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The Fears Of TotD

  • Thunder.
  • Thunder is bullshit and it frightens me and I can’t even imagine what the cavemen went through when there was a thunderstorm; i know what it is and it still scares me.
  • After a second’s reflection, I now realize that I have no idea why thunder happens, but I still hate it so much.
  • All the movie monsters from the 80’s: Freddy and Jason and Michael Myers and Candyman and Pumpkinhead and the rest of them.
  • I was also afraid of many VHS box covers at the Video Library, for example: the murderous Santa arm with an axe emerging from a chimney, or the grinning skull on the cover of Faces of Death.
  • (This is an old and well-worn point, but Faces of Death was out in front where children were actively encouraged to look at it by the surly weirdo employees of Video Library, but the fuck flicks were in the backroom, and that just evinces the strange relationship with reality that humans have.)
  • Bodies of water I cannot see the bottom of.
  • Being muddy.
  • Spiders, de facto.
  • (De jure, I am completely for spiders: there are thousands of varieties and each has adapted its own way to hunt, plus they eat things I hate. In real life, though? Get that spider away from me or I will slap you, hard, and on your testicles.)
  • The kind of steps that don’t have risers, so any of the assorted basement monsters could just reach a claw through and slice your Achilles tendon and there go your NBA dreams.
  • Never knowing true love.
  • Never knowing what human flesh tastes like.
  • Peepholes.
  • OMIGOD FUCK PEEPHOLES.
  • It’s not that I think people can see in; I think that when I look out, there will be a clownmonster standing there.
  • Or Billy.
  • Having to throw a football in public.
  • Hospitals.
  • Turning into a wendigo.
  • Appearing fancy-schmancy in any way.
  • Terrordactyls.

51 Comments

  1. maggiemay

    Thunder??? Thunder?????????? THUNDER??????? YOU LIVE IN FLORIDA FOR SHIT’S SAKE

    Having to throw a football in public oh my god im screaming

    and the bodies of water thing. dude. I literally woke up screaming one time because I had a dream that I was being attacked by these giant monstrous ravens in a body of water whose bottom I could not see. The ravens didn’t bother me: it was the water. I’m getting freaked out rn.

    ps ur old

  2. Dawn

    i did not know that you had NBA dreams. this is causing cognitive dissonance.

  3. Boogaloo

    Dude, killing spiders is one of the few uses the wimmens have for us men.

    • spencer

      R.I.P Rowdy

      • August West

        Haha. Saw the Piper wrestle in Poughkeepsie in 80s. Not a WWF fan. I got dragged there by office mates. But Andre the Giant was there too! woohoo.

      • Sir Luther Von Baconson

        the Bargain Harold’s where I grew up had a pair of Andre the Giant’s overalls on the wall behind the cash register. they were autographed & look well worn ie very tired pants, grimy. also in Phil Esposito’s autobiography, he mentions walking in on Andre the Giant making hey hey with a few ladies in a hotel room (musta been some sort of NHL Pro Wrestling Orgy?). Phil made it a point to say that Andre was “hung like a cashew”

      • August West

        The Giant “hung like a cashew”. … Irony of ironies.
        And Esposito, Hell Yeah!! Reminds me of the heady days when Boston used to trounce Montreal. (shhhh, don’t tell spenser) haahha

      • spencer

        R.I.P Bargain Harolds

      • spencer

        No habitant pea soup for me. Red Wings

      • August West

        stop throwing cold pea soup on my jokes. hahahah
        http://38.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lvax20FkoZ1qhn53v.gif

  4. tor_haxson

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neal_Walk

    Awesome cool basketball jew.

    • spencer

      He looks like Scott Baio in that picture

      • Sir Luther Von Baconson

        ABC After School Special. The Boy Who Caught Footballs Too Much. Lance Kerwin as his non-football catching buddy.

  5. Rodeoamy

    You are the only other person I’ve ever heard mention the stairs with no risers phobia. I’ve had it forever.

    • thoughtsonthedead

      LAZY CARPENTRY CAUSES TERROR

      • maggiemay

        When we lived on Long Island our 100-year-old house had these beautiful stairs but they were uncarpeted and I fell face down them TWICE when between the ages of five and seven because they were really slippery and dangerous and I still have a very small facial scar from it so I get ur hatred of stairs (mine is of all kinds)

        (P.S. I know what carpentry is and that carpentry doesn’t really have anything to do with carpets.)

        #run-on sentences ftw lol

    • August West

      Kids love climbing fire towers. Good weekend for a family excursion. hahaha
      http://www.fs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_MEDIA/fsbdev3_068283.jpg

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