We ALL have 'em, see any of yours here?

http://deep-dark-fears.tumblr.com/

There’s more there, just click the “older” button at the bottom of the page

(Damn, you, 'toilet-spider', I ALWAYS look for you!!!!!)

I only have one and it really isn't a phobia as much as a concern that I always have in the back of my mind. Walking along and falling into a deep deep hole. Developed it several years ago when I happened to stumble onto the edge of a rotten piece roofing tin. It was covered with years of fallen leaves and pine needles. When I pulled it up, I found it had been placed there to cover a hole about 4 ft around and 12 feet deep. Looked like someone (my father?) had attempted to hand dig a well, gave up on it and threw the piece of tin over it. Now, if I take a step and the ground gives a little when I put my foot down, I quickly back off.
The thought of dying in the hole doesn't bother me. It's just being in it that is worrisome.

Many years ago we had a shower head that was adjustable. In the middle was a big "hole" where you could adjust the flow and just a jet of water came out.

Like everyone else in the world we never used it.

As usual I hopped in the shower, and started lathering up. I happened to look up in time to see legs popping out of the hole, and a spider pull itself out, like some horror movie effect.

My wife said she heard a little girl scream, but I don't remember that. I almost killed myself trying to get out of the shower, ripped the curtain off its hooks and landed on the floor in the fetal position.

Now before I take a shower anywhere I run pure hot water for a few minutes, and if the shower is adjustable I run through the different settings before getting in the shower.

Our shower head has no large holes in it.

I wasn't really scared of spiders up to that point, but for some reason, I thought that one was going to kill me. I don't care for them now either...

Brad

Getting into an accident while picking my nose and having the airbag shove my finger up my nose so far I'm tickling my frontal lobe...

quote Originally posted by fastblack: Getting into an accident while picking my nose and having the airbag shove my finger up my nose so far I'm tickling my frontal lobe...

Dam! glad I was not taking a sip of coffee when I read that. Might be other compromising situations to avoid in the future too.........

My worst fear is that I'll get captured in a foreign country and get tortured until I slowly die.

Not sure that you would have to go to a foreign country for that. Not that I lay awake at night worrying about it.

I'm scared of everything.
To some degree, even my wife.
But I don't freeze up, I don't panic.
I function.

Still, it's always right there, just below the surface...

quote Originally posted by Boondawg: I'm scared of everything. To some degree, even my wife. But I don't freeze up, I don't panic. I function. Still, it's always right there, just below the surface...

That's interesting, but a total crock of sh*t.
Boonie, you ain't 'fraud of nuthin'.
Now shut up, and keep paddling, man-
This friggin' raft is taking on some water...

courage is not the absence of fear. courage is doing what needs to be done, in the face of fear.
hey, is that a shark fin circling the raft?

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Fear fear.

That and the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man.

quote Originally posted by lurker: courage is not the absence of fear. courage is doing what needs to be done, in the face of fear. hey, is that a shark fin circling the raft?

says you.

When I lived in Korea with my family in the early to mid 1970s, we had one of the few indoor toilets in the area. One morning I had to poop and kept hearing a splashing sound. After I flushed, I heard it again and when I opened the lid, a huge sewer rat jumped at me hissing. I quickly closed the lid, warned my 5 year old daughter and ex-wife and got a piece of firewood and killed the sucker. We had that problem several times after that so I was always on the lookout.

My present wife and I live in a remote area of Oregon and have a septic tank but I always check the toilet before sitting down to ensure my darkest fear doesn't return to haunt me.