I used to be afraid of umbrellas. Well, actually it was just closing them.
When I was a kid, my parents had a big, black, manual umbrella. It probably wasn't as big as I remember, but it was scary. I specifically remember one time pushing the wedge to collapse it, and it pinched my finger. Boy, did that hurt!
So from then on, I avoided closing umbrellas no matter what. Eventually, the fear spread over to opening umbrellas too. I was so glad when automatic umbrellas were invented.
I don't have a fear of pinching my fingers in an umbrella anymore. Most of the fear came from an irrational child's brain. But even now that I'm an adult, the first thing that I instictly think when I'm opening a manual umbrella is, "Don't pinch your fingers!"
Those umbrellas hurt. I was not afraid of them but I always tried so hard to avoid pinching my fingers too.
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