I'll be honest, I don't like clowns. In fact, I'm kind of terrified of them. The hair, the nose, the overly-cheerful smile, I hate it all. So when I heard of the first clown sighting in South Carolina, of course I freaked. But when I heard about clowns in my cute, little college town, my anxiety went through the roof!

It all started on Twitter. One day, I was just peacefully scrolling through twitter, not a worry or fear in the world, when I saw this tweet:

(Name left out for privacy of course.)

For those of you who aren't familiar, the Greenway is a spot in town where people go run, bike, walk their dogs, whatever. AND NOW THERE WAS A CLOWN THERE. I. FREAKED. I can't tell y'all how long I fretted over this tiny little tweet. This little clown just had to ruin our fun and get all in our business. And it stops there, right? Wrong.

A few days later, this news article came out, stating that a local Milledgeville woman was followed and harassed by a group of four clowns. EXCUSE ME? This poor little woman was just trying to get home. Can we not drive around in peace without fear of being attacked by clowns anymore? Or does that infringe on our rights as basic human beings

A few nights later (on my birthday actually) a clown was (allegedly) spotted in downtown Milledgeville in an alley... So you mean to tell me that I can't even go for a birthday dinner with friends and not fear of being abducted/attacked/killed by a clown? And in addition to this, I've seen pictures from people's trail cameras where clowns have the audacity to walk up on their porch. Nope. I'm done. I'm out.

I'm so sick of not being able to go out at night without the tiny fear in the back of my head that I'm going to see a clown. And do you want to know the worst part? It's not even just my college, town, or even state that's having this problem. Seriously, look up clown sightings on Twitter or Facebook- some of them are actually kind of funny.

Congrats to all of the nice clowns of the world who genuinely just want to make people happy with balloon animals. You're awesome. But to all of you that do it just to freak people out, just know I regularly carry pepper spray and my military dad has taught me self-defense basically since birth. I'm done clowning around.