Got a Phobia? Share it!

[Jude]

When I was a kid, I was raised on a farm with acres of land. One day, I'm out there playing far from home. As I sat on a huge rock, I heard some funny sounds from behind me so stretched out to have a look as to what it was...




I totally freaked out, fearing of falling onto them. That always stayed with me.

Yesterday, I was in St-Eustache doing a delivery and the girl at the reception asked me if I saw a snake outside.

"What?"

"Yeah, someone lost a python and it's on the loose. It escaped a house on Laurier St, which is just the next street after this mall..."

Ok. I tried not to show it but...






When I was in Mexico, last year, we had drivers that drove us from one location to another on the site. One morning, we're sitting in the back of this little crappy golf buggy that they use and he suddenly slows down...

" Why you stopping?" I ask him.

"Look....snake..." he says, pointing at the beast making its way across the road right in front of us.

Louise (my gf) thought I was going to punch the guy.

I'm sort of happy he was Mexican, speaking Spanish, very little French or English as I baptised him every other name in the book, in both languages lol ...

Yeah. Wanna see me scream like a little girl while I run with both hands in the air like a lunatic? Throw a snake at me.

I HATE snakes. Almost as much as Radical Islamists. And that should tell you sumtin'.

It's always a mystery for most as to how or why we develop or even inherit phobias.

I hope people know that this thread is not to ridicule our fears but as a confessional of sorts. A place to lay it all out and to maybe share whilst having a giggle or two at the human experience.

Thanks all for sharing and especially for laying bare the most private part of ourselves. This is how we are meant to be.

Jude