In honor of everyone’s least favorite day (the title means fear of Friday the 13th), here’s a list of phobias that might just crack you up. If you have one of these, I’m very sorry, but some of them are absolutely hilarious. From MSN.
Chromophobia–fear of colors. (How do they watch tv?)
Papaphobia–fear of the pope. (Guess they’re not Catholic.)
Scorodophobia–fear of garlic.
Pteronophobia–fear of being tickled with feathers. (LOL, in the middle of the lab)
Ranidaphobia–fear of frogs.
Philematophobia–fear of kissing.
Aulophobia–fear of flutes.
Ostraconophobia–fear of shellfish.
Graphophobia–fear of handwriting. (um, did they type before they wrote?)
Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia–fear of long words (seriously).
Blennophobia–fear of slime.
Gerontophobia–fear of old people.
Peladophobia–fear of bald people.
Geropeladophobia–fear of old, bald people.
Phobophobia–fear of developing a fear.
Then there was the woman on the Tyra Banks show who was afraid of Styrofoam, and in order to overcome it, the producers buried a diamond necklace inside a large armoire filled with packing peanuts. She wouldn’t go near it for the first five minutes of the show. And of course, when she finally did open the door to start looking, all of them gushed out over her. She did eventually find the necklace, but I don’t know if she was cured…
May your day be spectacularly lucky despite any phobias. Go Cards!