When were you last really scared?We'd been watching the Shining. We were staying in an old church building. In hindsight, taking the shortcut home after midnight, in the mist, through the old graveyard was a bad idea.
I'm not sure what started it, but suddenly all the hairs on my neck had gone up and I was crapping myself. It was almost as bad as when, after a few cups of coffee too many and buzzing on caffeine, I got freaked out by my own reflection in the toilets.
When were you last really scared?
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chthonic, Thu 22 Feb 2007, 15:43)
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Last weekendI got the night train from where I was living in Switzerland, down to Florence and from there to Siena, where I'm living now. I got the train from Lausanne with all my stuff on it and didn't think anything of it having seats and not beds. Put my iPod in, daydreamed and stared out of the window.
About two hours later I heard a woman coming down the train saying "This train terminates here, wake up!" to anyone who's still on it. I woke up sharpish and said something like "Whaaaaat? I'm meant to be getting to Florence!" "OK, well, get off the train and I'll come and find you in a moment."
The next ten minutes were the longest and scariest of my life. I was in some random place in Switzerland with no idea where I was (somewhere called Brig), and no idea of what language they spoke there or where I was meant to be or where my train was or anything.
Finally after trying to get an idea in French, German and Italian I gave up and spoke English to find out we were waiting for some carriages but I seriously thought I was stranded in Switzerland with nowhere to go and a million bags.
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Maladicta, Sat 24 Feb 2007, 15:26,
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