Here's a NOT FUNNY life story, more of a THIS IS WHY [CN] IS A WUSS life story.
So I had to open the store this morning. I AM [CN], BOSS GUY AND RULER OF STORE. Woke up at 4 AM to get ready and get there by 6 AM.
I had PLANNED on going to bed at like 9 or 10 last night, but I SO BRILLIANTLY instead had a conversation with my friend about early childhood traumas and the nightmares associated with them.
SO THAT THREW 'SLEEPING' RIGHT OUT THE WINDOW. I mentioned that when I was way younger I had this recurring nightmare about GIANT SPIDERS in my bedroom, because at one point someone in my life mentioned that rain forests have "spiders the size of dinner plates", and what Tiny [CN] heard was "you know those spiders you don't like at all? THEY CAN ALSO BE BIGGER THAN YOUR FACE".
Also when I was younger, I mistakenly saw that shitty 1990 monster movie
Tremors. Tiny [CN] didn't sleep for a week after seeing that, and at any point afterwards that I remembered it guaranteed another 3-5 nights with no sleep.
I tried rewatching Tremors when I was like 17 or 18, but the fear was deeply ingrained in my psyche. Seriously. As an adult I noticed how VERY LOW BUDGET the film was, how at some points you can even see the machinery and supports used to make things happen, but my inner Tiny [CN] broke down in panicked tears fifteen minutes in and I then didn't sleep for a week.
(For the record, I am entirely okay with monster and horror movies. Alien is one of my favorite franchises.)\
I seriously cannot even see clips or stills from that movie without getting that "my heart just gained eighty pounds and the temperature of the room has reached subarctic" feeling.
So my friend very kindly shared some of her childhood traumas and fears. When she was ten she saw an episode of Wishbone (voiceover talking dog show about adventures and friendship and stuff. Innocent, right?") that involved time travel. They went back too far (surprise) and encountered Morlocks, which look like FUCKING THIS:

IN A TV SHOW. FOR CHILDREN. THAT. They also screech and wail and chase the heroes and ALMOST CATCH THEM. It's never said what they DO to you if they catch you, but the imagination of children is a powerful thing. The imagination of Tiny [CN] (who is alive and strong, piloting Big [CN] like those tiny aliens piloting people robot shits in Men In Black) is also powerful, because the clip we found of the Morlocks managed to keep me up for another hour longer, on top of the terrifying memories of Tremors that the conversation reawakened.
I also learned one of the many reasons my and my friend connect so well - we're both massive pussies. She slept with the light on her closet for
seven years (until she was 17), and I just piled shit in front of my closet door like a barricade so the evil things had to stay inside.
ANYWAY, I woke up at 4 AM with 3 hours of sleep, got to work by 6 AM, got a phonecall from one of the mid shift people that they were sick (also pregnant) and had to go to the hospital so they couldn't make it to work today. Well, I tried calling everyone else but no answers, so I also worked a double shift. On 3 hours of sleep. Kill me.
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Lordy wrote:
i also fear you
Rinoko wrote:
You old saggy titted witch