From beneath it devours

[xfirefly9x]

NOTE: This post contains info that may cause some distress and some of those quirky fears we all have but don't usually talk about.

Do any of you fear that one day you'll be taking a shower and something will climb out of the plug hole and attack you, sink it's teeth into you, or wrap around your legs and trip you so slip and bang your head on the shower wall and the blood fills the bathtub while you lose consciousness?

Whenever that occurs to me, I wonder if I've seen too much X Files..

Comments

[spiletta42.livejournal.com]

No, no it hadn't, but now it will. Thanks so much.

[xfirefly9x.livejournal.com]

:( Sorry 'bout that.

[sunrunnersioned.livejournal.com]

LOL I make my bf cover the air vent in our bedroom....thanks Squeeze. God I hate that episode. :P Gotta love fandom!

[xfirefly9x.livejournal.com]

Naww lol. Squeeze. Yeeeeeah. I can understand why you'd cover the vents after that one. :P

[gwenhwyfar1984.livejournal.com]

LOL!! Nice...makes me glad that the shower drains in my dorm are not the normal kind...

Yeah, I'd say that that is too much X-Files...

[eccentricrabbit.livejournal.com]

No such thing as too much x-files! :-D

[xfirefly9x.livejournal.com]

LOL.. lucky! :P I had to clean some hair out of the plug hole today here.. and zomg, I didn't want to do it because I kept having these kinds of thoughts! Nearly left it til Zach gets home.

Hmm.. I don't think that's possible. :P

[eccentricrabbit.livejournal.com]

I just lol'd :-D
I whistle the x-files tune sometimes when I walk in the bathroom, I learned from Scully that bad things happen in bathrooms.

[xfirefly9x.livejournal.com]

:P
Niiice lol. It's true though. Bathrooms + Scully or XF = RUUUUUN!

[lhinneill.livejournal.com]

Lol. I'm so glad I'm not the only one who gets that feeling. Though mine was because of a freaky snake movie I saw, but X-Files didn't help. XD

[xfirefly9x.livejournal.com]

ZOMG. Please.. .never mention the "s" work again. Those things freak me out so much. In the sense that my skin crawls any time they're mentioned or even just hinted at.

*squish* Movies really suck sometimes.. :P

[speckleberry.livejournal.com]

Or that movie where the clown comes out of the drain...isn't that 'IT'? Terrifies me.

[xfirefly9x.livejournal.com]

Haven't seen that one tbh... which I'm very much glad of at this point.
*huggles*

[auraofelegance.livejournal.com]

Yep!!!! Though I worry more about spiders crawling up the drains *shudder*

[xfirefly9x.livejournal.com]

That would be highly unpleasant.

[malicat.livejournal.com]

I'm more worried that spiders could come down when I'm taking a shower *lol*

[weird-fin.livejournal.com]

This.

I'm always like *something* creature or not is going to drop on me one day...

[faeriesfolly.livejournal.com]

Only....like....always.

Also when I am swimming in the ocean/lake/river and sometimes pool. >.> Or shampooing my hair makes me think of that scene in the Grudge? yeah. XP

[xfirefly9x.livejournal.com]

Ick... yeah.. The Grudge. That was one.. very dark movie. *hides (but not in a closet)*

[timeblind.livejournal.com]

Well yes. Not that epic, but like... maybe a spider or something.

Or when my bathtub makes noises while I'm in the bathroom I kinda just stare at it and wait like, you know, I could kung-fu whatever decides to come out of it.

[xfirefly9x.livejournal.com]

Yeah... I perhaps may have exaggerated a bit? But sort of not. I have fear of legless reptile creature. Really tiny, thin ones of those peeking out through the plug holes is my most often one.. or normal sized ones somehow ending up in the bathtub behind me/in the water at my feet, or along the top of the shower... ugh. Freaks me so much.

Oooh. I do that too! Glad I'm not the only one lol .. kinda.

[aruna7.livejournal.com]

I already had a crapload of stupid fears like that. Thanks for adding one to the list, hun. =P

[xfirefly9x.livejournal.com]

Naww, sowwy. :(
Perhaps I should have put up a warning: may cause some distress and stupid fears. :/

[citymusings.livejournal.com]

Not really.

[xfirefly9x.livejournal.com]

Lucky.

[adja999.livejournal.com]

Um... yeah, X Files probably didn't help.

And so will very likely not what I'm about to say (write, ugh).

It's happened to me once. Not the horror movie scenario, it was real life. But here's the story. In France (I've been told it doesn't happen in Brissy but I don't see why it wouldn't), some of the creepy crawlies come up into our warm houses through the drains. So it happens that you find dead bug in your tub.

What I didn't expect was that a persistent one would be coming up while I was in the shower. I mean, hello? Water running!
It was Huntsman wide, but thinner (this is not a tropical area. at all). At some point I frowned and realized it wasn't shampoo foam tickling my big toe.

As much as I don't have a phobia of them, I'd rather they don't touch me, and I am very very easily startled (hello, ptsd). So I probably yelped, I jerked, I slipped and fell with my back across the tub's side.
My mom found me on the floor, howling in pain, shouting for her to get the damn shampoo out of my eyes. I sported a large blueish strip across my back for weeks.
Now, in doubt, we all pour some scalding hot water down the drain before showering. In case.
And I take showers in the shower, cause, knowing me, I'll find another reason to slip. And I'd rather not repeat the experience.

[xfirefly9x.livejournal.com]

XF was definitely a big part in why that fear actually started....

Wow.. freaky!! :S