confessions of a ridiculous person

[rainsinger]

If I could have my way, I would confine my encounters with post and politics to reading birthday cards and webofevilMy aversion to the post is so extreme that one might guess I had spent a childhood as an indentured servant made to lick mountains of envelopes, or that my mailbox administered electric shocks. In truth, what terrifies me about post is the

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[guihong]

Balloons. I will go to any lengths to avoid a balloon, especially the ones blown up by mouth and tied off as you see at parties. In fact, I took Sammy to a birthday party a few weeks ago and the host father was blowing up balloon animals. I nearly had a stroke.

I always tell someone offering the kids a balloon that "it will pop and they'll choke", but it's really me and my fear of a balloon popping.

gui

[rainsinger]

You're now officially the second person I know with that phobia.

Poor you. It's a debilitating one to have, with small children around.

[smallblakflower]

I have a similar, lamentable attitude to current affairs.

My phobia, my silly phobia, is moths. They will eat your eyeballs, given the chance. Give me a moth in a confined space/combine my two biggest phobias and i will probably die...Really.

[rainsinger]

Moths eat eyeballs? Good lord.
If you're ever trapped in the same room as a moth you could probably try to distract it with a sweater.

[rainsinger]

I am also completely squicked out by heart beats

Your own or other people's? (I have really restrained myself not to make any jokes about LIFELONG FEAR)

[rainsinger]

Have you considered replacing them all with robots?

[minnesattva]

I'm okay with normal news but can't handle anything about climate change really.

I used to be afraid of the world ending, when I was a teenager. I blame the weird Christians I was hanging out with. They tried to tell me the Rapture thing was good but it sounded hideous to me, and still does. I love the world too much to want to leave it, even if they were right about the bliss and etc. I'd be leaving it for.

I think that's a pretty irrational fear, but it's not as interesting as nuns or umbrellas -- actual things friends of mine are terribly phobic of.

[rainsinger]

Yes the trumpets and the boiling oceans and the rain of fire did not sound remotely blissful to me either, ever.

A fear of umbrellas? in England that might as well qualify as agoraphobia.

[minnesattva]

Yes, lucky for that friend she's American :) She'd freak out in Manchester.