Quote: Rob Kamphausen said: thoughts that really freaked me out when i was little:<p>quick sand: there was at least one episode of every cartoon i watched where someone was getting stuck, and swallowed, in quick sand. ... it still gives me the shivers to think about it. how the hell do you get out!! no matter what they did, they kept dropping deeper and deeper into the stuff. help was always too far away -- or worse, getting pulled in with you! <p>for whole days on end, i was afraid of sand boxes and/or beaches, for fear of spontaneous-quicksand-conversion. <p>hey, you never know!<p>acid rain: lets see. i knew what rain was -- thats the stuff that falls everywhere, and gets everything wet. i knew what acid was (again, from cartoons) -- thats the stuff that eats through everything, and melts or burns whatever it touches. <p>and acid rain?? oh my god!! thats some scary mutant rain, that burns through everything!! it falls from the sky, so there's no way to hide from it, as it covers everything. plus, even if im inside, it'll eat through the roof of my house, burn thru the top level, and eventually reach and attack me. how the hell can you escape it??!?!<p>solar eclipse: i learned in school: "you shouldnt look at a solar eclipse, because it will hurt your eyes." <p>... ok... easy enough. dont look... dont look... dont look... ow... oh man... i looked!! nooo!!! im going to go blind!!!<p>i remember running in my house one day, during just such an event. the whole way, i was staring at my feet, tripping over stuff. but, it didnt matter -- i had to protect my eyes!
