Posted: Tue May 18, 2004 4:25 pm
I remember lying in bed and suddenly realizing that my closet door was open. The significance of this was that as cars passed my bedroom window, light would dance accross the things in my closet, making them appear alive.
It was not so simple to leave the security of bed to cross the floor in a darkened room and close the closet.
I was also quite frightened of noisy things, such as dishwashers and vacuum cleaners. I remember being at a shopping center and seeing what I thought was a giant vacuum cleaner. It was huge, gasoline powered outdoor vacuum cleaner, and I imagined it would devour me if I got too close to it!
One routine of horror was the trip to the barber shop. The haircut itself was scary with that noisy clipper right next to my ears, but when finished, the barber would always vacuum the back of my neck, and with my fear of vacuum cleaners combined with my fear of something going on behind my back, I found this very frightening.
I remember being taken to a department store for a flu shot. I guess this was a serious flu season, and the GVT decided to deal with things publicly. They had this "jet injector" thing, that dispite the fact that it had no needle visible, I found particularly scary. They had to drag me as though I were going to face a firing squad. I remember dad telling me that I was shaking so violently that they ended up injecting me several times as though using a jackhammer.

I was also quite frightened of noisy things, such as dishwashers and vacuum cleaners. I remember being at a shopping center and seeing what I thought was a giant vacuum cleaner. It was huge, gasoline powered outdoor vacuum cleaner, and I imagined it would devour me if I got too close to it!
One routine of horror was the trip to the barber shop. The haircut itself was scary with that noisy clipper right next to my ears, but when finished, the barber would always vacuum the back of my neck, and with my fear of vacuum cleaners combined with my fear of something going on behind my back, I found this very frightening.
I remember being taken to a department store for a flu shot. I guess this was a serious flu season, and the GVT decided to deal with things publicly. They had this "jet injector" thing, that dispite the fact that it had no needle visible, I found particularly scary. They had to drag me as though I were going to face a firing squad. I remember dad telling me that I was shaking so violently that they ended up injecting me several times as though using a jackhammer.
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