fear.

[casualbird]

questionoftheday asks: What totally mundane, harmless thing scared you the most as a child?

My answer: M A S C O T S. I was terrified of the bastards. They just didn't seem right! I wouldn't let my mother take me to the grocery store for WEEKS before Easter, because I knew there'd be a guy in a creepy, smelly Easter Bunny suit there. And I was petrified of the mascot for the university my mother works at--people kept trying to give me little stuffed animals bearing his unholy visage, and I would flatly refuse them to the giver's face. I was Not About That Shit.

Comments

[ex_killdoll814]

OH MY GOD YOU POOR THING. out of curiosity, did you understand that the easter bunny was not real and that the fake easter bunnies at the grocery store were people in suits from an early age, or did you not know and were just terrified of the easter bunny? i ask because i seriously believed that the fake easter bunny mascots at the store were the easter bunny until i was like 7, haha.

[casualbird]

oh, no. at this stage i believed in the easter bunny, but i knew that these horrible men in sweaty, lousy, bedbug-infested suits were NOT the real easter bunny. i think part of the fear factor was that they were IMPOSTORS.

[ex_killdoll814]

USURPERS!!!

[cabalsruin]

omg i remember one time i was at a horse track with my mom, and a bunch of local mascots raced during some downtime.

and the mascot for our baseball team, buddy bat, LOST HIs heAD

[casualbird]

NO NO NO NO NO NO OH MY GOD TERRIFYING.