What are your phobias and habits

[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.

[Kalei]

I have a fear of spiders and I don't know if anyone has ever heard of this one, but I have a fear of touching hot things. Like when I'm cooking, I always try to get someone else to take the stuff out of the oven. Or when someone wants a cup of tea. I put a dish cloth around the handle and then carry it so that the hot cup doesn't get near my hands.

Habits:

Umm...I always make sure to put the most powdered part of a chip on my tongue first.
I've had a habit of biting the sides of my fingers right beside the nail for years.
I have to eat a chocolate bar very slowly.
And I have to take that little white thing off the yolk of the egg before i use the egg.

lol I guess I'm pretty weird.

[Zippy]

Ovens I will not take things out of the oven.
I also hate big crowds.

[kittycats_delight]

Diabetics are known for having bad circulation especially in the legs and feet. For this reason it is required to wear a good sturdy shoe, sneaker or slipper all the time. My diabetologist told me NEVER walk on the bare floor barefoot. Hubby is forever giving me hell about it.

[sparks19]

Diabetics are known for having bad circulation especially in the legs and feet. For this reason it is required to wear a good sturdy shoe, sneaker or slipper all the time. My diabetologist told me NEVER walk on the bare floor barefoot. Hubby is forever giving me hell about it.

wow you learn something new every day. I had no idea.

[Donnaj4962]

GREAT THREAD!!!

Fears..... grasshoppers. Yes, I am terrified of them (especially the flying ones) and I have been known to hyperventilate when more than one is close by. It comes from my childhood when one landed on my leg while I was riding my bike on a gravel path. I crashed and skinned my leg pretty bad. Years ago, I came home from work to find a WHOLE GROUP of grasshoppers hanging out at my front door (like it was a party place or something!) and I sat in my car for almost 1/2 an hour before I finally walked all the way around the building (of maybe 15 + apartments) and went in the back door! I can't stand to even see plastic ones in the stores, or real ones on TV. Freaks me out!

Habits.... I get up in the morning and go into the bathroom to turn the water in the sink on for the cats. They drink while I, well, you know! Then we all 3 go downstairs and I feed the girls. Then I take my medicine and make my lunch (on work days). Then I go back upstairs and take my shower and finish getting ready for work.

Also, I always say the following before going to sleep at night: "Good night Tabitha. Good night Sasha. Everybody sleep well, sleep fast, sleep tight. And I will see you in the morning light." I even say it when I am NOT at my own home (silently of course!)

[davidpizzica]

Diabetics are known for having bad circulation especially in the legs and feet. For this reason it is required to wear a good sturdy shoe, sneaker or slipper all the time. My diabetologist told me NEVER walk on the bare floor barefoot. Hubby is forever giving me hell about it.

This is so true. As a diabetic I wear special diabetic dress socks that promote circulation to the legs and feet.

[M&M's Mommy]

I just think of something really weird (and probably unique) about me

I love looking at people bare ... feet!! Yep, feet. When looking at celebrities' pictures from a magazine, I always start from their feet up . I remember my friends & families members not just by how their faces look, but their feet also.

For some reasons, I feel like I don't really know someone until I see their barefeet. I remember when my hubby (then boyfriend) came over for the first time, and I asked him to take off his socks, he gave me the most shocking look ever LOL . After marrying him for almost 6 years, I still love looking at his feet

[Twisterdog]

I hate ladders. I can go up, but I don't like to go down. And to go from a ladder to the roof, then back to the ladder? NEVER would I be able to do that!

I don't mind heights if there is a railing ... like a damn or an observation tower. But a cliff or a roof edge freaks me out. And I HATE it when people goof around on high places, like putting their leg over the railing or pretending they are going to jump. I SCREAM at people who do that.

As for weird habits ...

I always try to eat the middle of something last. I don't think that's weird at all, it's just saving the best for last.

I can't drink anything with sugar in it ... it makes my teeth feel funny and drives me crazy.

I MUST wear socks ALL the time. The only time I don't have socks on is in the shower, literally.

I MUST have lip balm and lotion on at all times.

I cannot sleep without a fan going, for the white noise. And I have to sleep with a pillow between my knees ... but I have a messed-up knee, so that's more medical then quirky, I guess.

[K9karen]

I'm too perfect for my own good!!!

Just kidding..I know I have my list here somewhere...I'll be back...

[kittycats_delight]

I don't mind heights if there is a railing ... like a damn or an observation tower. But a cliff or a roof edge freaks me out. And I HATE it when people goof around on high places, like putting their leg over the railing or pretending they are going to jump. I SCREAM at people who do that.

This is me all over. I absolutely freak when someone is goofing off in high places. I have been known to drag said person back from the edge all the while screaming and slapping them in the head!!!

can't stand wrinkles in my sheets or socks.

This one is so me to when it comes to the socks. If by chance a wrinkle develops in my sock while walking no matter where I am the shoe comes off so I can straigthen the wrinkle. Same thing goes for pebbles and they can be as tiny as a speck but they have to come out of my shoe or I will simply go mad!!

[sandragonfly]

quoted by delightkitty
..they have to come out of my shoe or I'll simply go mad!!

I feel you! totally! lol.

talking about even numbers, I remember I mentioned about it somewhere else.. I'll have to go and find it.. a thread of habits/tendencies?

edit ~ obsessions and loves too - different from this thread but I thought I'd put it in here for whoever had missed it, it's fun to read too!

[Anita Cholaine]

I know I have so many weird habits, but now that I have to think of them, I don't come upwith many.

I eat burgers from the outside in, and I leave the middle part of hot dogs for the end. I try not to do it in public, though.

I always feel the need to close the little window that pops up when someone on MSN gets online. It doesn't matter if I'm not on the computer, if I'm close to it and se that it appears, I need to go and close it.

Wherever there's a mirrow, I will always look at myself. It's not that I'm obsessed with my image or anything, I just can't help looking.

I can't sleep if I'm not hugging my pillow

And as for fears, I think one of my biggest ones is elevators. I use them when I don't have another option, but I start getting anxious when they get too long to open the door.

I'm also a bit afraid of swimming in the sea, it has to be really really calm for me to get into it.

I totally hate jellyfish, spiders and bees.

Zara, I also hate answering the phone.

[KittyGurl]

Fears:

-presenting a projecct in front of my class. (I had to do that yesterday for my science project. My legs wouldn't stop shaking)

-jellyfish

-spiders

-when the power goes out in the middle of the night during a thunderstorm!

Habits:

-I can only do choir in a group, I can't do a solo at all!

-I need a stuffed animal in a room with me when I go to bed

-I like to watch lightning at a window

-I can't have my cat and/or dog on my feet when sleeping

-my food can't be mixed together or touching

-I eat one thing of food at a time (first hot dog, then patatoes, etc.)