I thought I'd start another "get to know each other" thread in honor of this infamous date. Do you guys have any phobias or personal superstitions? I figure it's safe to assume there's no snake phobics around, but a lot of people have all kinds of crazy irrational fears and "for luck" habits we just can't seem to help.

I have 2.

One is a real serious phobia, and that one is eye injury. Stuff like that scene in Bladerunner makes me physically ill, and I'll avoid movies people warn me have "eyeball stuff" in it. The only time I've ever fainted in my life was in a psychology class where the guys were asking for far too detailed descriptions of 'via the eye lobotomies" and I got really queasy before actually keeling over. Poor teacher was SO careful for the rest of the class and kept checking on me, unable to grasp that the guy with the steel rod through his head didn't bother me just so long as it wasn't in his eye. I've been this way since I was really little, and have never experienced or witnessed any real eye trauma. I'm too paranoid and careful. I can't even use contacts or watch someone put them in. It's pretty pathetic.

The other is just a good luck thing. I like silver medallions, and never leave home not wearing one. The one time I did forget I broke my wrist in a stupid roller blading accident (my drawing hand has never been the same, ugh) and I have never left home without it since. It was a different one then, but the one I wear now is customized from QuickSilver. Medusa on one side, an owl on the other.