Oh golly...
The usual... flying/spiders/heights all of that crap.

I am also terrified of escalators (namely the ones on the underground), to the point where Sparrow Dodger has to stand in front of me on them so I can't see their eerily slow descension. He's now taken to trying to distract me by talking when we're on them. Doesn't help though. But I can just about deal with the ones in the shopping centre now! (TRIUMPH!)

I can't turn wet jumpers inside out to hang them up, I have to wait till they're dry. I physically can't put my hand inside their horrible wet sleeves. An addition to this is that if I get water down my sleeves it makes me feel nauseous.

Deep Water. "Jaws" ruined my life, I wanted to be in the Navy. I still get my sister to get in the swimming pool first to check there are no sharks. If she doesn't have goggles to check, I will NOT get in. I know it's irrational. And weird.

The underground in general. I have to stand with my back against the wall because I know, I just know, that a tramp will try and push me under a train and I'm simply not nimble enough to retain my sense of balance after said tramp-attack.

Any numbers that aren't the numbers I like or multiplications/ divisions thereof. For example; 17 is fine. 15 is not. 7 is fine, 2 is not. 86 is fine, 85 is not. I could go on. There's no pattern to define why I like some numbers and not others, it appears to be entirely random. Not really a phobia, just more a set of randomly chosen numbers that I occasionally allow to govern my life. (ie, not getting on a number 6 bus, because although 6 is fairly inoffensive, it a multiple of the much maligned 2)...

Come to think of it, none of these are phobias. These are a bit OCD. Meh, no light switches involved as yet, so I think I'm okay...
(Ryfelwr can't stop here... this is bat country, Thu 10 Apr 2008, 16:02, 12 replies)

escalators?
Really? I love escalators.
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Thu 10 Apr 2008, 16:03, closed)

...
you are a brave brave man. people get caught in them and die, and fall through them. and if you look at them they make your eyes go funny. and it's almost impossible to walk on them when they're stationary...

what's to like?!
(Ryfelwr can't stop here... this is bat country, Thu 10 Apr 2008, 16:05, closed)

Yeah
escalators are great. You can pretend you're on Gladiators only without John Fashanu
(Dazzorifik is bored of b3ta, Thu 10 Apr 2008, 16:06, closed)

what?!
what is wrong with you people! Over one Britons die because of them every year!
(Ryfelwr can't stop here... this is bat country, Thu 10 Apr 2008, 16:07, closed)

polite notice
crackhouseceilidhband is not a man
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Thu 10 Apr 2008, 16:11, closed)

^
that's true. I'm all woman. Except for the cock.
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Thu 10 Apr 2008, 16:14, closed)

ha ha
yeah, apart from my huge penis, bulging testicles and gravely voice, I am mostly a woman aswell...

sorry :)
(Ryfelwr can't stop here... this is bat country, Thu 10 Apr 2008, 16:17, closed)

interestingly enough
given that I'd only just looked at your profile (crackhouse that is)

you like exactly as I had imagined. which is unusual, because I don't usually imagine how people look....
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Thu 10 Apr 2008, 16:22, closed)

^
yeah, I've been told that before. It means I have no sense of mystery about me whatsoever. I'm also exactly the same in real life too, apparently. So much for the anonymising power of the Interweb.

Edit: I don't usually wander around eating apples in thermal underwear though. Only sometimes.
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Thu 10 Apr 2008, 16:27, closed)

that's pretty weird
not having a sense of mystery that is

I have a similar thing, everyone knows someone who looks just like me.

currently though, I can respond with, "yeah but I bet they don't have a beard that looks like someone stuck the Taj Mahal upside down to their chin!"
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Thu 10 Apr 2008, 16:32, closed)

So...
is it that you like numbers that are either all round (8, 6, 0) or all straight-and-pointy (1, 4, 7) but you don't like numbers that are round AND straight-and-pointy (2, 5)?
(chase, Mon 14 Apr 2008, 18:39, closed)

weirdly...
that seems to make sense... you may have just saved me :)
(Ryfelwr can't stop here... this is bat country, Tue 15 Apr 2008, 22:52, closed)