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Mameblanche
Member
04-13-2005
| Tuesday, November 15, 2005 - 9:50 pm
NativeT, had I been there, I would have begged off, and met up with y'all later. Hi Jasper! Actually Vin wasn't too impressed with my public meltdown...luckily the parking lot was deserted. But it all got sorted out eventually.
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Jasper
Member
09-14-2000
| Wednesday, November 16, 2005 - 6:43 am
That's good Mame. I have issues with really crowded places, although I am much better now, I tend to get a little freaked out if an exit is not readily available. Here's my is this weird, I'm not sure if you have this everywhere, but there is a Wendy's campaign on now in Ontario for their bacon mushroom melt, everytime I see this burger on TV I want to hurl, it grosses me out, it looks like melted cheese whiz with canned mushrooms in it. Also the sound of packing styrofoam rubbing against each other, I'd rather sit in a pit of snakes than hear that noise ugh, makes my skin crawl.
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Native_texan
Member
08-24-2004
| Wednesday, November 16, 2005 - 7:43 am
Cybergranny, I knew you weren't calling me names. Jasper, ITA about the styrofoam and I also thought there was something wrong with the new Wendy's burger. It just didn't look right. Other noises that make me crazy are eating noises. For example, my son makes almost like a short humming sound when he eats. It drives me up a wall. And then there are folks that chew with their mouth open and talk with a mouthful of food. Someone wants to show me their ABC food, then I will show them what that digested ABC food looks like. When sitting in public, I have to be able to see what's going on around me. In restaurants, I refuse to face the wall or away from the door.
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Wednesday, November 16, 2005 - 7:56 am
People who smack while eating cereal, bug the heck out of me!
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Whoami
Member
08-03-2001
| Thursday, November 17, 2005 - 11:26 pm
My sis is the same way about styrofoam! My Mom hates rubber bands. The thought of touching one gives her the heebie jeebies big time! My heebie jeebie thing is wooden things that conventionally go in the mouth. Like toothpicks, popsicle sticks, corn dog sticks, chop sticks. <shudder> I use a plastic floss pick. And if I must get near a corn dog or popsicle treat, someone has to yank the stick out for me and I'll eat the treat in a bowl with a spoon! If I must, I can get brave enough to touch the stick to yank it out, but no way no how is that nasty thing getting near my mouth! Ugh, I get goose bumps even thinking about it! My mom and I have it worked out pretty good. I remove rubber bands from things she needs access too, and she yanks sticks out of food items for me! My big brave moment was when she'd want to eat Chinese food with chop sticks, and I had to touch them to put them on her plate to serve to her. A few years ago, we went to a Vietnamese restaurant that used plastic chop sticks. You better believe I saved a few sets of those and took them home (don't worry, they were supposed to be disposable)!
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Sunrvrose
Member
08-13-2001
| Thursday, November 17, 2005 - 11:54 pm
I don't know if anyone else has said this, because I haven't read the entire thread, but my weird thing is balloons. I can't stand to be in the same room with them. I can't stand it when they are inflated, I go crazy when people make them squeek. And anyone who pops one in my presence will never be spoken to again. I think it's the "POP" that makes me crazy. And as much as I love champagne, I cannot be in the room when a bottle is opened. Interestingly, I can handle balloons and champagne, myself, but can't stand it when anyone else does. My biggest phobia, and it's HUGE, is spiders. I start shaking, I get chills all over my body, I run from the room. And I cannot stand for anyone to kill them. My family tolerates me, and just comes and gets them and takes them outside. So, following the topic of totally weird, I can't kill anything. I don't kill flys, spiders, or any bugs. Not even snails. I shoo flys outside, my family takes spiders outside, and we do a snail relocation program. We actually gathered an entire coffee can of snails from our garden, drove them 2 miles to a natural forest area, and dumped them into the bushes. That has got to take the WEIRDEST OF ALL Award.
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Yankee_in_ca
Member
08-01-2000
| Friday, November 18, 2005 - 12:03 am
Oh, yes, Sunrvrose, I am with you on the balloons. I wrote about it earlier. I despise them. They freak me out. It's not even the POP for me. It's the feel of them, the sound of them, the smell of them, the squeak of them. It really sends chills down my spine and gets me all twisted inside. I have never known anyone else who hates balloons like I do, and so from now on I'll think of you as my balloon soulmate!
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Sunrvrose
Member
08-13-2001
| Friday, November 18, 2005 - 12:15 am
Yankee, you said it much better than I did, I agree with everything you said. It's EVERYTHING about them that freaks me out. But can you handle them, yourself? I can, but I don't love it, and I'd rather not, but it doesn't freak me out nearly as much as when someone else does. Especially children and balloons, totally creeps me out.
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Yankee_in_ca
Member
08-01-2000
| Friday, November 18, 2005 - 12:21 am
I CAN, but I'd rather not . I was recently at a screening and at the end of the night they dropped balloons on the room. My poor dh who knows my "issues" (ha!) was so sweetly scrambling around trying to get them all away from me, but what he didn't realize (and what I couldn't verbalize b/c I was so weirded out) is that by him touching them and moving them -- it made it worse! 
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Tess
Member
04-13-2001
| Friday, November 18, 2005 - 2:40 am
I'm with anyone who cannot tolerate styrofoam. My skin just crawls when styrofoam rubs against another piece. My stomach twists into knots and the hairs on my arms stand up straight. I get the same feeling when touching a cotton ball. Even typing about it makes my arms feel hollow and aaaaaaaaaaack!!
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Pamy
Member
01-02-2002
| Friday, November 18, 2005 - 5:18 am
Yankee and Sun..I am in your BOO to Balloons Sisterhood. I get chills if they get squeeked! Tess, I am same way with styrofoam! I am terrified of bugs, esp June and Water bugs...I will leave the room until someone can come get it out of the house. I called a friend at 10pm to come over and get one out of my house because no one was home.
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Jeep
Member
10-17-2001
| Friday, November 18, 2005 - 5:46 am
I guess you guys would hate me. I'm one of those people who love to tease others with squeeking syrofoam together or rubbing balloons together. I also like to pop bubble wrap. But I will admit that I only do it for just a second, just to be naughty However, I agree with Sun on the spiders. Now that I live alone, I've had to deal with it. I don't have any problem killing them, though. Oh yeah, when I have to put out mouse traps in the garage, I throw the whole trap and mouse away and just buy new traps. I don't have it in me to touch that mouse and use the trap again. UGH
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Native_texan
Member
08-24-2004
| Friday, November 18, 2005 - 7:45 am
It has been said that popping bubble wrap relieves tension and January 31 is Bubble Wrap Appreciation Day. www.bubblewrap.com I can't eat popsicles because of the feel against my teeth when biting into one. I'm getting chills just thinking about.
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Bandit
Member
07-29-2001
| Friday, November 18, 2005 - 7:49 am
Ok, so there were some making fun of those of us who have a fear of clowns, but no one finds a fear of styrofoam and balloons strange? 
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Heyltslori
Moderator
09-15-2001
| Friday, November 18, 2005 - 7:50 am
Thanks Bandit! Exactly what I was thinking! 
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Native_texan
Member
08-24-2004
| Friday, November 18, 2005 - 8:16 am
Bandit and Lori, I find the fear of balloons stranger than the fear of clowns. I don't think it's a fear of styrofoam, but a fear of the sound of styrofoam. Has anyone noticed that the more times you type "styrofoam," the more it looks misspelled and the harder it is to type?
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Cndeariso
Member
06-28-2004
| Friday, November 18, 2005 - 8:29 am
a fear of styrofoam and balloons? no, don't have it. a dislike for the sound they make - yep, can't stand it.
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Friday, November 18, 2005 - 8:35 am
Well with my cotton ball aversion, I don't find styrofoam or balloons all that odd, lol.
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Heyltslori
Moderator
09-15-2001
| Friday, November 18, 2005 - 8:39 am
lol War. See, even though some of our phobias might seem odd to some, they are real to us!!
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Mocha
Member
08-12-2001
| Friday, November 18, 2005 - 8:42 am
Oh I love to pop bubblewrap.
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Serenity
Member
06-28-2005
| Friday, November 18, 2005 - 10:00 am
I have been known to drive DH nuts by making balloons squeek. The kids find it hilarious. The worst I ever did was tease DH about getting a new filling in his tooth. I put a small piece of tinfoil in my mouth and started chewing. As you may have already guessed, I have no cavities or fillings myself 
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Pamy
Member
01-02-2002
| Friday, November 18, 2005 - 11:08 am
YAH bubble wrap appreciation day!!! I could pop that stuff all day Serenity..your evil!!!
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Whoami
Member
08-03-2001
| Friday, November 18, 2005 - 2:58 pm
In the same category to my aversion to wood, (gee, am I the only one here?) is when someone uses a wooden emery board within earshot of me. Every nerve in my body just cringes and shrieks, I get shivers and goosebumps. I just can't stand the sound. I think I'd rather hear fingernails on a chalkboard than that! My sis used to do it all the time. I even went out and got her a nice metal nail file. The kind with a cap on it so she could keep it in her purse. I think she lost it or something, cause I remember her using that blasted emery board again later! I don't think I've heard her use it so much lately. Maybe she finally decided to be thoughtful and stop doing it around me. I had to sit next to a lady on the bus one time when she starting using one. That was the longest bus ride in my life. I just couldn't tell a total stranger, "could you please not do that next to me? The sound drives me bonkers!" 
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Hukdonreality
Member
09-29-2003
| Saturday, November 19, 2005 - 9:48 am
Along that same line, I can't stand to hear people clipping their finger/toenails. I even clip my own outside because I don't want to find those things all over the place. If that isn't wierd, then how's this: I won't eat coconut because it resembles clipped fingernails. YUCK!
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Native_texan
Member
08-24-2004
| Sunday, November 20, 2005 - 3:52 am
ROFL, Hukd. I nominate your coconut aversion for the Best Of Award.
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