excessive

I've mentioned this before, but I'm a huge wimp. Everything scares me. I especially hate horror movies and can't even watch the ones that are so bad and campy you can see the sipper on the costume and members of the crew accidentally wandering in and out of the frame casually scratching their genitals with one of the plastic mannequin arms scattered around the area to give off an appropriately apocalyptic and gory atmosphere. In the end they all make me have to sleep with the light on. Even things that aren't scary scare me. I've even given myself nightmares just reading the plot of a horror film. And I've done this twice, because I am clearly not smart enough to learn from my own mistakes and avoid situations that invariably end badly for me.

But the degree to which I'm scared of ridiculous shit is hard to communicate. And overstate.

As a child I had a cute antique rocking horse that I liked playing with during the day but that scared me at night. It scared me so much I used to make my mom put a blanket over it so I didn't have to see it.

And in one of our old houses, my bedroom had curtains that frightened me in the dark.

Seriously. Rocking horses, curtains? If that's not a good enough reason to be embarrassed by yourself, then I can't fathom how you could justify it ever!!