OT - my foolish mishap

[LH-C]

I got home from school yesterday around 6pm and fell asleep about a half hour later. I then woke up at 9pm and had dinner and took a shower. I was fairly out of it because I had been having a very bad nightmare. Around 10:45-11pm I went back to bed and pretty much fell asleep. Then not even 20 minutes later I woke up suddenly, realizing that I hadn't put out the garbage to be collected the next morning. I was very groggy and wasn't paying attention to my surroundings. We don't have a porch light, so when I opened the door and saw someone out on our front lawn and couldn't see who it was, I freaked out a bit. Turns out it was my dad! My younger sister laughed at me, and my dad scolded me for being loud. I felt completely dumb, foolish, and idiotic...but he if he had just left the front door open (but the security door closed) when he went out to do what he had to do in the front yard, this incident wouldn't have happened. Something like this has never happened before, and this morning I'm still feeling more than a little dumb.

[Just Plain Horse]

You think that's bad, try waking up in the middle of the night and going to the kitchen naked, only to realize on the way back you left the curtain over the window in the living room open, and you're pretty sure the neighbors probably saw you naked for about five minutes... twice.

[dean]

Just Plain Horse wrote:

> You think that's bad, try waking up in the middle of the night
> and going to the kitchen naked, only to realize on the way back
> you left the curtain over the window in the living room open,
> and you're pretty sure the neighbors probably saw you naked for
> about five minutes... twice.
>

haha, that's pretty funny.  Though at the middle of the night would it really have been a problem?

Oh, and LH-C, that is indeed a foolish mishap, but it's really not too bad.

[Just Plain Horse]

dean wrote:
 
>
> haha, that's pretty funny.  Though at the middle of the night
> would it really have been a problem?
>

With the light on, yes. We're talking BIG windows, here.

[dean]

Just Plain Horse wrote:

> dean wrote:
>  
> >
> > haha, that's pretty funny.  Though at the middle of the night
> > would it really have been a problem?
> >
>
> With the light on, yes. We're talking BIG windows, here.
>

Were they BIG windows because you were compensating for something?

[Just Plain Horse]

Not as far as I know, I mean I've never gotten any complaints :)

[AndyC]

That is so like a dad. A situation like that, and he's mad because you were loud.

By the way, how exactly did you freak out?

Of course, what is there to be embarassed about? You saw somebody lurking around outside in the dark, and reacted. It happens. When I was in high school, I was a part-time janitor at a local tourist trap - big multilevel barn of a place with a maze of shops and restaurants, full of partitions, shelves and displays. I always worked at night, after closing, and most of the building was dark and deserted. Very creepy. One night, after midnight, I was finishing up, entirely alone, and walked through the darkened main dining room. I nearly jumped out of my skin when I saw somebody approaching me in the dark, a few feet in front of me.

Turned out to be a full-length mirror. Even when I'd figured that out, I still spent a minute waving and hopping, just to be sure.



Post Edited (09-20-05 14:02)

[LH-C]

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It was a very weak shriek mixed in with an 'Oh God', an 'Oh No', and I think I may have yelled. I also ran into my parents' room and woke my mom up. My younger sister was in there as well watching a movie with head phones on. The one thing I felt though was a complete sense of dread.

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Very true...And great story BTW; glad I'm not the only one.

[dean]

That whole 'get freaked out by a mirror in the dark' thing is really creepy, and I'm sure it's happened to a few people here.

A few months after we were robbed for the third time I was still a little jumpy, so one night when nobody else was home, I'd get a little paranoid about various clanging noises at the front of the house [it turns out our bird was awake and knocked something off it's cage] but before I figured that out I 'patrolled' the house to make sure nobody was in.  As I walked past the bathroom I got really startled when I walked past the mirror, and out of the corner of my eye I saw movement.  Basically a few curse words later, and checking behind the door in case I was wrong, I decided that mirrors are kind of evil...

Damn freaky things...