Odd fears

wingedbride · January 2012

When I was a little winger, I used to live in fear of getting sprayed by a skunk. It never happened. Until now. Thankfully I just got the tail end(no pun intended) of said spray but I'm stinky. GET IT OFF!!! What do I do? And are my pants ruined?

KayRI · January 2012

Ewwwww. I think it's safe to say your pants are ruined. That stank is hard to get out.

I'm afraid of getting my head stuck in a revolving door.

boxerfan · January 2012

I've heard that tomato juice gets skunk stank to go away. As in - take a bath in the stuff.

wingedbride · January 2012

I can't bathe!

buddhagouda · January 2012

I think you're supposed to take a bath in tomato juice

and throw your pants away

boxerfan · January 2012

What? Why? You're dirty.

applesandoranges · January 2012

Exfoliate a lot maybe? Sorry, that stinks (pun intended).

I am afraid of zombies. I have nightmares, can't even listen to that groaning sound they make - ugh. I even thought I didn't want to buy the home we bought because it couldn't be easily zombie-proofed. :-|

buddhagouda · January 2012

I bet skunk smell coupled with not washing would make your pants last a good five years.

wingedbride · January 2012

Haha. No. I mean takes baths. I can shower but my shower head doesn't ha e a tomato setting.

wingedbride · January 2012

Maybe I can sponge it on?

Novemberrocks · January 2012

Ewwww. Skunk is nasty. Can you just pour tomato sauce over the effected area and try to leave it on for a while?

HappyTummy613 · January 2012

winged is cracking me up in this post.

I had/have many an odd fear, some of which I've grown out of. They include:

-My jaw getting stuck shut.

-Trying to do a somersault in the water and getting stuck with my head on the bottom and drowning. [This one is especially weird since I used to swim competitively and was quite used to doing flip turns.]

-Getting my head stuck in a sewer or a small opening in a secret passageway. No idea why I would ever have to be in either situation, but I have recurring nightmares about this.

-Caves

boxerfan · January 2012

Oh, gotcha. I think it's more of a soaking thing, so I'm not sure if the sponge would do it. But it's worth a shot, right?

buddhagouda · January 2012

My odd fear was always that some far away person could read my thoughts. I would lie in my bed and try not to think.

CaptainSerious · January 2012

My husband's been sprayed. The tomato sauce/juice doesn't work. If makes it so you don't smell it for a while, but it doesn't remove the smell, and it won't save your clothes.

What does work is a mixture of baking soda, hydrogen peroxide, and dish soap. We used this "recipe": http://lavplourde.tripod.com/skunk/. It creates a chemical reaction, and foams and heats up, so you have to use it right away. If you soak your clothes, it will get the smell out of them, too.

MadameS · January 2012

Wait. How did you get sprayed by a skunk? The only time I even see skunks is if they are already road-kill.

lmydogally · January 2012

Please tell us how this sunk event occurred. Also, just lather the tomato juice all over your self and let it sit for a few minutes, rinse and repeat.

CaptainSerious · January 2012

HappyTummy613:

-Trying to do a somersault in the water and getting stuck with my head on the bottom and drowning. [This one is especially weird since I used to swim competitively and was quite used to doing flip turns.]

This actually happened to me. Well, all except the drowning part. I accidentally did a flip into a cistern, and was caught upside down, with my head underwater. Luckily, my cousin witnessed it, and found someone to pull me out.

MelindaFelinda · January 2012

My weird fears that make people hate me:

Tiny thin glass including baby glasses. Especially watching people eat lightbulbs. I also hate thin wine glasses.

Crabs and Lobsters. I seriously want to die even thinking about them.

Touching cotton

I'm afraid to run the garbage disposal because I think I might get a compulsion to stick my hand in it.

I don't like to hear recorded voices slowed down. It really bothers me because once when I had a fever I had a dream about talking jello and it talked really slow and deep like a slowed down tape recorder.

HappyTummy613 · January 2012

CaptainSerious:
HappyTummy613:

-Trying to do a somersault in the water and getting stuck with my head on the bottom and drowning. [This one is especially weird since I used to swim competitively and was quite used to doing flip turns.]

This actually happened to me. Well, all except the drowning part. I accidentally did a flip into a cistern, and was caught upside down, with my head underwater. Luckily, my cousin witnessed it, and found someone to pull me out.

Now every time I swim I'm going to have to look for cisterns first.

wingedbride · January 2012

Thanks CS! And you all it was so weird. I walked out of this school and he was lying in wait. Ready to pounce. I'm not even sure what was being sprayed, maybe another animal. I kind of walked into it, like you would walk into perfume you just sprayed.

boxerfan · January 2012

MelindaFelinda:

Crabs and Lobsters. I seriously want to die even thinking about them.

nicoleg1982 · January 2012

Lizards and frogs. I can't do them. And yes, I live where they live - it is a daily nightmare. NIGHTMARE, I tell you.

CaptainSerious · January 2012

HappyTummy613:

Now every time I swim I'm going to have to look for cisterns first.

It's a real hazard the way they just jump out at you!

CaliopeSpidrman · January 2012

MelindaFelinda:
My weird fears that make people hate me:
Tiny thin glass including baby glasses. Especially watching people eat lightbulbs. I also hate thin wine glasses.
Crabs and Lobsters. I seriously want to die even thinking about them.
Touching cotton
I'm afraid to run the garbage disposal because I think I might get a compulsion to stick my hand in it.
I don't like to hear recorded voices slowed down. It really bothers me because once when I had a fever I had a dream about talking jello and it talked really slow and deep like a slowed down tape recorder.

Your whole list is cracking me up, but especially your anecdote about talking jello.

Novemberrocks · January 2012

My odd fears: standard poodles. Poodles are supposed to be small dogs...the big ones freak me out. Being found dead and naked.

katie.i.do · January 2012

i used to have recurring and terrifying dreams about a squadron of giant black wasps. i guess you could add that to my uncontrolled fear of huge fast spiders and centipedes.

i also had recurring dreams about a bleak alternate reality where every boy and girl were waiting in a line that ascended a huge hill, and at the top of the hill was a guillotine. all the boys had to have their finger chopped off and all the girls had to have their head chopped off. talk about gender inequality!

Novemberrocks · January 2012

When I was a kid, I was terribly frightened by Kiss.

katie.i.do · January 2012

melinda i can see your garbage disposal fear. i mean, whenever i have to stick my hand in there i break out in a cold sweat for fear it will spontaneously turn itself on. and then i have visions of that scene in the goonies when the fratellis threaten to put chunk's hand in the blender.

FallinAgain · January 2012

Touching cotton?? Plants in the field? Or do t-shirts freak you out?

TheDuckis · January 2012

I am terrified of finding a body. Hiking in the woods, walking through dark parking lots, and H not answering when I yell from the next room all make me nervous for this reason.

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