by S.A.Robb

Created on: November 09, 2008   Last Updated: March 15, 2010

For some people it’s enclosed spaces, others it might be planes.  We all have a phobia or phobias in some cases.  To us they are totally natural.  For example those that have arachnophobia think it is a totally normal response to freak out and run when you see a spider, anything spider like, and perhaps anything that simply has eight eyes or legs.  People who don’t have this fear, are to them to be distrusted and watched.

There are those people however that have what are considered weird or unusual phobias.  Now again I must point out that the person who has the phobia thinks it is totally rational.  I say this because I have two phobias that some might think odd.  Some might even think me a bit screwy in the head.  I assure you I’m not, and the phobias I have you should have too.

Number 1, I am terrified of Sharks.  I know this might seem normal, people are supposed to be scared of sharks.  I have a phobia though which means I do not think it would be highly unusual to find one in a pool, pond, river, lake, or any other body of water. 

If you think about it this fear should be in all of us.  They are naturally designed to eat you. They are natures perfect predator. I hear all the talk of how they don't like the taste of people or how they won't bother you if you don't move.  Like that will happen, you see a shark and decide not to move? My favorite is that if you are attacked by a shark to just simply punch it on the nose, hit it in the side, or jab your thumb in its eyes. Like it's a bad puppy. Who is going to remember that?  No one!  The minute you see, think, or hear the word shark you WILL freak out.

I mean really, all of that discovery channel knowledge will come to me when a shark has my leg or arm in his mouth and those inky black eyes roll back in satisfaction of another meal caught. Give me a break. The minute a shark were to bite me all rational thought would leave my head and I would be robotically chanting "I'm going to die this sucks, those are big teeth, I'm going to die, this really sucks, those are really big teeth".

If they don't like the taste of us, well then stop trying us I say. Give us a sign that there is some sort of truce between our two species. Until that happens I'm not going in the ocean, river, lake, or even the deep end of the pool. Not to mention that baths freak me out and I'm thirty-two for God's sake. Show me a fancy large tub for

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