Friday 18 June 2010

So, How's That Therapy Going?

Not so well, actually....
A British woman was attacked in Thailand by a pack of macaques while on trip to conquer her lifelong fear of primates.
She lives in Peterborough, so I'm not really sure why she felt the need to conquer her fear anyway.

Unlike a fear of spiders, she was most unlikely to ever encounter a capuchin in her bath...
Mrs. Darwell said she had had a fear of primates as a result of her father bringing up a chimpanzee which she described as "positively evil."

But she had joined with a friend a tour run by the Siam Sea Canoe tourist agency to confront her fear.
I guess no-one told her that you can see safely caged primates in this country?

8 comments:

PT Barnum said...

Mrs. Darwell said she had had a fear of primates as a result of her father bringing up a chimpanzee which she described as "positively evil."

While there's probably a novel to be written about her childhood, to be fair to the woman a severe phobic of anything doesn't have to encounter the actual object - a picture will have an equally bad effect. Count the number of primates who turn up in commercial breaks of an evening....

But I guess monkeys can smell fear. Oh dear.

Ross said...

"She lives in Peterborough, so I'm not really sure why she felt the need to conquer her fear anyway."

Have you seen the natives?

Anonymous said...

Is this like the evil monkey under the bed in Family Guy?

English Viking said...

Ross,

How dare you insult monkeys by comparing them to Peterborians?

Mrs Erdleigh said...

I agree with PT Barnum, the childhood backstory is by far the most interesting aspect of this.

Mr Grumpy said...

Not an unreasonable fear, surely. Peterborough has a cathedral, and you never know when the Archdruid is going to pay a visit.

Mark Wadsworth said...

You'd be surprised. I once had a cappuccino in the bath.

JuliaM said...

"...to be fair to the woman a severe phobic of anything doesn't have to encounter the actual object - a picture will have an equally bad effect."

Ah, good point. Witness the Metro's 'Arachnid Alert On Page XX...' that they are now printing every time there's a spider story inside...

"Is this like the evil monkey under the bed in Family Guy?"

Heh! I loved that episode...

"I agree with PT Barnum, the childhood backstory is by far the most interesting aspect of this."

It is, isn't it?