Reply #24: I led a pretty sheltered life as a child

[last_texas_dem]

Off the top of my head I can't think of anything really traumatizing, so instead I'll just tell about something kind of stupid...

When I was about five or six I became fascinated with the idea of watching horror movies, even though I had only seen a couple of things that could even be classified as "horror" and anything truly scary would have likely scared my wimpy self to death. But still, I would spend lots of time on the horror aisle at the local video store always begging my mom to let me rent something "scary." Anyway, one day my eye caught the video box for Poltergeist and I started bugging my mom to let me rent that one. Well, she wouldn't let me rent it ("'til I was at least a couple of years older") but she did decide to tell me the "story" of the movie...

Anyway, the story scared me so damn much that I had to have the light on when I fell asleep for at least the next few weeks, was scared to go into my closet for about that long, and wouldn't go down the horror aisle in the video store for at least a year or so- as I had become deathly afraid of the Poltergeist movie box!



Finally, during my first year of college, I decided to face my fears and watch Poltergeist. I made it through, and enjoyed the movie pretty well. (That clown toy scene *was* freaky as hell, though, even at the age of eighteen!)