Things that scare me
In the spirit of Halloween Michelle at scribbit has asked her readers to write about things that scare them for this months Write away contest. I thought about making this a serious post about things that really truly almost paralyze me with fear at the thought of them (losing a child, husband, etc.) but then I decided since Halloween is good light fun, I’d make this post light as well. So without further ado, I give you:
5 things that scare the tar out of Summer
1) Natural bodies of water - You shall never find me swimming in a pond, lake or ocean. I will walk barefoot in a stream, enjoy the tide rushing in over my ankles, but I will never swim in a natural body of water. The thought of what could be beneath me, is simply too heebie jeebie-ish to handle.
2) Bees - I’m now old enough that I don’t run screaming from every bee I see, though that doesn’t mean the impulse isn’t there. This fear stems from my first stinging as a five year old. I did nothing to provoke it. All bees are just out to get me you see.
3) Moths - How is it that I love Butterflies and hate moths you ask?
Well, moths come out at night. They find a way into your tent toward the flashlight with which you are using to tell spooky stories and they dart at you. Then when you go to sleep and think they’ve gone away you wake up to find three of them, dead and tangled in your hair.
4) Washington D.C. - Well, not D.C. itself, but living a mere 45 minutes away from it truly scares me in this day in age.
5) Any insect or spider that is to big too squish, or too strong to be vacuumed up - ‘Nuff said
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I’m the same with those large insects. This past weekend I went into my laundry room and there on the floor was the largest spider I’d ever seen (one that was, like you said, really too large to squash) - it was the size of a taranchula (sp?) - but not one. I ran to the kitchen to get something to spray it with or look for a shoe - when I came back, it was gone, under the washing machine. So I just sprayed the bug spray all over the place (for 10 minutes). I couldn’t go near the washing machine for hours - without standing really far back and on my tippy-toes. What is the point of a spider that big?
Yea moths are completely creepy. It didn’t take Silence of the Lambs to do that, they were even creepy before.
I totally agree with #5. When it comes to bugs, I’m such a sissy!
So except for DC, we have the exact same fears. Weird.
I share none of your fears. I love bugs. I think I could be a entomologist.
DC is a fun place for me to visit.
Now to think of what I am scared of….things like the creaking of my stair case at night. How and why does it do that??
Well, I like to visit D.C., it’s a neat place but being so close to it with so much anti-american sentiment from terrorists really does scare me. If something happened would we be in the fall out, could we get out of the area quick enough, etc.
I’m sensitive (not allergic but I blow up like a balloon) to bee stings and fear of a reaction has caused me to develop a full blown terror of bees. I pretty much hate and fear most bugs, especially the creepy crawly flying ones. Yuck!