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What scared your pants off as a kid that you just laugh at looking back? (beehaw.org)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by alehel@beehaw.org to c/chat@beehaw.org

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When I was a kid (I'm guessing 5), there was a house nearby where my grandma lived which had a statue of a small dog outside their house. The eyes on this statue were made of glass, and looked incredibly real. I remember standing there staring at the thing, extremely tempted to try and touch the eyes just so I could convince myself that the thing wasn't alive 🤣. I probably stood there for about 5 min before I finally got the courage to touch it and realized it was just glass.

I was convinced that thing was going to bite me when I touched it.

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[–] msmidlofty@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

Really, a better question would be what didn't frighten me as a kid, but my most disruptive fear was of construction equipment (excavators, backhoes, etc). When I was in kindergarten, I refused to get out of the car to go to school for nearly a week because there was construction being finished on the school grounds.