Irrational Fear/Hate

bos

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It's from "What's Eating Gilbert Grape" I'm guessing. That's what did it for me.


From what I remember, it started in highschool, so I think it may have been Titanic that did it for me. Senior year.
 

ISUME

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This, for irrational fear.

Irrational hate: people who write checks at grocery/convenience stores.

This really pmo.

If the person is going to insist on using a check, at least have it made out to the store before they tell you the total. Also, do they really need to fill out the memo line. Or they could join the 21st century and use plastic.
 

carvers4math

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I'm not sure any of these are irrational, but gynecologists, snakes, dental hygienists, dentists, and bats all make my skin crawl.
 

cowgirl836

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I'm not sure any of these are irrational, but gynecologists, snakes, dental hygienists, dentists, and bats all make my skin crawl.

I had a bad dentist experience at 18. Didn't go back until last year. I don't recommend that. The good part is technology has improved. Drills no longer feel like the filing your fingernails feeling x100000000000000.
 

Clonefan94

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Mice. Can't stand the things. We had a bad infestation of them in our house a few years ago, luckily just in one part of the house, but none the less, we had a lot of them. Ever since then, I lose my mind if I see a mouse anywhere around my house. Even outside. I have traps set up all over the place just to make sure if anyone gets too close, they get caught.
 

carvers4math

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I had a bad dentist experience at 18. Didn't go back until last year. I don't recommend that. The good part is technology has improved. Drills no longer feel like the filing your fingernails feeling x100000000000000.

I'm old. The guy we went to as kids used absolutely no painkillers. Smell of the drill always made me nauseous. My dad, a colorful guy with his stories, said that in the Army during WWII, they just had two guys stand next to you in the dental chair to catch the fainters.
 

cyrevkah

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I had an older cousin that loved to hunt and would get the animals taxidermy-ed His parents were the ones that put the animals in their guest room. Every time we slept there it was in a large room filled with dead animals....staring at you.
 

carvers4math

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I had an older cousin that loved to hunt and would get the animals taxidermy-ed His parents were the ones that put the animals in their guest room. Every time we slept there it was in a large room filled with dead animals....staring at you.

Oh my that is creepy. Had the same experience in my sister's house with her daughter's Beanie Baby collection (at least 200 of them) staring at me when I was trying to sleep, although stuffed real critters would be worse I think.
 

cowgirl836

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I had an older cousin that loved to hunt and would get the animals taxidermy-ed His parents were the ones that put the animals in their guest room. Every time we slept there it was in a large room filled with dead animals....staring at you.


nice.
 

cyrevkah

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Oh my that is creepy. Had the same experience in my sister's house with her daughter's Beanie Baby collection (at least 200 of them) staring at me when I was trying to sleep, although stuffed real critters would be worse I think.

Either way it was creepy. It wasn't like they were all on the floor. Birds on different walls at different heights...ugh
 

SuperTrooper

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Irrational hate? People who cannot put their registration sticker in the bottom left hand corner of the license plate. I DON'T NEED TO SEE ALL OF THEM!!!! The rainbow look isn't cool.

If I was a cop I would stop all drivers who do that and give them a ticket for improperly displayed registration.

Fear? Bodies of water. Probably because I can't swim.
 

westlbcyclone

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Ladders and heights. I am OK being on the roof of a house, but I have a hard time getting up the ladder to get there. When I get my own place, I will not have very many christmas lights...
 

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