Spiders

Now, I am a very phobic person, but my oldest and one of my most annoying phobias is arachnophobia. It wasn't as bad in the city, mostly because I live far above ground, but at the moment I'm at my mother's. Which means a garden and a house with more holes than I want to think about (there's something living in the attic, not sure if it's rats, doves or racoons, for example). Which means spiders, a lot of them.

( Cut for the phobic and uninterested. )

The fun part: nobody gets it. If another person tells me "that the poor thing is more afraid of you, it really can't hurt you", I'm going to have a fit. I don't care if you think spiders are the cutest creatures ever. I just hope you get a nice, impractical phobia yourself. A phobia of insects, maybe.