Irrational childhood fears

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--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Tracy" <neonsister at a...> 
wrote:
> Since it's Halloween season and time to talk of all things scary, 
> here's a topic.  What basically harmless things scared you as a 
child 
> 

Uh, ok.

Believe it or not, nuns in black habits.

I lived my first four years of life in a predominantly Italian 
neighborhood, where priests and nuns were everywhere, and new 
everyone.   One day my mother and I were out shopping and one of the 
nuns approached my mother to say hello.  WELL, all you could see of 
her was her face, stuffed into that white frame of a 'hat', on top of 
billowing black draped material, which made up her habit. (She would 
make Snape proud).  I can remember like it was yesterday (and not 40 
yrs ago) how scared I was.  I ran and hid behind my mother, and 
didn't come out until she left.  She was such an impossing figure.

Of course, I was educated for sixteen years in Catholic schools,(go 
figure), where it ended up that some of the nuns at my high school 
and college dressed better than the students.  Oh well.


Anna . . .(who still doesn't know what the official name for the nun-
hat is)