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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This weekend might qualify...I'll spare you the backstory, but I had to drive from the Eden Project to Looe (to pick up some people) and on to Exeter. With an engine that was acting up severely (sounded/felt really rough, massive loss of power, and the injection warning light glaring at me) - I spent the whole three hours or so worrying that the car wouldn't make it. I suppose it's not fear for my life by any stretch, but I was still quite scared not only of generally getting stranded in the middle of Cornwall, but also, more specifically, that the engine would decide to seize up while I was doing 90 (downhill) on the dual carriageway, or some similarly spectacular failure mode... while trying not to show this to the five other people in the vehicle. Well - not too much, I did tell them that I was having engine trouble.
(, Wed 28 Feb 2007, 22:52, Reply)
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