There is something that I honestly don’t understand…
Why are people so frightened of bats? I don’t mean an individual person’s phobia, I can more then understand that. I have a debilitating phobia of bees, wasps, hornets, and anything that looks like them. But people seem, in general, afraid of bats. Grown men will cringe and flinch away from them, refuse to touch them. My own mother tried to, literally, climb my back when a bat was lose in her house.
Personally, I think they’re cute and I like the sounds they make. I caught the bat that so freaked out my mother, and let it go outside, and people asked me why I didn’t just kill it. On an animal cops show, there was a bunch of bats that had taken up residence in a tree in the middle of a neighbourhood. Whenever the bats left the tree, grown men and women freaked out, screaming and ducking.
Okay, I know people don’t want a bat in their hair. That happened to me when I was 12 and had hair to my waist. Not fun. But the poor bat was scared shitless too.
So, are you afraid of bats? If so, why? I honestly would like to know.
