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banana fear

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Sure, we’re callous, but we do enjoy hearing all about your irrational fears. So we were of course delighted to receive the following extraordinary email from Kate in Cambridge:

I am terrified of bananas. I hate everything about them and cannot stand to touch smell or even look at them without it sending shivers down my spine. Eurrrgh!

The problem is that people I meet find this very amusing, and try and conjure up different ways in which to torture me with bananas. My boyfriend learnt how scared I am the hard way, whilst only having been together a month, he came at me with a banana and in my fear and panic I slashed open his arm with a bread knife (I was cutting bread at the time and it was an accident).

Seven years down the line the scars have faded and he knows not to banana me anymore. So my question to you is, When new people find out about my banana fear how can I make them understand and stop them trying to torture me with bananas?

I’m afraid there is no way to make people understand a phobia of bananas. No way in the world. Our advice to you instead is to travel back in time to Second World War Britain, where even if you wanted to, you couldn’t get a banana for love nor money.

PS: Was Kate’s fear triggered by watching this at an impressionable age?

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2 Responses to “banana fear”

  1. C's avatar C Says:
    October 26, 2010 at 10:39 pm | Reply

    I can relate entirely. I fear baked beans.

  2. danniiboy's avatar danniiboy Says:
    October 14, 2010 at 5:33 am | Reply

    At the risk of seeming insensitive, I’d suggest you find yourself a shrink.

    I doubt any half-decent shrink would be shocked by a phobia of bananas, and they could be genuinely helpful in working through and moving past this.

    Also, this is the exact sort of thing that seems so very hilarious when it’s happening to someone else, but is just a massive pain in the arse when it’s happening to you. Mainly because it seems like such a great lark to pretty much everyone it isn’t happening to.

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