Dave Land wrote:
I was at a dinner party Friday night where one of the guests
(a real girly-girl) was bragging on the fact that she had faced
her fear and killed an extremely large spider in her living
room. I told her that killing something that you outweigh by a
factor of several million to one isn't facing your fear of it.
She wasn't buying it.
Well, then I don't face my fear of scorpions.
I just kill them, dispose of the body, and then sit gibbering in the
corner for the next 10 minutes.
At least this way, I'm greatly reducing the chances of someone getting
stung, which is the *real* fear I have. It's extremely unpleasant to
have your 6-month-old stung by a scorpion! And some of the ones I kill
aren't outweighed by a factor of several million to one -- several
thousands to one on some of them, sure, but not millions.
Julia
getting paranoid about scorpions again, although I haven't seen any for
over a month now
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