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I wrote the following at work today, because I had to work until 5, because Amanda (the regular receptionist) just didn't show up for work this morning. (And unless she's dead or in a coma or something, WTF?)
Anyways, it's very very random, but I went to all the trouble of typing it up so I may as well post it. Besides, it may give some of you a deeper look into my psyche. *snort*
Ok, hear me out before you laugh at me here.
I am, and pretty much always have been, afraid of toilets.
Ok, not like, the actual toilets themselves, but of things that might be in them or in the bathrooms. It sounds funny, I know, but I really think bathrooms are creepy.
I think it's a deep seated psychological fear from my childhood, because my cousin used to have this toy that he would play with all the time, I think it was supposed to be from the Ghostbusters TV show... in any case, it was this toilet. And it looked like an ordinary toilet, but it was haunted, and when you rolled it forward, eyes would pop out of the tank at the back, and it had teeth and a big green tongue that came out of the bowl, and it scared me ok?
Then of course, to add to that, you have the scene in Scream where the killer is in the bathroom with whasshername, and how I watched like, three scenes from Arachnophobia when I was definitely not old enough to be watching that, and the giant poisonous killer spider hides in the toilet, (which is besides the actual spider that was in the toilet at school) and the kid in Witness witnesses the murder in a bathroom, and What Lies Beneath, with the haunted bathroom, and obviously Psycho (but that's really a fear of showers, and that's another story entirely) and a lot of bathrooms have fluorescent lights, which flicker, and in public bathrooms any nut could just walk in, and you're sort of vulnerable, and I just think bathrooms are creepy. I don't like going into public ones alone, and I'm always afraid that someone's going to be hiding behind the shower curtain in my one at home.
Oh, and that stupid legend of Hook Hand at RHS, which I don't believe but which still scared me, required a girl to be alone so she could be abducted, and where are you more alone than in the bathroom? I always hated going to the bathroom by myself at that school.
So anyways, I'm afraid of bathrooms, I'm here working full time today, I'm bored, and I thought I'd write up a post about it so I could get all my feelings on the subject out, because I have nothing better to do, and also because one of the two lights in the bathroom here was out and it was all dark and shadowy in the bathroom and I was a little bit more freaked out than usual, and I started thinking about how I've always been afraid of toilets, and here we all are.
Oh, and if I ever find out who thought it was a good idea to put a full length mirror directly facing the stall door when you open it in a certain restaurant's bathroom, so that I saw my reflection and jumped about a foot in the air because I didn't think there was anyone else in the bathroom, and then felt like the world's biggest idiot afterwards, I'm going to hurt them.
Note: I'm probably going to be working till 5 for the next week or so, unless Amanda comes back (PLEASE come back!!!) So I won't be available for fun till after 5. But I am using the time to edit a bunch of my stories, so expect some fic posts in the near future!
Anyways, it's very very random, but I went to all the trouble of typing it up so I may as well post it. Besides, it may give some of you a deeper look into my psyche. *snort*
Ok, hear me out before you laugh at me here.
I am, and pretty much always have been, afraid of toilets.
Ok, not like, the actual toilets themselves, but of things that might be in them or in the bathrooms. It sounds funny, I know, but I really think bathrooms are creepy.
I think it's a deep seated psychological fear from my childhood, because my cousin used to have this toy that he would play with all the time, I think it was supposed to be from the Ghostbusters TV show... in any case, it was this toilet. And it looked like an ordinary toilet, but it was haunted, and when you rolled it forward, eyes would pop out of the tank at the back, and it had teeth and a big green tongue that came out of the bowl, and it scared me ok?
Then of course, to add to that, you have the scene in Scream where the killer is in the bathroom with whasshername, and how I watched like, three scenes from Arachnophobia when I was definitely not old enough to be watching that, and the giant poisonous killer spider hides in the toilet, (which is besides the actual spider that was in the toilet at school) and the kid in Witness witnesses the murder in a bathroom, and What Lies Beneath, with the haunted bathroom, and obviously Psycho (but that's really a fear of showers, and that's another story entirely) and a lot of bathrooms have fluorescent lights, which flicker, and in public bathrooms any nut could just walk in, and you're sort of vulnerable, and I just think bathrooms are creepy. I don't like going into public ones alone, and I'm always afraid that someone's going to be hiding behind the shower curtain in my one at home.
Oh, and that stupid legend of Hook Hand at RHS, which I don't believe but which still scared me, required a girl to be alone so she could be abducted, and where are you more alone than in the bathroom? I always hated going to the bathroom by myself at that school.
So anyways, I'm afraid of bathrooms, I'm here working full time today, I'm bored, and I thought I'd write up a post about it so I could get all my feelings on the subject out, because I have nothing better to do, and also because one of the two lights in the bathroom here was out and it was all dark and shadowy in the bathroom and I was a little bit more freaked out than usual, and I started thinking about how I've always been afraid of toilets, and here we all are.
Oh, and if I ever find out who thought it was a good idea to put a full length mirror directly facing the stall door when you open it in a certain restaurant's bathroom, so that I saw my reflection and jumped about a foot in the air because I didn't think there was anyone else in the bathroom, and then felt like the world's biggest idiot afterwards, I'm going to hurt them.
Note: I'm probably going to be working till 5 for the next week or so, unless Amanda comes back (PLEASE come back!!!) So I won't be available for fun till after 5. But I am using the time to edit a bunch of my stories, so expect some fic posts in the near future!