[mrnoodle]

There was a woman on Maury or some such show who was 'noid about chalk. She was clinically off her rocker about the stuff. They brought a bowl of it into the studio, and she went utterly batshit. It was like she had seen Satan himself.

My thing is bones breaking. I don't mind blood n guts, or broken bones on something that's already dead. But the moment of breakage is too much for me. I simply can't watch it or hear it without wanting to crawl inside my own butthole and die. Whenever someone gets set up for the elbow pop in a martial arts movie, I shut my eyes and cover my ears. Joe Theisman's leg injury almost sent me to the hospital. I can hardly watch people getting hit in football for fear it's going to happen again.

It stems from a pretty spectacular knee dislocation I had at age 14 (and 3 subsequent ones in later years, all requiring pretty extensive surgery). I gots gimp knees. I'm always afraid someone's going to come up behind me and pop one out, so I'm not really truly comfortable unless my back is to a wall or something else that precludes sneaking up on me.