» Shoddy Presents

Two of mine and an other
Two very rubbish presents I've recieved and one a mate got

Firslty , from my gran a tooth brush , toothpaste and soap , though I think her later senility was starting them

Secondly , my 19th birthday a mate came round to my parents , totally drunk , with a computer game . Superficially a nice gift, but it was for his type of computer not mine

And lastly a mate got for a leaving present at work a cheap book about the films of Gene Hackman , the sort of book you would buy at a very poor second hand book shop . He had never experssed any interest in either films or Gene Hackman while being at that job.
(Fri 24th Sep 2004, 9:43, More)

» Irrational Fears

World of Childhood Fear
Long time lurker, first time poster. As a child I was scared of a wide variety of things , a partial list is

1) In my parents house the toilet is upstairs, after flushing it I had to run downstairs and into the lounge before the flushing sound die away or something would happen

2) Shop dummies, especially nude ones

3) Looking up at tall buildings

4) The start of the Snow Queen, in the 80's there was a cartoon version of the Snow Queen (Hans Christain Anderson story), and the start of it is was about Goblins making a mirror which would turn anyone evil who looked into it and they tried to get to God so he would look into it and become evil. This scared the bejesus out of me for months

5) Films if they became too exciting , I would have to run out of the film and into the cinema's toilet.

6) Caterpillars after looking at a cabbage infested with them

Nearer to the preset , I have a mate who is so scared of spiders that he would ring me up and ask me to come to his house to kill them for him, while he would stand on a chair. He's much happer now though, he has machine 'SpiderBeGone' that clicks and scares them alway
(Wed 28th Jan 2004, 14:20, More)