Posted: Apr 28, 08
4:58am
Here's what happens:
My heart starts pounding, I feel a rush of adrenaline sweeping over me, my skin becomes flushed and I break out into a feminine glow (I perspire), I sometimes cry out and I feel as if the whole world is about to blowup and come crashing down around me.
This is a panic attack.
For me, this happens when I come in contact with that most ferocious of creatures....
...a bunny.
Rabbits are my fear, my phobia...my "please don't let it get me" terror. This has nothing to do with Monty Python or Donnie Darko...those films just served to reassure me that my fear is valid. They express aloud that which I have always known: Rabbits are evil.
This is not a rodent thing. I like mice (when they aren't taking up residence on my pillow), I think hamsters are adorable especially when their pouches are full and they're walking around like that Chinese brother who could swallow the sea, and I find a certain joy and comfort in the weeeeeet, weeeeeet sound made by curious guinea pigs.
It isn't all small mammals that get to me...just rabbits.
Something about the eyes constantly warns you, "Beware...I'm lethal!" Their teeth are sharp and yellow (always yellow) and the hind feet contain steroid charged quadriceps and concealed talons. I suspect they are venomous.
My son is afraid of spiders, my father and daughter suffer 'freak-out' around butterflies and on Oprah, I once saw a woman who was afraid of potatoes that had begun sprouting (I must admit those are kind of macabre).
Anything else out there I should be worried about?