I saw Jaws way too young and it scarred me for life. Ditto Psycho.

The teenage neighbor girl took me to see Friday the 13th (the original) when I was 10. I was scared shitless for YEARS.

I recall taking my niece to see Secret of NIMH when she was 4, thinking, "oh, nice, animated movie." I spent the last 20 minutes of the movie with her wrapped around my neck but I was too selfishly involved in the movie to walk out. I was a baaaad aunt.

Well, to put it in perspective. We are less than a week away from school starting up (CHANGE! AGAIN! TURMOIL!). And, while he does watch lots of superhero stuff with bad guys and monsters and where people die, there is not an evil thing after a little boy in anything he has seen with quite the intensity of the end of the book (first book). Maybe the ice queen in Lion, Witch and Wardrobe, but that was not one on one really.

And death does not seem to get dwelt on in movies and tv, where in a book it hot him harder. He kept asking what happened to people and parents being dead in teh story is perhaps twinging him more than he realizes, he asks about it in the story alot.

I was a baaaad aunt.

It happens. My nephew was scared shitless of Glenn Close as Cruella de Vil when we saw 101 Dalmatians in the theater. I laughed and laughed. Any time he acts up now as a teen, I remind him that he used to be scared of fans.

My too young movie trauma was The Odessa File. [link] I still have nightmares about Nazis rounding up people.

my poor father. back in '05 he cosigned for my cousin to get an apartment because he'd been living with my grandmother who passed away and had no credit. cousin resigned a lease in '06 without needing my father as a cosigner. short story, cousin moved out and broke the lease, apartment complex came after my father, my father told them exactly what i posted above, landlady says dad signed something that said he'd be responsible for the lease at any point if my cousin defaulted. so, even if my cousin had lived there 20 years and then did something like this, they could still come after my dad.

dad was served court papers. cousin was not because they didn't have an address for him. dad was out of the country having his prostate cancer procedure when the court date happened. cousin claimed they would take care of the amount due before court. he didn't. the courts ended up taking $1200 out of my parent's checking account. cousin is now being an (unsurprising) ass and saying he's only responsible for the $1076 that the lawyer told him he owed. the other $124 is my dad's responsibility because "that's the price you pay for cosigning for someone" and my dad "blackmailed him into getting that apartment in the first place".

UN-FUCKING-BELIEVABLE!!! i told mydad he needed to take him to court if he didn't pay. i wouldn't let him get away with it. people suck. families suck.

tiggy that sucks.

I still have nightmares about Nazis rounding up people.

Well at least they actually did round up people. I seem to a think a shark might attack at any time, even in fresh water.

Tiggy, that's horrible.

tiggy, what an dickhead! I hope your dad can get the money out of him.

whoa, tiggy. that's terrible.