I H-A-T-E milipedes/centipedes and earwigs.
It's lucky you weren't on holiday with us in the Dominican Republic then. The very first meal I ate in the hotel restaurant, and what crawls out of my desert - a great big centipede! A couple of days later, a HUGE beatle fell out of the roofing and landed in my hair. Did I jump!
As a kid I was always scared to death of scorpions, spiders, whatever. Later I visited a friend in the south of France, and his dad was an insect expert, and the whole house was full of cages with crab spiders, preying mantis and all sorts of other creepy crawlies. After a week of that I was cured!