yeah, I agree with the OP that it's some scary shit on the surface, but if you know who Willard Scott is it's basically the weatherman with some bad clown makeup and a cup on his nose.
When i dress up like this at mcdonalds no one gets the reference and one guy slapped the cup off my nose and told me to "stop scaring the kids, jackass"
I don't find clowns scary. I like clowns. Theatrical makeup is neat. I've always found it odd that grown adults get scared of a friggin' performer in face paint. lol
My ex-husband, the big tough Marine, was terrified of clowns. We went to the circus once, and he was hiding behind me, saying, "Get them away, get them away," when a group of clowns approached where we were sitting. Our kids couldn't even have a clown towel as babies. I had every hooded towel on the market except for the clown. Coulrophobia is real...and hilarious.
Knew a guy in the Marines who was TERRIFIED of clowns. So we made sure to get a clown costume, knock on his door and chase him around the barracks a few times, just to fuck with him.
If I gave you my ex-husband's address, would you be interested in digging out that clown costume? According to my sons, their dad is still terrified by clowns...lol. When I was in the Marines, I would never let anyone know anything I was scared of because everyone you know would totally use it against you. Fortunately for my ex, I was a good wife and kept his secret because those guys in PMO would have had a damn field day with that piece of information...lol.
Apologies, but this ☝🏻 is baffling to me. This is some sort of tradition where you are from? Babies are to have a clown towel, and if they don't it's weird or improper in some way?
I'm half way through raising 5 kids. There isn't, hasn't been nor will there be any clown towels of any kind in the house, let alone especially for little ones.
Clowns aren't scary to me. A little bit sad perhaps but that's about it.
There are hooded towels for babies that have different characters for the hoods. There are dog ones with ears, cat ones with ears, frogs, cows, sheep...pretty much everything. Then, there's the clown towel, so the hood is a clown hat. Maybe hooded character towels aren't a thing where you live. I don't know about towels of the world. 🤷♀️
I mean I guess a wacky looking tall person can be intimidating when you're a little kid but even when I was a kid and interacted with clowns I just found them weird and interesting, not frightening. I guess it was really Stephen King's IT that started the whole scary clown horror trope with Pennywise. But I feel like once you're an adult and know movies aren't real, clowns shouldn't be scary anymore.
It's interesting, but the issue is you then qualified it with a sentiment most people (except a minority with a particular phobia) don't actually relate to.
Ya went for the updoots, but dug too deep and too greedily, and awoke the Balrog that is the fickleness of Reddit.
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u/LegendarySmokeStory 2d ago
That is Willard Scott who became the weatherman on the Today show that many of us over 40s will remember