Body hair phobia
I'd like to believe that I raised a couple of fairly normal guys. I mean really, with me as a mom how could they possibly go wrong? OK, scratch that.

My oldest, who is 23, is hopefully learning some great lessons in responsibility since I cut the cord well over a year ago. He's had some bumps along the way, but hubby tells me that he's a normal young adult male. OK, I'll buy that.

My youngest, soon to be 22, had that whole pen cap up the nose incident, but other than that he's a normal (albeit a bit too responsible for his age) guy.

Normal? Hmmm... not so fast...

===Fade in dreamy memory music.....===

I can't recall what exactly made me remember this today, but lucky for him (heh) I did and I'm going to share. A few years back, he used to go swimming in a public pool with his dad. He came home all upset one day, so of course, I had to ask him why.

He was grossed out because he saw a woman in the pool who had hairy arm pits. It get's worse. He was SO grossed out, that he had to immediately get out of the pool and leave. While that's not the prettiest thing to look at, I don't think it's anything to get out of the pool about.

It makes me wonder how he got such a phobia. I've been mentally going through the many pranks I pulled on him as a child and none of them are arm pit related. Frankly, I'm stumped.

Calling Dr. Freud.....

Sidenote: I can't wait to see what this topic does with the google search results... bwa ha ha ha ha

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Iki wrote:

It used to freak me out too. Then I moved to Europe. *lol*


  

Mike wrote:

That is a weird one


  

aka_monty wrote:

That reminds me of the time I went to Magic Mountain in California when I was a teenager...the woman behind me in line was...well, furry is the only way to describe it. For three years after that experience, I shaved my pits & legs daily.

Now, of course, I don't bother so much... :D


  

Elle wrote:

I haven't even gotten pregnant yet and am already worrying what damage I will do unknowingly to my child's psyche. Not to imply that your son is at all damaged, except maybe by his fear of hairy armpits. LOL.


  

SpudKing wrote:

Send him to me. Just up the freeway 30-45 minutes (depending on traffic) we have Arcosanti. Scads of hairy women. We can get him set up to work there, and who knows, perhaps he'll get over his phobia and find the natural factor (as opposed to the Max Factor) to his liking. wink


  

Muzik wrote:

Keep that boy out of Europe.


  

sede wrote:

To be sure! It pretty much grosses me out, too, although I don't know if it would take me outta the pool! Especially seeing as how all the men (MEN, not those chest-shaving yucks) out there in the pool have got it under their pits justa swaying in the water, too...... hmmm, pictured like that, maybe water retreat is best... tongue rolleye


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