#186 – Spinning
Posted on September 3, 2012 at 12:00 am by Chris
Chapter: Comic
When my first son was a less than a year old I noticed a spider hanging down from the light fixture right above his high chair. I went and got the dust buster and vacuumed it away before the spider could drop down and scare him. What didn’t occur to me was a vacuum cleaner running full blast a few inches from your face is much scarier than that spider would have been. Years later he is still frightened by loud machinery, dishwashers, public toilets flushing etc. Good job dad.
Tags: cat, crib, dog
When I was about 5, another girl told me that the sound of a toilet flushing was the sound of all the demons in hell RUSHING up to get you through the portal you’d opened.
It made sense to me; I mean, hell is below you, and all that waste goes somewhere horrible, right?
So for a couple of YEARS I would get all ready and then flush the toilet and rush out of the room. (Or stall, in a public bathroom) If I washed my hands at home, it was in the kitchen sink.
I guess the moral of this story is…kids believe crazy stuff.
Awesome.
Silly goose! That only happens during the Equinox!
Reminds me of the efforts I’ve had to make to undo people’s thoughtless infliction of their completely irrational fear of spiders on my daughter. >.> Fortunately, she has been cured and now squees that they are “precious,” but has been suitably cautioned about black widows.
(To make matters worse, I live in California, and am apparently the entire membership of the Society of People Who Know That Brown Recluses Do Not.)
Oh; well, you’ll be glad to know we’ll be importing a truckload of them next week. From South Carolina, where something that lived in the headboard got me on the back of the hand, which swelled up all black, and hurt like the dickens for a week or more. It was trying hard to digest that big prey it found.