Phunny Phobias
I got into a convo the other day with someone and we got onto the topic of phobias. Now I must be honest, I’m a big strapping lad and I don’t scare that easily. I lose all control however when confronted with anything with more than 4 legs…spiders, bugs, roaches, ah man… *shudder*. If you want a good laugh, put a roach down my shirt or something and then stand back and watch the show because I’ll be guaranteed to break into an uncontrollable fit of whats scientifically known as the “heebee-frekkan-jeebees”….
…something chronic.
Arachnophobia is one of an innumerable amount of phobias that are experienced around the world. Phobias range from the understandable and logical, to the “what-the…?” and the “you-must-be-joking”.
For example:
COPROPHOBIA or CORPOROPHOBIA - fear of going to the loo
PELADOPHOBIA - fear of bald people
HOBOPHOBIA - fear of bums or beggars
PHENGOPHOBIA - fear of daylight or sunshine…(don’t vampires have that??)
So whilst you’re merrily walking down main road, there’s someone around you who’s getting freaked out by the old balding dude who’s begging for money at 12 in the afternoon on their way to the toilet..
*cough*Freak!*cough*
The origins of these kinds of phobias are hard to explain. I mean, when I was a kid, I remember running through the yard playing with butterflies and picking up bugs and stuff. Now I’m sometimes still found running through the yard, but only now, I’m usually screaming blue murder at the ladybird on my neck.
How about this for a funny phobia story:
“this girl i work with at the moment, she is also terribly afraid of spiders ….and the otherday she went to the toilet but as she pullled her pants down she saw a spider so she got such a fright cos it was in her underwear. Then just as she was about to scream and run she realised it was a piece of fluff”
You had or know of any funny phobia stories?
Fluff ey? In the underwear ey? Interesting…
I too h8 spiders, but not the big ones, just the little ones. I don’t like the way they look at me. Once I was out camping and I woke up in the morning and felt a need to scratch the back of my head. When i lowered my arm there was a furry spider the size of my house on the back of my hand that had obviously camped there for the night. We exchanged greetings, he stared at at me with all his “eye” and I promptly catapulted him in a random direction somewhere inside the bungalo. The spider was never seen again…
Dude, my sista has this phobia of Bats, yups just like the movie. So as luck would have it, she goes away for the weekend with the parentals, she hears this funny rustling coming from unda her pillow… All this happened at 2:30 in da morning… So she picks up her pillow and low and behold there is a bat looking up at her, she screams, my dad almost gets a heart attack and sends my mom to go and have a look! She still hasn’t lived the story down…
Rad, I can imagine your sister trippin out for a little bat. Tsk
I was taking a dump in a farm house whilst on a hike and mid uh… “push”, I heard a shuffle above me and I saw 4 bats hanging on a beam above me…
Needless to say I was cranky the whole day…*ahem*