Originally Posted by Pedestrian

I also have a deep seated fear of people in costume on days other than Halloween. When I was six we went to Disneyland, and in the morning had breakfast in a cafe. Aladdin approached our table, and I was quite shy (having a crush on Aladdin at the time), and hid beneath the tablecloth between my mother's knees. To my great distress, he came under the table to try and pull me out, and I screamed and cried until he fled the cafe in humiliation.