Saturday, July 10, 2010

Bathroom Monologue: People Are Worse Than Clowns

"Clowns make me a little nervous, but they’re not bad. Some are really talented. They’ll follow you around trying to get you into the carnival spirit. Those ones? Okay, yeah, they wig me out. But clowns only scare me because they're people under that make-up. If they were demons, or shapeshifters, or juggling incubi, there'd be a chance I just didn't grasp what they were really like and this was their way of communicating goodwill. They could have their own nature. They could all just be misunderstood aliens. But clowns are people, and I understand people. There was one famous clown who turned serial killer; there are dozens of active people who are horrible serial killers. Sometimes a guy uses a clown mask to hide his face in a bank robbery; every day people shoot each other to death in muggings. There’s a song, “Send in the Clowns,” that jokes about sending a brigade of clowns to fight; people are currently carrying out more than a dozen wars across this world. Clowns can make me a little nervous. People scare me."

8 comments:

  1. Ronald McDonald always used to scare the crap out of me. Now it's just the food in that chain that makes me nervous.

    Jai

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  2. John... I feel the same way about clowns. Always have.

    pssst... Are you missing a 'me' in the first sentence?

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  3. Thanks for the catch, Anthony. I was indeed missing me-self.

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  4. I have to say that demons, shapeshifters, and juggling(?) incubi scare me more. I'm used to people, heh. ;P

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  5. I like comedians, but circus clowns can be scary sometimes. All that white makeup and the big red noses are a little creepy.

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  6. You know, in a very odd way this makes sense. Strange creatures with something to hade makes sense. People with something to hide, that's got to be bad. I think you just pinpointed why I am so afraid of clowns. :D

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