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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 8716244" data-attributes="member: 177">Coulrophobia isn't, as I understand it, terribly generation-specific.Some time ago, I was in a live-action game running at a convention, and the game was set at a circus.  Three of us were cast as circus clowns, and we'd all gone all in on the costume and makeup.  I, personally, did a variation on Emmet Kelley Jr.  He was the archetypal "sad hobo clown" variety - not specifically scary looking.All the players showed up a bit early, while the GMs were still setting up, so we players, having to wait, decided to do  the "circus has come to town parade" thing, clowns (and me, specifically, as I was playing the head clown) in the lead.  And we marched through the spacious con suite, because it was big enough to do that and we could so off costuming to all the folks there, and all.One poor woman I didn't know was making herself a sandwich, turned and looked at me (doing my goofy clown marching thing) screamed at the top of her lungs, and dove under the table.  She was severely clown-phobic, and close-up-surprise-clown set her right off the scale.I felt horrible.  Of course, I couldn't even apologize or help with her panic, because I was still in makeup and costume - looking at me was the last thing she needed.  I had to slink back to game-space and hide there until game start.I was lucky, in that, with the makeup, she had no idea who played the clown who freaked her out - so later, when I actually got to know her, she didn't hold it against me.</blockquote>

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