Not anymore! But when I was a kid, OMG-osh… I was petrified of the boogie man who lived in the rock-room part of our basement, he was always going to chase me up the stairs! 🫣
I’m actually shocked I never tripped and broke a bone, I would get 2 steps up and then run like the wind as if my life depended on it!
Well it did actually depend on it, even if ONLY in my mind…!
@Lynnerizer
That was me too. When we first moved into this house my boyfriend would go up north a lot to work on his family cottage and I didn’t know the sounds of the house. The basement is a big open unfinished basement, with lots of boxes and crap down there. When I was home alone I would check every square inch before I went to bed and I hated the basement bc somebody could be hiding behind boxes. So I have lights plugged in everywhere that turn on when it gets dark. Makes me feel better, like someone’s not gonna hide down there when it’s similar lite up. It helps to when I go down to the basement fridge, pantry or chest freezer too bc it not completely dark and majority of the time I don’t even turn on lights.
I’m not afraid of the dark, but I am afraid of what might be concealed by the darkness, giving me less time to react. Particularly when I was decommissioning an office that was 1/8th of a mile long by myself after Covid. I ultimately addressed the issue by rigging cameras and motion sensitive chimes at certain chokepoints around the office; it’s easy to be unafraid when you know that you’ll hear anyone that enters, and be able to check the recordings for activity.
I’ll tell you who is afraid of the dark! Young boy scouts and their parents.
There is a “thing” in scouting called Order of the Arrow and several times every summer, usually on Thursday night at summer camp, candidates for the order are “tapped out” in a really cool ceremony. One of the rules that is CLEARLY explained to everyone before going to the ceremony is that flashlights are 100% verboten. You are not allowed to even have them on you. Don’t bring them. Don’t turn them on. It’s a pretty simple rule. Since the seventh Scout Law is A Scout is Obedient, one would think that the no-flashlight rule would be easy to follow. But no.
All you have to do to find your way back to your camp site after the ceremony is open your eyes, let your eyes adjust to the dark, and let as much moon and star light in. Then you can easily see the path and the gap in the trees above the path.
Why should you be afraid of the Dark? Other should be afraid of me in the dark!
I enjoy dark roast, dark chocolate, dark rye, dark comedy, dark sunglasses, Johnny Dark. But light on the mustard, please.
Not anymore! But when I was a kid, OMG-osh…
I was petrified of the boogie man who lived in the rock-room part of our basement, he was always going to chase me up the stairs! 
🫣
I’m actually shocked I never tripped and broke a bone, I would get 2 steps up and then run like the wind as if my life depended on it!
Well it did actually depend on it, even if ONLY in my mind…!
@Lynnerizer
That was me too. When we first moved into this house my boyfriend would go up north a lot to work on his family cottage and I didn’t know the sounds of the house. The basement is a big open unfinished basement, with lots of boxes and crap down there. When I was home alone I would check every square inch before I went to bed and I hated the basement bc somebody could be hiding behind boxes. So I have lights plugged in everywhere that turn on when it gets dark. Makes me feel better, like someone’s not gonna hide down there when it’s similar lite up. It helps to when I go down to the basement fridge, pantry or chest freezer too bc it not completely dark and majority of the time I don’t even turn on lights.
@Star2236
It is crazy how our own minds mess with our sanity. One might even think we’re not even on the same team!
Lol
Thought that the dark was afraid of me?
@f00l
Olde skool:
/youtube pink Floyd dark side of the
I’m not afraid of the dark, but I am afraid of what might be concealed by the darkness, giving me less time to react. Particularly when I was decommissioning an office that was 1/8th of a mile long by myself after Covid. I ultimately addressed the issue by rigging cameras and motion sensitive chimes at certain chokepoints around the office; it’s easy to be unafraid when you know that you’ll hear anyone that enters, and be able to check the recordings for activity.
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I’ll tell you who is afraid of the dark! Young boy scouts and their parents.
There is a “thing” in scouting called Order of the Arrow and several times every summer, usually on Thursday night at summer camp, candidates for the order are “tapped out” in a really cool ceremony. One of the rules that is CLEARLY explained to everyone before going to the ceremony is that flashlights are 100% verboten. You are not allowed to even have them on you. Don’t bring them. Don’t turn them on. It’s a pretty simple rule. Since the seventh Scout Law is A Scout is Obedient, one would think that the no-flashlight rule would be easy to follow. But no.
All you have to do to find your way back to your camp site after the ceremony is open your eyes, let your eyes adjust to the dark, and let as much moon and star light in. Then you can easily see the path and the gap in the trees above the path.
No, the dark keeps me safe from the pedofiles.
Well, I’m more afraid of tripping over a cat in a darkened hallway.
Not actually afraid of the dark.
@lisaviolet Tripping over a cat and then stepping on a Lego brick.
@lisaviolet @yakkoTDI
…because NOBODY plays with jacks any more…
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It’s not the dark that scares me.
It’s what’s in it that does.
I am pretty valiant in the dark.
No afraid of the dark, but I hate waking up and not being able to see what’s around me. Must have some kind of light.
It depends where I am - not afraid in my house or my quiet neighborhood, but apprehensive in unfamiliar places.