BS: irrational fear

Subject: RE: BS: irrational fear
From: Becca72
Date: 10 Jul 09 - 12:36 PM

I have a fear of spiders so strong I can't even get near them to kill them. I just leave the room and let them have it.

I also, at 37 years old, still can't hang any extremities over the edge of the bed at night or sleep with the closet door open. But I read a lot of Stephen King.


Hey Little Hawk...c'mere. :-)

Subject: RE: BS: irrational fear
From: GUEST,Emily S
Date: 10 Jul 09 - 02:20 PM

I have tons of irrational fears. Many are fairly common, you know, the woods-at-night-monster, the privy-monster, the under-the-bed-monster, etc. When I was little I used to insist that the window close to my bed be closed at night, didn't matter how hot it was. Finally I confessed that I thought my mother was a witch and would fly in at night at get me. Outwardly I seem to be fairly well adjusted but...

the most irrational fear I have is for large round haybales. Who knows why. First saw them in England in the mid-70's and it was like some deep primeval fear welling up inside. It was the weirdest dread. I even get this looking at photos. It's bad enough when they are out in the field but so much worse when they are massed together by the road...like they are getting ready for an attack.

And everything scares me in the dark. I can barely cross a room to turn on the light...especially if the light is by the bed with you-know-what lurking beneath.

Can you tell you touched one of my buttons?
Thanks for all the puns! Humor is a great way to offset fear.
Emily

Subject: RE: BS: irrational fear
From: John P
Date: 10 Jul 09 - 03:26 PM

I'm afraid of large dogs that I don't know. I was attacked by a Great Dane when I was four years old. Oddly, I'm a doggy person, and once I get to know a dog I'm completely fine.

Subject: RE: BS: irrational fear
From: Peace
Date: 11 Jul 09 - 05:20 AM

"There was an old movie where Christopher Lee plays a mysterious man on a railroad train who tells the futures of some of the passengers."

Dr
Terror's
House
of
Horrors"

Great--flick.

Subject: RE: BS: irrational fear
From: Rapparee
Date: 11 Jul 09 - 10:28 AM

I'm going to cut the grass today and squarely face my fear that I'll be run over by a locomotive while doing so.

Subject: RE: BS: irrational fear
From: Peace
Date: 11 Jul 09 - 10:33 AM

Tough job, but someone's . . . .

Subject: RE: BS: irrational fear
From: Bill D
Date: 11 Jul 09 - 01:15 PM

loco-motive....isn't that almost like an 'irrational fear'?

Subject: RE: BS: irrational fear
From: Rapparee
Date: 11 Jul 09 - 01:51 PM

Never mind...I took a nap instead.

NOW I'll get ready to cut the grass while wearing complete body armor. The golfers are out.

Subject: RE: BS: irrational fear
From: Peace
Date: 11 Jul 09 - 01:56 PM

You'll look fetchin' Rap.

Subject: RE: BS: irrational fear
From: Rapparee
Date: 11 Jul 09 - 08:12 PM

I went to cut the back yard fist and...flooded the engine on the mower. So I trimmed some roses and did stuff like that and still couldn't get it started. So I said, "Screw it, there's always tomorrow" and went to the front of the house.

The neighbors two doors down were cutting my front yard! Not because it was unsightly, but it is small, they'd seen me in the back, and decided to cut it so I could figure out what had happened. Just a nice neighborly gesture.

Like the guy across the street who took our stump to the dump -- after three weeks he admitted what he'd done. Ever spend three weeks wondering what happened to a four foot long tree stump?

Subject: RE: BS: irrational fear
From: Peace
Date: 11 Jul 09 - 08:17 PM

Maybe ya got a fouled spark plug.

Subject: RE: BS: irrational fear
From: Rapparee
Date: 11 Jul 09 - 08:51 PM

Nah, after I let it sit long enough it fired right up. Besides, it's a new plug and correctly gapped (I didn't gap it, someone who knows what they're doing did).