My phobias.

there are some of the things which i suffer from, say it disease or mental limitations, but i do have my own fears. here are a few i can enumerate.
1) dumbophobia.: i describe it as fear of dumb people. people whom you would rather avoid than talk. Talk with them is a challenge to human mental endurance limits. Over contact to these people can lead to pulling of hairs, going eeeeeekkkkk !!, or even thoughts of murdering these people. I try to avoid such people as a safety precaution for them.

2) hysterophobia: Walking with tranquility, with your mind humming "i can see clearly now the rain is gone" , and all of a sudden you ever heard an high frequency sound out of nowhere, as if someone was attacked by Frankenstein. On close scrutiny you discover that some female species of the human kind had encountered a harmless little cockroach on her way, which made her shriek at decibel levels that were unacceptable to human hears. I actually fear such species, not the cockroach , but the one that shrieked. I fear them coz it simply make me go berserk, feel like hitting the notorious shrieker. They can't differentiate if they were attacked by an cockroach or a T-Rex.!

3)too-fast-too-friendly phobia: have you encountered people who are too fast to friendly types, the ones you are likely too meet on a train or bus or maybe some other public place. Before you realize the person is spilling his stories, his accomplishments, woes and worries before you. I fear them, i really fear them. I usually bury my face in a book or a newspaper to avoid such person. They start expressing their views so loudly that you could go deaf! I normally try to avoid such scenarios.. i really can't handle it, i am not the too fast too friendly type.

4) I-forgot-your-name- ophobia: Ever been to a marriage, a social gathering where you meet this uncle/a of yours you were introduced in the last social gathering, you kinda remember their face but dont know what their name was.? What do you do.? you end up talkin to them in a nice friendly manner without having a clue who they are.! I have a fear for such situations. Not only in family circles, such a scenario can happen anywhere, anytime. You are standing in a queue, be it a movie ticket or a railway ticket, and all off a sudden you see a face that disturbs your gray cells, tells you that you have met this person and don't remember where, and all of a sudden the person calls out your name, loud and clear and you don't know how to respond.! All you end up doin is "hey.! Hi there.!" makin the silliest of grins you can come up with, and talk to them for the next 20 minutes of your life without having any idea who the person was. Asking them their name would be too rude, impolite and you can't do it.! I Still dont know haw to come out of this situation.

i have few more i would not want to go in details.
5) Mushyphobia : Fear of the mushy types

6)Prudeophodia: Fear of the unnecessarily acting prudes

The worst part is.. they are all around , one just can't escape.! God give me the strength to overcome these ordeals.

The 3 questions..

After 2 yrs into a ph.d, ya, you can gauge the boring and uninteresting nature of mine, there are 3, yes 3 questions that one should not ask a ph.d student. Besides not having a clear precise answer, these questions touch (read hurt) the integrity of a grad student to the very downright. These questions, I consider more manner less then asking a lady her age.

Q1) "Hmm.. how many publications you said that was.??"
Come on! thats us as rude as asking a guy how much he earned (unless he earns like Bill Gates). The question touches the very conscious of the poor grad student. It makes him* feel more pathetic than already he is. It hurts..!

Q2) "When are you thinking of getting married then!?"
No.. Never, yes never put that question (unless he is already married). He already has something that demands constant attention, makes do crazy things, keeps him awake at nights and makes feel that life would be better without it. One would not want to feel all these over again.

Q3)" oh! doing a ph.d. so when are you finishing, completing your ph.d.?"
Ever heard the term 'God Forbid' .?? ya thats the .. mot juste here. Do not ask it, its rude, outrageous and also totally uneasy for the poor guy. Its like asking..... i can't think of one thing that i can compare this situation to, and you know why.? coz there isn't a more morally hurting a question than this one.


One should at all costs avoid these questions. please.

* all hims and hes can be replaced by him/her or even a her if the reader feels anything discriminating towards the other sex. I am no sexist, but believe me , its too much of trouble writing him/her everytime .