Get ready for a trip back into time. It's a time when simple things freaked kids out.

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The Question

We asked Texans "What freaked you out as a kid that you're good with as an adult?". It's a bit of trick question because since we're saying "but you're good with as an adult" allows them to confess some (mostly) ridiculous fears. Then again, who hasn't been afraid of a pile of clothes in the dark, or something real creepy, but not real dangerous, like spiders.

My Fear

This question sprang out of one of my own fears. I will confess it to you now, and it is definitely one of the more ridiculous fears. I had a fear of toilet snakes. I'm not sure how I heard or read about it, but I remember there being a story in the news about a snake coming up out of someone's toilet. I guess I was afraid of my little boy bits bitten, so I hovered for about six months. The interesting thing is, I really had no problem holding or chasing snakes like any other little boy, but I just knew that if a venomous snake was going to come out of the toilet and kill someone, it was going to be me.

No Common Thread

I thought that with a topic like this we'd get a lot of people giving the same answer, but no, the answers are all over the place. These slides were generated en masse with only a few grammatical corrections. In other words, what you see, is pretty much what you get with these answers. These are real folks, who were traumatized, sometimes by very ordinary things when they were kids, so away we go...

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