There was a time in my young, impressionable life that I watched an inordinate amount of television. During one evening's sojourn into the Idiot Box, I happened to peruse a commercial for a lovely chocolate confection called a Chunky due to its large and solidly square shape. The advertisement then showed a Chunky growing larger and larger, accompanied by loud thudding sounds. This somehow horrified my prepubescent synapses, and was thereby transposed by my naivete into an under-the-bed monster which lasted throughout not only my horrified childhood, but also the childhood of my sisters offspring, as she told them the story of the hideous Chunky that awaits the appearance of tiny toes over the side of the bed should they try to get out of it during the night.
A candy bar that eats children.
To this day, I have never eaten a Chunky.
A childhood belief about under my bed
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that the chunks in chunky peanutbutter were actually bonesAnon
- i used to believe that the chunks in chunky peanut butter were bugs.— Lauren
- In my childhood I used to think that all the superheroes I saw on television existed in real life— Cris
- Since lions and tigers are larger versions of cats, I used to believe bears were large dogs— Chris Ayala
- I used to be told that if you watched too much TV your eyes would turn square. — Amy
- I used to believe that if i watched TV for too long, my eyes would turn square. As told to me by my mother.— Alex