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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On the beach at Portmadoc with my 4 kidsaged 4-10, we decided to walk out as far as we could alongside a spit of land, which had interesting little caves and rock pools. Kids loved it.
All went well until I noticed that the sea seemed a bit nearer than it had.
So we started back at a leisurely stroll, only to find the waves lapping at our heels.
We went a bit faster, then a bit faster again, and ended up with the 9 year old giving the 4 year old a piggyback and me dragging the other 2 along, shouting to them to dump the buckets and spades and PEG IT!
The tide came in as fast as we could run. I swear we only just made it to the beach.
A week or two later, a bloke from near our home town drowned there while rescuing a couple of kids who'd made the same mistake.
Brr - still gives me the shivers now.
(, Thu 22 Feb 2007, 21:59, Reply)
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