Kids Scared by Easter Bunny

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Run time: 00:32 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ja7jQ2N48Ec   Posted on YouTube: May 09, 2009 By YouTube Member: 81eminem Views on YouTube: 15929   Posted on DU: April 04, 2010 By DU Member: autorank Views on DU: 1058

 
This is like the plot from "The Strangers."

[Me.]

1. Hey! Where'd You Get The Bunny Suit?

Happy Easter

[autorank]

2. K-Mart n/t

[Cirque du So-What]

3. Shame on those parents!

Children don't want to see strangers at the window - especially at night. Nobody does, for that matter.

I know first-hand the power to traumatize children with good-intentioned scary stuff. When I was 10, my father decided to play a prank on me near Halloween - and this one took place in broad daylight. He was quite a spectacle when my mother opened the front door & he came into the house: stocking over his head, wearing my older brother's graduation gown, walking on his knees, to which he had tied shoes, arms clasped inside those baggy graduation-gown sleeves like a Mandarin, one of my grandfather's fedoras on his head. He was an amazing sight, and although I didn't bolt from the room, I'm sure my lower jaw was dragging the floor. My younger brother, age 5, saw him as well, ran straight to his room & dove under his bed. It stayed with him for years afterward, as even the sight of a person on TV with a stocking over the head would induce a panic. Even when the Nightmare on Elm Street movie came out many years later, he couldn't bear to watch the trailers because it reminded him of our father on that day.

[autorank]

4. Wow!

Your father is a character. As strange and frightening as that mustu have been, it shows a huge
amount of care that he went to all of that trouble.

[EFerrari]

5. Oh, no!

:rofl:

[autorank]

7. Mom and Dad didn't realize this

Their little trick matched almost perfectly the plot of this outstanding horror film.



http://www.thestrangers.net/

[truedelphi]

6. Have been trying to post a comment, but

Laughing to hard.

[autorank]

8. Here's why I grabbed this

This is the time of year when my adult daughter hauls out one our "traditions," as she likes to call them, her childhood Easter Bunny story. As she tells it, when she was six years old, I was joking around with her and said, "Better shut your door tonight." "Why?" she asked. "Because the Easter Bunny is coming to our rooms tonight and if you don't shut your door, the bunny will leave little pellets on your rug." She claims that she was really bothered by this and made a point of securely locking the doors to her bedroom every Easter for fear that the bunny "would come poop on my floor." Then she says, "Nice dad. Make your daughter afraid of the Easter Bunny!" She seems to enjoy this story more with each year whether we're with her alone or there's a larger crowd.

[Me.]

9. Are You Still Feeling Guilty After All These Years?

So who's the one who was really traumatized.? And did someone tell that story to you when you were little?

[autorank]

10. The "trauma" is long forgotten

Not it's just a good poke at me, for which I have no reasonable response;) She enjoys telling it,
thoroughly. The story was my invention, I regret to say.

[Me.]

12. !

:evilgrin:

[truedelphi]

13. That is a decent story. Nothing ever prepares a person for parenthood.

And no one tells you that fourteen years after you've committed some minor misdeed, your grown up kid will be right there to discuss (perhaps even in Freudian terms) how badly you bungled their childhood.

So if that's the worst thing you ever did in your life, I wouldn't sweat it.

[puebloknot]

11. Well, you're acting like there aren't really childhood monsters!

There are!

When I was five, we had just been evacuated from Korea as the war was heating up and the Communists had just set fire to a munitions warehouse down in Taejon. The sky was lit up with a multitude of explosions! My father held me up to a window and told me it was like a big Fourth of July. My next memory was being handed into the back of a truck, and then being loaded onto a troop ship.

We docked in San Francisco and went to stay with relatives there. There were cousins my age who didn't know who the *^#$^** I was, and they weren't the friendliest bunch I'd encountered. They were told to take Little Judy to the park across a busy street near the house. The cousins were standing with on the curb, getting ready to cross, when a genuine Chinese Laundryman showed up, holding a big white bundle tied up in knots. My cousins told me that he collected little girls and tied them up inside big white sheets, and hauled them off to a terrible fate. And then they ran across the busy boulevard, leaving me to run out in the street by myself. I made it to "safety" (no cars hit me), but there I was standing, in stark terror looking up into the eyes of that terrible monster. I ran like a bat out of hell.

To this day, I do all my own laundry! :)

And that's why there's a job for therapists!

[Joe Chi Minh]

14. I was quite traumatised reading the responses to the OP, before I

actually watched the video! But seeing those responses of the children at the sight of a big rabbit-puppet at the window I creased up with laughter without a thought. Kind of instinctively. truedelphi nailed it. I can't imagine those two will suffer a deep psychological trauma, after they realise it was joke.