Shark Week on Discovery Channel

Sharks seem to scare the crap out of most people.

I blame the movie Jaws.

A hundred rows of teeth, the gigantic snout, dead eyes, the two fins sticking out of the water, that music, severed limbs, gushing blood, and terror, mind-blowing terror.

Even if you haven’t seen the movie, you’re scared. My kids haven’t, and still they are petrified to venture out farther than their waists.

The odds are slim that you or I will be attacked, and yet a loose stalk of seaweed can send us screaming toward the shore.

Many people think sharks hunt humans. My kids for instance. Of course, my one daughter believes scorpions hunt people too.

That’s what fear does for you.

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