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?
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8 comments:

  1. PT Barnum18 June 2010 at 12:55

    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.

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  2. Ross18 June 2010 at 13:13

    "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?

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  3. Anonymous18 June 2010 at 13:54

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

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  4. English Viking18 June 2010 at 14:58

    Ross,

    How dare you insult monkeys by comparing them to Peterborians?

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  5. Mrs Erdleigh18 June 2010 at 15:11

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

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  6. Mr Grumpy18 June 2010 at 17:02

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

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  7. Mark Wadsworth18 June 2010 at 19:12

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

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  8. JuliaM19 June 2010 at 05:52

    "...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?

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