Fears!

I am absolutely terrified of fish! They are so creepy. I had a traumatic fishing experience when I was really young, and I've hated fish ever since then. My family went to our friends' cabin on a lake, and I got a Tweety Bird fishing pole because it was my birthday. In the morning I decided to go fishing by myself. There were other people awake too, but I was the only one on the pier. I have like a five minute attention span, so it was a miracle that I was even fishing long enough to catch anything, but it happened. I was really excited at first, but then I was reeling in my fish and it started flailing around on the top of the water, and I didn't know what to do! I freaked out and dropped my fishing pole, and the fish pulled it into the lake off the pier. I ran back up to the cabin to get someone to help me, and a kid named Nick jumped into the lake and rescued my Tweety fishing pole from the bottom which was cool, until my mom made me have a photoshoot with my fish! I had hold it while it was wiggling around and its creepy, beady eyes were staring at me. Fish are so slimy! I hate them.

So that was the start of my fear. I always get really nervous when I'm sailing or waterskiing and I fall in the lake. I know that fish won't eat my toes or anything, but it's hard to think that way when I'm stranded in the middle of a nasty lake where a vicious fish could sneak up on me at any second! One time a couple years ago my family went to that cabin again, and all the kids were swimming in the middle of the lake. My brother, who knows I'm afraid of fish, grabbed onto my feet and I panicked. I wasn't wearing a life jacket or anything and I was panicking so much that I couldn't swim, even though I was on the swim team for eight years. Stupid fish almost made me drown.