Randomness - Phobias

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I don't have any phobias but there are plenty of things that I don't like - including spiders, crane flies and wasps!

[Karen]

OMG how could I have forgotten, Pat - you're so right. The merest flicker of a daddy-long-legs and I panic!

[Katy]

Daddy-long-legs! *shudders*

Actually, anything 'flitty'..

[Lynne (Tigger's Mum)]

Moths, but not butterflies. One lovely warm evening walking back to where we were staying on holiday there were so many moths, I pulled my skirt over my head. Everyone walked behind me and cried with laughing but I didn't care.

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I don't mind moths, but they do seem creepy compared to butterflies!

Daddy-long-legs dive bomb you! That's why I don't like them. And they hang from the ceiling by one leg. Yuck!

[Elle]

Moths - eurgh! It's starting to get that to time when moths are forever bothering me cause lights late at night and I always keep my window open.

NOTHING JUST DISAPPEAR SO QUICKLY WHEN YOU KILL IT.

un-natural.

[Lynne (Tigger's Mum)]

I bought a metre of screen material to keep moths and mosquitoes out, and I blue tack it over the open window. I ought to do something more permanent but it works. I keep flies out of the kitchen with some more.

[A.L.]

That is a good idea. Don't like flies.

[Patti (baconater)]

Lynne (Tigger's Mum) wrote: "I bought a metre of screen material to keep moths and mosquitoes out, and I blue tack it over the open window. I ought to do something more permanent but it works. I keep flies out of the kitchen..."

Must get some.

[Elle]

Definite idea. I need to get some too.

[Rosemary (grooving with the Picts)]

Interesting fact - the Georgians and Victorians painted their kitchens and sculleries a very pale blue because they thought it repelled flies.
My kitchen was yellow and i used to get loads of flies come in the window (they thought yellow attracted insects) - so I changed the colour to pale blue and there's definitely fewer beasties.

[TonyQ]

I thought phobias were irrational and just plain fear was rational?

If that's the case then my fear of wasps is rational because they're evil and having disturbed a nest when I was about 7 I spent three days in hospital looking like a red lollipop after being stung on the face and chest many times. (Maybe I should have a fear of red lollipops?)

My phobia of ladders is a bit odd though. Never had a problem until one day I just suddenly froze half way up one - had to stop working for the satellite company.

Not bad with height though, although I got a bit giddy when I went up St. Paul's Cathedral and out onto the balcony - it was windy though.

[David]

Snakes are my biggest phobia - I can't look at pictures of them in books or on TV. I'm not fond of other reptiles either so I think I have a general reptilian phobia but mainly to do with snakes. If i'm anxious about anything I dream that snakes are in my bed and once, in Australia, my partner and I went to a wildlife park and all the snakes were in tanks just inside the entrance which meant that I couldn't go in! where this comes from I don't know because I grew up in Derby where the only snkaes are those kept as pets by, to my mind, rather daft people. I don't mind spiders, I don't mind sharks, but never take me to the reptile house unless you want me to freak out. David Menon
Oh and as a writer I will never write a scene with a snake in it because I just couldn't.