The oddest fear anyone could have..

Fish tanks. Yup that’s what Im scared of. Not your normal household kind, but the large scale kind that fit in walls and such. Now empty ones with no lights or water or anything in them are fine. And the bigs one with fish and what not are fine also, as long as I dont have to put my back to them. I need something behind me between the fish tank, like a big something. Now this silly fear of my appeared in my dreams, I’d be someplace happily and suddenly I would turn around and bam there is a fishtank, with or with out the fish. Then I would turn around again and bam, there it would be again. The more I turned the more there were. I’d have a panic attack in my sleep, my heart would race, by breath would catch and well I’d break down and cry. Open sob in my dreams over these damn ass fishtanks.

Now in the waking world I cant have them behind me. I dont mind looking at them, but I cant have them behind me or completely surrounding me like in the pet stores. Yup, cant do an aquarium like sea world… Last time I did I was way uncomfortable and had to have my boyfriend stand behind me with his arms wrapped around me the entire time. Last night we went to dinner at the Rain Forest Cafe… Ok not cool, there were lots of fishtanks. We went right before closing so by the time we had to leave they had locked all the doors except the one you can exit through a large fishtank you walk under. It goes on both sides of you and above you. Ok I couldnt do it. Yeah it was like only about five steps and I would be through it but I couldnt do it. I felt the panic start to build, and if they would have forced me to go through I would have cried. One of the guys who worked there kindly led me through the kitchen and out the back way for employee’s. I felt really stupid but I really couldnt have walked through it. I dont think I’ll eat there again. Its nice inside and I was able to put my back up against something other than the direction of one of their few fishtanks. But the fact is, I dont want to go through the risk of looking like a complete ass again.

So ok there you have it…. the oddest fear anyone has ever had…. Now I remind you…. I could careless if it has fish in it, just as long as its one of the deep ones set up for fish… I cant put them behind me… literally and figuratively.