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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Took out the whole block.Not my last, but probably my scariest.
25 years ago back at school my class had just done registration and were milling around waiting for the first lesson bell to go. I was casually swinging an odd foot long bit of wire around in my fingers, watching the circle the end of it made. Wandering over to the window I noticed one of the electrical sockets had a cracked plastic surround, so you could see bare metal inside of it. Now, even at that age I knew that electricity was dangerous, but that didn't stop me seeing how close I dare swing the bare ended bit of wire to the "where there's blame, there's a claim" broken socket. Suddenly - THWACK! Blue sparks, loud bang and all the lights went out - in the whole building Didn't get a shock but was more scared that gingerbloke (who was normally a 12 year old) had suddenly become the focus of the whole science block of four classrooms of kids. Length? As I said about a foot long with a bare end.
(, Fri 23 Feb 2007, 8:38, Reply)
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