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(Editor’s Note: Each week,The Herald poses a “Question of the Week” on their facebook page with many responding. Comments made on the posts, may or may not be factual in nature and are to be noted as that person’s comment only.)
Each week The Herald will ask a random question, both on the opinion page of the weekly paper and on The Eureka Herald Facebook© page. Responses should be mailed to PO Box 590, Eureka, KS 67045, e-mailed to [email protected] with “Coffee Shop Talk” in the subject; dropped off at our office, 822 E. River, in Eureka or made on The Eu-reka Herald’s Facebook© page.
The “Question of the Week” for last week was: “What were you most afraid of when you were younger? Do you still have that fear?”
Following are the responses: Robin Wunderlich “Clowns. I believe it all started with Bozo the Clown, and yes... the fear still remains.”
Miranda Colangelo* “Moths. Yes.”
Amanda Sill Page* “Mice and heights. They both make we queasy and faint. It makes me mad that I have this response, but I can’t make it stop. Even typing this raised my heart rate and made my hands get clammy.”
Brandi Nicole* - “When I was younger I was afraid of fitting in and not having any friends. Now that I’m older I’ve come to terms of being alone and by myself. There’s less drama in smaller circles and there’s a peace in it.”
ThreeStrong Yvonne Dodd* - “Earthquakes - I lived in California and yes I’m still afraid of earthquakes over tornadoes here in Kansas.”
Madelon Griblin* - “Rivers” Randy Light* - “Snakes” Susan Epperson* - “The dark and yes my imagination goes a muck.”
Merri Lynn* - “Cows, not anymore though.”
Susan Richling* - “The dark, and yes I’m still afraid of the dark!”
Brandi Starr* - “Freddy Krueger” Diana Sutton* - “Not accompolishing my life goals and making my parents proud. I have learned you have to be proud of yourself.”
Brian Mills* - “Quicksand” Tony Sasse* - “The first time I watched the Wizard of Oz, the flying monkeys terrified me!!”
Kelly Kirkpatrick* “Saying candyman five times in the mirror and yes I’m still too scared to do it.”
Geri Ann Noll* - “Kelly Kirkpatrick, oh good one! Bloody mary was another one!”
Ryan Escareno* - “My mom, and yes, she still scares me a little!!”
MaryAnn Griffith Thornton* - “Ryan Escareno good, that means she raised you right” Chris Hansel* - “KGB training video ‘redroom’” Matthew Wilson* - “After watching the movie “Jaws” I was terrified of toilet sharks.”
Christina Scheff Scott* “The movie “IT” and yes I am still scared of that movie and clowns” Wes Wunderlich* - “Critters sacred me to death” Holly Edmondson* “Birds…. After watching the Hitchcock movie. Alsostill TERRIFIED of birds” Steve Springer* - “Holly Edmondson, don’t look at them! Birds that is!”
Dianne Snider Graves* “When i was a lot younger, I was afraid of driving in bumper to bumper traffic. Now, I get out there and go like hell, like the rest of ‘em.”
MaryAnn Griffith Thornton* - “lightning, and yes; it still scares me” Arlene LaQuey Brown* - “Sinkholes. And yes I’m still terrified of them. Ugh.”
Geri Ann Noll* - “Arlene LaQuey Brown, I was going to say this one. A random sinkhole opening up under my house or a building I am in and trapping me dying slowly and alone” Arlene LaQuey Brown* - “Geri Ann Noll Omg-! Or being buried alive. Ugh. I just can’t. I seriously will work myself into a panic attack. Do you remember when half a house fell in and they never found the guy????”
Geri Ann Noll* - “Arlene LaQuey Brown yes! Just a few weeks ago a grandma was looking for a cat with her granddaughter 2 years old. They found the granddaughter and a hole a few feet away from her but couldn’t find the grandma!”
Arlene LaQuey Brown* “Geri Ann Noll I know!!!!! It took days to find her” Geri Ann Noll* - “Arlene LaQuey Brown, but they did find her? I never heard they found her” Arlene LaQuey Brown* - “Geri Ann Noll yes like four or five days later. She had died. See why I’m terrified?”
Do you have recommendation for the “Question of the Week” please send it to Robin at news@eurekaherald. com, or stop by 822 E. River St., Ste 100.
