Got a Phobia? Share it!

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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

The thing is... I am a good swimmer and I've never feared swimming in or under the sea.
Lakes...? No problem, there's no tides to worry about and I've swam in rivers since I was
a kid.

But Loch Ness... I know it's waiting there just under the surface.
I'd wager it's never taken a human before and I'm certain it prefers to stay in mid-water out
of the way of the boat traffic.
That is rational and makes sense.

But when I stood on the wet stones just beneath Urquhart Castle, I knew it was rushing towards
the shore with a big sh*t-eating grin on it's face! " He's here..." the Monster was burbling in the water
"...He's actually stood right at the edge!"

The newspapers would have a field-day and the scientific world would have to finally admit
to the creature's existence. Hip-hip, bloody-hurray! Tourism in Scotland would sky-rocket
and Gordi would be there at the entrance of a car-park in Drumnadrochit selling copies of
his book 'My friend, Boy In A Dress'

But deep in that peaty water, I would be jammed under a log or something with the Monster
sitting on the silty bottom beside me, smiling in the knowledge that the only thing I feared
(wife accepted) had bided it's time and obtained it's long-wished-for prize.

*Shudder*