Wordsmoker Anthropology: Things That Petrify Me

May 5, 2012 in Scary!, Terrifying Things, Wordsmoker Anthropology

Vendetta Spider
  • Spiders – Any and all shapes, colors, and sizes. I am not so much afraid of seeing them as I am of when they disappear.
  • Despite the fact they’ll keep me looking behind doors for a week, I insist on watching scary movies (just not alone; nothing makes me go, “Oh, fuck no,” faster than a horror movie at night by myself). Same goes for creepy video games.
  • Chainsaws – There’s a reason they have the “Chain Gang” at Halloween Horror Nights every year. Fuckers.
  • Despite the fact that even though there is no one home, I am absolutely certain that the moment I stick my hand inside, the garbage disposal will turn on.
  • Even though I vacuum under the bed all the time, I refuse to hang my foot off the side of the bed at night because I just KNOW something will grab me and drag me kicking and screaming below.
  • Dying Young – What, you expect me to say something witty about that? Fuck you.

Now that I have given you an embarrassingly vast arsenal of items to use against me, I only think it fair for you to do the same, Smokers.  From a paralyzing fear to something that makes you do that nervous giggle of yours, share it in the comments below.

*Items listed above may or may not actually cause Ducky to have a heart attack. Attempting to scare her with any of said items might result in loss of life and/or limb on behalf of the prankster; extreme caution is advised.

  • http://wordsmoker.com/help/members-3/chillbearlatrigue/ Chillbear Latrigue

    I used to be afraid of sharks, but then I realized that since I don’t go into the ocean there is a greater likelihood that I would be trampled by elephants or hippos. Now I’m afraid of sharks, elephants, and hippos.

    • http://wordsmoker.com/help/members-3/renesance/ Rene Sance

      A hippo once picked my pocket and then flounced out.

      • http://wordsmoker.com/help/members-3/chillbearlatrigue/ Chillbear Latrigue

        Remember that first time that you were playing Hungry Hungry Hippo where you were really in the zone? And you realized that you were no longer just a kid zipping marbles into a plastic hippo’s mouth, but you actually had a shot of making a go at this thing—a real contender. I never really “made it,” but I wish I had that “just maybe” feeling back again, even for a few minutes.

        File this under “fear of failure.”

        • http://wordsmoker.com/help/members-3/militantrubberducky/ MilitantRubberDucky

          You could have had it all.

  • http://wordsmoker.com/help/members-3/skahammer/ skahammer

    When I discovered what the phrase “vagina dentata” meant, I admit that was pretty heavy.

    • http://wordsmoker.com/help/members-3/chillbearlatrigue/ Chillbear Latrigue

      I’m afraid to Google this.

      • http://wordsmoker.com/help/members-3/kausaustralisandsaturn/ Worthless Emo

        The world needs to take a deep breath and try their first Emo-Girlfriend.

    • http://wordsmoker.com/help/members-3/militantrubberducky/ MilitantRubberDucky

      Lucky orthodontist, though.

  • http://wordsmoker.com/help/members-3/uncivily-obedient-2-2/ uncivilly obedient

    Am I really here now? Can anyone see this comment?

    Hello?

    • http://wordsmoker.com/help/members-3/militantrubberducky/ MilitantRubberDucky

      I see you!

      • http://wordsmoker.com/help/members-3/viruswithshoes/ VirusWithShoes

        Don’t reply to them! I’m fucking with them by telling certain commenters that they’re invisible.

  • http://wordsmoker.com/help/members-3/bigleggedwoman/ BigLeggedWoman

    Car accidents. I typically am a passenger and have no control over operation of the vehicle I am riding in. . . as well as realizing that I have no control over the rest of the hoopties around us! Aughhh!

    • http://wordsmoker.com/help/members-3/militantrubberducky/ MilitantRubberDucky

      As a driver, I think my anger overrides my fear of dying squashed in a tangled wreck.

      • http://wordsmoker.com/help/members-3/militantrubberducky/ MilitantRubberDucky

        As a passenger though, I have mini-panic attacks.

  • http://wordsmoker.com/help/members-3/uncivily-obedient-2-2/ uncivilly obedient

    Anyone?

    • http://wordsmoker.com/help/members-3/belltolls/ Belltolls

      Do you have a paper bag handy?

  • http://wordsmoker.com/help/members-3/belltolls/ Belltolls

    I think some things terrify me but the only one I can think of off-hand is that I fear I might be too far from a store that sells Chocolate Häagen-Dazs ice cream. I don’t need it in the house, I just have to be able to get to it.

  • http://wordsmoker.com/help/members-3/chillbearlatrigue/ Chillbear Latrigue

    Flying droplets of semen. Like when you’re walking by a car and some dude is jacking it with the window down and blam! One of them gets you. I mean, no one likes it, but I actually fear it.

    • http://wordsmoker.com/help/members-3/militantrubberducky/ MilitantRubberDucky

      Bob and weave, Chilly, bob and weave.

    • http://wordsmoker.com/help/members-3/viruswithshoes/ VirusWithShoes

      Isn’t this why the Weaver stance became standard?

  • http://wordsmoker.com/help/members-3/belltolls/ Belltolls

    I used to fear if I used a nail gun that I would end up like in one of those Internet pictures that go viral of an x-ray with about twenty nails sticking in some guy’s head that was taken at the hospital — but HE IS STILL ALIVE! I used a nail gun the other day though and it was no big deal.

  • http://wordsmoker.com/help/members-3/kausaustralisandsaturn/ Worthless Emo

    Like Ducky, I cannot exist in the same room as a spider.

    Michelle Bachman.

    Corporations.

    Human Interaction.

    Emotions.

    Sunlight.

  • http://wordsmoker.com/help/members-3/uncivily-obedient-2-2/ uncivilly obedient

    Somebody! please tell me you can see me!

    • http://wordsmoker.com/help/members-3/chillbearlatrigue/ Chillbear Latrigue

      Who said that?

  • http://wordsmoker.com/help/members-3/chillbearlatrigue/ Chillbear Latrigue

    A world where monkeys no longer hold a place of importance

    Robots without rustproofing

    GLOBAL WARMING causing all of the oceans to dry up, thereby beaching the submarines

    Belching so intently that my head explodes

    Absinthe (bad experience in Prague)

    Zombie Ernest Hemingway

    That the Roman Catholic Church really does have all of the answers, and that all of these deviations from the one true path are going to wind us all up in a really corny version of Hell that’s hot and peopled with red pitchfork-brandishing devils that look like they came off of cans of ham.

    • http://wordsmoker.com/help/members-3/uncivily-obedient-2-2/ uncivilly obedient

      Deviled Ham actually seems the scariest to me.

  • http://wordsmoker.com/help/members-3/uncivily-obedient-2-2/ uncivilly obedient

    oh my god he’s here, somebody, nooooo let me know, aahhhhhhh! stop please helppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppkkkkkk;lmnmlkbjbbb see you all in hell

    • http://wordsmoker.com/help/members-3/militantrubberducky/ MilitantRubberDucky

      Tell him you’re with Santorum, they’re homies.

  • http://wordsmoker.com/help/members-3/misslinda/ misslinda

    I fear change. Now get off my lawn!

  • http://wordsmoker.com/help/members-3/militantrubberducky/ MilitantRubberDucky

    When I’m just sitting here, and my big toe starts doing that little twitch it does when it’s trying to decide if it wants to cramp or not. Watching it go back and forth between mild annoyance and painful agony is nerve-wracking!

  • http://wordsmoker.com/help/members-3/perverseus/ perverseus

    When I was young and being indoctrinated at my local elementary school, they showed us a movie about being safe around the house. It was made very clear to me that you should not put kitchen knives in the kitchen sink when it is filled with soapy water. The movie showed a bloody hand coming out of the sink. By today’s standards, it would barely register as a blip on the bloody gore-o-meter, but to a child under age 10 for whom cleaning dishes was a regular chore, this was terrifying. To this day, knives do not go in the kitchen sink at my house. So, on the positive side, I learned something, but I’m clearly damaged as a result.

  • http://wordsmoker.com/help/members-3/viruswithshoes/ VirusWithShoes

    I’m afraid I’ll die alone with only my doll-heads watching my final minutes.

  • http://wordsmoker.com/help/members-3/gerbilsinlove/ gerbilsinlove

    1. Needles – which sucks balls, as I have to get blood drawn regularly. They put me in the easy chair and use a butterfly needle, but it still makes me ill. I once avoided getting stuck for three years, but then my body needed to see a doctor and she got all pissed that I had avoided her and the needles for so long, so I promised that I would be good and get it done. I am currently needing more tests, and currently avoiding them, so it appears that I am not keeping up my end of the bargain.

    2. Spiders – I wrote a post once long ago here about this, after I had gotten bitten. Again.

    3. Drowning – which I almost did in the Galapagos, and am still not over it. This led to a period of darkest depression two years ago that I still fight.

    4. Crunchy bugs – any bug that crunches when you step on them. They were abundant when I lived in Florida, and those fuckers could fly, too.

    5. Getting old – which is happening right now and I have no control over it, so that makes it extra-scary.

    6. My uterus falling out during an inconvenient time – this happened to my grandmother. She felt something between her legs, and BAM, there it was, all uterusy and hanging out of her vagina. Gross.