Name 5 Things that Scare You

[Dr.Teufel Geist]

Me too! I needed loom hooks for knitting. Don't judge me. I already know it's dorky. I like to make things for people.

it's not dorky...   in that case, knit me a Tom Baker Doctor Who scarf then :p

[voodoodaul]

it's not dorky...   in that case, knit me a Tom Baker Doctor Who scarf then :p

I could do that.

[Dr.Teufel Geist]

I could do that.

Keyword is could

[Flower]

The idea of running out of coffee.

Bagelheads.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/yourcommunity/2012/09/japanese-hipsters-get-bagel-head-saline-injections.html

Reading the newspaper.

[vintagehalloweentoys]

The idea of running out of coffee.

Bagelheads.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/yourcommunity/2012/09/japanese-hipsters-get-bagel-head-saline-injections.html

Reading the newspaper.

Those kids today......

[Zackuth]

Needles--I'm usually a wreck when I see a syringe get pulled out and I'm so tensed up I'm surprised the needle gets past the skin.
Unseen noises, day or night
Speaking in public
Driving/walking in not so friendly areas at night
Looking into a mirror in the dark (yeah, it's irrational, but I'm scared it might not be me looking back)

[CreepysFan]

Looking into a mirror in the dark (yeah, it's irrational, but I'm scared it might not be me looking back)

   

Maybe you could relax yourself by chanting "Bloody Mary" to the mirror a feew times.   

[Zackuth]

Thanks Creepysfan, I just might do that   

[marsattacks666]

Needles--I'm usually a wreck when I see a syringe get pulled out and I'm so tensed up I'm surprised the needle gets past the skin.
Unseen noises, day or night
Speaking in public
Driving/walking in not so friendly areas at night
Looking into a mirror in the dark (yeah, it's irrational, but I'm scared it might not be me looking back)

Needles yuck!!!  I can never look at needles.

[Splitty]

1. Large bodies of water with slimy reeds on the bottom that may or may not contain rotting dead-ailive corpse arms that will be grabbing my legs, indistinguishable from the reeds.

2. Large bodies of water that may contain sharks or moray eels.

3. I'm now going to have to add leeches to that list after seeing that pic. 

4. People.

5. More than 5 people looking at me at once.

[charp13]

Splitty - Large bodies of water are my least favorite places to explore, as well.  I hadn't really thought abouts reeds or eels, but just the water itself- eeek!
And people are often scary, but as I get older I am less scared    I love huge crowds where there are so many people that I know none of them have time to look at me- whoohoo!
And remember, most of us here at the UMA are not the least bit scary- to each other!

[Unknown Primate]

1. Large bodies of water with slimy reeds on the bottom that may or may not contain rotting dead-ailive corpse arms that will be grabbing my legs, indistinguishable from the reeds.

Have you seen the 2010 horror flick, THE REEDS?  You should check it out  .

Alligators & sharks fascinate me, but are creepingly disturbing.  Had close encounters with a gator in The Everglades and a shark in Ft. Myers, FL.  Well - close enough, anyway!

[CreepysFan]

3. I'm now going to have to add leeches to that list after seeing that pic. 

 

  Splitty, leeches are actually therapeutic.  Their natural anti-coagulant helps with blood circulation.   At least with what blood they don't take for themselves.

[Flower]

ileech
n.
1. Any of various chiefly aquatic bloodsucking or carnivorous annelid worms of the class Hirudinea, of which one species (Hirudo medicinalis) was formerly used by physicians to bleed patients and is now sometimes used as a temporary aid to circulation during surgical reattachment of a body part.
2. One that preys on or clings to another; a parasite.
3. Archaic A physician.
v. leeched, leech·ing, leech·es
v.tr.
1. To bleed with leeches.
2. To drain the essence or exhaust the resources of.
v.intr.
To attach oneself to another in the manner of a leech.


I'm scared of the  two legged 'leeches' who attach themselves to others.

[vintagehalloweentoys]

Have you seen the 2010 horror flick, THE REEDS?  You should check it out  .

Alligators & sharks fascinate me, but are creepingly disturbing.  Had close encounters with a gator in The Everglades and a shark in Ft. Myers, FL.  Well - close enough, anyway!

I had a possible shark encounter when I was a little kid visiting Florida...I was near Ft. Myers at Sanibel Island. I was about 50 yards or so off shore swimming and splashing around. I could barely touch my toes in the sand in about 5 feet deep of water. All these fish started jumping around me. One after the next. They were within 20 feet from where I was swimming. I got spooked, and made my way to shore.

The next day I went out on a charter fishing boat. A couple of the guys working on the boat were talking about a 1200 pound Tiger Shark that was caught 500 yards offshore from where I had been swimming (on the same day I swam). I asked the the guys who were working on the boat what is going on when a bunch of fish start jumping around...They told me "that usually means a bigger fish is in that area".