We all have irrational fears, not to mention rational ones. Me? I don’t do well with snakes, but they pretty much fall into the rational variety. Anything that can sneak up on you and deliver a lethal bite is worthy of my terror.
Of the irrational sort, I am afraid of clowns. In a big way. I’m a classic Bozo-phobe. I can even trace it back to an incident when I was about two years old and was taken to see a movie in a theater for the very first time. It was a matinee, back in the day when parents would drop kids off for the afternoon, unsupervised. Basically, it was anarchy. In between the Huey, Dewey and Louie cartoon and The Shaggy Dog, a special live appearance was made by Clarabell the clown. For those who don’t know, Clarabell was Howdy Doody’s sidekick. He didn’t speak (a particularly strange affectation embraced by some clowns) and only communicated through the honking of various horns. So this creep comes charging down the aisle, the kids go ballistic, and my brain exploded.
So it may be an irrational fear, but at least I have an excuse.
What irrational fears do you have?
I SEE THE CHEESE!!!!!!!!! says:
uh…yeah right.
Lead Traveler says:
i will!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Muramasa says:
i am afraid of river dolphins. BE AFRAID!!!!!!!!!!!
N. says:
That’s like saying I’m afraid of hippos, and I love hippos and dolphins.
Lead Traveler says:
what’s so scary about river dolphins? they’re just regular dolphins? aren’t they?
N. says:
I think they are pink or something.
Lead Traveler says:
so? what’s so scary about them? do they attack you?
Lead Traveler says:
cause if they do something in a book i just read is really wrong.
N. says:
I don’t think they do, they have sharp teeth but dolphins don’t attack, I think he was just kidding.
AWESOME says:
i am totally freaked out by mimes. everybody seems to be afraid of clowns but mimes are just REALLY creepy.
N. says:
I’ve kicked one in the shin, he didn’t talk, he cussed me out.
Lead Traveler says:
what do you mean by that? how can you cuss out without talking?
i will be a Traveler says:
i don’t get that either.
AWESOME says:
yeah??? but anyway if u think of them with red eyes and fangs… they r like evil souls that cant speak and hide all of their evil secrets from you and and and… :-O
Naymeer says:
He yelled not just talked, yelled.( this is N. I changed my name.)
Lead Traveler says:
i still don’t get it. mimes aren’t supposed to talk so how did he yell at you?
Naymeer says:
I kicked him in the shin really hard, and I threw a coin at chucky cheese, he didn’t like it.
Lead Traveler says:
why chucky cheese?
Naymeer says:
Cause I was like in second grade and a kid invited me to a party there.
Lead Traveler says:
then how did you see a mime if you were going to a b-day party?
Naymeer says:
Nevermind
bri says:
um… that actually doesn’t make sense. you should explain things more throughly next time Noland. and don’t use the phrases cuss me out and that stuff. some of us have no idea what they mean.
Naymeer says:
Ok. Gosh, you like bite my head off! Instead of “Cuss me out” he yelled a lot of bad words at me, in one sentence.
bri says:
oh! but why was a mime at a b-day party if chucky cheese was already there?
Naymeer says:
It was another time.
bri says:
now you aren’t making sense. can you explain it from the begining in understandable terms please?
Naymeer says:
Ok, I kicked a mime who was on the street who was really creepy, then I jump to another time where I was at a birthday party and kicked Chucky Cheezes.
bri says:
oh!!!! all right. has anyone gotten their schedule for school yet? i got mine yesterday.
bri says:
i have a question.
how do you think people could survive without books?
Mozartghost says:
What’s a mime?
bri says:
ut’s a person that acts out things without talking.
AWESOME says:
u guys go to the same school???
Naymeer says:
I don’t see how people can live without books, books are my life! And so is music.
bri says:
@awesome
what?
@Naymeer
i didn’t say if you could survive without books, i asked how people got along without books, like in Mesopotamia, and the cavepeople. HOW DID THEY SURVIVE?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!
Naymeer says:
They had ways to entertain themselves, plus what would they write about, The Miracle of fire? No.
bri says:
i think they should’ve. because then we could’ve figured out how they found it. they could’ve wrote about their lives so 1-they’re children could read them and 2- we could learn about their lives.
Naymeer says:
But, we did leearn about their lives, the artifacts they left behind.
bri says:
yes. but we don’t know what they did for fun or how many people died fighting mammoths or anything like that.
bri says:
and a whole bunch of other stuff.
Naymeer says:
Well, first off, you got the time periods wrong. Mesipotamians weren’t neandethals, those were the ones with the mamonths.
Mozartghost says:
She said “And the cavepeople…”
And Cro-Magnons were cave people too, and they were the ancestors of modern humans. If they wrote about discovering fire…
Oog is hunting.
Sky Boom strike a tree.
Tree make orange light.
Tree get hot.
Oog take a branch back to cave.
He throw it on other cave man bed.
Bed makes orange light.
Bed gets hot.
Other cave man die.
Oog eat him.
He taste good.
That how Fire and Cooking discovered.
Naymeer says:
Uhh, okay then, anyone else have as much of a vivid imagination.
bri says:
cave men didn’t have beds. they slept on rocks. at least by my reckoning.
Mozartghost says:
They had mats made of straw and cattails and pine branches and other natural stuff that they slept on.
Naymeer says:
Or you know, THEY USE THE FREAKING ANIMAL FURS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Mozartghost says:
Obviously.
Naymeer says:
Don’t back talk.
Lead Traveler says:
WHAT!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!? WHO CARES ABOUT WHAT CAVEMEN SLEPT ON!?!?!?!?!?
bri says:
i have a sad life. why?:
1- i read books all the time. (even when i’m in bed.)
2- i do indexing all the time (i will not explain what it is. it takes too long).
3- i watch the history channel for fun every day almost all the time.
4- i make jewelry, though i’ll never wear it anytime soon.
5- i don’t like the things a normal 12 year old girl wants from the world. (makeup, yada, yada.) but i don’t act like a tom boy.
6- i don’t have a cell phone or any kind of that stuff, except for a big portable CD player. (though we do have a Wii. we never use it.)
7- i’ve seen The Princess and the Frog probably more then 10 times.
8- i’m obsessed with LotR.
9- i watch old Disney and Warner Bros. shows, like Hercules, Tarzan, and Anastasia.
9- i really don’t like most of today’s modern movies, cause they are mostly all “R”.
10- my mom still makes clothes for me and i still wear my old clothes from way back when. though i do have Aero, Holister and Ambercrombie.
11- i’m almost obsessed with the flute.
12- i act crazily. less immature than normal girls. (if i’m comfortable with who i’m with, not always though. i act crazy at school)
13- my friends don’t live in the same neighborhood now, so i don’t get to see them much during the summer.
14- i have a restricted time on when the computer is to be off.
15- i like to go camping.
16- and fishing and hunting. (I just got my hunting license.)
17- i write in my journal mostly everyday.
18- i took the time to type all this down. sorry.
Naymeer says:
My life has some things in that, I love to read, I am way immmature, I don’t have a cell phone, but I do have an I pod touch and PSP. All my friends live far away form me, except a few little kids and a ton of 6th grade girls. And watching old disney movies are awesome!