What is your phobia?

[Clueless Morgan]

I have a fear of heights since I was a child, but it's not nearly as bad as it was. I don't mind looking out the window at the top floor of a tall building, but I really don't like getting on the roof of our house at all, though getting on a ladder to clean the gutters doesn't bother me.

And flying doesn't bother me, either. I guess as long as I know I'm enclosed and not going to fall out or off, I'm OK.

Is it a fear of heights, or a fear of falling from those heights? I don't have a fear of heights, but I share (to some degree) your fear of falling off a sloped roof. Do you also have a fear of falling off flat roofs with parapets?

When I was in New Zealand I went to the top of their Sky Tower (the NZ equivalent of the Space Needle) where they have glass panels in the floor that you can walk on where you see all the way down to the ground (something like 20-stories down). I had to shuffle out over the glass because I couldn't pick up my feet and my knees were wobbly for about ten minutes after.

Here's the non-scary photo assuring you the glass is safe to stand on:


And the scary one of me standing on the glass looking down:

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Clowns

Oh, definitely Clowns.

What is it about clowns that are scary?