The scariest things to hear in the dark
are short noises. So short you can't recognise them, and not audible enough for you to pinpoint where they're coming from.

I don't like the dark. I'm the sort of person who sytematically uses every light in every room I pass through. Anyway last night after rude goings-on, I crept downstairs to get a post-coital drink. With manliness still coursing through my system, I didn't bother with the lights and went downstairs in the dark, except for the glow of streetlights through the windows.

Our fridge is in the hallway next to the kitchen, but I just filled a glass of water from the tap. I stand there in the kitchen looking out onto the street when I hear a click. I couldn't place it, and it was an unfamiliar click. Not like when the TV 'cracks' when it cools down or when the thermostat trips on the fridge. No, this was new. By now, I was alert and peering about randomly trying to think where the noise came from. When there was another noise. I rattling noise. I put my glass down and darted upstairs and got in bed.

I mentioned the noise to Mrs SLVA this morning (but now how I bolted up the stairs in fear of something hiding in the gas cupboard) and she said it was the ice-maker in the fridge. It has a standard icecube tray that it fills with water. The water freezes and then the tray flips over and the ice empties out into the dispenser hopper thing. Click and then rattle.
( sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Mon 27 Jul 2009, 3:16, 2 replies)

lol
our fridge does this too
unfortunately mate as they always are...shes right
(Cov Boy, Mon 27 Jul 2009, 9:58, closed)

the worst thing....
is when you recognise the noise but can't place it, then you realise what it is and it's bad e.g. a mouse walking over a box, in the cupboard, your head is in, I know I have been there!!
(Studentken is looking for motivation on, Mon 27 Jul 2009, 10:19, closed)