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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Mirror, signal, fucking hell.....I was doing 70mph (*) on the M6 in my clapped out old Nova. A Tesco lorry pulled out in front of me without indicating, so calmly, I pressed the brake pedal to put a decent distance between us and called the driver a few choice names... Except my brakes failed.
You know that feeling when your entire set of internal organs seem to turn to liquid?
I remember rather little after that, but my passenger assures me that I turned to her and said, without a wobble in my voice, "We might have a small problem...". I pulled onto the hard shoulder and let the car slow while changing down gears, then thank GOD saw a service station and managed to somehow to finally stop the car in the car park.
I then got out of the car and vomited copiously into a bin.
I still haven't told my mother about it, she'd ban me from ever getting in a car again, despite the fact that a) I'm 32 and b) her driving makes Ayrton Senna look like a model of road safety.
(*) Honestly, Officer...
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