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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Funeral DirectorsA few years back, when I was an idiot, my friend was at my house making prank calls. They weren't very good, but we found them entertaining enough. A typical one would go "Hi, is Frank there?" "No, no-one of that name here" "OK, sorry. *stifled giggles*".
Then it was my turn. I had never prank called anyone before, so I decided to really go for it. I flicked open a random page in the Yellow Pages and it was the Funeral Directors in the town just down the road. I dailed the number and hadn't thought through at all what I was going to say.
"Yeah, hello, is this the funeral directors? I'm about to jump off the top of the block of flats (about 10 stories high) and I was just wondering if I could arrange my funeral"
After a second I realised what I had said. The funeral director tried to talk me out of jumping and said he would get the police to rescue me. I panicked and slammed the phone down. A friend in the aforementioned town said that he had heard a lot of police cars around that time.
I didn't know about 141 at that time and so spent the next few days just waiting for the police to come round and arrest me for wasting police time. I don't think I've ever felt as sick in my life.
Five years later though and I haven't heard anything, so I presume I got away with it.
(, Sat 24 Feb 2007, 14:19, Reply)
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