Tell me a weird fear/phobia you have

[WhimsicalMoth]

I don't meal like bugs, heights, death ... I mean something strange.. unconventional.. something that might need a bit of explanation.

I'll go first -

Water towers ... the thought of them makes me shudder.

So glad you said water towers 😆 they do loom !! Awful things. And those cooling towers too... and gas towers !! Although you don't see them so much anymore

The water underneath piers!

Not me but a friends mum. But it's weird enough it stuck with me in my head for decades.
When I was in school a friend's mum was terrified of buttons.
She couldn't do the laundry if clothes in there had buttons so every August before a new school year she would do the back to school uniform shopping, take a bunch of anti anxiety meds and a mild sedative, then cut every button off my friends new school shirts and sit there hand sewing popper buttons and press studs in their place instead.

Long escalators in tube stations

Slough

wind turbines, hydro stations, dams.

I'm not against renewable power but these things make me uneasy.

Pipes

Black toilet seats

High cisterns

Victorian inspired toilets/bathrooms

Whatever the material is that they make those "magic" sponges with. Just thinking about it makes me want to throw something. That's purely a textural thing.