Replies to '09/05 Phobias'

i Remember the very first day i was turned off to banannas
i was sitting in the back seat of a chuttery old montero 4x4 and it was a hot summers day
my mom was listening to neil young in the front seat chomping away on her banana
and then all of the sudden i just began to notice how disgusting it is and i started to scoot back in my seat
and got so overwhelmed with anxiety that i started to scream
they stopped the car and i went outside and puked (sorry to all of you emetophobics)
ever since then people have given me s*** about it
the other day a classmate threw her banana peel at me and i flew out of my seat but the peel was stuck to me
they had to escort me out of the classroom

Bananas are disgusting ... they always have been and always will be.  I have hated bananas my entire life and I will until the day I die.  When I was a child, my younger brother would try to get back at me by eating a banana in my presence because he knew how much I hated the sight, smell, taste, feel and the mere thought of a banana.  He would eat a banana with his mouth wide open, chomping obnoxiously on it in an attempt to annoy me with the sight, smell and the nosie of the banana.  Further, I make no apologoies for my utter disdain of bananas.  People that eat bananas in public are disgusting as well.  Recently, I stayed at a nice bed and breakfast hotel and stay was ruined when they served sliced bananas with some type of goup on the top of the bananas as if it was going to make the bananas taste better -- I thought I was going to puke just looking at it.  Bananas should not be made available for sale without a written prescription from a medical doctor -- they should be banned.  Until then, I hope that anyone that eats a banana in the presence of another person that is not eating a banana -- slips on their banana peel, injurs themselves into a coma ~~ until international laws are passed banning bananas once and for all!

I know exactly how you feel, i've been afraid of bananas my whole life. In fact, i remeber when i stopped eating them. I was around 4 or 5 and I was at my grandma's house. I absolutly can't stand bananas. I can't look at them, touch them, or smell them. The smell is horrible. Everyone thinks I'm crazy and my smaller brother used to chase me around the house with them. I've used the "allergic to banana" excuse too. When I go shopping I usually check the indgredients on the back just to make sure there are no bananas in them. I won't eat ANYTHING that has bananas in them or shaped like a banana. It's nice to know that I'm not the only person in the world like this :)