back 1) Breathing in other people's jet streams (the air that passes behind them as they walk past you briskly on the street, when you can smell their perfume/cologne/body odor after they pass you). 2) An oven timer mysteriously ringing as you walk into your dark house late at night alone. 3) Real eye contact. 4) Shifty eyes. 5) Shards of glass getting stuck in my bare feet. 6) Immobility. 7) Disappointing others. 8) Taking responsibility for my country's actions. 9) Not getting lost. 10) Buying new clothes. 11) That disease that you get from breathing rat poo dust. 12) Mass media. 13) Majority rules. 14) Cutting off my finger in front of someone who would never make that kind of mistake. 15) Public transport lurkers. 16) Those bees or wasps that can smell it when you kill one of their brothers and who all follow the scent to come and kill you. 17) Being tricked. 18) Volcanoes and meteors (whether they strike independently or in unison). 19) Outer space. 20) Invisible things. —Lori Damiano I'm not afraid of second hand clothes or people who pick up their dog's poop. —Susanna Howe 1) Christians. 2) Anything purchased at Del Taco. 3) Hell's Angels. 4) Those strange people that go door-to-door offering amazing deals on tune-ups and oil changes. 5) Trying to explain to your relatives what exactly you do for a living. 6) Girls. 7) Seagulls. 8) Anything that is generally nice but has a tendency to shit on you (see 6+7) 10.) Driving on the 405 on the one day of the year that it rains heavily in Southern California. 11) Golf carts. 12) 73 cents/minute long distance phone calls to Canada. 13) Asking for help in a pop-punk record store. 14) Talk of an IPO. 15) Mad cow disease. 16) Coming home from a trip to realize that a couple had been sleeping in your bed while you were away. 17) Businessmen on razor scooters. 18.) Telling someone they've "got such a cute little boy" when it's actually a girl. And vice versa. 19) The FDA. 20) Cougars. —Bob Kronbauer What about... 1) Clowns? 2) Herpes? 3) Getting stabbed? 4) Gang bangers? —Daniel Field 21) People who wear capes. —Willy NcNeal