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Question:

>My daughter and I just watched a "spooky" (hardly) movie, and she >is all freaked out now.  I just can’t understand how it is that the >pre-teen/teen desire to watch "scary" movies and then complain about how >scared you are!

Was it one of these "teen movies" you guys watched?  My little brother used to do that.  He was much younger than a preteen when it started though.  When he was 6 or 7 and "Jurassic Park" came out, he was among an exclusive set in his class whose dads let them go see it. He came back to school bragging about seeing the movie to all his friends, and when they asked him what it was like, he shrugged nonchalantly and said, "It was boring."  Yet he camped out in a sleeping bag on my parents’ bedroom floor for months afterward! I never did that as a kid–always hated horror movies!  Once by accident I caught "Amityville Horror" on TV and ended up being sucked into it.  I dreaded the nightfall for months afterward, and I was already in 8th grade. I was sleeping in my own bedroom for the first time in my life that year (no longer sharing with either of my 2 sisters), which probably contributed to my fear. I have a very low tolerance for the fright factor even today. Just a few years ago when I saw "The Devil’s Advocate," I had to sleep with my light on (100 watts, right next to my pillow) for a full week. The slasher movies didn’t/don’t faze me so much, but I never could stand anything supernatural or diabolic.  I never did get around to seeing either the old or the new version of "The Excorcist," though I did read the book. Again….the bedroom light stayed ON for about a week. >Another lady and her teenage >daughter started crying for real when they started getting "too" into it and >the thought of what it might be like to be waiting to hear such news touched >them emotionally.  It was quite awkward, because it wasn’t even real–yet >they were really upset.

Perhaps this exercise could be used as a talent screening for those with acting abilities.  Maybe that Mom and daughter discovered something about themselves that day, and in a couple years you may see one or the other of them onstage in a community theater. :o ) Yes, our hospitals here are huge, crowded, confusing places that deal with every situation you can think of.  In the last year and 1/2, my hospital 5 minutes up the street has dealt with Sniper shooting victims and an anthrax case. As for large-scale, bloody, mass traumas, I’m not so sure how anyone would handle that.  I think such an incident would rattle any hospital staff, no matter how large or impersonal their workplace is.  Look what (temporarily) happened to New York after 9/11. It became almost like a friendly small town! Diana "Of the Moon"

Response:

> How are things with you, Cogge? > Diana "Of the Moon"

alright.  My daughter and I just watched a "spooky" (hardly) movie, and she is all freaked out now.  I just can’t understand how it is that the pre-teen/teen desire to watch "scary" movies and then complain about how scared you are!  I used to do that too—but now that I am "old" ;-

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