“She takes the stairs, every single time man,” cried Spectre.
“It’s just one of those things,” sighed Sprite.
“Yeah,” groaned Spectre. “But I always prefer the escalators.”
“Bruv, I don’t mean to sound rude,” said Sprite. “But maybe you were just raised differently.”
Trivia. A fear of slopes or stairs is called bathmophobia. I wonder if there’s a really scared person somewhere naming all the different fears and phobias in the world…
Original photo by Alex Rodríguez Santibáñez on Unsplash. Thanks to Warren for the $10 Patronage.
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Little Fears 
My last post of the night. As always, BRILLIANT!
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Arf. Glad ya chuckled, Jen.
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Huge GROAN! :))
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Music to my ears. 😛
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Beautiful
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Thank you. 🙂
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I wonder if there’s someone in the world afraid of baths and calling it stairophobia 🙃
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Hah. Most likely!
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This one really gave me a lift!
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A well risen pun.
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Cooool!! :))
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Thank you. 🙂
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Arf way up! Neither up nor down!
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Hah. Ketish! 😀
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argh! such a punny post.
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Hah. Only the worst puns here, thank ya very much.
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Nice! 🙂
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Thank ya. 🙂
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That lifted my spirit.
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Arf. Kertish!
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When the punchline arrives and it takes a moment for the doors to open. :v
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Hah. A pun that arrives with a ping.
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Ping-pun
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What if your job is to name the fears but you suffer from a fear of naming things?
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Ooof. Apparently, onomatophobia is a fear of names. 😀
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I was scared of escalators as a kid. It was something enough standing at the top looking down as those stairs moved. One time my fear got so bad, I sat down on the stairs to ride them down. Folks was mad, but at least I was safe lol
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Aww, haha. My missus hates them. She never felt right on them. Last year, she went to the optician with me, they tried a new and funky machine on us, and we discovered she has almond shaped eyes. We then got a new house and she has trouble visualizing and walking down the last bit of a steep slope out back. We now think, after a lifetime panicking about escalators, she actually has a visual/balance issue with slopes. Go figure. So sitting down ain’t a bad idea!
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Brodie from Mall Rats: “Listen, not a year goes by, not a year, that I don’t hear about some escalator accident involving some bastard kid which could have easily been avoided had some parent – I don’t care which one – but some parent conditioned him to fear and respect that escalator.” Any time I hear the word “escalator” I think of that quote.
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Haha, I think I saw that film. In the era of Jay and Silent Bob right?
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Yes,those movies always crack me up. Clerks is an absolute classic
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That’s a correct observation. Raised by an elevator.
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Mmmhmm. 🙂
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Groan, groan, groan! 😀
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Grins 😛
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