Ask anyone that knows me If they think I'm slightly weird, and they'll probably reply along the lines of "hell yeah!" I don't know why I'm this way, it seems to have been a by-product of age. I wasn't this bad in school, in fact, I was positively boring and normal. At college, I may have shown some eccentricities, such as an affection for purple. More recently in university I started dying my hair purple and becoming the me I am today, all odd and smiley.
However my quirkiest personality traits are my phobias.when I started writing this piece, I wasn't sure whether I would reveal my worst (and dumbest) phobia and I'm still not sure that you should have that much power over me. My minor phobia, which is bad enough but is not odd enough to be ridiculed about, is my fear of phoning people. Phoning strangers, not knowing if I have the right number, and any phoning that is really important, all these fill me with dread. When I am (literally) forced to phone, I may as well be a lost ten-year-old girl. My voice gets higher, I start to sniffle, and it looks like crying may be a possibility. It may just be in my head, people on the other end of the line might not know that I'm crazy and my heart has stopped beating.
<*dv_1*> Now my other phobia is so odd it doesn't have one of those cool names like Batrachophobia (fear of frogs - yes, look impressed). I think if I mention it once, and don't refer to it again then the damage will be minimised, my phobia is quite simply a fear of ET. I can't explain it, and wont even try, as I'm shuddering now just at the thought of him.
<*dv_0*> Oh, and I have one other, completely random phobia. It involves the ugliest form of natural face stretching, yawning. Most people yawn when they see other people yawning, which can cause a Mexican yawn-wave. My problem is more pronounced, I can't help but perform the open-mouthed nostril-flaring fandango when the word is mentioned, or written, because I'm yawning now. My friends at work know this and leave post-it notes with 'YAWN' around. Of course it's no fun doing that and not being able to watch the resulting yawn, so I get walk-by yawnings. It has reached the point when I think I've become psychic because I yawn when people think about it. YAWN. You're thinking about it now aren't you!? BASTARDS!
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