Fears (A Formal Warp Chalenge)

Well tonight I was sitting around trying to come up with a theme for today’s blog. I was going to just pick a random letter of the alphabet put it into a search engine and see what comes up and then just blog about that. Either that or if I had a dream I’d blog about that in the morning, however I was struck or should I say almost bitten by an inspiration. Tonight I was taking out the recycling bins and my dog noticed and proceeded to annoy a wolf spider. I quickly shooed my dog away before he was bitten and tried my best to kill it from behind our screen. Luckily my step father was up and he was brave enough to attack it with and empty bottle of laundry detergent. Anyhow this brings me to the idea I have come up with.

I formally am throwing out a challenge to my fellow competitors what are you fears. Now I’m not talking about small petty fears I’m talking about fears that alter the way you would normally proceed in a situation. I personally can tell you I have two major fears and one half fear.

The first fear and my most noticeable is ophiophobia or a fear of snakes. I’m not sure how this fear got started although where I grew up in Ohio I was surrounded on two side by about an acre or more of woods. In those woods lived a bunch of snakes that just loved coming into our back yard. Granted these were just garter snakes which are harmless however when you are four or five years old seeing one on your stoop as you go outside to play on your swing set can be quite frightening. This fear must have grown throughout the years and just knowing that in Florida there are many poisonous snakes I now run like hell at the mere mention of a snake being around. (Don’t go getting any ideas Bruised Knight.)

The second of these fears is the fear of what people think of me especially in social situations. While growing up I was constantly made fun of for just about everything and now it seems I am always second guessing myself in social situations especially around new people and around cute women. I believe this has been a huge hindrance in my ability to find a woman. My friends keep saying I need to find a Miss Right Now however I can’t even walk up to a cute girl because I’m always afraid I’m going to say something wrong and botch my chance with her, or in the case of FPG them, and this fear is what keeps me so shy. When I first met my now close group of friends I barely said a word to them. This was mainly because I didn’t want to say anything that could harm a potential friendship.

The other fear is more of a half fear than anything; it is a small hint of arachnophobia. My arachnophobia is only in proportion to the size of the spider and the color of the spider. In other words most spiders don’t bother me, however the bigger the spider the more frightened I get the same goes with color, the more colorful the spider the more afraid I am. This is just mainly due to the fact that in Florida there seems to be a lot of poisonous spiders and most of these spiders are big and colorful.

So there you have it my three biggest fears; snakes, what people think of me, and big colorful spiders. Now it’s your turn.

Now for the Random Bachelor Card of the Day: “Ask the bartender to give you gifts from the Three Wise Men: Jack, Jim, and Johnny (Daniels, Beam, and Walker).”

Now that’s a dare I can do easily plus it sounds tasty.

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