I loved horror even as a kid (I’m a millennial and seems common in my gen).

Since I never complained of nightmares my mom would let me watch pretty much any horror movie I wanted. As long as it didn’t have titties.

Anywho.

I remember watching something. Idk if it was a movie or TV show. Or anthology. (I’ve searched all over the internet and can’t find it).

In the show there are some boys or kids. And there was this bully at school. Real asshole.

And in one scene the boys are in the bathroom and the bully is being a bully and this big nasty monster creature comes out of the vent in the ceiling and kills the bully.

This is slightly embarrassing to admit, because I’m a rational woman of science and I don’t believe in monster creatures. But.

I would get anxiety every time I used a public toilet with a vent above the toilet. To the point I would not use that toilet.

And if there was a ceiling vent and I was the only person in the restroom (even in the stall farthest from the vent), my heart would race and sometimes id leave until someone else came in.

I was also unhappy about the fact that a stupid show did this to me.

I tried to find the show , so that I could watch it with my adult mind and “get over it”, see how fake the monster looked, but I never found it.

So I decided I was going to fix it myself. I first started forcing myself to use the stall next to the stall with the vent. And then to use the vent stall when others were around. And then use it when alone.

Only took about 2 weeks to fully get over it. I worked in a big office at the time so lots of opportunities to test myself.

But yeah. Isn’t that ridiculous that some cheap horror show made me scared of public restrooms with vents for over a decade. ?

Never had bad effects from Stephen king movies or slashers. Just this one scene in something I can’t even find.