Weird phobias

[loulou]

wjp666 have me this idea .

Has anyone got any weird phobias ? I have . I am terrified of second hand books so no library visits for me and also second hand shops.

[oldspice]

trains

[wjp666]

i'm not sure it's strange, becasue a lot of people don't like creepy crawlies... but i can't look at more than one m*ggot at a time. one id just about okay, but more than one makes me want to pass out. and if there's a whole mass - YEESH! - that's too much! i hate them so much i can't even bring myself to say the word or even write it. (looking at still pictures is generally okay though.)

apart from that, toddlers with clammy, sticky hands touching me ranks pretty high too.

[paulham]

Tell me why I don't like Mondays?

[oldspice]

Tell me why I don't like Mondays?

Cos "the text machine is kept so clean and it types to a raging world....."

[bounty hunter]

I know a woman who has a phobia of buttons.  That's a bizzare one, I mean - buttons?!

[wjp666]

my mum can't look at submarines.

[netbuddy]

Heights. Weird thing is that I don't mind flying and I have been mountaineering. What I find is that I am OK say on a 3 floor apartment block but on the 18th of a tower block... Not so good, its as if I can "Really" feel the building swaying. Just thinking of it gives me palpitations.

[paulham]

my mum can't look at submarines.

I get a weird sense of relief every time I pass water.

[wjp666]

anyone afraid of clowns? that one's been on the increase for years now, apparently.

[oldspice]

I know a woman who has a phobia of buttons.  That's a bizzare one, I mean - buttons?!

It's quite common actually.  Years after we met, my husband and I discovered that when we were young, we both had a button phobia. As a small child, my mum's button tin gave me the horrors. I still don't like certain kinds of buttons.

Actually, I have quite a few what are officially called 'anxieties'. Anything that takes me out of my routine is a huge difficulty for me which is why we never go for long holiday breaks. I can't cope for more than a few days.

[wjp666]

i used to play for hours with my grandmothers button tin. it used to bring me so much joy.

does anyone under the age of 70 these days actually own a button tin?

[loulou]

Well my mam got sick of me asking her to sew things for me so she bought me a sewing basket and filled it with pins, needles, cottons etc. This was about a year ago and since I got it I have sewn nothing but managed to put around 50 buttons in it. I believe I am saving them for a time when I will need them but not sure when that is.

[goldencup]

Well yes I do have a button tin but it only contains boring white shirt buttons as I have three men in my house who have to wear white shirts most of the time.

On the subject of phobias, I don't like looking at the front of boats/ships and find figureheads very spooky.  I think I must have been mown down by a boat in a previous life!

[loulou]

That explains it then, perhaps in a previous life i was battered to death with a library book.