Tuesday, September 18, 2007

Spiders and Snakes

I was reading another post yesterday of someone watching Snake on a Plane and it reminded me of a little story. A true story. A story of fear and horror and traumatized little boys. It is the story of my honeymoon.

See, (showing my age just a little) Mr. Cheeky and I got married pretty young. OK a lot young but it was gonna happen so we just did it. But that is not the story. The story is the honeymoon. We didn't have a lot of money so we didn't have the huge lavish honeymoon. It was simple. It was us. So, my Aunt gave us use of her beach house for the honeymoon. While there, we decided we wanted to go see a movie. Now you would think we would pick something romantic. Nah, that's not us, we went for what was supposed to be a comedy flick. As it turns out, it was the scariest horror film I have ever seen. Now ya'll know me. Ya'll know I loves me some horror flicks. Freddy Krueger, Jason Voorhees, Michael Myers, Candyman bring it on baby! But this, I just couldn't take this. We saw Arachnophobia. I was nervous going in the theater. Already tense, but I was reassured it was supposed to be funny. Maybe it was for the rest of the theater but for me and the little boy (maybe 9ish) sitting in front of me (and probably his family) it was an exercise in pure terror. I have never in my life screamed blood curdling screams at a movie until this one. And every time I did, the little boy in front of me would jump and scream too and then have to be consoled by his parents. This didn't happen just once, this happened over and over again throughout the entire movie. A spider jumps, I scream, he screams. Poor kid, poor me. With lots of therapy, I can watch it now, on tv, with commercials and see the humor in it. But not then. I suspect the little boy may have needed some therapy too.

So what movie has totally freaked you out????

Cheeky who is singing....a little Jim Stafford....

I remember when Mary Lou said, "You wanna walk me home from school?"
Well I said yes I do
She said I don't have to go right home
And I would kinda like to be alone some if you would
I said me too
And so we took a stroll and wound up down by the swimming hole
And she said do what you want to do
I got silly and found a frog in the water by a hollow log
And I shook it at her and I said, "This frog's for you." She said,

I don't like spiders and snakes
And that ain't what it takes to love me
You fool, you fool
I don't like spiders and snakes
And that ain't what it takes to love me
Like I wanna be loved by you

Well I think of that girl from time to time, I call her up when I got a dime
I say, "Hello baby. She say, "Ain't you cool."
Said, "Do you remember when, and would you like to get together again"
She said "I'll see you after school"
I was shy and so for awhile most of my love was touch and smile
So she said, "Come on over here."
I was nervous as you might guess
Still looking for something to slip down her dress
And she said, "Let's make it perfectly clear." She said

I don't like spiders and snakes
And that ain't what it takes to love me
You fool, you fool
I don't like spiders and snakes
And that ain't what it takes to love me
Like I wanna be loved by you

Labels: Horror, Memories, Trauma

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