Easter Bunny of doom

I love this extra hour of sunlight we have in the early evening after work! I love it so much, that this afternoon, I went to...the mall.
Doesn't make all that much sense to me either, but I had a few things I wanted to check out there, so...
Anyway, I discovered something. I don't know how, when, or why, but it seems as though I am totally creeped out when people are dressed up as giant representations of cartoon characters. While at the mall, the Easter Bunny was walking around to all the kids doing the things an Easter Bunny's supposed to do. I purposefully avoided the guy. I wanted no part. They are kind of like mimes...but mimes hidden beneath unnecessarily large costumes.
Come to think of it, I suppose something similar happened a few months ago. In one of the big strip malls in my area, a giant Elmo was handing out coupons for something. I walked completely out of my way to avoid that big red muppet.
I think the same thing can actually apply to people dressed as sports mascots. Generally, I like to be where they are not.
And while I'm at it, I'm not a big fan of audience participation. I went to a Blue Man Group show once in NYC, and I think I spent quite a bit of time making sure I didn't make eye contact with any of them.
Watch me have some sort of nightmare now with Pluto, Mickey Mouse, and Elmo.