It's not so much being afraid or not wanting to go to the doctors, it's the knowing that lumps on your testicles are a massive tell-tale sign of testicular cancer.
It is a familiar, maddening tale: massive cuts, imposed by Osborne, requiring North Yorkshire county council to reduce its budget by £167m.
Just how TS makes it to the Smithsonian gates, "dirty, in a torn sweater vest and camouflaged hanky, covered in blood, holding a massive umbrella", is a tale that grips and falters by turns.
The history of game design documents, for example, is an ignominious tale of massive and poorly-written bibles foisted upon engineering teams then left to figure out what they're supposed to do with them.
The lengthy cross-section of fossils, mud, and rock which came from the ice sheet sitting over the waters of McMurdo Sound tell a tale of massive shifts in the ice sheets that were in sync with changes in atmospheric CO2.
It remains a riveting, alarming tale of massive chicanery and petty vendetta, or, as Nixon Library historian Timothy Naftali puts it: "'House of Cards' on steroids".
There was a backlash of critical opinion, but the suggestion that this tale was a massive error of taste never gained favour.
If you couldn't tell from the massive e-sales of a tale about a young lady who loves to love the wrong man, ebooks are massively popular, doubling in 2011 to completely surpass sales of hardcover adult fiction.
The Maze Runner Youngsters wake to find themselves trapped in a massive labyrinth in this 2014 tale based on James Dashner's dystopian YA novel.
The next day the Cook County state's attorney, Edward V. Hanrahan, told the tale of a massive gun battle in which the Panthers opened fire, their shotguns blasting through the door.
