i'm afraid of turban-wearing Arabs . I always have this silly notion that they're terrorists

Ending up in an old folks home.

this is the hardest i've laughed in a long time

I'm afraid to touch styrofoam I freakin hate that sound ahhhhhh

I am terrified of heights too, but I don't think my gonads hurt when i am on a balcony. But i do feel like I wanna jump, to the point my legs start to hurt real bad.

Hate to quote my own post, but I got a text message from the Mrs at 5:00 Wednesday saying "The huge bees are back".

I replied, "Impossible, they don't come out until the fall, and I killed them all 2 or 3 years ago".

She says, "That's what I thought but I just saw one. It was huge"

I'm paranoid now whenever I'm coming in or leaving the house at night. We live in a townhouse and there's a light on the front porch that I can't turn off (I guess I could unscrew the bulb but we're not supposed to). I just keep thinking that at the exact moment I'm unlocking the front door (directly under the light) one of those ****ers decided to start buzzing around it and crash into my neck or something. *shudder*

Cicada killers were featured on an episode of Billy the Exterminator. You should call him, imo.

Big fear of having a ball slowly crushed. Like the only good part of being on my deathbed will be knowing I made it through life w/o that happening. (hopefully)

You people afraid of bees should live in Japan with these guys:



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asian_giant_hornet


That's some ****ed up Alien-esque **** there.

I found this more interesting than 90% of the bull**** in the Wikipedia thread. Bees and the like don't bother me too much, but those guys would scare me ****less.

Here's something I'm wondering: For the people who are deathly afraid of bees/wasps/yellow jackets, aren't they ever afraid that they're going to disturb a nest by accident? I've seen guys who turn into little girls the moment a bee comes around, and I'm thinking that if they ever bumped into a nest by accident, they'd die of fear before anything else.

+1 100 %

I've been chased by killer bees. It was a little unnerving and would have been terrifying if we weren't in a car. We were trying to look at a view in Anza-Borrego desert. After the bees came we drove a little way then got out. Here they come again. Repeat process. After about the third time the girl I was with pulls out a pamphlet she grabbed in the visitor station (she's compulsive about stuff like that): "Killer Bees are in the Park". They followed us over a mile and basically did everything the pamphlet said they would do.

so this is the worst fear of the average american? being stigmatized as a sexual being?

Yeah +1 to all this, especially the bolded part. If I'm calling anyone but family or friends, I usually have to walk around in circles for ~45 minutes beforehand to psych myself up. But I guess that the underlying fear here is that I'm just plain scared to ask anybody for anything - I'd rather spend a couple weeks figuring **** out for myself than ask somebody for help.

I have not taken a bath in 28 years only showers. I watched some movie where a piranha came up the drain and killed who ever was in the tub. (don't remember) Anyway I have tried to take a bath in the past and I don't feel comfortable and feel on edge even though I know that's ******ed.

A lot of other **** freaks me out but it's not really unusual....

I got stung in my ear by a bee when I was younger and I basically freeze up when they come near me now. It got me just at the start of my ear canal and I was afraid when I smacked my ear that he died and fell into my canal, I was terrified for days after that he laid a nest in there.

I saw the some NatGeo documentary on them. It showed the wiki section you mentioned where like 40 of them took out a hive of regular bees numbering in the tens of thousands. So sick.

terrifying!

And they kill like 30 people a year in Japan. They're like killer bees with better weaponry

Also they're insanely aggressive. Like you only need to be within a 30 or 40 feet of their nest and they will start attacking.

I remember those freakin huge hornets, I grew up in Japan and we always thought it was funny to throw rocks and stuff at the hives and run like hell when we saw the hornets B-lining straight at us like from the cartoons

im claustrophobic.. in every way possible

this


also ovens and escalators

The ocean scares the piss out of me.

I always have dreams that im underwater and see a whale in the distance, he looks normal sized and then he starts getting closer and closer, and bigger and bigger until he's like 50 feet away from me and about a mile wide.

Then I wake up.

Bees, omfg, so so scared of them. Not so unusual I guess but really scare the hell out of me.