The divine miss m is TEN months today! Blessed be.
And now…
You wanna see something *really* scary?
1. Do you enjoy a good fright?
I really don’t. I startle *extremely* easily and don’t find it fun. This startle reflex totally short-circuits my rational brain, so that even a haunted house, which I’ve paid for and chosen and know isn’t real, is almost unbearable.
2. Scariest movie you’ve ever seen
Wait Until Dark, with Audrey Hepburn as the blind protagonist. That scene with the guy stalking her in her house… [shudder]
I also foung the Silence of the Lambs totally terrifying.
And Misery. Dang, Kathy Bates was awesome in that.
3. Bobbing for apples: choose one and discuss:
a) Nothing scary about that! Good wholesome fun.
b) Are you *kidding* me?!? The germs, the germs!
I’m going to have to go with b. I don’t find it a fun enough game to get past the Tub O’ Cooties.
4. Real-life phobia
Is fear of public speaking really one of the top fears in adults? I don’t know anyone who’s explicitly named that as a phobia. Obviously I don’t have that fear.
I would have to say bugs and other creepy crawly things. But I’m working on this for the sake of my girls.
5. Favorite “ghost story”
One time in seminary I was up late working on a paper, and R was traveling on business. Around 3:30 a.m. my cell phone rang. I walked over to pick it up, thinking, “Must be Robert, wow! He’s up late.” The caller ID on the phone said:
HOME
My heart leaped into my throat, remembering that lame campfire story that ended with, “The call is coming from inside the house!” I picked up the phone and nobody was there. Of course.
But it took a LONG time to get to sleep.
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» There are no unsacred places; there are only sacred places and desecrated places. -Wendell Berry
» “The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope.” -Barbara Kingsolver
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I should add a disclaimer on #2–I have never seen the Exorcist.
Also, I thought Poltergeist was terrifying when I was a kid–it makes me laugh now.
Good ghost story!! I was getting all creeped out just hearing it. I wouldn’t have been able to sleep either.
EXCELLENT spooky story. Cool!
I really hate bugs, too, but not enough to say I was phobic about ‘em. Just don’t like ‘em.
that’s a GREAT ghost story. I wonder what it was…or who it was…
*window glass breaking in the background*
eek! that is a very spooky story! i would have had the lights and tv on for the rest of the night!
Agreeably, that “Wait Until Dark” scene is the scariest thing I’ve ever scene on film too. Generally, if it’s possible and not way over the top, those scenes are much scarier than green slimy monsters!
Damn that call who have freaked me out!
Mine was Blair Witch Project *shivers*
Mindy, I *knew* I would not have been able to tolerate BWP.
My best guess on the creepy phone call was the kitties must’ve stepped on the redial button or something.
Still, [shiver]
OOH your own creepy ghost story to tell. Well done. I have seen the exorcist, it made me sick with all the peas soup throwing up over against scaring me.
Happy 10 months to the divine miss m.
I’m amazed you slept at all!!!
Silence of the Lambs again- it’s had us all freaked out!!!
Great scary story. I keep trying to get John Denver to haunt my house, but it never works.
Okay, the reason my Five last year was about candy? I don’t like teh scary. ::shivers::
That phone call would have spooked me!
i can recall the exact circumstances surrounding my first viewing of “wait until dark.” i think it’s a wonderfully scary movie!
and on the subject of creepy crawly things, i found out this afternoon that tomorrow night at a neighborhood dinner party we’ll be served real crickets and worms and also assorted chocolate covered bugs. now i have more than 24 hours to worry about eating them.