The reply where Mon stops an (alleged) alien abduction
As of last year my eldest son started a phase of looking into info on UFO’s and other unexplained phenomena. At the same time Virgin (The TV Channel) started showing the X files from the beginning so I thought it would be a good idea for him to watch some episodes (I have seen most of them before and had a list of ones I would not let him watch until he was older).

We tuned into the first episode, which was the one where people were being abducted in the middle of the night by some bloke that took them to a forest where aliens beamed them up using a bright light. My son loved it and made his way to bed afterwards in the dark (He shares a room with his baby brother so he won’t put the lights on and wake him up). Unfortunately as sonny boy got curled up in bed the entire room was engulfed in light, believing that he was about to be abducted and probed he screamed his lungs out for me (What the hell I could have done against aliens is beyond me).

I calmed him down and looked out the window for the source of the problem. Outside his window was my wife who had gone into the back garden for a cig and accidentally activated the security light at the wrong time.

Bit of a reverse on the usual tales so far as he was more comfortable in the dark.
(mon bison powered by magnets, Tue 28 Jul 2009, 10:33, Reply)