One of mine just so happens to be darkness and many things dealing with it.
It all started one dark and not so stormy night, while then again it was Florida during the summer time, but it most definitely was dark. I had just spent the day playing at my neighbor's house, and her mom was making us pudding when I was supposed to be going home. Who would pass up eating pudding though!? So me, the tiny rebel that I was when I was 6 or so, stayed way past my 6pm curfew. I just assumed it'd be okay since I was literally in the house right behind my own, but c'est la vie, it wasn't okay. Mom was freaking out so she sent my brother Bart and his best friend Phil to retrieve me and tell me to come home right away!
What we need to understand is my brother is 6 years older than me (I'm digging this number so far in this flashback!), so both Bart and Phil are 12, if I was actually 6. Intense math that had to be spelled out.
ANYWAY.
They came and told me that mom was gonna kill me if I didn't get home now, which completely blew my mind because I was only 3 hours passed my curfew, but imagining her rage scared me silly. Bart, Phil and I were walking across the massive backyard to get to our house in the pitch black mosquito-filled night when they both took off running ahead of me laughing, because that's what big brothers do: be jerks. Well I got scared because I didn't wanna be left behind, so I tried to run and keep up with them. I ended up losing my flip flops trying to keep up, and by the time I got inside the house, my feet and shins were all dirty and I was bawling my eyes out.
Pretty sure she didn't do anything about it either, except make them try to find my shoes with a flashlight, which they then started shining into my room while I was trying to sleep. Cue little Jess crying again because I thought ET was gonna come into my room and kill me. ET was the most scarring movie of my childhood, and even though he was "friendly" to the little boy, I always suspected him of going on a killing spree.
It's a wonder I made it out of childhood alive, since my fears are really bizarre and some of them can't even be rationally founded with logic.
I'm so screwed up, even Freud wouldn't love me =P
It all started one dark and not so stormy night, while then again it was Florida during the summer time, but it most definitely was dark. I had just spent the day playing at my neighbor's house, and her mom was making us pudding when I was supposed to be going home. Who would pass up eating pudding though!? So me, the tiny rebel that I was when I was 6 or so, stayed way past my 6pm curfew. I just assumed it'd be okay since I was literally in the house right behind my own, but c'est la vie, it wasn't okay. Mom was freaking out so she sent my brother Bart and his best friend Phil to retrieve me and tell me to come home right away!
What we need to understand is my brother is 6 years older than me (I'm digging this number so far in this flashback!), so both Bart and Phil are 12, if I was actually 6. Intense math that had to be spelled out.
ANYWAY.
They came and told me that mom was gonna kill me if I didn't get home now, which completely blew my mind because I was only 3 hours passed my curfew, but imagining her rage scared me silly. Bart, Phil and I were walking across the massive backyard to get to our house in the pitch black mosquito-filled night when they both took off running ahead of me laughing, because that's what big brothers do: be jerks. Well I got scared because I didn't wanna be left behind, so I tried to run and keep up with them. I ended up losing my flip flops trying to keep up, and by the time I got inside the house, my feet and shins were all dirty and I was bawling my eyes out.
Pretty sure she didn't do anything about it either, except make them try to find my shoes with a flashlight, which they then started shining into my room while I was trying to sleep. Cue little Jess crying again because I thought ET was gonna come into my room and kill me. ET was the most scarring movie of my childhood, and even though he was "friendly" to the little boy, I always suspected him of going on a killing spree.
It's a wonder I made it out of childhood alive, since my fears are really bizarre and some of them can't even be rationally founded with logic.
I'm so screwed up, even Freud wouldn't love me =P
But i do!!!!
ReplyDeleteand i agree about ET that movie scared the shit out of me, tho it was more when the gov agents showed up in the hazmat suits to take ET away that scared me the most!!! I have more irrational fears, i was afraid someone would snipe me with an inferred scope, or the house was bugged!(ive had a very paranoid childhood) Im also afaid of snakes and garden hoses that move, and also some garden gnomes and other statues!
I'm way more freaked out by the ET ride at Universal Studios. At the end he says your name in his goodbyes. So imagine being on a dark ride through some creepy alien planet of ET's, and having him say, "Goodbye Tyler/Jessica/Ricky" with his creepy ET voice. Yeesh.
ReplyDeleteHonest to God, my parents thought it would be cute to get my picture with ET after going on that ride at Universal when I was 4 or so. We still have that picture - I'm terrified, crying, and trying to escape in it.
ReplyDeleteET is THE scariest movie ever for kids.
(the planet of ETs made me squirm, because A. a planet of those sorts of aliens would be so totally weird and creepy, and B. I pictured ET from our grade, and a planet of him could drive someone crazy too, I would assume.)
That planet IS super creepy. I haven't been on it in years because it is too weird.
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