So, what freaks you out?

[Dirka Skene]

I'm not afraid of spiders and snakes or bugs, just so long as I know EXACTLY where they are and that they ARE NOT MOVING. Rodents...I love rodents. I used to have a pet rat named Rico Poki Tonto.

I do not like needles. Well, shots really. I've got 5 tattoos and a few piercings, but there's something different about those kinds of needles. When a nurse comes near me with a syringe, I freak. I had to get a penacillin shot a couple years ago, I literally fainted when the nurse walked through the door. The gave me the shot while I was out!

I'm also deathly afraid of stuff hitting me in the shins. I used to have nightmares of machetes flying at my shins and sticking in my shinbones. Not severing all the way through, but sticking in them. My husband will drum his fingertips on my shins just to get on my nerves. I can't stand things even so much as tapping my shins.