Friday, February 19, 2010

Fear Journal

When I was a wee little boy, I was deathly afraid of the central vacuum system. It created a sound which penetrated my ears. Every time I ventured into the basement I could see the big tan cylinder that held all the contents of whatever we vacuumed in the previous days. Also located in the basement is a freezer, so every time i went down to the freezer for food i could see this horrible machine. One day I had to gander down to the basement freezer, as I reached the freezer someone turned the vacuum on. The loud sound of the vacuum startled me and with a flash and a scream I was back upstairs wondering what happened. I looked around for the culprit. My mother was casually vacuuming the living room, then it hit me. The loud sound, it was from the death machine, the central vacuum. Til this day it can give me a little shock when I hear it, but I'm a man now. Nothing scares a man.

4 comments:

  1. I can connect to this, the dark scared me. This story is scarier though, it's a good thing that your a man and it doesn't scare you anymore.

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  2. Actually, when I was little I was a bit afraid that a vacuume would suck me up, so I jumped on the nearest furniture knowing that it could not get me there. The wierd thing is if I was the one doing the vacuuming then I was not afraid because I knew it couldn't get me. Eventually I figured out that the vacuume was not going to get me. LOL!!!

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  3. I think that vacuums are universally scary. My reason behind this is because my cat is also scared of the vacuum cleaner.

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  4. dr monday has a point on this one. You should see my cat when i chase it with the vaccum. However i can relate very well with the startling sound of it.

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