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Subject: What were you afraid of
Written By: Alicia. on 08/15/02 at 10:06 p.m.
what were you afraid of when you were young?
Subject: Re: What were you afraid of
Written By: Screwball54 on 08/15/02 at 10:14 p.m.
Marianette Puppets, The theme to the electric company when they yelled "Hey You Guys", and Mount Saint Helens
Subject: Re: What were you afraid of
Written By: lebeiw15 on 08/15/02 at 10:32 p.m.
That Afrin commercial with the big nose with glasses that would crawl out of bed. Anyone else remember it? I would freak out and run to my room. I also hated the cover of the "I Will Always Love You" single and the cover of Whitney Houston's first album. (My mom owned them.) Still kinda freaks me out, too.
Subject: Re: What were you afraid of
Written By: Jessica on 08/15/02 at 10:44 p.m.
The tree outside our apartment. To much like that scene in Poltergeist. :o
Subject: Re: What were you afraid of
Written By: Zella on 08/15/02 at 10:53 p.m.
Electrical plugs (I figure my mother must have drilled the "don't put anything into the outlet" into me too well). I used to dream about electrical plugs chasing me....
And cars on our street (my mother's warnings again, I suspect) -- when I was little and went out our side door, I would always cover my eyes so I couldn't see the cars on the street, until I was out of sight of them. I was certain if I looked at them, one would come roaring up our driveway and come and kill me.
I don't think parents realize the trauma they foist on their small children in the name of saftey warnings.... :-/
Subject: Re: What were you afraid of
Written By: TripsMom on 08/15/02 at 11:06 p.m.
The dark, ventriloquist's dummies, elevators and grasshoppers (still hate them)
Subject: Re: What were you afraid of
Written By: FussBudgetVanPelt on 08/16/02 at 00:39 a.m.
Whatever is was that imagined was under the bed...
I never imagined anything specific, I just knew there was something......... :'(
Subject: Re: What were you afraid of
Written By: Zella on 08/16/02 at 00:42 a.m.
Quoting:
Whatever is was that imagined was under the bed...
I never imagined anything specific, I just knew there was something......... :'(
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I had a gleep under my bed.... :)
Subject: Re: What were you afraid of
Written By: Bobo on 08/16/02 at 00:47 a.m.
What was I afraid of? Two words. Getting older.
Subject: Re: What were you afraid of
Written By: CeramicsFanatic on 08/16/02 at 00:54 a.m.
Centipedes and motorcycles. Or centipedes on motorcycles! I still don't like either of them! :o
Subject: Re: What were you afraid of
Written By: dagwood on 08/16/02 at 06:05 a.m.
The basement
I also thought that whenever I flushed the toilet a monster would come out an eat me. (I was 5, give me a break). I would flush and run.
Subject: Re: What were you afraid of
Written By: AngeliK on 08/16/02 at 06:07 a.m.
I still am greatly afraid of spiders... and my friends find my snail phobia quite amusing :-[
Subject: Re: What were you afraid of
Written By: MissInformation on 08/16/02 at 06:14 a.m.
When I was 7, my sister read me that Stephen King story about the bogeyman and after each death, the line was "and the closet door was open, just a crack." So for years I was afraid of the closet door being opened when I slept. I was also afraid of clowns.
Subject: Re: What were you afraid of
Written By: irisheyes on 08/16/02 at 06:17 a.m.
Thunderstorms...I still am...its bad!!!!
Subject: Re: What were you afraid of
Written By: Taoist on 08/16/02 at 09:12 a.m.
I was afraid of the 'humpfreys'.
They were used to advertise milk way back. They were never seen but they would steal your milk with straws through the letterbox.
"Watch out, watch out, there's a humpfrey about" ;D
Subject: Re: What were you afraid of
Written By: DJ Midas on 08/16/02 at 09:24 a.m.
When I was 5 years old I was terrified of the JCPenney Super Denim Robot that wandered about the store. Some guy dressed up in an 8 foot tall tin block suit that scared the bejeezes out of me. :-[
Subject: Re: What were you afraid of
Written By: 80sTrivia on 08/16/02 at 11:17 a.m.
This is going to sound silly, but I was afraid of Sasquatch (Bigfoot)!!! I remember watching Search Of as a kid and they always ran stories about Bigfoot. My family lived on the edge of this large forest and I was convinced that Sasquatch walked around outside my window at night!!! ::) ;D
Subject: Re: What were you afraid of
Written By: Q.Aviator on 08/16/02 at 11:33 a.m.
When i was eight, i was terrified of pianos. Speacially the old-fashioned ones that you can lift the top and look inside. But then after that , i really wasn't scared of anything anymore.
Subject: Re: What were you afraid of
Written By: Bobo on 08/16/02 at 11:36 a.m.
As a 14-year-long piano player myself, I know how freaky that is. What about the ones, not only that were open top, but were lift-top ones? Those looked cool, especially when you played them AND looked inside...
Oh, by the way, my first memories of pianos were playing them with my feet.
Quoting:
When i was eight, i was terrified of pianos. Speacially the old-fashioned ones that you can lift the top and look inside. But then after that , i really wasn't scared of anything anymore.
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Subject: Re: What were you afraid of
Written By: Q.Aviator on 08/16/02 at 11:50 a.m.
With your feet, really? I can't imagine, it must have been difficult. How old were you?
I should add, not only was i afraid of how pianos looked but how they sounded too. It was like a nightmare, but i was only eight.
Subject: Re: What were you afraid of
Written By: Bobo on 08/16/02 at 12:45 a.m.
Okay, I'll let you into a secret. I didn't play them, I walked over them. I was two.
I started playing them with my hands a while after I started walking on them, but mine I've had for a while. Passed Gr.6, and I want to have finished Grade Eight standard pieces in three years time.
Subject: Re: What were you afraid of
Written By: Q.Aviator on 08/16/02 at 01:12 p.m.
Oh ok, lol. I was thinking, how can sombody play a piano with their feet so easily. Though i'm saying it's impossible,i think with practice it could be done.
Subject: Re: What were you afraid of
Written By: langdon_hughes on 08/16/02 at 01:15 p.m.
Chuck E. Cheese! Scared the c#@p outta me.
And alligators. For some reason I was convinced they could climb into my bedroom and eat me.
And that big octopus-looking monster in "Space 1999" that sucked people in and spit out their husks... you know the one? It looked alarmingly like our furnace.
Subject: Re: What were you afraid of
Written By: Zella on 08/16/02 at 01:23 p.m.
Sounds like we could all use Teddy Bears! I will have to start collecting them and send everybody one! :D
Subject: Re: What were you afraid of
Written By: Bobo on 08/16/02 at 01:26 p.m.
I've got three hundred, so you only need another five hundred, for everyone here in the foreseeable future, Zella.
And yes, before you ask, they have all got names. I've got a list of them, mais...
Subject: Re: What were you afraid of
Written By: Zella on 08/16/02 at 01:29 p.m.
Quoting:
I've got three hundred, so you only need another five hundred, for everyone here in the foreseeable future, Zella.
And yes, before you ask, they have all got names. I've got a list of them, mais...
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Wowie! And I had trouble just naming 30 cats over the past 20 years.... ::)
Subject: Re: What were you afraid of
Written By: dagwood on 08/16/02 at 07:49 p.m.
Quoting:
When I was 7, my sister read me that Stephen King story about the bogeyman and after each death, the line was "and the closet door was open, just a crack." So for years I was afraid of the closet door being opened when I slept. I was also afraid of clowns.
End Quote
I still can't sleep with the closet door open. :o
Subject: Re: What were you afraid of
Written By: Alicia. on 08/16/02 at 07:57 p.m.
Quoting:
I still am greatly afraid of spiders... and my friends find my snail phobia quite amusing :-[End Quote
yeah me too I am so afraid of spiders
Subject: Re: What were you afraid of
Written By: jamminoldies on 08/17/02 at 09:52 a.m.
The bogeyman.
Subject: Re: What were you afraid of
Written By: Libby on 08/17/02 at 10:35 a.m.
Earthquakes
I was afraid that the ground would open up.
Also I was afraid that my dad wouldn't come home from Vietnam,
Subject: Re: What were you afraid of
Written By: Gis on 08/19/02 at 03:41 a.m.
The dark and spiders! Still hate spiders now.