One thing you should know about me, I am the easiest person to scare. My friends know that if they move to fast or talk to loud I will flinch. Keep that in mind as you read this short anecdote from my life and remember that when I am scared I have a nasty habit of over exaggerating everything. Yet, this is how I remember it so that it how I will tell the story. With the closest version of my truth as possible.
One day after school last week, I decided to go downstairs to the deep freeze in the basement and get some ice cream cake (I know, I was excited too). Now, my family is currently in the process of painting the room that holds all of our random belongings we forgot that we had. This means that things I didn’t know we still had are beginning to resurface and be moved down into the basement.
Tickle Me Elmo, one of my favourite toys growing up. Granted, Elmo itself can be very scary when he is turned into a robot that laughs when you push him in the right spots. No one in my house has played with Elmo in a very long time. So naturally, we took out the batteries.
Alright back to the ice cream cake. I was walking down the stairs to get to the freezer and see Elmo sitting on a table with a bunch of other random things. I was immediately warmed with memories of my childhood when I played with my siblings and Elmo on the kitchen floor.
I turned my back to open the door to the pantry/ freezer, and all of a sudden I hear Elmo LAUGHING and doubling over so he ends up on the ground.
Naturally, I did the only thing I could think to do; kick Elmo in the face so he gets as far away from me as humanly possible, abandon the idea of getting cake, and sprint up the stairs, slamming the door behind me.
Now let me tell you, I have never ran up those stairs so fast and I doubt I ever will again. My mom went downstairs to find Elmo since she heard me screaming and was very concerned that I had hurt Elmo when I flying karate kicked him across the room.
She found Elmo, confirmed that he had no batteries in him, and since then my family thinks that I’m insane. I know the truth. Tickle Me Elmo was possessed and out to kill me. No one can tell me otherwise.
