Long time readers will know that I have a fear of bears. This has been previously documented on this blog. But you may not realize I also have a fear of alligators. And most other things that can kill me. I like to think of this as a healthy fear.
This is how I react to bears. Even when they are behind a fence in the zoo.
This is how I react to alligators at my elbow. Not in a zoo, but a nature preserve. There are no fences.
I have no pictures of me encountering these sorts of animals in everyday life. Most of the vicious creatures I encounter regularly are kindof like this cat below. Her name is Margaret Thatcher, Maggie for short. She can only kill birds and small rodents.
Sometimes I am blown away by the awesomeness of pictures of me pretending to be scared. If you know of a modeling career in this (e.g. victim in some horrible animal-related accident where the photoshoot requires fear and no contact with the animal) please let me know.
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3 comments:
LOL. I don't think I've seen the alligator picture before. I like it. You just need one more for a lovely triptych. I would hang it on my wall.
I wasn't especially afraid of alligators (just the usual, quite rational amount) until I heard a story on a very early episode of TAL where there's a whole lot of confusion over a young boy's identity because he could have been either a kid who got kidnapped or a missing child who nobody knows what happened to. They are pretty sure now that the missing child toddled off a bridge and was eaten by an alligator (it was in Louisiana in like 1923 or something). This story filled me with extreme horror and I have loathed alligators ever since. I just thought I would share it with you because you would sympathize. It's a great episode though, I'll find it for you sometime!!
Yeah, I haven't posted that alligator picture before. Now I'm trying to think what I can use for the third in the triptych. Don't worry...it is coming, I just don't know when.
Also, that TAL story was scary. Animals that can eat me have always scared me, although most of my life alligators have not been an issue!
I am so happy you are working on this tryptich, which I just now learned to spell properly. Apologies for my previous misspelling. Apparently I was too lazy to google it. Anyway, this is exciting. I look forward to the unveiling whenever you get photographed with another terrifying animal.
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