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Title: What was the scariest thing you went through as a kid, but it was silly?
Post by: greenthumbjan on September 20, 2013, 12:35:34 pm
I took my kids when they were like 1-3 years old to the drive-through car wash.  Well it was so much terror, you won't believe it; I had to clam them down, the terror.  When they weren't in the room and didn't hear at all, I laughed, and I laugh when I remember it to this day. 
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Post by: lucky382001 on September 20, 2013, 09:48:28 pm
I took my kids when they were like 1-3 years old to the drive-through car wash.  Well it was so much terror, you won't believe it; I had to clam them down, the terror.  When they weren't in the room and didn't hear at all, I laughed, and I laugh when I remember it to this day. 

My class for some reason decided that there were robbers in the woods by the edge of the playground ( this was in elementary school). Our teacher ended up taking us for a walk in the woods so we could see that there wasn't any robbers there. It was scary then but funny now. I can just imagine what a handful a whole class of frightened children would be to a teacher.
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Post by: champak97 on September 20, 2013, 10:15:44 pm
After a visit to the zoo, I always believed there were tigers underneath my bed. It seems silly now, but was scary then.
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Post by: luvh8tragedy87 on September 20, 2013, 10:50:40 pm
I got totally freaked out by a movie I saw when I was 9. And it wasn't even a scary/horror movie, it was supposed to be a comedy...Mars Attacks. That movie terrified me for the next 2 weeks. It was just something about the martians, the way they looked and talked, just ugh. At least I can watch it and laugh at it now. I even own it. But I'd be lying if I said they didn't still creep me out on some level.
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Post by: djohnson43 on September 21, 2013, 06:31:32 am
I guess it was the summer I was 15 and a councelor at a day camp. We did a sleep over on the last night of each of the two sessions for those 6-12 and all of us councelors. They would lock the gates to the camp and have differant  activites. The older ones got to watch the original version of Night of the Living Dead. I spent most of the movie locked in the girls bathroom with some of my campers because of how scary the movie was. It didn't help that the guy councelors kept joking about zombies coming to get all of us as we slept.
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Post by: mjdoug03 on September 21, 2013, 07:44:07 am
That's funny that they were scared of the car wash.
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Post by: msmoneybags48 on September 21, 2013, 09:07:00 am
I don't remember many things I was afraid of as a child, but my granddaughter was afraid of Halloween masks.  My grandson's father decided to put on a mask of Michael Myers and my granddaughter freaked out.  She looked up, saw that mask and took off running and screaming.  To her it was scary, I didn't laugh then, but it sure is funny now. :D :D :D :wave:
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Post by: Kirenisa on September 21, 2013, 03:28:17 pm
I've never actually been through a car wash anyways..

probably when my older sister use to be really mean and tease me a lot she would pretend to fall down the stairs or fake death with ketchup and Jelly.    ::)
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Post by: ernica96 on September 21, 2013, 06:40:56 pm
The escalators. I would imagine myself getting to the top and not being able to step off in time and getting stuck in the machine. Seems way silly now.
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Post by: kewl4reals on September 22, 2013, 05:42:10 am
I took my kids when they were like 1-3 years old to the drive-through car wash.  Well it was so much terror, you won't believe it; I had to clam them down, the terror.  When they weren't in the room and didn't hear at all, I laughed, and I laugh when I remember it to this day. 
MY fear as a kid that was silly was learning to swim.     i got over it
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Post by: sharonpatri55 on September 22, 2013, 06:19:45 am
When I was young, I had repeated nightmares of monster-like giants chasing me. I would wake up in the morning and my legs would actually hurt, which made the nightmares seem so real. Turns out that I was walking in my sleep! My mother found me one night in the backyard, woke me up and talked to me about the nightmares. After that, they stopped occurring. How crazy, hey?  :angel11:
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Post by: Penwoir on September 22, 2013, 12:10:13 pm
I took my kids when they were like 1-3 years old to the drive-through car wash.  Well it was so much terror, you won't believe it; I had to clam them down, the terror.  When they weren't in the room and didn't hear at all, I laughed, and I laugh when I remember it to this day. 

I remember when I was about 4 I experienced my first power outage in England. I was in the living room standing beside the piano. It was a dark winter night. I hid beneath the piano and screamed. I could hear my twin sister beside me also screaming.  My mum followed the "double" noise and after she located us, she walked us to the lounge and told us to sit on the chair together until the power came on. We were terrified. Now I have two children of my own and I can't help but chuckle every time we have a power outage!
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Post by: vickysue on September 22, 2013, 03:38:01 pm
Getting locked in a closet by accident  when i was four. My grandparents looked all over for me. About an hour and then they heard me crying from upstairs. This was not fun. For a ling time i would not go into the closet unless an adult was with me. I still don't like being closed in in small dark places.
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Post by: remediagirl on September 22, 2013, 04:09:44 pm
I was about 8 years old when I watched a scary movie about monsters in the fog. For some reason after that movie I couldn't get in bed without jumping to it. I was scared that the monsters somehow got under my bed. I would turn the light off by the door and run and jump under the covers. Funny now, but terrorizing then,
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Post by: davidh121 on September 22, 2013, 04:40:23 pm
I can only think off hand two traumatizing things when I was younger. The first is a lock not working in a room when visiting family. My family heard my panic and had to unscrew the door to get me out. The other time was probably when I witnessed a car accident up close.
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Post by: tuyetmai on September 22, 2013, 04:45:31 pm
When I about 8-9 my first time went to an elevator.  So I got so scare and refuse to go down.  Until one of the man pass by pick me up to go down.  Until now I still have that feeling.
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Post by: Storm61115 on September 22, 2013, 07:15:34 pm
starting a new school was very scary for me. i dont know why i was so scared but i wanted to stay in my comfort zone.
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Post by: sak4kat on September 23, 2013, 06:14:04 am
This is so weird - I just told my kids this story before they left for school this morning.  I was the youngest of 5.  With an 11, 13, 15 and 17 year gap between me and my siblings I was considered an only child once they were all grown up, married, in college the army etc... But before they all left the roost they were there for me to do EVERYTHING for me.  Literally, I didn't have to lift a finger or open my mouth and there was a big brother or sister there to spoil me rotten.  Moving forward, our family pediatrician told my mother I was allergic to milk and that is what caused my eczema.  That didn't stop my mother from sharing ice-cream, chocolate milk or other home made treats with milk in it.  However she did use it as an excuse for me to not have milk in school when all the other kids did.  I got water.  There were a few occasions where I was given chocolate milk.  I can remember sitting there looking at the little carton completely intimidated by it.  I'd look around and all the other kids had there's open.  There straws propped up inside them.  I on the other hand felt like everyone was staring at me because I could never get the darn thing's open.  I was scared to even try in fear I would destroy the box.  I remember sitting there thinking I'm so slow or incompetent cause I couldn't gracefully open the little cartons.  How ridiculous and silly is that?
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Post by: Screwedupclick4life337 on September 23, 2013, 06:18:42 am
Being afraid of the dark was the scariest until I finally figured out that nothing was there
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Post by: devideddi on September 23, 2013, 06:22:55 am
flying monkeys in the wizard of oz
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Post by: misi49 on September 24, 2013, 10:53:03 pm
Every night before I went to bed, I would always look under it to make sure no one was hiding there. I should have known better as I had lots of junk under my bed and no one would have been able to hide there.
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Post by: carmen4 on September 26, 2013, 02:54:52 pm
When I was younger I could NEVER have my closet or bedroom door open because infinite dark space creeped me out. I guess you have a bigger imagination when youre young. Now I dont care but still prefer to be in a room as opposed to open space