Are you creeped out by something benign..something like clowns? Teletubbies?

[Aeolius]

Whenever possible, I tend to avoid locales with tall buildings, parallel parking, and crowds of people. Nothing makes me quite as claustrophobic as being surrounded by a swarm of strange humans.

Other than that I hate needles (I can watch movies where people get their heads ripped off, but show one person getting a shot and I hide behind the sofa) and harbor an irrational dislike for hamsters.

 

[Knight Otu]

Watching my own blood be drawn.

Other than that I hate needles

Heh, I'm a diabetic, annd I inject insuline 4 times a day, 6 times if you count the different types. But when a doctor draws my blood, I look the other way. Can't look. Not as major as the eye thing, but odd enough.

 

[drnuncheon]

I had this conditioned fear of water fountains (or "bubblers", if you're of the mid-western persuasion)

Huh? Only time my wife and I have ever heard 'bubbler' is when we lived in Boston - I went to college in indiana and she grew up in Missouri, and you don't get much more Midwest than that.

Edit: er, to be on topic, the only thing I really get twitchy about are parasites. Especially intestinal ones.

J

 

[Brennin Magalus]

My daughter is afraid of clowns (that's not, however, where I got the idea for my avatar). I think she has found them to be creepy since watching the movie "IT".

About the only thing that is normally associated with happy thoughts that creeps me out is teletubbies. Have you looked closely at one of them? Jeez, they are creepy.

So what person, place, or thing--that is normally considered to be benign--creeps you out (or someone you know)?

I don't like clowns, which I think stems from watching Poltergeist as a child.

 

[Andrew D. Gable]

I dislike many things. I'm a very neurotic person.

The most major ones are bats, heights, and cockroaches (I hate the dirty little plague-ridden blighters).

 

[DungeonmasterCal]

I work for a major not for profit hunger relief agency here in the states, and we're in the middle of our 60th Anniversary Celebration and Conference on world hunger. The opening day, I get off the elevator and what do I see? MIMES!!! I step off the elevator, I'm aware I'm being followed. I look behind me, and there are a dozen MIMES!! I'm telling you, it's like my own private screening of HELL!

 

[Olgar Shiverstone]

Hmmm ... clowns, check. Hated them from very small. Teletubbies ... the horror!. Needles ... don't like 'em, give me the willies. Magnified pictures of insects make me rub my nose obsessively -- I expect a man-sized insect would scare me into unconsciousness. Ladders -- for some reason, 6-10 feet off the ground is scary, but I'll happily jump out of a perfectly good airplane. I don't care for crowds, and always prefer to sit in a public place facing the entrance with my back to a wall (but I'll chalk those up to ingrained paranoia).

 

[Uzumaki]

Ladders -- for some reason, 6-10 feet off the ground is scary, but I'll happily jump out of a perfectly good airplane.

Oh, that happens to me, too. I remember I used to get stuck on top of monkey bars when I was little, because I was afraid I'd fall. Yet, I love airplane rides and I'm getting a pilot's license.

Unlikw many of you guys, I like needles. And blood. I used to donate as often as I could, though mainly because I am a healthy, fit adult (physically, anyway) and blood supplies are always low. Until my doctor told me to knock it off because I was somewhat anaemic.

 

[Algolei]

boy did i feel stupid.

Ahh, you get used to it.

...and harbor an irrational dislike for hamsters.

HEY!!! There is nothing--NOTHING--irrational about disliking hamsters!!!

 

[BOZ]

as long as you don't like hamsters TOO much.