It’s finally getting hot here in Utah. We’ve had almost the driest winter on record. Now we’ve had one of the wettest springs and it’s still getting pretty chilly at night. So I was lying there in bed wide awake at 2 a.m. with just a sheet covering me, and it struck me anew what a big deal that is for me that I would only be covered with a sheet. My whole life I’ve HAD to sleep under a sheet AND blanket when I get chilly, even in the summer. Why, you might ask… (Thank you very much for that segue into my next paragraph!)
Years ago when I was very young, seven or eight, I saw an episode on Alco Presents One Step Beyond where a young woman goes to visit her aunt who was estranged from the girl’s recently deceased mother. Despite whatever past events caused the estrangement between the sisters, the evening’s visit goes well and the girl is feeling quite comfortable as she drifts off to sleep in mom’s old room in the house where the family grew up. Suddenly in the middle of the night she wakes thinking she feels something crawling on her. She swats at whatever it is only to realize it’s not a bug – the sheet itself is CRAWLING down her body!
As you can imagine, the ensuing scene is full of screams and hysteria…and the angry aunt laughing her keister off! Seems when she was a young girl, the sister and one of her friends played the same joke on her and scared the bloomin’ tar out of her. And you know what they say, about payback being a b*tch…
Suffice it to say, that One Step Beyond episode scared the beejeebers out of me, too, and I was NEVER able to sleep with just a sheet on after that. EVEN in the dead of horrendously hot, humid August summer nights. It’s only been within the last ten years or so I’ve noticed my tendency to choose comfort over childish fears.
I still think about that TV show every now and then. It just proves, at least to me, that you never know what kind of things your kids are going to see on TV that are going to change their lives, maybe forever.
What about any of you? Have you ever watched a TV show that’s changed you somehow for better or for worse? Leave me a comment and tell me all about it.
Impromptu Promptlings 
I SO understand how watching something can influence how I feel about certain things. Like, shower curtains. Can’t stand for them to be closed when I walk into a bathroom, as I think there’s going to be something horrible behind it. Now I know that in Psycho, it was the other way around. I saw it when I was just a young girl (before age of 9 even) at a drive-in movie. I wouldn’t even take a shower for months, let alone go into a bathroom with a closed curtain. I still think of that, and can still feel that sense of creepy.
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Yes, yes, yes!!! Me, too. Exactly. If we come home from somewhere and one of us has showered (we always pull the curtain across to let it dry out faster), the first thing I do is go open the curtain. But my fear of that came from a Mia Farrow movie called See No Evil. (Sarah is a blind girl who has returned to her home, a country manor in which all of the occupants are dead. She unknowingly sleeps overnight, among a houseful of corpses, arising the next morning to quietly creep out of bed, in order not to awaken the other members of the household.) TOTALLY scared the tar out of me!
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EEKS! creepy. I just discovered today when I was looking where to make reservations for a trip, that a place I’d stayed back in the 90s was haunted! It’s since been closed.
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Well thank God for small favors! Where are you going?
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I thought it was kind of interesting. Nothing happened when we were staying there, but it was a really old place, built back in the 1700s. The hallways were so narrow that two people couldn’t walk down it side by side.
We’ll touring around New England, my old summer stamping grounds. I figure if we’re heading out west in a year or two, Q should have a look see at some of the more beautiful places I’ve had the pleasure of staying over the years.
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We stayed in an old place like that in Quebec City, but it was right down town within walking distance from the pier. Didn’t seem weird at all. But it was small like that.
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