What Mundane Things Frightened You As a Child?

[jstrawberry1234]

I was scared of pooing.
I’d hold it in for ages (like weeks!!) because I was scared then it would hurt and I would be more scared. Ended up at the doctors and having medications to make me go because it was not normal for a 5 year old to not poop for 3 weeks.

 

[legsbumsandtums]

My uncle always told me he'd put me in the cooking pot if I was playing up & I genuinely thought he would

 

[Pixipoppy]

I was absolutely terrified of “test card F” more commonly known as that picture of the girl with a clown doll that would be on TV early in the morning. I used to make my mum turn on the telly to check that it had gone before I’d look .

 

[keepyourpeace]

Down escalators. I remember crying at the top of one once (mum and brother had go on without me) and another lady had to hold my hand on the way down.

Still have to wait about 5 steps before I can step on one (20 years later) now but I think it stems from seeing my brother cut his knee open falling up a down escalator because he was pissing about on one.

Wet tissues, people blowing their noses and flushing the loo (but only at night).

 

[lasttime]

I was absolutely terrified of roadsweepers (the machines) always thought if I walked past one it would suck me into it.

 

[under the ivy]

Brum, I was terrified as a kid

 

[Rippedjeanmaybe]

I used to be really scared to have any body part outside of the covers as I thought something would get me, actually I still am if I’m sleeping alone!

I actually used to sleep in my mum’s room until I was about eight because I was terrified of being on my own in the house. Whenever I was in the house I was always in the same room as my mum because I was just so scared to be left alone. That fear only left when we moved house when I was 7.

I also used to traumatise myself by reading and watching “goose bumps” and I was scared of the second Harry potter until I was about ten.

 

[Apple In My Pie]

Loads!

- Public toilets (as a pp says, the type of toilet! Sometimes still feel like it now if I see those metal bucket type toilets, and I will NEVER use a portaloo or a plane toilet! can’t explain why though?!)

- the windscreen wipers (don’t have an explanation for that one! Used to scream at my grandfather to turn them off)

- The car wash (still frightened now to a degree; we got stuck in one when I was about four. It was dark, it was noisy and so claustrophobic)

- The BBC ident/logo/tune thing, can’t remember which one it was but it used to come on before (new) Doctor Who. (My family take the piss out of me for this one to this day. I think it was the anticipation of the terrifying episode and the creepy music!)

- Toy capsule vending machines (you know the ones, you put money in turn the slot and get a capsule with a toy in? Said this on the other linked thread but I LOVED these machines as a child until I saw the (absolute banger) viva forever music video by the spice girls where a child gets sucked into and trapped inside a toy capsule machine! Absolutely terrified me after that )

- Cybermen. (Okay that’s cheating as it isn’t very mundane. Still am. Still regularly have nightmares of being chased by one and yes I do wake up feeling anxious and unsettled. Horrifying.)

 

[JakeM]

The child catcher from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.

 

[DCICassieStuart]

I used to love the cartoon 'Around the world with Willy Fogg', but Transfer the 'baddie' absolutely scared me shitless

 

[Kim Mild]

Down escalators. I remember crying at the top of one once (mum and brother had go on without me) and another lady had to hold my hand on the way down.

Still have to wait about 5 steps before I can step on one (20 years later) now but I think it stems from seeing my brother cut his knee open falling up a down escalator because he was pissing about on one.

Wet tissues, people blowing their noses and flushing the loo (but only at night).

I'm scared of down escalators too

 

[Sickofinstacrap]

Ammm the Wombles, had a dream about them trying to kidnap me so would cry everything I heard the theme tune from then on. Escalators, I still have to brace myself before I step on - not ideal when you live in London and people tut because you held them up for 0.0005 seconds . Chalk boards, the noise ahhh my teeth get a pain when I hear the noise! For the Irish tattlers, Podge and Rodge, would honestly cry so much anytime the came on the tv, when they kidnapped Santa I was fully traumatised. Beans, still cry if they touch my skin, and ketchup and birds, hate them all, bleeping pigeons

 

[conrea37]

I used to be scared of the telephone after a silly moment when I was laughed at for saying the wrong name (other end had handed the phone over)

I was scared of tornadoes hitting us until my folks drilled it in me that they seldom happen in the UK!

 

[LittleMy]

Clowns. Which is ironic really, considering I’ve been surrounded by them my entire adult life so far.

 

[Eastonell]

Nicholas bleeping Cage

 

[Anon_Miss]

One thing was in my childhood home we had stairs with gaps, so you could obviously see what was beneath you. I was so scared that something was going to grab my feet as I used the stairs. Which is silly, I know, as I could see there was nothing there, but it really freaked me out in case I suddenly felt something grab my ankles and feet.

 

[Chateau Marmont]

My mother had a dressmaker's dummy in her bedroom and I was terrified of it if I happened to ever go in there at night and all I could see what the outline of it in the shadows. Looking back I have no idea why it scared me so much and laugh at myself now...I was very little, like four/five/six so who knows.

Also had a fear of china dolls with staring eyes and ventriloquist dummies. I'm still scared of these. Ventriloquist dummies legit terrify me and I have to turn away if one pops up when I'm watching tv.

 

[Sherlockholmes]

Walkie talkies! For some reason I thought an alien would make contact through them.

 

[Libbylulu]

The Daleks. Even the Dr Who music. I used to hide behind the sofa.

 

[Helloimgems]

Tony Robinson. Literally no explanation why but he still scares me to this day