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Bugs anywhere in the house freak me out, but I couldn't care less about them outside unless they're actually coming at me. Maybe it's a territorial thing - how dare they invade my space?!

Rented a very cheap room one summer where there turned out to be an truly awful spider problem, and I wound up begging a family I was friends with to let me use their guest room for one decent night's sleep a week. I finally just left after one ran between my sandal and foot and got stuck. [shudder]
 
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iambrutus said:
thats freaking crazy!!!

i hate bees and wasps too, i swell up like a freaking balloon when i get stung
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you should have seen me trying to catch it! It took me 20 minutes... my kids were laughing the whole time too. I finally threw a bunch of towels on it and scooped it up and threw it outside. I swear it was trying to get me.

it looked like this :(



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LoKyBuckeye said:
you should have seen me trying to catch it! It took me 20 minutes... my kids were laughing the whole time too. I finally threw a bunch of towels on it and scooped it up and threw it outside. I swear it was trying to get me.

it looked like this :(
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We had tons of frogs at my house... used to try to keep them out of the pool, but finally gave up and decided there was enough room for everyone. :) Snakes, lizards, turtles and such were cool, but less interested in swimming.

Did you know you can scare a frog into shock? We had a cat once that would try to help my brother collect frogs. Somehow her little cat brain figured out that he liked frogs but didn't want them dead. She'd carry them up to the porch in her mouth and they'd sit there, unharmed but frozen, for about a day and then hop away. Sometimes she'd get the same one twice in a row and we'd release it far away so it wouldn't starve. So I guess next time you could try that. :biggrin: Er, scaring it I mean... considering where your frog had been.
 
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Deety said:
We had tons of frogs at my house... used to try to keep them out of the pool, but finally gave up and decided there was enough room for everyone. :) Snakes, lizards, turtles and such were cool, but less interested in swimming.

Did you know you can scare a frog into shock? We had a cat once that would try to help my brother collect frogs. Somehow her little cat brain figured out that he liked frogs but didn't want them dead. She'd carry them up to the porch in her mouth and they'd sit there, unharmed but frozen, for about a day and then hop away. Sometimes she'd get the same one twice in a row and we'd release it far away so it wouldn't starve. So I guess next time you could try that. :biggrin: Er, scaring it I mean... considering where your frog had been.
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The way I was screaming everytime it jumped at me should have been enough to scare it into submission... it didn't work :lol:
 
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There was a giant black cricket (I think my dad said they are Cave Crickets) in the shower with me a few weeks ago. It started jumping at me so I ran to the other side of the shower and started kicking water at it until I got it down the drain. That bastard was at least 3 inches long. I'm usually not afraid of bugs, but when I'm standing there wet, soapy, and naked it's a different story (sorry about that visual).

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exhawg said:
There was a giant black cricket (I think my dad said they are Cave Crickets) in the shower with me a few weeks ago. It started jumping at me so I ran to the other side of the shower and started kicking water at it until I got it down the drain. That bastard was at least 3 inches long. I'm usually not afraid of bugs, but when I'm standing there wet, soapy, and naked it's a different story (sorry about that visual).

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it makes my skin crawl just looking at the picture of it :dead:
 
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Bucky Katt said:
I hate snakes with every fiber of my being. If every snake in the world dies right now, I wouldn't shed a single tear. I don't care that the world would then by overrun with rats and vermin, it would totally be worth it.
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Ditto! I literally start shaking when I see a snake.

I'm also not a fan of flying, but I have to do it sometimes. Heights also freak me out. We hiked down a canyon wall in the Grand Canyon (to Mooney Falls), and I was scared to death! My legs started shaking, and I was afraid I was going to get stuck or slip and fall to my death. Here's a photo of it!


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After watching Howard and Whose Line Is It Anyway this weekend, I remembered two more phobias I have. Women weightlifters, and midgets. Not actually midgets, persay, but dwarves. In both cases, their freakish out-of-proportion-ness gives me the willies.
 
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