i cannot sleep
with my feet or any other bit of me hanging off the edge of the bed. i am always convinced that something is going to grab whatever it is and bite it off.

spiders, moths, daddy long legs, ants (not singular but a whole long line of them creeps the fuck out of me), cockroaches, beetles, in general anything with more than 4 legs. and clowns.

balloons bursting. which was great when i tried to be cultured recently at the royal albert hall and they released about 5,000 balloons at the end - i was jumping like a flea on a cat on a hot tin roof. although i was also pissed.

as i've ranted before, other people's saliva on, in, near, around or within 5 miles of my food. or toothbrush. or face. i spent thu night talking to a very nice and good looking lawyer, but my god i just wanted to tear my lips off my face and scrub dry them on the carpet by the time he'd finished spraying me with every sentence. or his lips, which might have been a more permanent solution. ugh and i couldn't wipe my eyes/face/lips/neck/boobs because it would have looked rude... i'm rocking just thinking about it... if we're shagging, great, you can pump as much of any bodily fluid wherever and whenever turns you on the most, but can anyone else please leave them in their own bodies and not squirted over my face, thank you very much.

leftovers or people sharing food. this is connected to above. as happens so often, i watched a couple yesterday lunchtime eat half their own main courses and SWOP. wtf? if you want two meals, order two meals. then go to the gym. i couldn't eat my own lunch after that.

when i was little, strange showers used to terrify me, like the ones in the ladies changing rooms at the squash club, which were dark, dank and mouldy. ditto huge pipes. god knows what could come out of them. these days though i'd be more frightened of people who don't use them.

jellyfish. one minute you're swimming in the caribbean or similar, the next it feels as if a long strand of rusty barbed wire has whipped around your feet.

hmmmm i am beginning to scare myself now.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Mon 14 Apr 2008, 14:00, 5 replies)

Blimey
That's a lot of phobias... how do you function?

Agree to a point regarding other people's saliva, though. Tourette's I don't mind seeing as we swap spit anyway, but other people? Yuurgh.
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Mon 14 Apr 2008, 14:06, closed)

*shudders*
I was helping out a friend by managing a bar shift at a play on Saturday night.
I didn't manage to have any dinner before I started, so come 10 I was pretty peckish.

There were bowls of crisps and nuts out on the bar, so the other staff asked why I wasn't eating them if I was so hungry.

They didn't understand the concept that people had put their hands in the bowls, after going to the toilet/licking their fingers/touching a dog.

*shudders*

I made a sandwich when I got home, only to find that the last bite I took had mould on the crust :(
( Cawl, Mon 14 Apr 2008, 14:11, closed)

Madam, I refer you to:
www.b3ta.com/questions/phobias/post141028

If you hang your feet off the bed, a monster gets you. No shame in having fear of that. :)
( Devil_In_Tights the *real* DiT!, Mon 14 Apr 2008, 14:21, closed)

I can't
Hang any body part off the bed as it's just not comfortable. Apart from my massive schlong but I can't run the rsik of my mum coming into the room to find her babys 4 foot monster hanging out the side of the bed....
( whenanimalsattackhumans clad in global hypercolour, Mon 14 Apr 2008, 15:05, closed)

Basically
are you just a bit OCD about germs?
( Madam Marlboro wonders if you've found her yet, Mon 14 Apr 2008, 15:21, closed)