Ha! As a kid, I was phobic about bats getting tangled in my long black hair (sounds like some freak version of a Child ballad). Where I grew up there was a folk myth circulating that if one had black hair a bat might fly at it thinking it was a hole to fly into and hide and everyone knows that would be disastrous, right?

Not at all cracky - in fact, I'd say that there's a lot of analysis (and possibly a longer story or essay) hidden in this drabble! Highly intriguing.