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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A precocious youthI was advanced as a toddler - I don't know what's happened, I appear to have regressed since then. But, 30 years ago I was as bright as I only sometimes achieve now.
I was reading at two years old, reading proper books not long after that. And I had a grandma, Cissy (she died when I was still only three) who had a bottle of advocaat and a copy of Bram Stoker's Dracula in her bedroom.
I used to nip in there as a nipper and take a tiny tot of advocaat, and read a couple of pages of the book each time. I don't know if Nana Cissy ever realised she had a rapidly draining bottle of booze, or a more rapidly afrit toddler in her care
Suffice to say I became terrified of being drained by a vampire and used to sleep with the blankeys drawn up around my neck in the hope that Mr Alucard would imagine I was but a severed head.
Now? I'm an alcoholic.
(, Fri 23 Feb 2007, 12:21, Reply)
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