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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 Eureka Herald’s Facebook© page.
The “Question of the Week” for last week was: “What’s a childhood fear that still low-key haunts you as an adult?”
Following are the responses: Hal McBride - “What still scares me? Measles. At 4 in Summer of 1941— you were isolated in a dark room.”
Robin Wunderlich “CLOWNS” Ryan Escareno* - “My mom. Marcia Manzer Escareno” Marcia Manzer Escareno* - “Ryan Escareno, I wish!!!”
Rick Barb Stout* - “I still dream I can’t find my locker at school. Or can’t get it to unlock and be late for class.”
Brent Kern* - “Nice to know I’m not the only one haunted by school. I always dream I lost my class schedule and can’t remember where to go.”
Savannah Cline* - “That an alligator was going to swim through the sewer and end up in the toilet and that would be the end of me” Carla Green Deniston* “Running into spider webs, especially ones with spiders in them, especially big ones!! That is something I’ll never be ok with!”
Janet Peckumn McClanahan* - “Swimming in the deep end of the pool. When I was taking swimming lessons as a kid, when I wouldn’t jump off the diving board, the instructor pushed me. I love water...as long as it isn’t deep!”
Buddy Stitt* - “The unknown in the dark” Rebecca Vinson-Debita* “Buddy Stitt, werewolf!”
Buddy Stitt* - “Rebecca Vinson-Debita, yes!!!!!”
Tonia Noel* - “Buddy Stitt, THIS!!!!”
Wes Wunderlich* - “A doctor with a big finger” Marvin Wheat II* “BEST ANSWER SO FAR!!!!!!!”
Laurel Light Turley* “Quick sand!”
Jim Burleson* - “Quick sand didn’t turn out to be near the problem I thought it would be as a child” Sarah Yaghjian* - “That there is something under the bed” Brandy L Cookson* “Running into a large wild cat face to face. To be fair, I’ve done it in real life and it’s as terrifying as it seems. Still gets me.”
Alicia Goss* - “Gotta go with Ryan Escareno on this one. My Mama, Leann Eddings.”
Melanie Collins* - “The original Willy Wonka movie was terrifying as a child and it’s still super creepy as an adult.”
Marvin Wheat II* “Lightening, had a dream when I was a kid I got struck. I love watching it, but it always spikes my anxiety. Drowning has ALWAYS been my biggest fear.”
Kelly Kirkpatrick* - “The newspaper boy. Creepy little fella he was” Shannon Gant* “Claustrophobia. I have had this fear as a child and still do.”
Debbie Chastain Vinson* - “Shannon Gant So do I.”
Debbie Lawrence* - “Old elevators” DeLacy Mitchell* “Clowns” Susan Epperson* - “The dark growing up in the country so much life after dark.”
Larry Johnson* “Lightning” Tami J. Hart-Hawthorne* - “Heights!”
Lindsey Michelle Gongaware* - “The dark!”
Patty Voth* - “CreepyOld men” Susan Erickson Johnson* - “Snakes.”
Amanda Boardman* “Heights, or rather the fear of falling from them. I can do heights now, but I know there is still a chance of getting vertigo from them.”
Leann Eddings* “Balloons!!”
Sarah Yaghjian* - “And LMAO Robin saying Lowkey.”
Msrjorie Morgan* “Lightning” Shelly Bills* - “Being far away from home and being left by someone I am riding with, no phone to call for help. Feeling abandoned. I still don’t like riding in a vehicle with other people.”
Cayela Moody* - “That I’ll be late for volleyball practice. Still have nightmares.”
Kate Coulter* - “Cayela Moody I have to relateonly for me it’s being late to Coach Hoyt practices” Jayte Pryce* - “Used to have nightmares that I had forgotten my sports uniforms for a game, hadn’t done any assignments for my classes, or didn’t know any cheers or dances. I have those same nightmares, only now I’m both in highschool and teaching. So I’m worried about all of those things and don’t know my teaching schedule, my students, or have any lessons planned for the day.”
Rodger Kraft* - “Things in the dark.”
Randy Smith* - “my dad” Do you have a recommendation for the “Question of the Week” please send it to Robin at [email protected], or stop by 822 E. River St., Ste 100, in Eureka.
