When I was 3, my parents brought a freshly-cut snow-covered Christmas tree into the house and set it in the bath to defrost.
Two years later, my father came home from an early morning fishing trip and put his 30+ pound catch (dead, but still intact) into the tub until they got a chance to clean it. (It was too big for the kitchen sink and too wet/slimey for the countertop.)
I've heard the stories that both these events caused intense panic in me as a child, wondering how I was going to take a bath with a tree in the tub, then later wondering if I was going to have to bathe with a dead fish. I don't remember wither one... probably something to do with selective memory and childhood scarring.
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Childhood Scars...
Date: 2003-05-11 11:39 am (UTC)Two years later, my father came home from an early morning fishing trip and put his 30+ pound catch (dead, but still intact) into the tub until they got a chance to clean it. (It was too big for the kitchen sink and too wet/slimey for the countertop.)
I've heard the stories that both these events caused intense panic in me as a child, wondering how I was going to take a bath with a tree in the tub, then later wondering if I was going to have to bathe with a dead fish. I don't remember wither one... probably something to do with selective memory and childhood scarring.