The Greatest Fear
19th April 2010 with 49 comments
I have a really terrible fear of staples. Amongst all the fears I have – rejection, dying, porn, burgers, glass, the dark, being alone, getting lost – the worst is probably staples. Extremely closely followed by the dark.
Staples, why. I’m talking the metal things that hold sheets of paper together. They’re like thin steel pins bent into shape, usually punched at the edge or corner of a stack of paper. I am really sure you understand what I’m talking about.
Okay, apparently they are called “fasteners” too (thanks Wikipedia).
Yeah, I hate those things. A lot. And my severe phobia of these metal pins started when I was about nine or ten years old. I had a traumatising experience, which would, on other planets, be considered hilarious or funny.
I had seen my teachers staple posters to walls and noticeboards with a stapler, and seeing things this way – the way they opened the stapler 180 degrees, and pressed the top of the stapler flat on the wall, successfully attaching our wonderful works of art to the already messy noticeboard – really amazed me. Come on, I had seen this kind of thing from the age of five right through to the age of nine.
Amazed by this effortless technique, yet not owning a board to be able to practise on, I continued to think about it.
One day I was creating a hat – more specifically, a crown – of paper. The paper was in a long strip and I would staple it at the end. I didn’t even think of doing it the civil way by placing the ends between in the stapler and pressing. It did not even cross my mind because I was imagining the technique my teachers had employed.
I opened the stapler to 180 degrees and held the paper up in front of me, pushing the stapler forward.
Georgina, you stupid idiot.
I withdrew my hands from the stapler only to find my two forefingers successfully attached to the idiotic crown I had created, blood oozing out from the teeth marks the executed staple had made in my skin.
Ouch.
Ever since, I have tried to refrain from having to remove staples from paper, but my hands always seem to shake a bit when I handle anything with staples. To put it simply: I hate it.
At work, the children’s worksheets are bound together in a booklet so that they are easily ripped, like notepaper from a notepad with the glued spine. However, some stupid idiotic parents think it’s okay to staple all down the fucking side of the booklet when the sheets fall apart, or in the corner, which undeniably enrages me.
Not only do I have a severe fear of staples, but screw you, it is really difficult to turn a page when it is hindered by staples! 
But whatever, the past is the past right?
I cried. 
because it was my favourite one! I only just noticed these icons, I should get them on my msn again.
So if that happened to be I would definatly be scared of staples. 
I once stapled my finger – I think I was about 8, the stapler was jammed and I opened it to see why it wasn’t working. Once I’d clicked a couple of parts around a bit (I had no idea what I was doing, haha) I kept it open and moved the pieces of paper under it. I forgot to take away my hand, though, and I had half a staple and two sheets of paper stuck in my hand. bleurgh >_<
Sometimes I would use my fingernail to get it out. I’m too lazy to get a staple remover. I would rip it apart if I don’t want to use my fingernail. That always does the trick.
Sometimes I have to lift the previous page, so I can read the sentence that’s being blocked by that page. It’s all because of how it’s staple. I understand your frustration.
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He thought he wasn’t going to do good, but he did 
I’m only really afraid of random things, like carnival music xD 
WOW. Apparently people knew that there was going to be one this year :| THEY DIDN’T TELL US! LOL. But it was cool anyways haha. 
Who would’ve thought that one tiny prick could cause so much pain and bloodshed. 
That made me giggle a little. I think I am subconsciously afraid of the dark, too.
Yus, I erm do tend to babble on about them a bit too much for my own good – MCR that is.
I’d never would’ve thought of that. xD
Which ever one I feel like doing.
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tiff k
19th April 2010 at 10:40 pm
I remember you mentioned this in the forum I think? Aww dear! >:D< It's so darn hard to be afraid of staples though, because you would probably meet an object that's stapled once every week or so. I didn't know you were scared of burgers? hehee
Me I tend to abuse staples
I mean i like playing with the staples, pretend the stapler's a gun and all but stopped doing this because it's bad for the environment and I waste staples 
hhahaha!! I am really scared of "going down" heights. I don't know what to call this. I first thought that I was afraid of stairs but I realized that I wasn't afraid of going up, I'm afraid of going down ANYTHING. Ladders, stairs, HILLS, etc. During our camping and hiking, I had to crawl and slide down a mountain because I couldn't stand. Sighs… maybe it's because I have poor balance 
I always imagine myself before going down that I would die bleeding at the foot of the stairs 
hahaha!! Silly of me 
Hope we can rid our fears though! Good luck to us!!
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