Comments on: Nightmares for future use …

By: mrs worthington

mrs worthington — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 13:29:15 +0000

When he babysat for my two the bedtime routine consisted of a re-enactment of Pink Panther & Cato. This seemed to involve much hiding in the curtain and jumping out at each other frightening the other person half to death before biffing them. What he’d forget to tell them was when to stop and I think they “got” hima few more times when he was least expecting it. You’d think he’d learn.

By: Mark J Daniels

Mark J Daniels — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 10:32:05 +0000

The program that stays with me today is Heart to Heart – one episode opened with a man who had to sit in front of that machine the opticians use to test for Glaucoma. You know, the one that blows that nasty puff of air in to your eyes.

Except, in the opening scenes of this particular episode it fires spikes in to the eyes TO KILL YOU WITH instead!

Ever since seeing that episode, aged about 10, I have never been able to have the puff test. This annoys my optician, somewhat, because there’s a history of Glaucoma in my family…

By: Josie @Sleep is for the Weak

Josie @Sleep is for the Weak — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 07:12:40 +0000

Oh dear… that probably wasn’t what you needed!

I read the book when I was about 11 and had nightmares for weeks! I still can’t help but look a bit suspiciously at large, potentially carnivorous plants…

Missed the TV thing. Quite relived actually.

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By: Womanatwork

Womanatwork — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 20:57:42 +0000

Ah crazy nan, she was a law unto herself!

By: Insomniac Mummy

Insomniac Mummy — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 15:14:29 +0000

We used to watch all kinds of wrong at my Grandma’s when we were little.

I distinctly remember my brother going green whilst watching American Werewolf in London.

By: RookieMommy

RookieMommy — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 14:55:13 +0000

I remember staying with my nan around age 6 and sitting drinking hot chocolate, eating butter osbourne biscuits topped with thick butter (my nan knew no other type of butter) and sugar and being allowed to watch ‘Les Diaboliques’. Anyone familiar with this film will know it’s quite a scary flick with ‘dead’ bodies rising from baths and disappearing from swimming pools. I have a poor memory but I remember scenes from this film distinctly, so I guess you can say I was slightly traumatised.

By: Heather

Heather — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 14:22:27 +0000

that’s going to make for an interesting pantomime trip one year.

By: angelsandurchinsblog

angelsandurchinsblog — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 12:56:44 +0000

I’ve never had a scary babysitter, but I remember one being so critical of my parent’s taste in interior design that I asked to be put to bed. It was back in the days when I was young enough to take everything my parents did as just the way things were done, and to have someone sitting there saying, ‘That lampshade looks ridiculous with that base’ and ‘How silly to hang paintings so high up’ nearly made me sick. Wonder if she knew how rude she was being, or maybe she thought her opinions didn’t count when told to a four-year-old?

By: Jodie at Mummy Mayhem

Jodie at Mummy Mayhem — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 11:56:50 +0000

OMG! This is AMAZING! When I was a kid, I snuck out of bed and around the back of my parents couch (which they had pushed up towards the fire , so plenty of space behind), and watched a movie where a woman was buried alive in a coffin! She was struggling to get out of it from memory. And for AGES and AGES afterwards I had nightmares about it, and was convinced I’d somehow end up in a coffin myself.

And just like you, I’ve never forgotten about it. I guess I can’t blame my grandparent though. Just myself. *sigh*