I just ate a pickle. :eek: 
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I was caught between bewilderment and amusement . . .
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So, you found yourself in a pickle?
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Actually, the difference is that all the things you used as examples could be dangerous in some circumstances. Some species of spiders are poisonous or the bite could just hurt like the dickens, falling from heights or an airplane crash can also be dangerous/deadly. However, there is nothing frightening about a pickle or a peach which is what makes them hilariously irrational. I can imagine no situation where a pickle or a peach sitting on the counter could be dangerous and be able to induce that level of paranoria.
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Isn’t it possible that one person choked on a pickle early in life and the other on a piece of peach? It could explain what appears to be an irrational fear. My dad choked almost to death on a piece of mint candy when he was a small child. Even into his seventies he still got short of breath at the tiniest taste of mint. He knew where the reaction came from, but it didn’t matter. He wasn’t exactly afraid of mint, but he avoided it as if it were poison.
I like pickles.
I wonder how that lady would deal with the North Carolina Pickle Festival? Or how about the New Year’s Eve “Pickle Drop” in Mt. Olive, NC (where a large fiberglass pickle is lowered into an old wooden pickle tank)?
Since I was a young boy I have had an irrational fear of lightbulbs (in fact my first ever post on the Dope was about that very subject). These last two years I have been taking what are for me very radical steps to confront that fear and have changed three light bulbs (all flouros, no icandescents which are the REALLY scary ones). The first one took me more than 45 minutes to do, the second a mere half hour and the last one around 20 minutes.
I have no idea what causes my lightbulb-a-phobia.
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It could explain what appears to be an irrational fear.
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Heck, if Mom had a pickle-styled dildo, it could be a memory from the womb.
“Get it away from me! I don’t want to lose an eye!”
Cervaise, if I wasn’t going to hell for laughing at the OP, I certainly am now after your contribution there.
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Heck, if Mom had a pickle-styled dildo, it could be a memory from the womb.
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Puts the whole “jerkin’ the gherkin” thing in a bit of a new context, that does.