List #674: Professions I Deeply Mistrust or Fear

List #674: Professions I Deeply Mistrust or Fear

1. School Counselors (one once told me my fear was invalid and silly, among other things)

2. Bouncers (they are scary)

3. Batman (I am a superstitious and cowardly lot)

4. Doctors (I think they're making it up most of the time)

5. Travelling/Phone Salespersonages (I also pity them)

6. Career Politicians

7. anyone whose job is to worry about "the Bottom Line"

8. Lawyers (most of them)

9. Auto Repairists

10. Coat Checkers (or anyone else that takes my stuff away from me)

11. Consultants/Observers/Quality Control

12. PR personages

13. Traffic Cops

14. Telephone Support

15. anyone that wants me to call them with information

16. Choir Directors

Bonus List: Professions I do Trust

1. Librarians

2. Nurses

3. Dentists

4. Beat Cops

5. Cycle Shop workers

6. Science Teachers

7. Most Scientists (depending on their source of funding)

8. Band Directors

Bonus List: Professions I'm on the fence about trusting

1. Administrators

2. Camp Directors

3. Activists

4. Musicians

List #666: 6 National or World Problems that I am Concerned About

List #666: 6 National or World Problems that I am Concerned About

1. Mexican Drug Cartels

2. The Greed of the "Haves" / The corruption of "American Dream"

3. Polar Ice Cap melt

4. Food Crises

5. Partisan Politics

6. iPhone commercials

List #599: Least Favorite Snakes

List #599: Least Favorite (or Scariest!) Snakes

1. Timber Rattlesnake

2. Inland Taipan

3. Black Mamba

4. King Cobra

5. Sea snakes (all of them)

6. Copperhead

7. Coral Snake

8. Banded Krait

9. Russell's Viper

10. Cottonmouth

List #483: Scary Things About The Ocean

List #483: Scary Things About The Ocean

1. Multitudes of Venomous Creatures

2. Inconceivable Depths

3. Tsunamis

4. Any other really really big waves

5. Sharks

6. Riptides

7. "Water, Water Everywhere..."

8. Cruise Ships

List #285: Superstitions I have

List #285: Superstitions I have

1. Never pick up a "tails" penny
2. Don't spill salt / throw a pinch over the shoulder
3. Friendship Bracelets or bead necklaces breaking or falling off are ill omens

List #207: Animals that scare me

List #207: Animals that scare me (as in I wouldn't want to encounter them in the wild)

1. Snakes (because they might be poisonous or constrict-y)
2. Snapping turtles
3. Sharks
4. Leeches
5. Humans
6. Wolverines
7. Polar Bears or Grizzly bears
8. Candiru
9. Electric Eels
10. Piranha
11. chupacabra
12. Wild hunting dogs
13. Tigers
14. Alligators (I'd rather have him as my friend, than have him in my boat) or crocodiles
15. Cassowary

List #109: Things I'm Afraid Of (rationally or otherwise)

List #109: Things I'm Afraid Of (rationally or otherwise)

1. Cruise Ships
2. Interactions with Strangers (Stranger Danger!)
3. Biting-off my tongue (esp. when the sidewalk to the bandroom at EHS was icy)
4. Exposed Heights/Edges/Ledges etc. (for myself and for others).
5. Poisonous Animals
6. Snakes (see #5, but any kinds give me the jibblies)
7. Enclosed Spaces / Buried Alive
8. Sharp Objects held by other people - knives, needles, etc
9. Spontaneous Human Combustion (this also ties into my mistrust of psychologists/counselors, etc)
10. Never 'Accomplishing' anything
11. Rejection (see also, but not limited to, #2)
12. Driving places I've never driven
13. My own fears
14. Deep Water / Deadly Sea Creatures
15. Accidentally causing physical harm to others (I got over my fear of accidentally causing physical/emotional harm to others, otherwise I'd never leave the house)
16. Girls





Bonus list: Things that people usually fear that I don't
1. Public Speaking / Speaking in front of large crowds
2. Flying
3. Clowns