Friday, June 06, 2008


Do dolls freak you out? They freak me out. When I was little, there were only two dolls that I could tolerate. One was a smallish, very thin and spinsterly looking Raggedy Ann. She had a little, white bunny rabbit doll to go with her and I loved her. The other one that I liked was named Emily and she had huge blonde hair, blue eyes, and the prettiest pink dress I had ever seen. However, all of our other dolls totally scared me. The ratted hair, the rolling eyes (or lack thereof), and the scary hands haunted my dreams...well, maybe not. But they scared me. I remember one time when I was about 6, Molly had put all of their dolls under my trundle bed. That night, of course, I really, really, really needed to go use the bathroom, but the thought of putting my feet down on the floor where the dolls could reach them totally scared the peewaddin out of me. I found a way past this major problem, however. I stood on my bed, leapt off, hit the ground running and sped towards the bathroom, proving that fear can help a 6 year old make Jesse Ownes look like Freddie the Sloth.



Of course, if I had thought about it hard enough, I would have realized that the wolf that lived under my bed had probably eaten the dolls all up.

7 comments:

Rebekah Sacran said...

I see where you are coming. (There should be the word "from" at the end of that sentence but Rachel won't let me end the sentence in a preposition.) And I guess wolves had to be good for something at some point.

Amy said...

is this picture done by Trina Schart Hymann? Because whenever she wanted to scare people with a picture... she always could. Now I'm afraid of dolls.

elliebird said...

(doesn't grammar make you frustrated, beka?)
amy, yeah, i'm pretty sure it's Trina. ;) i've never really liked her work. it's impressive, but...annoying. i like her noses. that's all.

Cimmanim said...

I always WONDERED why you were so willing for us to bang the heads of your dolls together when we were little.

Nomos said...

I hate dolls...they freak me out. :-)

beatrice said...

those dolls are seriously freakin me out!

Pearl said...

I suppose it would have to be "from whence you were coming."

E, I don't know how you do it, but you ALWAYS make me laugh SO HARD.