I remember being seriously scared
one time, thinking that the world (or at least the bit I inhabited) was ending - and soon. Sitting in our maths classroom, doing algebra if I recall correctly, and the nuclear siren located on the school roof went off.

This was the early eighties, during the cold war, and we thought it was for real. It stopped after a short time and we all just sat there, in a daze. The Headmaster then had to run round the entire school to tell each class that some dopey electrician had cut the wrong wire. They had to get an announcement out on local radio to the effect that the third world war had not started!
(TheWeeWitch hasn't been here much recently .., Wed 10 Sep 2008, 15:56, Reply)