Tennesseer
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Post by Tennesseer on Mar 26, 2013 20:50:23 GMT -5
"When I shut off the light to go to bed I run from the doorway to my side of the bed and get in as fast as possible. I'm still about 27% convinced that there may or may not be a monster under the bed."
Have you entertained the idea of a lamp on your nightstand?
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Cookies Galore
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Post by Cookies Galore on Mar 26, 2013 20:53:01 GMT -5
Still afraid of Bloody Mary as well. When I get up in the middle of the night to pee, I run from the bathroom back into the bedroom, and I throw the blankets over my head. Sometimes, I'm too afraid of the dark to get out of bed to pee. I get out of bed obviously, but I have to psych myself up.
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CarolinaKat
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Post by CarolinaKat on Mar 26, 2013 20:58:51 GMT -5
I have a teddy bear that sleeps in bed with DH and I
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Tennesseer
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Post by Tennesseer on Mar 26, 2013 21:32:00 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Mar 26, 2013 21:33:26 GMT -5
I had to look up the urban myth "Bloody Mary" online to know what some of you are referring to. Shame on you guys. Quit worrying about Bloody Mary and worry about the hitchiker with the hook! Or the guy lurking under your car who grabs your ankles while you are pumping gas. Learn to tell the difference between fiction and fact!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 26, 2013 21:33:40 GMT -5
Double post. I guess Mary was here.
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Post by ❤ mollymouser ❤ on Mar 26, 2013 21:37:05 GMT -5
Nope. Then again, if butterflies were dive bombing me inside my house at night, maybe.
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Tennesseer
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Post by Tennesseer on Mar 26, 2013 22:05:30 GMT -5
Nope. Then again, if butterflies were dive bombing me inside my house at night, maybe. Then I assume bringing an Atlas moth to Show and Tell is out of the question.
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Post by taz157 on Mar 26, 2013 22:33:43 GMT -5
I have a dresser full of coloring books, crayons and markers.
The problem - I'm 33 and DD is 19 months old, and I bought them long before she was born.
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taz157
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Post by taz157 on Mar 26, 2013 22:36:07 GMT -5
I have a teddy bear that sleeps in bed with DH and I When DH isn't here, I have a teddy bear that DH got me for our 1st Christmas that I sleep with. When he is here, the bear sits on my nightstand.
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amishgal
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Post by amishgal on Mar 26, 2013 22:50:57 GMT -5
I'm afraid to open a pillsbury biscuit can.
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Post by cottoncandyclouds on Mar 26, 2013 23:34:27 GMT -5
I'm kinda freaked out by this Urban Legend not to story itself, but that someone could easily get into your back seat to kill you.
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Post by ❤ mollymouser ❤ on Mar 27, 2013 0:38:47 GMT -5
I'm afraid to open a pillsbury biscuit can. Those things are scary.
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Wisconsin Beth
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Post by Wisconsin Beth on Mar 27, 2013 7:40:35 GMT -5
I have a teddy bear that sleeps in bed with DH and I My Teddy Bear (his name) was a gift from my Godmother on my 1st b-day. He's been to Europe twice (and was bus mascot for a tour of GB after I realized I'd left him in the room and had to make the bus wait while I went back. My watch was also there...), Texas once and 3 trips to the Canadian boundary waters. Now my kids swap him back and forth from their beds, until I pull the "He's mine and sleeping with me!" card.
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Post by happyscooter on Mar 27, 2013 8:19:08 GMT -5
I am afraid of something that is the stupidest thing in the world and no one else is bothered by it.
Maybe I need to see a therapist.
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Post by haapai on Mar 27, 2013 9:34:44 GMT -5
I buy chicken feed to heat up the compost pile, derive great pleasure from sticking a meat thermometer into the pile, and then fail to flip the pile or do anything with the finished compost.
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Post by shanendoah on Mar 27, 2013 9:55:27 GMT -5
I have a phobia of wind. Have for most of my life. I still have a really hard time sleeping if I can hear the wind outside.
Often when I'm going to bed, my Beagle is curled up near my pillows. If she's close enough, I love to put on of her ears on my pillows and lay my cheek on it. It's so soft and warm. I once made a comment about how I wanted a pillow made out of Beagle ears and C replied "That's how Cruella de'Ville got her start."
I have had my teddy bear since I was six. While he doesn't sleep with us anymore, he did for years. C had once considered sending him out to be cleaned and re-stuffed as a surprise for me, but he realized that if my Bear went missing, I might think the dogs had destroyed it, which would have been bad for everyone.
I also have a stuffed polar bear, Paula, who was a gift to me when I was an infant. She's never been soft enough to sleep with, so she's still in really great shape, though she does have some stains.
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Wisconsin Beth
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Post by Wisconsin Beth on Mar 27, 2013 10:00:34 GMT -5
We've washed my Ted. I remember being a kid and seeing him de-stuffed and hanging by the ears on the line, drip drying. And on one of the Canada trips, my canoe tipped and he got soaked. So I hung him by the ears on the tent lines to drip dry, fortunately I had clippy closepins. Every time someone went past our tent, they'd whack him and he'd swing and water would spatter out. And the person would say loudly "Hey, he's wet!" We were all 15-18 years old on these trips, except for 2-3 adults who'd come along as leaders/counselors/whatever to keep us more or less in line and alive.
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Post by movingforward on Mar 27, 2013 10:03:00 GMT -5
I like singing and sometimes when I am at home I sing songs to my cat
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Post by thyme4change on Mar 27, 2013 11:49:21 GMT -5
Still afraid of Bloody Mary as well. When I get up in the middle of the night to pee, I run from the bathroom back into the bedroom, and I throw the blankets over my head. Sometimes, I'm too afraid of the dark to get out of bed to pee. I get out of bed obviously, but I have to psych myself up. Here I am laughing at you guys. But then I realized that I sleep with a nightlight. I hate the pitch dark. I don't think it is because I'm scared of monsters or ghosts or whatever. I just hate banging my shin on things - so I go ahead and keep a light on, pretty much all the time.
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Cookies Galore
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Post by Cookies Galore on Mar 27, 2013 11:54:43 GMT -5
I like singing and sometimes when I am at home I sing songs to my cat I always sing to my cats.
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Post by kittensaver on Mar 27, 2013 12:36:29 GMT -5
I like singing and sometimes when I am at home I sing songs to my cat I always sing to my cats. We do too!! (me and DH )
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Post by MarleyKeezy78 on Mar 27, 2013 12:46:37 GMT -5
I posted this on another thread but sometimes when I drink to much I put on my wedding dress and dance to music DH thinks I'm crazy
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Post by sheilaincali on Mar 27, 2013 13:40:42 GMT -5
I'm afraid to open a pillsbury biscuit can. My folks have a fancy alarm system on their house that registers and reports noises as well as doors/windows opening. One night my mom grabbed a tube of biscuits and set it on the counter to make with dinner. Dad came home and suggested they go out to eat and she forgot to put the biscuits back in the fridge and left them on the counter, near the window on a very sunny afternoon. The biscuits expanded and exploded out of the tube. It was so loud it tripped the alarm because it thought it was a window breaking. My folks come home from dinner and find there are a dozen cops in their driveway. The cops told my dad "your alarm went off, you go in first and see if there's anything wrong or if anyone is in there". The cops followed him in and searched high and low for like 2 hours (really big house) and finally figured out it was the tube of biscuits that has caused all the trouble.
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Post by MarleyKeezy78 on Mar 27, 2013 14:20:46 GMT -5
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Post by Rocky Mtn Saver on Mar 27, 2013 14:40:37 GMT -5
Sheila, that's hilarious!!
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Post by childofhiphop on Mar 27, 2013 14:41:38 GMT -5
Since it's mostly bedtime quirks here... I have to do an earthquake walk before I go to bed. I have to walk the path from the kids room and mine to make sure there's no clutter in the path to trip on and kill us on our escape route.
This was learned from my Mom who did it for all of us as kids.
DH thinks I'm nuts.
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Post by Rocky Mtn Saver on Mar 27, 2013 14:47:12 GMT -5
Where to start...
I can't sleep with either my feet or my hands hanging over the side of the bed. There is a small part of my primal brain that still thinks something is under the bed and will grab them.
Oh, and I can't pee when others are around. It makes large public events very... interesting for me.
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Post by simser on Mar 27, 2013 14:50:50 GMT -5
I can't handle wrists. Can't see them, can't touch them, don't want anyone else touching mine. I freeze like a board whenever someone does touch them. I don't know why.
I always wear mismatched socks. At this point I have socks that I know go together...
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Virgil Showlion
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Post by Virgil Showlion on Mar 27, 2013 14:54:32 GMT -5
I swam competitively for more than a decade and still get much of my exercise by swimming.
Every practice we had, I would circumnavigate the pool looking for band-aids, floating balls of hair, or other anomalies. If I spotted any, I would insist on swimming in the lane furthest away. If I spotted several and wasn't able to find a lane sufficiently far away, I would make up an excuse and refuse to swim.
I've become slightly more tolerant over the years, but only a little. I won't swim in a pool that has band-aids floating around in it.
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