July 1, 2008
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I don't like clowns.
Maybe it is because my first Halloween costume was Bozo. I don't know why my mom would have done that to me, but, lets face it, Bozo, is kind of creepy.
Of course, at 1.5 years, I was too young to be creeped, but come on. My sisters got to be Batman and Superman that year. Me, I got totally screwed. I mean, why would they get such cool costumes, and I get the creepy clown?
And, no, I won't show you the photo.
Maybe it is John Wayne Gacy.
Seriously, I mean, I dig a good historical serial killer thriller as much as the next gal, but Gacy was just....
Eew.
Creepy.
Maybe it is Pennywise. Oh, that Stephen King.
I read It when I was too young to have any business reading it. The thing about King's stories, is everything will be moving along sort of normal, in a Stand By Me sort of way for a hundred pages, then BAM! Psycho killer clown rips somebody's arm off.
Maybe it is the Simpson's, all those Treehouse of Terror episodes.
I mean Bart doesn't like clowns either. Really, can you blame him? I would not sleep in a clown bed for all the money in the world. I'd take a haunted house, or at least a haunted bathroom any day over a clown bed.
Whatever, the source of my clown creeps, there are just some days, when I feel closer to Bart than I would care to admit.
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Clowns are scary.
Bring me demons, aliens, people with chainsaws and guns... but not clowns.
Clowns are scary....
The only clown I like is Ronald McDonald. The movie It kinda ruined all clowns for me...
I'm surprised that there is no "Poltergeist" mention here. Never, ever, never, ever look under the bed.
Then there is Cubby T. Clown and Cuddles, clowns who come to the annual fall festival at work. He drives a line-green VW Beetle painted with flowers and a big smile up front. He does the most charmingly inept magic show you've ever seen, while she does face-painting. His persona is a three year old who is befuddled by the world, and always hungry. The man within the clown was seriously ill a few years ago and lost a lot of weight, and wears the same costume he did before the illness, so he looks hungry. In real life, she is an x-ray technician, and gave me a very expert mammogram last year. These clowns I can love.
Och, I'm not very fond of them either. My sister HATES them!
Can't say that I care one way or another about them.
*shrugs*
I used to hate the clowns when I went to the circus, all except for Pierrot, who was beautiful all in white spangles and with that single teardrop.
@SavonDuJour - I think I am okay with the sort of harlequin/jester look, but you know, one good nightmare, that could change.
I have a love-hate relationship with clowns. I was "the boy" on The Bozo show when I was 4. He didn't scare me, but that same year I was at Toys R Us and a clown jumped out from behind a display and screamed "WOOGA BOOGA!!" at me with his creepy clown makeup. My mother told this story for years that the wail I let out sounded like a police siren and everyone in the store went running to the window..
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