There is a line the brilliant actor Sir Michael Caine has in Austin Powers Goldmember where says there are two things he really dislikes – “People who are intolerant of other peoples cultures, and the Dutch.”  If you were to ask me this same question my answer would be: Cats and Baked Beans.

Cats:  The internet is bombarded with these furry little felines chasing laser lights, sleeping in unusual positions or just looking cute.  I am telling you people it is all a big ruse on behalf of the cats – didn’t you see Cats & Dogs!!  They are arrogant, pompous, self-centred, egotistical, evil genius’ who are just biding their time with a family until they are ready to strike. Cats have already trained their owners into their servitude – feed me, pet me, play with me and I’ll just poop in this box and you can clean it all up. Seriously you can’t even take a cat for a walk or a run down the beach – what is with that?  Suffice to say I am not a cat lover and every time I see one with it’s luxurious fluffy coat and razor sharp snake like fangs I know I will never change my mind.

Baked Beans: Before you think I have totally lost my marbles (which for the record are fabulous, colourful and shiny with lots of bling) this is an actual phobia – Leguminophobia. So it is not just me with this issue AND there are many irrational phobias such as:

• Alektorophobia – Fear of Chickens
• Chorophobia – Fear of Dancing
• Genuphobia – Fear of Knees or
• Pogonophobia – Fear of Beards (which must be horrible in this era of the Hipster.)

Even writing about BB’s I am wriggling in my chair and getting goosebumps……… I do not know how this started.  The fact is I can not handle Baked Beans – look at them, touch them, smell them or in my very worse nightmare – eat them.  I am now starting to sweat and do that thing I do when I am nervous or anxious -shaking my right leg while sitting.  So before I have a complete melt down I finish this thought.