Got any odd or somewhat ridiculous phobias?

[ThatCrazyShaman]

Dentists.

Still fear them. XD

Perfectly understandable. I'm generally afraid of anyone who might potentially stick me with a needle. Although, lucky me, I have quite a good dentist. He's a drummer in a band, as well, so we have something interesting to chat about xD

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Plague doctors.
Fortunately I only have to worry about them around Halloween.

I fully agree with you on this one.
A show about Poveglia left me even more spooked by them.

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When I travel by car or bus, I always imagine that we're going to crash or fall into a ravine or something of that sort. I don't panic but it's enough to keep me uneasy and vigilant the whole ride. For this reason I've never felt the willingness to get a driver's licence, and I tend to refuse or avoid lifts from people I don't know that well (for example, co-workers) or people I don't know at all (friends of friends, etc.). Even when I used to work night shifts, I'd rather take the train than a lift from a co-worker.

I'm scared of driving. Even though I owned a car at one point in time [which later got junked], I've never gotten my license and so I have to get rides everywhere. Good thing I work from home, I guess.

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I have a phobia of having to talk to someone on the phone. Is that odd?
Oh and going to the dentist.

Lol I can actually relate to that. I hate talking on the phone - especially if there's a possibility of me not being able to understand what the other person is saying to me.

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[mild claustrophobia] + [mild vertigo] + [mild childhood issues around body-weight and the perceived inability of man-made constructs to support it] = [phobia of elevators]

I used to have nightmares about being in a falling elevator, or worse: the floor of an elevator opening up or falling out.

Also, spiders. They're eldritch and otherworldy and they just move plain wrong. Kind of a standard phobia, but here's a story for you.

Spoiler below!

Nine year old kid in a new family home, I go to take a shower for the first time. It's a free-standing shower with curtain on three sides. I reach in without looking, turn the tap and let it warm up. I get undressed. By now it's nice and steamy, so I reach in again to check the temperature. It's just right. I step straight in, pulling the curtain closed behind me.

That's when I notice them. They're not huge, but they're everywhere. There must be between ten and twenty of them. They're above and below me, on either side of me, they're on the tiles in front of me and they're on the curtain behind me. One is on the underside of the tap where my hand had been.

My sudden splashing knocks some of them off and I watch them flounder beside my feet, frozen by fear until one of them touches my foot.

Ripping the curtain out of the way I stumble out, screaming, frantically checking my body and shaking out my hair. A few seconds later both my parents are in the open door. I shakily point to the still running shower and tell them about the spiders. They look. My dad turns off the shower. There are no spiders.

Later, I rationalised it to myself thus: we'd just moved in and I was the first person to use the shower. Maybe there was an egg-sack in there or nearby that had gone unnoticed and had recently hatched. The spiders were washed away by the shower, so nobody else saw them. At the time I firmly believed this. My adult self doesn't buy it however.

The only reasonable explanation is that it was a hallucination.

Now what's worse than spiders? Giant, amphibious, armoured spiders with pincers. Image search for "giant spider crab", coz I'm not gonna.

Just thinking and writing about has made me need to check the room and put socks on.

Strangely enough, I've never been afraid of regular elevators. Just those open framework contraptions from way back. I had to ride in one when I volunteered at the hospital, and I was practically on the verge of a nervous breakdown by the time it came to a stop. Fortunately I wasn't alone in it, at least.

While I understand people's fear of spiders, I always liked them for some reason [as well as most arthropods, in general] - this being the case despite how frequently I was bitten by them growing up.
At the risk of sounding like a total lunatic, I'll mention that I enjoy watching them build webs around the light by my front door, and I'll actually talk to them as though they're my friendly little neighbors sometimes. Yes, I know; I'm completely insane xD.

That does seem slightly unlikely. But what would I know? I have experiences I can't quite rationalize pretty frequently - rather, I just tell myself to ignore everything whether it turns out to be real or not lol.