Yesterday a friend of mine posted that she went to the movie "It" because her son wanted to see. She showed how brave we are for kids and it never would have gone to this movie without encouragement. This reminded me of a story of my own that similar but a little different. Most people who know me well know I may big fraidy cat. I tend to be scared of a lot of things and avoid scary movies. When I was younger the movie the exorcist and commercials on TV. The commercials were so scary I have had nightmares about that movie I hold wife even though I never saw it.. I used to take my sons when they turn 18 on a camping trip with the 2 of us only. It was supposed to be a bonding experience.
When my son Dan turned 18 I decided we would take my John boat to an island in the Mississippi near Gutenberg. The islands did not have names just numbers. I don't know what number this one was but is fairly long. The night before we were to go my son went to see the movie "Blair witch project" and just him telling me about it was enough to make me scared. We were the only ones within miles when we camped on the island. In the middle of the island it was kind of a swamp and we didn't go there. We hiked around the entire island perimeter which was fun. That night after it was dark I told my son the scary story involved the island we were on and I told him there had been sightings of a witch at night on that island. I told the locals called it "witch island". That night we heard some things creeping around our tent and I think we were both scared. He asked me if I was a witch and I told him I wasn't going out there to see. We camped in the sand and it turns out there were small turtles in the sand that came out at night.
I thought he knew he I was joking about the name of the island until later that year you mentioned "camping on whitch island". I laughed pretty hard and told him I just made that up because he had seen the Blair witch project will be the night before. It made for a funny story.
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