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ulysses Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-07-04 09:39 PM
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childhood fears?
Allen's thunderstorms thread put me right back in the middle of every storm we had when I was young.

What kept you awake at night?
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flamingyouth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-07-04 09:41 PM
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1. I was terrified of Nixon
Seriously, he used to give me nightmares. In retrospect, maybe I could call that good sense.
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greatauntoftriplets Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-07-04 09:43 PM
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2. Tricky Dick WAS scary!
I was always terrified of a fried octopus under my bed. At the time, I had never heard of calimari. As you might guess, I don't eat the stuff.
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ulysses Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-07-04 09:55 PM
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5. a fried octopus? under the bed?
Gotta say, that's a new one on me, greataunt. :D
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greatauntoftriplets Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-07-04 10:00 PM
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10. No clue where it came from.
:shrug:
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ulysses Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-07-04 10:03 PM
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12. a kidbrain thing.
We forget how little context we have as kids. You probably heard someone making a food reference and took it from there.
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ikojo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-07-04 09:52 PM
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3. I was TERRIFIED of storms
I grew up in Central Illinois and was terrified of storms and tornadoes.

If there was a tornado watch I would stay up until the time the weather announcer said it was to end.
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ulysses Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-07-04 09:58 PM
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7. our neighbors had the cellar
Vivid memories of climbing around on the bunk beds down there and watching rainwater seep in under the door.
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SlavesandBulldozers Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-07-04 09:55 PM
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4. i thought the Russians were going to invade
i saw Red Dawn when i was too young.
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m-jean03 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-07-04 09:57 PM
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6. The end of the world, the plague, leukemia.
Those are things which still scare me, actually!

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ulysses Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-07-04 09:59 PM
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8. heh.
We'll talk cancer fear some time. :)
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m-jean03 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-07-04 10:06 PM
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14. A little boy in my class got leukemia and died
when I was in 2nd grade. Then it happened again in 8th grade. Scary, scary, sad stuff.

Right now I have neighbors whose little boy is 5 years in remission. Thank God. The first one I've known to survive it, though I know many do.

Plus my mom's a pediatric nurse and she has seen many young lives lost to that nightmare.

:cry: x(
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ulysses Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-07-04 10:08 PM
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15. hodgkin's lymphoma survivor here.
Some live longer than others, yes. Leukemia is some genuinely scary shit.
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m-jean03 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-07-04 10:21 PM
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17. Best wishes and prayers, Ulysses.
Edited on Fri May-07-04 10:21 PM by m-jean03
I wish for you a very long life, extraordinarily good health, and great happiness. Cancer survivors are some of the toughest, bravest people I've met -- you guys sure deserve all those things!
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Waverley_Hills_Hiker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-07-04 09:59 PM
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9. Lightening and military school
My folks used to threaten me with "the lighting is going to get me"..or they where going to "send me to military school in Indiana" (I lived in Chicago). It turns out the school they had in mind was Culver{!}. They used to say the "van was on its way to pick me up"......

Now that I think of it , pretty wierd shit!
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GhostThatWalks Donating Member (140 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-07-04 10:01 PM
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11. A staple remover
I used to have a nightmare about a flying staple remover trying to bite me. I woke up screaming one time.
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GirlinContempt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-07-04 10:04 PM
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13. Volcano's and Jesus
I used to dream of volcano's exploding and burying us all under lava (stupid studying Pompeii!)

And Jesus scared the CRAP out of me, because the only picture I'd ever seen of him he looked really pissed off and was on the cross (I grew up in an atheist household). I heard mumblings about believing in Jesus or going to hell from other people, though, and that added to the creepy picture was enough to scare the crap out of me.
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TheWizardOfMudd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-07-04 10:09 PM
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16. Being locked in a store when it was closing time
When I was a little kid I was scared shitless of being locked in a store that was about to close. Even though I was always with my parents, I would literally panic and start to cry. I don't know why I had that fear. Once, in a mom and pop furniture store, the salesman even explained to me that he was the only person who had the key to lock the door and that he would not lock me in. I still freaked.
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KG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-07-04 10:24 PM
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18. spiders on the ceiling of my bedroom at bed time.
used to move to the other end of the bed.

bleah, always hated spiders.
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ulysses Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-07-04 10:39 PM
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20. not a fan myself
I have to admit.
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arwalden Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-07-04 10:37 PM
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19. The Blob
I was afraid that the blob was going to come in our house... and even locked doors and windows wouldn't keep it out.

-- Allen
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lucidmadman Donating Member (551 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-07-04 10:42 PM
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21. Being made a 'ward of the state'...
...I'll meet my mother in hell. I got a few things I want to show her.
It didn't happen but I was told repeatedly I would be made a 'ward of the state' if I didn't obey. It was cruel and unusual...
I actually forgive her. She had a crappy time as a child.
I don't have any children myself. It's got to stop somewhere...
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SOteric Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-07-04 10:54 PM
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22. Santa Claus
Edited on Fri May-07-04 10:54 PM by SOteric
Apparently he was capable of knowing everything I did, all the collective naughties and nices. I found that horribly frightening.

But I always liked thunder storms. And frogs. And rain.
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