Funny Phobias And Strange Dislikes., Don't be shy - tell all. Options

[pvcfairy]

Anybody out there have any quirks? I’m not talking about real phobias, just stuff that you have a real aversion to.
To start you off here are a few of mine.

Wooden clothes racks and only the wooden clothes racks not the plastic coated metal ones, I can find no reason for this, they just up set me a lot.

Light bulbs- I would rather walk around in the dark (and have done so) than change a light bulb. Reason over developed wariness of electricity and you have to climb on chairs lots of wobbling.

Some types of plastic -smooth is fine really textured is fine, it’s the stuff that pretends to be smooth but isn’t makes my skin crawl. It used on the cheep highlighter pens that they supply at work and I have been known to wrap them in toilet paper and sticky tape before I use them.

[Sir Psycho Sexy]

The plastic that food containers are made out of....like margarine tubs and so on...makes me go all funny....

[lar_di_dar]

hard work and comitment

[LoLo]

I used to have a fear of the sound that stiraphome (sp?) makes but working in a place where I have to constantly deal with it, I've gotten over that.

Sometimes I am afraid that I'll run over another bunny on the way to school. The first one was just running across the street and got under my tired and I was devistated. Why do animals run across the highway?

Dayan put this fear in me : The fear that one day my scary manequin (sp?) man will come alive and remove himself from the pole in his back and kill me in my sleep. I still like it though even though now it gives me a tiny bit of the willies.

[snooodlysnoosnoo...]

I have a phobia of tomato ketchup, does that count?

[Black-Wings]

I hate it when people are around me in the morning and they are eating breakfast. I don't what it is about people but when they eat breakfast in the morning they go all slurpy and weak and it really bugs me.

I'm scared of clowns because once when I was young I went to the circus but my mum had just come back from my grandpas funeral in Israel and was putting on this really big fake smile for us but I could tell that she was like all upset .

Aaaaah, well... I think that lots of people are scared of clowns... they are just really scary things...

Ooo yeah, and when doors aren't open or shut... just inbetween... that gives me the willies big time.. hmmm

[Snugglebum the D...]

I find it very diffecult to eat a meal in the presence of strangers. It's completely illogical.

Makes eating in restaurants uncomfortable I can tell you.

[Forever Unknown]

Mushrooms.

I hate them. I can't even touch them, let alone have them in any of my food. They look and feel like slugs. Makes me want to vomit.

[saucy_tara]

If my ashtray is on my bed, and it happens to be on a crease in the duvet I have to smooth out the crease, then put the ashtray back making completely sure it's on a nice, smooth bit of duvet.
I think thats probably my weirdest habit.
I know someone who is phobic of cotton wool, if it's torn apart in front of them they go ballistic...

[LoLo]

Mushrooms.

I hate them. I can't even touch them, let alone have them in any of my food. They look and feel like slugs. Makes me want to vomit.

I can't stand them either. I just have issues with eating fungi.

[exceptional1709]

If something is slightly off-centre, or not properly aligned, or things that are supposed to be equal are not exactly equal right down to the nearest millimetre, it makes me feel all cold and shaky and I can't concentrate on anything else until I've put it right.

I also hate it when people leave empty electric sockets switched on at the wall- I have to turn them off, and it really annoys everyone.

[mooooooooooopo]

I compulsively turn sockets off and mushrooms make me shudder. Also meat...it's bits of dead animal for crying out loud!

Also anything blatantly commercialised makes me want to scream as does anyone who thinks l337 speak somehow makes them cool.

[artist.unknown]

Open doors, and lights turned on in rooms with no-one in them.

Metal. Not aluminum, usually, but heavy metals mostly. I can't touch it. It's all cold, and slimy somehow, and it makes my hands smell awful. I have to tape it over (with electrical tape) or hold it with my hand in my sleeve. heh. It makes things a little inconvenient, but what can you do?

EDIT: Forgot the most obvious one. I don't like people touching me either. There are a few I'm okay with, but most people and especially strangers I won't touch. That makes crowds a bit difficult...

[voices_in_my_hea...]

This will sound weird...
okay,fine...but I warned you.
If I use those school-owned scicors,(sp?)and I pick them up, and there still all warm from the last person who used them...for some reasone I just can't stand it.
It's the same thing with warm seats...

[little_bear]

I hate having to use an actual toilet in the mens, instead of a urinal. Its the *ahem* nasty surprises that people leave behind. But lets not go there....

[gothictheysay]

I have a phobia of tomato ketchup, does that count?

As do I. From various experience I have learned to recoil in fear every time the word "plywood" is said. I also have fear of yogurt. and a lot of other food I hate. I don't like it near me.

[mooooooooooopo]

*shudders*

I just went and brought a sandwich and was reminded of another two of my phobias. After 3 attempts they managed to understand the phrase 'brown bread please' but even after 5 or so tries they still refused to comprehend 'no mayonaisse, just margerine please' so I gave up and now I have what would be a lovely sandwich but tainted by mayo and narrowly dragged back from the jaws of a white bread based fate worse than death.

It seems to be that white bread, mayo and other white foodstuffs (namely eggs and milk) remind me of maggots for some reason and I feel sick at the thought of even going near them.

[Pixelgoth]

Mushrooms

Someone once told me you should never eat food that squeaks when you bite it!

I have a phobia of ships hulls and propelers. I can't look at them. I had to be drunk to watch Titanic! Most people do I hear Seriously though I'm fine ON the ship just not BY the ship. Ick!

I also hate buttons. They are just plain wrong. Plastic buttons are evil and should be banned. I'm fine with metal ones but anything else is evil. Makes my skin crawl. Especially on duvet covers!

That's it apart from spiders, creepy crawlies, heights...the usual

[monosodiumglutem...]

When I go into department stores (which is, luckily, not often), I'm really freaked out by the metal clothesracks.. No matter what age I am, it always seems that there has always been a rack directly at my eye level ready to blind me...

I also can't stand pastels or faded colors..
they're so dull that they literally make me sick

[JimiJimi]

If something is slightly off-centre, or not properly aligned, or things that are supposed to be equal are not exactly equal right down to the nearest millimetre, it makes me feel all cold and shakey and I can't concentrate on anything else until I've put it right.

I also hate it when people leave empty electric sockets switched on at the wall - I have to turn them off, and it really annoys everyone.

Ditto. On both points. Anyway:

I can't stand powder on hard stuff or scratchy things when you rub it on something, like polystyrene and that hard foamy stuff. I also always think after I've done something (ie running down the stairs) that something could have happened, like tripping and impaling my eye on the door handle. Or even after I've ran somewhere I think of falling over. I also have a strange thing about chopping myself in half when I squeeze between my computer and my drum-kit by knocking my back on the ride cymbal... (see picture).

[voices_in_my_hea...]

nice drums...
I though of another one-that sound it makes when you pulls velcro apart...

[lar_di_dar]

This Game really freaks me out...makes my skin crawl

[arachnidoc17]

For some reason, I have this incredible urge to peel bark off thin (maybe one inch radius) branches.

[tptcow]

I am scared that if I don't do something simple as making sure the door is locked, at least four times that something bad will happen.

[LoLo]

I'm disturbed by how when I talk about my phobias or fears, they seem to happen. Previously I talked about bunnies hopping in front of my car, well yesterday I had three suicidal boxes hop in front of my car. Now I know cardboard boxes aren't bunnies, but they could have been in them.