What's Your Phobia?
 

Do you have a Phobia of any kind?

One of mine is public swimming pools.
Yep, and not because I not a very good swimmer, but because
I get the feeling of entering other people's bath water,
YUCK.

I guess I'm just not a water person.

What's yours?

- Deer ticks
- The ER at The Villages Hospital

That's a real shame considering the number of pools we have access to. I do understand that your concern is real.

I watched people go into the Southside Hot Tub when there was brown & white foam on the top and all over the place and it wasn't a bubble bath. It was a mixture of human stew. I kept my mouth shut and never went back. Our friends loved going in that damn hot tub and they were way too smart to listen to advice so I clammed up.

My only Phobias are Snakes which have lessened since we moved to Florida and now I've learned a bit about them. The worst thing for me is Flying, that's an OFFICAL no go. Never for any reason, case closed! :ohdear:

Some of the older women that frequent the bars and cafes in the villages.

That would be my second phobia and again I can't say why even though I can
get to a faraway place in hours.

Flying is like when I had my Goldwing trike. I loved riding it, but as I got older
and seen the danger in traffic here in Florida, I sold it.

Bottle with 1/2 shot of 18yo single malt leftover.

Closed-minded people.

Heights, Tall Bridges and Freeway ramps

For me, it's spiders... Especially the big, hairy ones...

Serious fear of heights. As a very young child we were visiting a popular destination on the side of a small mountain. My cousin slipped, grabbing my hand, and we slide down the side to a rocky area. Took hours to get us back to safety. Now in todays world, there are fences, walls, and no longer a issue, that happened to us.

I can’t stay above 5th floor of a hotel, or drive over a bridge, rock climb, roller coasters, or anything to do with heights. Flying is something I can do, and traveled extensively for work, but I never look out the window, and don’t feel comfortable until plane has reached altitude.

For the most part I am good but I guess my pillow falling on the floor while staying at a hotel.

Bath water? Try a toilet!!! During our Lifestyle stay, our agent took us to Rec pool, it was empty. I looked on the stairs going into the pool and there were 3 TURDS! Guess the depends get loose when wet. There is a silver lining though, they were solid.

Movie theaters. Who just sat there before me, what is they had scabies?

One, two three, it's so easy
 

Driving the demolition derby and bumper car races aka the village circles

Bugs for me. Even though I don't lose sleep over fearing having them crawl on me anymore (found a big one under my pillow as a kid), I still have a mini heart attack every time I see a cockroach here in TV. So gross.

Perhaps the Roundabouts as people do not understand the laws.
.
Very simple in a 4 road roundabout.
Left Turn ... Use the left lane.
Right Turn ... Use the right lane.
Straight ... Use either lane *** To be safer use the right lane. As some Idiot drivers make an illegal left turn from the right lane.

Financial advisors

Gorilla on the roof

People with phobias.

Fear of heights, but only if I'm on something attached to the ground. Airplanes, no problem.

tornados.

An MRI…highest level of anxiety!

A friend take a couple of "babe-ruth" candy bars when know one was
looking, drop them in the pool.

He had the whole pool to himself. :1rotfl:

Carpets in hotel rooms. Yuck! Door handles in public bathrooms, double yuck!! Don’t think it’s a phobia though…

me too!! overhead traffic lanes that are so narrow i can already hear the sideswipe of the car against the jersey barriers. that long bridge into st pete is a nailbiter, too

April 15th

Old people who can’t drive. Oops!

Ah, very good, it is said fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Can’t imagine how you could go through life without traveling over a bridge. ESP with your extensive travel. Must have taken a lot of pre planning

For DW, it is dogs. Savagely attacked as a toddler by the sweet and gentle family dog, she can never trust a dog.

I have never seen a roach in the 3 yrs we’ve been in TV. Deans takes care of that for us.

Every time I find a dead cockroach, usually they're in the garage, it is on its back. So I wonder, the last thing it did before dieing was to flip over? Weird... I tell my wife the cockroach and ladybug are in the same family. It doesn't help...

It was probably a family pool. Baby! No one there because of fecal contamination. We had that happen up North inn a public pool.

Claustrophobia....hate elevators. If one ever got stuck I'd have a heart attack. Once walked down 9 flights of stairs because the elevator got so crowded on way down.https://giphy.com/gifs/animated-gif-...fb6CvKk7gnsFoY

I love to swim and if I had a phobia about it, I would imagine that it involved some sort of childhood adverse experience - and I would definitely want to see professional therapy. There IS nothing to be ashamed of. We here in the US are very reluctant to seek help, but I see it as improvement just like if you go for a golfing lesson. You just go and get a mind-tweak. I, personally, like the idea of HYPNOSIS. Incidentally, when I was a teen, I read a book on hypnosis. and I have to admit that I got some volunteers (bribed with beer) and when one had been hypnotized before at a demonstration, I was able to put them under myself. I finally decided that it was too dangerous for an amateur, like myself, to try to do. So, I forgot about it and NEVER tried again. Maybe, I should have gone to medical school........oh well maybe NEXT LIFETIME.

Well, just remember, you might be their phobia!

Also, dogs get ticks if you walk them in the woods. If they get near their ear, the dog cannot bite and kill them. Consequently, the dog's master must remove them and if not detected early, the tick swells up to about the size of a marble. Removing them is gross and for the master and painful for the dog. But, they are "man's best friend" and can be trained to be much quieter than a WIFE. And for the tick-in-ear removal, you are THEIR best friend.

That white foam is really ONLY suntan oil or prevention. It LOOKS more gross than it actually is. There was a man there that used to shave in the public hot tub, now THAT was pushing the envelope of GROSS. I think that someone told him to REFRAIN from that B AD habit.
........But, anyway, the tub has a chlorine-like anti-bacterial solution in it. And some really GREAT conversations happen in the tub. And some REALLY boring ones also.

Phobia
 

Mine would be flying(hands down) I don't like the fact of two people having my life in their hands. We moved to Panama City FL from MN,and when we did I went out and bought a Ford Focus ZX5 with 60k on it just to drive back and forth from FL to MN. otherwise it sits in the driveway. Also my wifes constant shopping!!

My greatest Phobia is that this incredible inflation is going to get worse .