What are your phobias and habits

[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.