I almost fell off an upside-down pirate ship ride at an amusement park once. I was wearing a slick rain coat, was really thin at the time, and the bar wasn't down enough. For a few seconds I felt for sure I was going to fall out...and the ride was more than 50 feet high.
One time at 1 AM, when my family was all asleep, I heard a strange knocking. It sounded like knocking on a door, but softer. When I followed the noise I found it wasn't coming from a door, but a seemingly random part of the wall. I figured it was some animal, but when I went outside to check, nothing was there. Thinking I'd scared away whatever it was, I went back to my room. After about 5 minutes the noise came back, so I put on my headphones and tried to ignore it. After about 10 minutes I took my headphones off to see if it had gone away. It hadn't. It was now louder, and closer to my room. I crept out and checked around only to find nothing again. I went back to my room and put my headphones on again, trying to calm down. Within 2 minutes, the knocking returned. Whatever it was was knocking right on the door to my room now. I peeked through a crack in the doorway (it was kind of broken), and saw my father. His eyes were closed as if he were sleepwalking, but I heard him very softly whisper something about "the new light." I slowly walked away from the door, hoping he didn't notice me. He then opened the door, and got on the floor. Everybody walked the dinosaur.
Scariest moment of my life?
Talking a speed freek with a shotgun down. He had hit that point were everybody was a potential narc, and he had a shotgun. Not a great combination when you're just visiting next-door...
I think I lost 10 years in 10 minutes until he put the shotgun down and accepted a cup of tea. You really can get better results with a kind word and a cup of tea...
Now I have kids. Motherhood has provided more adrenal rushes than the above incident, and on an almost daily basis...
got crushed by a boogie board into the sand when a giant wave came, afterwards when i tried to get up another wave came and then people came crashing down on me, while i was 9 or something, more annoying that scary though, getting crushed multiple times i mean. :dry.gif:
That SUV driving asshole scared the living daylights out of me.
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Talking a speed freek with a shotgun down. He had hit that point were everybody was a potential narc, and he had a shotgun. Not a great combination when you're just visiting next-door...
I think I lost 10 years in 10 minutes until he put the shotgun down and accepted a cup of tea. You really can get better results with a kind word and a cup of tea...
Now I have kids. Motherhood has provided more adrenal rushes than the above incident, and on an almost daily basis...