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I have a funny memory from the time that my Mom was Babysitting three siblings. I was about nine at the time, and I've decided to sleep in until 10:30 in the Morning, one day, durring the Christmas Holidays. The youngest one, a boy who was three at the time, suprized me by shooting his toy Machine Gun at me, as I opened my Bedroom Door. I was scared out of my mind, and I had a Panic Attack. My mom saw me wheezing in my Room and she asked me what happened. I told her that the boy pretended to shoot me with his toy Machine Gun. It's a coincident to think about the fact that I'm part Mod, part Hippie a little over 20 years later. Even back than, I was like that, but I was to interested in Barbies and Hot Wheels to notice my Pacifist Personality, until that day.

Mod... as in moderater?

I have a funny memory of getting scared while watching "Sesame Street."

Kev:

"Sesame Street" is a children's TV show that has been on in America since 1969. It uses animation to teach kids letters and numbers, with a whole bunch of characters. It was so lively, it scared me, maybe because it wasn't real.

Sesame Street fright? Do tell, Jason.

I've got a few funnies. One of the very earliest is when an aunt decided to join my little rock band. I was on the drums in my playpen, and she, as typical, was on the bottle. She decided she wanted to play along with me, so into the playpen she jumped, scaring me out of my wits not only because of her surprise appearance, but because she took the bottom out of the playpen and dropped us both on the kitchen floor.

Another was the time I decided to "fuel up" my Big Wheel. With the vacuum cleaner. I knew those extra holes for the seat were good for something, so me and my vivid imagination pulled up to the dining room table and topped up with hi-test from the vacuum cleaner. Maybe a little more than we were supposed to. I couldn't get the hose back out, so I got my fill as I raced around the dining room table with that hose clomping along behind me! So an uncle came by to help...and he got some hi-test of his own trying to get that hose out. There was some premium language as he struggled, but eventually he got it. Fortunately, I wore out the front wheel of that Big Wheel before I had to fuel up again.

Zed:

I was scared when the characters got too animated, and believe it or not, as much as I like game shows, Guy Smiley played by Jim Henson, scared me. The animated character of Pat Sajak also scared me. Talking animals also scared me so silly that I felt like I could not focus on life when I was younger.

I saw this show the other day(a kid's show) where this stuffed deer's head on the wall thing was talking.I got scared.

-SpaceCase

It must not have been Sesame Street, Casey.

October 10, 1991 - During a school sponsored camp-out back when I was in sixth grade, I was laying around in the dorms that morning. Another person I knew was goofing around taking lots of pictures with a cheap 110 camera. At one point he came over by me and snapped a shot with a fresh flash cube on his camera.

At that point, he lost his grip on the camera and it fell on the ground upside down. It hit right on the flash and also managed to set off the shutter, causing it to take a picture, but becasue the flash was damaged, it set off all of them at once.

I thought this was the funniest thing I ever saw.

I used to be scared of PlaySchool! They had this freaky scarecrow song: "When all the hens are sleeping and the sun has gone to bed, up jumps the scarecrow and this is what he said: I'm a dingly dangly scarecrow with my flippy floppy hat, I can shake my hands like this and shake my feet like that". I always got terrified in the clip when the scarecrow would wake up and start singing!

Casey:

PBS has gotten very original these days.

Luke, was this the American version of "Sesame Street" you were watching?