I feel terrible, but I am yucking it up over this!
Having said that, phobias are very real to the sufferers, and are not funny at all. I don't have any, but oddly I can kind of relate to this lady with the pea-phobia. Some small, round things gross me out and I finally figured out why: I think they remind me of kids making Rubber Cement "boogers" which looked like real boogers, rolling them around in their fingers and admiring them, LOL!
Explaining her dislike of peas, she said: “They tend to just look at me – ganging up on me. All the hairs on the back of my neck go up. I have to know where they are in the supermarket before I go in.
This sounds more like a delusional paranoia than a phobia.