co-ordinate all of my clothes, including pajamas, to the nth degree.

My daughter says I'm a neatnik. By her standards I really, really am.

I'd say I'm normal, but who knows what THAT is?

[cassiesmom]

Phobia: I have an irrational fear of traffic jams. This stems from a traffic snarl I once got in where all of the toll road lanes were closed due to an accident. I panicked because I couldn't get out of there. Finally found a hole in the fence, gunned the car through it and then had to figure out where the heck I was!

Strange habits: I like a side of mayonnaise with French fries. In my first job I worked with a woman who had grown up in Wyoming and she got me started on French fries with mayo. It's so unhealthy I hardly ever do it anymore.

When I leave the house in the morning I have to have my keys in hand, usually the left hand. Even if they're in my pocket I have to hold them in the pocket. I have no idea where that came from. I think it started after I locked myself out.

Edited to add: I don't see this as a particularly strange habit but others do. I take a paper towel to open the door of a public washroom with my just-washed hands. I know some women don't wash their hands well enough and others don't at all. I'm compulsive about hand-washing in the first place because I'm a nurse; I know that hand-washing fights infection; and it creeps me out to think about doors being opened by people's hands that have not been washed.

There was a poll on Pet Talk about how we put on our socks and shoes. I'm a mutant in that regard, too - right sock and shoe, then left sock and shoe. Most people answered that they do left and right sock, left and right shoe.

Maybe you guys have seen the "Monk" episode where he is at a hockey game - seated in the front row -and notices a spot on the Plexiglass barrier in front of him? Welcome to my world! And mruffruff, I know I'm not normal

Edited again to add (because the post about Weight Watchers made me think of this): I hate those "sport top" water bottles. More specifically, I don't like to watch people drink from them. Is it a sign of regression back to infancy? It looks (at least to me) like a bottle with a nipple; and i stopped using that a long, long time ago. It has to be opened and closed with a hand, and then raised to the mouth to drink. Some don't even put it in their mouth but just sort of squirt the water in. Either way, it makes me uneasy to watch people use them.

[sandragonfly]

haha, eating sandwiches from outside...that is interesting! nah, don't worry sparks, I won't give you a strangest face - everyone is strange in their own ways. I do remember I save the middle (corner) of pizza and the middle of cinnamon roll for last.

me, phobias? having no phobias! really, none.

habits?? biting nails ... but I'm muchmuch better! before I'd bite anytime but now only during exams when I'm not paying attention to anything else! not too odd I know.

and, I usually explain, do, or work things in order. like, if I start a cat picture thread, I gotta order them in sequence when I got them or post pictures chronically.

and, do bathroom, feeding, filling up waterbowls and clean litter during, sweep then feed myself.

[buttercup132]

Phobias

.The dark
.Sharp things ie. Knives,scissors
.Being alone anywhere
.Fire
.Touching dead animals
.Going down escalators
.Bugs
.Old houses/Old farms
.Swimming in lakes where you can't see the bottom
.Drowning
.Walking alone

Habits

.No foods can't touch
.Not eating the ends of any meat products
(end as in the end I get to when I finish eating)
.Not eating deformed fries
.Putting chips saucy side on my tounge
.Can't walk around with jeans on without having socks on too
.Sleeping with a stuffed animal every night
.Sleeping with the comfortor in between one leg

I guess this one formed from fear and turned into a habit. I can't sleep if any part of my body is sticking out from the blankets except my head and sometimes arms.

My closet also has to be completley closed at night or I picture people/things peering in the places that are open.

Most of my fears are just because my imagination and I make up things and scare myself.

Edit: After reading through other peoples I remember some that are the same.

[Almita]

For eating a pizza,I eat the toppings first, then the cheese, then the crust, then my favorite part the bread with the marinara sauce!

I HATE elevators i will never go in one, even if its going 10 stories up i'll use the stairs if i have to.

In the morening i do the same exact thing. I get up, make my bed, brush my teeth, take a shower (if i didn't at night), get ready.

When i put my make up on, it has to be put on my left eye first! for eyeliner and mascara.

I never wear the same colored socks. like right now i have an orange sock and the other a rainbow striped sock.

i HAVE to listen to music and i will be in a good mood i CANNOT stand the quiet. When i'm out in the woods or something will hum or something since i can't stand it.

There's much more just i can't think of them right now.

[kittycats_delight]

My biggest phobia is the fear of something happening to one of my pets, Vixen especially. I know where it came from. It all started when we lost Lilith in 2005. We nor the vet knew there was anything wrong with her. Actually just a month before her passing she got a clean bill of health. She got a rabies shot for travel to Italy and we having what we thought was a reaction but was not. It was actually a cancer from FeLv and the shot dropped her system allowing the cancer to take over. From the day of the shot to the day of her death was 8 days. I guess you can see where that phobia would play through as Vixen is FeLv+ as well.

Habits...biting the skin on my fingers - habit from when I was a child.
....have to eat my pizza with a fork and knife
....have to always have a flashlight close by - habit learned from my
mom
....walking barefoot even though I am not suppose to because I'm
diabetic
....shower habit...have to wash my hair twice then condition before I
actually clean my body

I am sure there are others too.

[Sevaede]

I have this HUGE fear of planes. I will not eat, sleep, sit still, or anything for days before a plane ride. I will also cry and worry.

I eat all the toppings off the pizza, first, saving my the bread and sauce for last.

If I'm at my own place of residence, I absolutely will not wear socks indoors. It drives me nuts.

[Suki Wingy]

I have just about the weirdest phobia ever and it's difficult. Numbers. Math class is living hell. If someone shoves a math sheet or chemistry equation in front of me I have to try very hard to hold back a panic attack and I then get a migrane.
It's not a fear, but I don't like monkeys. They creep me out.
I have a lot of weird habits but I'll edit them in later.