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Do you have any phobias?
Submitted by Amirul B Ruslan.

I'm not especially fond of parking garages and other enclosed (and hard to escape) spaces.  I wouldn't say that I'm deathly afraid, but I really would prefer to spend as little time as possible in them.  I especially hate those spiral ramps with the tight turns and the low ceilings.  Elevators aren't much better. 

I also dread visits to the dentist, but this is a rational fear--they cost lots of money and cause me pain.

Spiders I remind myself are good and helpful beings, and I admire the big pretty ones.  Unless they're jumping.  I really want to be able to predict the motion of things, and the jumping ones make that difficult.  Other bugs rarely freak me out, though the big cockroaches have been known to make me shriek in surprise.

Rats and such tend to make me squeak--not only are they surprising, but they can bite and scratch.  I'd prefer for them to live in their world and me in mine, please.  (And yet my husband just spent 20 minutes investigating noises in the attic and setting out a trap...)

I'm pretty damned cool in the dark.  I used to hate it, but somewhere along the line I decided that it was comfortable to be in the opaque blanket.  Probably when I started needing more sleep?

Heights I'm more or less fine with.  I don't especially like being in a tightrope sort of situation, but can look over the edge of a building just fine.

The number thirteen?  Wide open spaces?  Feet?  No problems.

Death?  I'd prefer not to talk about it, thanks.

Horror movies really freak me out.  Probably because my brain has a hard time separating fiction from reality.  If nothing else, I end up with wicked nightmares for a long, long time.  I still have the occasional "Carrie" nightmare, and I think I was in middle school when I saw that.  I don't watch horror movies now.  I don't think I've missed much.