It was brought up in class today, a discussion about clowns. Why was this a part of classroom discussion? That answer I still do not know. All I know is that it was brought up and I hated every second of the conversation. If your wondering what I am getting to with this blog, well here it is... I, Claryssa Cunniff, absolutely hate clowns. Now your probably thinking that that is stupid and ridiculous, well, I begged to differ!
I know your all thinking, what could have possibly happened in her life that was so traumatic that led her to her hatred of clowns. Just your luck, I am about to tell you! Ever since I was a little girl my fear of clowns only continues to grow stronger. When I was younger, one halloween, I dressed as Mulan. I had the dress, the stuffed animal mushu and the comb. I was officially ready to go trick or treating. I had gone to a couple of houses with my friends and parents and then I came to one house. The decorations were really creepy and at first I was afraid to go. Then I saw the best thing ever...a bowl of candy just sitting there on the stairs! Every kids dream to have a bowl of candy sitting there calling your name. Of course because I knew there was that much candy at the house, I had to go. So I began to trail over to the walkway followed slowly by my friends who were still timid about going. I reached my destination, the candy bowl and began throwing candy into my bag. I yelled to my friends I would save them some. Then out of no where a clown jumps out at me. I scream at the top of my lungs and begin to cry my eyes out. I throw my bag of candy on the ground and ran to my parents. The clown walked pacefully behind me honking his nose. I thought this was a nightmare that I could not wake up from, but that was not the case. It was reality and I was scared. I ran to my parents and they were laughing. It turns out that it was my neighbor playing tricks on the trick or treaters. Though he apologized, I was scarred for life. From then on my halloween has never been the same.
Now obviously your thinking that that was the stupidest story you had ever heard, well that is not that only reason I hate clowns, that just adds to it. Now another reason I hate clowns is the movie "It". I do not recommend that movie to anyone because I am officially scarred for life. Clowns really freak me out for one other major reason. That reason being, the face paint. I can not tell the emotion of the clown because the smile and entire face is painted on. It just gives a creepy appearance and the clown is constantly smiling even when he might not be happy. Does that seem normal to you? I did not think so! So that pretty much summarizes why I absolutely hate clowns.
Thats kind of hilarious. I think it's funny that your neighbor did that to you on Halloween. i mean, it's pretty terrible that he would do that to a little girl, but it's still pretty funny. I am scared of clowns too. not because i was scared by one on Halloween, but because when i was little, I was at McDonalds, and Ronald McDonald was there, and my brother sister told me that he was a murderer that had escaped from prison, and was dressed like a clown, so that the cops wouldn't find him. I realize now that this is not true, but I mean, clowns are still wicked creepy, and i believed that escaped prisoner story till i was like 10.
ReplyDeleteI am too deathly afraid of clowns, not so much as spiders, but still, and i found your whole story hilarious while creepy at the saem time, keep it up!
ReplyDeletehahahaha good story "come on guys ill save u some" thats hilarious I am glad i read this, good laugh
ReplyDeleteThe irrational fear of clowns seems to be common in people of our age group mostly due to one of the factors you mentioned yourself (the movie "It"). However, that said, I too have a mild disdain for clowns. I find that your statement about their face paint to be a very good point.
ReplyDeleteI totally agree with what you said about the face paint. Whenever I see them, they always look like their upset but still have a smile painted on under their angry eyes. It's really creepy! I'm surprised we don't hear about more clown murderers. They seem to hate everyone.
ReplyDelete"It" will definitely cause a bad case of coulrophobia.
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