Writer's Block: Too scary!!

[ladysprite]

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Showers.

I was raised Jewish, and someone - I don't remember quite who - told me when I was very little that Hitler killed all the Jews by telling them that he was sending them to the showers, and then poisoning them with gas.

I was all of four or five years old, and somehow this all mushed together in my exceedingly hyperactive imagination, until I was quite certain that Hitler was going to sneak into the bathroom and swap out the water in the shower for poison gas, and kill me because I was Jewish. I refused to take showers until I was... I don't remember how old; at least eight or nine. I'd only take baths instead; for some reason they weren't nearly as scary. I think the shower curtain was part of it; there's something about the limited field of vision that makes it entirely possible for stealth Nazis to invade without your notice.

Of course, I was also terribly afraid of monsters, the basement, sentient green ooze, triffids, and one particularly unusual Shel Silverstein poem, and my sister spent at least a year afraid of Jesus (another friend explained that He would take her to burn in H-e-double-hockey-sticks for being Jewish).

We were odd children.....

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I do remember that. We were on a long car ride.... somewhere; I don't remember, and I was trying to keep you entertained. It just sort of took off from there.... :)