and then, clutching your gecko plushie and with your eyes closed, sprayed where you thought the spider was with the Raid can you keep under your pillow.
I was wearing Vans in elementary school, but they weren't skater shoes yet, at least not as popular as they got a couple years later. They were just plain Vans without that "skater" look.
But I was like the only kid in my class that wore them, because we didn't have a Vans store in the city I lived in, we have to drive like 30-45 minutes away to get them.
It reminded me of the movie Galaxy Quest where the little blue aliens were all cute one second, and turning into cabalistic monsters like 2 seconds later.