Andrea’s Caterpillar Fantasies
January 27th 2009 21:00
Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.
My best friend Andrea has something in common with me: our morbid fear of caterpillars. We have been terrified of them for as long as we have known each other.
Unlike me, though, who would rather not come across or think about any caterpillars, Andrea likes to fantasise about what she would like to do to them. She once told me she thought drowning them in washing detergent would be a good one. Another one would be burning them. Hearing her narrate her fantasies is enough to put chills up my spine.
Like most fantasies, these are kept purely in her imagination. A few months ago Andrea and her family moved house. Unfortunately for Andrea and her children, caterpillars seem to be able to get inside. She has no idea how they end up in her house. Andrea has forced herself to overcome her phobia for the sake of her children as she doesn’t want the caterpillars in the house in case her children touch them and get stung. So in reality, instead of using a stick and pushing them into a bucket of water to drown them or starting a small fire near them, Andrea has resorted to a more humble method of getting rid of them: getting a sheet of paper and holding it to the wall and waiting for the caterpillar to crawl onto it so she can then release it back outside.
This is an oldie but a goodie; a fellow caterpillar phobic used to do that at school. Same with my dad the time we found a huge green one in our house.
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