My mate's scared of snakes, alligators and spiders.
Nothing wrong with that, you think, instinctual survival technique, which is true but we live in Yorkshire. He got a cat just so if a python got into his house it would eat that first enabling escape, he had to move desks at work because there was a hole in the ceiling above him and he thought an anaconda might drop down onto him, and when we walk past the canal at lunchtime (the water's barely above freezing) he always keeps an eye out for alligators. Of course, we throw stones in behind his back and he shits himself. Oh and he NEVER goes in the sea for fear of sea snakes and great whites (at Scarborough - I ask you!).
(themightyginge, Wed 28 Jan 2004, 10:01, Reply)