
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?
( , Thu 22 Feb 2007, 15:43)
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The back exit from my office goes via a sloped roadway that turns a corner down to a main road. This being Norway it can get very slippy.
One evening I was on my way out of there and started to slide on the ice. I was completely out of control and was obviously just going to keep sliding until I got to the bottom of the slope.
Unfortunately, at that moment a big lorry sped into the driveway, equally out of control. For a few seconds my life flashed before me as I slowly slid toward its rapidly approaching radiator. Fortunately, it drove past me and missed my by inches.
( , Sat 24 Feb 2007, 18:30, Reply)
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