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What's the scariest thing that's ever happened to you?
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Sherwood102

For Sale. Rent Cheap.

I was five years old, wearing a t-shirt that said "For Sale. Rent Cheap" (or something like that). I remember it as a well-worn yellow shirt with birds and a sign bearing those words on it. I think the shirt was "punny" in some way, but that didn't matter. What did, was that I wore it to our neighbors garage sale that day. All I remember is someone putting a price tag sticker on me (remember those "price guns" they used to have at the grocery store?), a man scooping me up, throwing me over his shoulder, and carrying me to his white (!) van. All the while I was kicking and screaming, terrified that I was being taken. Haha, the joke (?) was on me. At 40 years old, I'm writing about it, and I can still feel the fear from my five-year-old self.