What's the scariest thing you've woken up to?

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

this morning, as I’m just about to get up, my roommate asks if I smell something. I’m still half asleep and say, no...but within about 2 seconds, the smell of burning is overpowering. Its getting more and more intense.

We look out the window and see our whole block is filled with fire trucks and fireman. In about 2 more seconds, smoke beings to billow up through the floor and radiators. Its now become a mad dash to get something on, get the bird into his carrier and get the fuck out of our building.

Yea, so we got to wake up to our building on fire this morning. Luckily, no one was hurt, our building is still standing, all of our stuff is OK, and the bird did not die of smoke inhalation :pfew:

but damn. that’s a scary way to start the day off. I’m still shaken. :scared:

So, what is the scariest thing you've ever woken up to?

[BelleCarolinaPeridot]

1. Waking up to Bush winning the election after the recount in 2000.

Its been a nightmare ever since .

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

5. too bad its a nightmare that we can't wake up from

x(

[Sannum]

91. Correction: Bush being handed the election after the recount in 2000...

:scared:

[BikeWriter]

2. Sappers blowing up the ammo dump at Pleiku, RVN....

Secondly, half of the Texas City Refinery blowing itself off the map. I was a fire fighter at the time.

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

8. explosive

damn.....even the sentence "blowing up the ammo dump" gives me the hebegebes. along with your second story :scared:

how many of you were needed to contain the Texas City explosion? hundreds? :patriot:

[BikeWriter]

19. Yep, fire companys arrived from Louisiana and Oklahoma...

over the next few days. It was quite a fire.

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

25. whoa...

thanks to people like you i still have an apt. to go home too :D

[BikeWriter]

31. I'm glad you're safe and your apartment wasn't involved.

:hug:

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

33. thanks BW

i just can't focus on anything though :hug:

[BikeWriter]

41. I'm sure it was frightening for you. ;-(

[skygazer]

3. Wow, that is scary!

I'm glad everyone is all right and that your stuff is not harmed. Fire is one of my big fears - the thought of it just gives me the creeps.

I've never really woken up to anything scary, for which I'm thankful. Oh, except for my dog Jake. He was a Boxer, about 65 pounds and he had this thing where he'd take my arm in his mouth and kind of gnaw on it. He didn't use his teeth really - he was gentle about it because it was a form of affection for him but it sounded like he was tearing me apart because he'd kind of growl and grr while he was doing it (I raised him from a pup - he looked at me as his mom).

One day, he woke me up by doing that on my neck. It was a little strange to wake up to a 65 pound dog standing on my chest gnawing on my neck but not really scary because it was just Jake. :)

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

15. yours is much more funny

imagine if he did that to a guest you had over?!?!?! :rofl: they would have ran out screaming!

but fire is very scary...espically in an apartment building cause you cant control what other people do

[blockhead]

4. ummm....

and thats why I chewed my arm off.

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

11. ...

:shrug:

[Mrs.Matcom]

6. matcom....n/t

[BikeWriter]

9. Oh, you poor Dear!

:cry:

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

10. I was waiting for someone to pull the husband/wife joke

:rofl:

[kmla]

16. Ding ding ding! We have a winner!

The only way that could be scarier is if...

Ehhh. I got nuthin'. Can't top that.

[meegbear]

17. Hey, that's MY line!

:grr:

[Patiod]

7. Yikes! Can't top that one!

I had nightmares about fire all through elementary school during "Fire Safety Week".

Scariest thing I ever woke up to was I called my SO from work and said "can you check if the cat left a mouse toy in my shoe, or if that's what I think it is" (I have a morbid fear of dead critters).

SO came back to the phone and said "I don't think any of her toys are eviserated, and they don't have the realistic look of agony on their faces, either."

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

18. hahaha

i would have gladly dealt with a dead mouse in my shoe instead of the fire :rofl:

[no name no slogan]

12. My ex-wife

:yoiks:

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

20. :rimshot:

:D

[dolo amber]

13. ...

:scared:

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

21. bwhaha!

:rofl::rofl::rofl:

all you people naming your partners/husbands/wives/ex's are too funny

[no name no slogan]

23. THE HORROR

:spray:

:rofl:

[Misunderestimator]

24. LOL!

:thumbsup: literally! :rofl:

[Magrittes Pipe]

69. That was just this morning!

Except I wasn't on the elliptical.

[dolo amber]

71. ..

:o :D

[Misunderestimator]

14. A scorpion on my chest.

When I was about 12.

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

22. hummm....that may take the cake....

the only other thing that I could think of scarier would be a ton of giant spiders... :scared:

[NewJeffCT]

28. that gave me the creeps here at work

what happened, may I ask?

[Misunderestimator]

34. I screamed and flipped the sheet that (thankfully) was between me and it..

and it flew across the room... where I chased after it and stepped on it.

[Spacemom]

32. I can top that

When my youngest son was about 8 months old, I feel asleep in the recliner with him in my arms. I woke up because he was fussing a bit and right in front of me was a scorpion crawling across the pillow, about 2 inches from my sleeping child. My first instinct was to fling the pillow across the room, but then I knew we'd still have a scorpion in the house. Somehow I slowly slid Logan to my shoulder, calmly stood up with the pillow and screamed bloodly murder for my husband. He went from sound asleep to at my side in about half a second. He took the pillow in the kitchen and squashed the scorpion. I was shaking for hours afterwards. Logan slept through the whole thing. :scared:

[Misunderestimator]

35. Ok, that definitely wins.

:scared:

My brother once rolled over on a scorpion that stung him in the middle of his back.... swelled up so much that he couldn't get out of a bed for a few days. Ah... Texas... how I miss it... not

[eyesroll]

26. ...

:scared:

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

27. see #13

:D

[Misunderestimator]

29. Bwahaaaahaaaaaaaa!

:spray: :rofl:

[dolo amber]

30. *my sides*!!

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :cry:

[Magrittes Pipe]

70. I'm glad I divorced your ass.

x(

[FunkyLeprechaun]

36. The morning of 9/11/01

My mum woke me up and told me the World Trade Center was hit by a plane. I was like, "Are you joking?"

It was one of my worst fears realised. I had been terrified to go close to the WTC before, I had an enormous fear of it falling down on me and even told my friend in Brooklyn that I was afraid that they'll fall on me. This was September 1999, and she assured me that they wouldn't fall down on me.

Now I live near the Prudential and I've gotten over my fear of it and other tall buildings falling down (I would feel very dizzy when I looked up).

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

38. i wasn't scared scared that day, and I was just up the street from them

I watch them come down from my window. I was more sad, but didn't feel an imminent threat on my life like i did this morning.

:hug:

[JohnKleeb]

42. You were that near the WTC when it hit

Damn I remember that day like it was yesterday though, I was the second one to come in to my World History I class and the TV was on and my first thought honest to god "Musta been a drunk pilot", I know that seems insensitive but thats what I thought. As for the scariest thing Ive ever woke up to, hmmmmmmmmmmm probably the bickering I hear between my mom and brother or better yet waking up to nothing is pretty scary sicne its so usual for me.

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

46. I didn't really now what to think at first.

I kinda remember the day, but its also a blur...what i remember most was after they fell the ash that came down like snow....it was weird to walk around in manhattan, you could hear a pin drop on the streets. you would run into people you knew and it was all just off....

:hi:

[JohnKleeb]

50. It was a surreal day, that was for sure

It was my first week of high school, funny thing is I remember the kid who got there before me that day, mostly from last year though because the guy would not shut up and for all his anti immigration rhetoric, he failed a sample immigration test that I got 100% on. I can't imagine being near there on that day, it would be like being in Hawaii on December 7, 1941.

[northzax]

37. a nameless girl

woke up the next morning, didn't know where I was, didn't remember her name (and she didn't remember mine) it was awkward.

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

39. d'oh!

too much :beer:

[northzax]

44. i was young and foolish then

and we remain good friends (since we figured out each other's names, that is)

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

47. bwahahah

still remember it? :P

[CottonBear]

40. A peeping tom standing on a chair outside my window, knocking and saying

"I want to F_ _ _ you." This happened about four in the morning.
:scared:
I woke up and leaped across the bedroom of the antebellum house where I lived. (I was the only one who lived in this huge, old house.) I landed near the fireplace. I must have jumped 8 or 10 feet. I screamed "Get away from meeeeeeee!" Then, I heard the sound of things falling and banging (porch chairs falling over, screen door knocked off hinges and pervert falling down the back porch stairs.) The window alarms (that usually went off when any bird flew into the windows) didn't go off this time.
:scared:
I freaked out and hid in my bathroom (the only room without an exterior window.) I called the police after about an hour of cowering in the shower. The phone was in the living room. As it turns out, I think he'd been peeping in for about a week. The room had 11 foot ceilings. He had to stand on the chair to see over the top of the curtains which were hung at about 7 feet up the wall over the windows looking out onto the back porch. There was window showing above the curtains because the windows were really old and tall.

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

43. eeeeppppppp! that sounds terrifying!

did the police ever find the guy? that is so freaky. i hate invasions of privacy/personal space like that....ewww he was watching you sleep! :scared:

:hug:

[CottonBear]

54. Never caught him but I did get a call from the police about a murder case.

A young woman, was murdered just a few blocks away a few months before and they thought the peeping tom might be a suspect. This all took place more than 12 years ago. I personally, think that the woman was murdered by an aquaintance. I have a theory as to who did it in fact. Her case is unsolved to this very day. That is another story. :(

The peeping tom was, most likely, your average homeless, pervert, crackhead. I lived in an partially gentrified, old neighborhood on the border of a really bad area near a crack head pool hall and a Salvation Army Homeless shelter. :(

I always, always lock my doors and windows at night and keep outdoor lights on.

(I have long since moved.)

[CottonBear]

57. Oh yeah, I almost forgot. The worst part was that I was

sleeping in the nude that night. :scared: CREEPY!

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

86. oh my

:o

[Faygo Kid]

51. Your recollection of the dimensions shows how tough this was. Damn.

My gender often pisses me off. But, I know that the vast majority of us guys would have met that a**hole directly on the chin. As a lawyer, I would love to go after these weirdos. As a father. As a son, of a woman beaten in the '50s before my eyes. Bless you, and hang in there. They won't win.

[CottonBear]

56. Thanks! It was a long time ago. I always tell women to lock

their door and windows, have outside security lights, always carry pepper spray and never walk alone at night in bad or unfamiliar areas.

Unfortunately, the weirdo was never caught for peeping. He probably got thrown in jail eventually for crack or mugging someone.

Edit: So sorry to hear about your and your mom's bad experience. :hug:

[Misunderestimator]

67. Damn, that made me remember a similar experience.

In NYC, in my first apartment there on 106th and Amsterdam. I woke up to see a dark figure of a man standing on the fire escape staring at me. I left that apartment a month later, after investing $600 in bars for the windows.

[CottonBear]

72. Yikes! Peeping tom on a fire escape.

:scared: I'm glad you were OK. :hug:

[Misunderestimator]

75. Fortunately, I was just frightened... but fine.

I was on the sixth floor.... and thought I would be safe without bars. I should have known better since a friend of mine wasn't so lucky when a man entered her 12th floor apartment through an open window from the fire escape a few years prior.

[CottonBear]

120. I know a guy who was sitting in his kitchen when a strange man walked in.

My friend stood up (he's over 6 feet) and asked "what are you doing in here? Who are you?"
The stranger said "Oh, I thought it was someones else's house" and left through the back door which had been unlocked. This was about 3AM in the morning. :(
As it turned out, the guy was a serial rapist. :wow: :scared:
My friend recognized him when his mugshot was published in the local paper after the arrest. He came from North Atlanta (over 80 miles away) to my town to stalk young college girls who left their doors and windows open and unlocked at night. He raped a number of young women and was convicted. :(
:scared: He had been released from a long prison sentence in Florida just about a year earlier. Guess what he'd been in prison for? Rape. :(

[Misunderestimator]

74. delete - wrong spot

[Faygo Kid]

45. She said I told her I loved her: 1971

I didn't even know her, ferchrissakes, but she wanted to spend the rest of her life with me. I ran. Fast. Don't top off beers at 20 years old with Christian Brothers brandy. Ugh.

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

48. ahh yes, now thats a great thing to wake up to

hangover AND a new relationship :rofl:

[LostinVA]

49. A stuffed Snuggles Bear tucked in besides me

I hate that scary little freak..... I was hungover, too... I shrieked like a kookaburra....

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

52. they are coming to get you

[JohnKleeb]

53. Somehow that doesn't scare me

Then again I am probably the only 18 2/3 year old guy in the world who still has his Teddy Bear, had that thing forever I tell ya.

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

78. I still wish i had some of my stuffed animals from when I was a kid

i could use something comfroting :D

[LostinVA]

77. AAARRGGHHHH!!!! Seriously, he's so damned creepy!

And that evil little giggle... *shudder*

[Sequoia]

55. September 11, that day.

First thing I saw on TV. I woke up with a start that moring at 5:54 on the west coast and wondered if there was an earthquake; I felt something dire had happened but all was quite in my snug home in Santa Monica. Then when I actually got up and cut on tv I saw what I at first thought was an refinery fire, but then the next station made me think, why that looks like the waterfront of New York City.

[bettyellen]

58. september 12, thunder so loud at 4 or 5 am it woke me up and i thought

NY was being bombed.

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

144. ....thats my birthday

it sucked in '01

:hi:

[bettyellen]

177. oh sweetie, sorry.

i have a good friend with the same B'day.
you're both good peeps! :loveya:
will you be around for april 29th?
i hope so!

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

187. i dont know yet

i might be going away to visit my sister... :cry:

but I still :loveya: we had such a great time at the last meetup!

[edbermac]

59. A Dustbuster...

:beer:

[Left_Winger]

60. A bear

When I was 12 my father, some friends and I went camping in the NC mountains. I awoke sometime in the night to a bear sniffing around where I was sleeping. The bear's face passed within a foot of mine and as I felt its breath, I knew I was not dreaming. I lay there playing opossum and it went away; actually playing opossum is not accurate - I was too scared to move.

[CottonBear]

62. Whoah. What did it smell like if anything?

Did it eat your food and supplies or just wander off? :(

[Left_Winger]

73. It just sniffed around and left

It smelled like any other animal from what I can remember, but that was a long time ago (1970). I do remember that its breath did stink the high heavens!

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

87. bears are known for their bad dental hygiene

;)

[ZombieNixon]

61. The Burger King Man.

:scared:

[jpgray]

63. Have you seen their "Big Bucking Chicken" commercials?

And the MoveOn ad was too controversial for CBS? :eyes:

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

79. brilliant!

:hi:

[swimboy]

64. Wow!

I'm sorry man! I'm glad everything and everybird and body is okay! :loveya:

It weirds me out a little that I just told you about my fire the other day. One ought to be enough for each of us, right?

:hug:

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

80. I hope I hope I hope

:hug:

[ScreamingMeemie]

65. Labor pains.

:hug: I'm glad you are okay. That would have been super scary.

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

81. thanks MrsG

yours sounds far more painful :hug:

[malmapus]

66. HUGE Crab looking me in the face

I was still in the Army and we were in GITMO prepping for the invasion of Haiti that never happened.

But yeah, had some down time. So I just thought I would catch a couple quick ZZzz's. I wake up to something tickling my ear (one of my Sgts), and I open my eyes to see this HUGE crab (dunno what kind they were all over GITMO with the lizards) standing on my chest looking at me, it's freaking pincers up in the air.

LOL, can't remember what I said exactly as I jumped up while doing this weird backward fall trying to get it off my chest.

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

83. scary, but kinda funny

at least the pinch wouldn't kill you

:patriot:

[China_cat]

68. Dreaming that my husband was killed in a traffic accident

and the police had come to the door to inform me...then waking up with a police car outside the house with its blue light on.

[AlienGirl]

76. My 4-yr-old saying, "Matches are SOOOO cool!"

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

84. ...

:wow:

[nini]

82. The Northridge Earthquake

The first earthquake I got out of bed for since Sylmar in '71 or so.

I thought that was the BIG ONE :scared:

[Blue Diadem]

85. chest pain

I had no idea what was going on..ended up in the hospital for 3 days..and don't remember much. They did say I didn't have a heart attack..but enzymes were up for muscles..whatever the hell that means.

What I'd like to know is what scared my poor dog last night. He was sleeping on the recliner and began to dream..paws going and muzzle twitching..and suddenly he made a sound like he was hurt..this horrible ear piercing yip/scream as he leaped from the chair. He stood there 1/2 awake looking at Dh and I like what the hell was that? All we could do was comfort him.

edited to add: I'm glad you're ok..that had to be very frightening.

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

89. im glad you are OK too

your experience sounds really terrifying. :hug:

and hears some hugs for your dog :hug::hug:

[Blue Diadem]

111. Thank you

It was frightening for a while..especially when my Dr. outside the hospital wouldn't answer my questions. Now I'm just ticked that I've been left in limbo about it.

My dog loves hugs..I'll pass your hugs onto him. He'll be delighted.

[Liberalynn]

88. That does sound scary

:hug:

The scariest thing I ever woke up to was a loud thud and then all the pictures started falling off the wall. My Mom was downstairs already and I was still in bed. We were calling to each other asking if the other was all right. I thought we had an "earthquake" as we have had minor ones in New York State. But then we heard someone calling for help outside.

Turns out a teenage guy, who I kid you not was on his way to drivers' education, had swerved off the road to "miss a deer" and he rammed directly into our house with his Jeep Jerokee. Luckily my Mom and I weren't hurt, and the driver only sustained a minor injury. Thank heaven our house is an old farm house and part of the foundation is huge solid rock, and that combined with the sturdiness of the fruit cellar, my grandfather, had built for my grandmother, it did not cave all the way in.

Even though I was not hurt, I was in a bit of shock, and all I could think of was getting in touch with my sister, but I couldn't find the phone. My neighbor had it. She had been calling the kids' father. When I managed to call my sister, and sobbed out, a truck hit our house, at first she didn't believe me. The neighbor took the phone and said, "she's not kidding, and I think you should probably get down here, it's kind of bad."

We had firemen, policemen, and housing inspectors all over the place.

We did loose our front porch and half the living room was badly damaged, also the house had been moved off it's foundation by several inches, but luckily they didn't comdemn it, as the electric and gas were not effected. The worst part was dealing with the insurance company and the repair crew. It took them over a year to complete the work and even then it was done shoddily. My Mom and I had to live out of the kitchen and what we call our backroom, for all that time. One night, after it first happened, a bat even got in a hole they had not covered right in the living room. I came down to get something one night as I was preparing for bed and it flew at me, I nearly had a heart attack.

That was not pleasant time and definitely not a pleasant wake up call.

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

92. wow. thank goodness everything basically turned out ok

theres are some really scary experiences!!!!

yours is particularly scary cause if the drive was off by a few feet in either direction who knows how much more damage could have been done :hug:

[Liberalynn]

95. Thank you!

:hug: We were really lucky. My Mom had been sitting at the other end of the living room. It could have come down on her.

The house inspector said the fruit cellar took the brunt of the impact, and the fact that it was so sturdy is what saved the day. He said if it had been a newer house, instead of one built in the 1880's, it probably would have collapsed for certain. He said, whoever built it knew what they were doing, and that so had my grandfather with his later additions.

[Lavender Brown]

90. We had a carbon monoxide scare in my Brooklyn apt.

That was pretty freaky. I'm glad you're okay.

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

93. I had one too! but it was just cause the oven was on

:D

:hug: thanks LB

[Taverner]

94. A bear

Licking the penut butter off my face from dinner from the night before. I was camping.

Soon after the bear left camp, and I changed my shorts.

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

97. soon after?

:rofl:

[Taverner]

102. Well I couldn't exactly change them in front of a bear...

I mean, what would the children think...

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

103. wont somebody please think of the

BEARS!

[SteppingRazor]

96. This:

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

98. now THAT is truly terrifying

:scared:

[SteppingRazor]

112. Yeah it is! Although, I'm kidding of course...

I was never kidnapped by aliens -- at least, not that I recall. :tinfoilhat:

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

113. riiiiiiiight...

im sure you haven't

[KitchenWitch]

99. My mom telling me that John Lennon had been shot to death.

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

104. .

:hug:

[KitchenWitch]

106. Thanks!

:hug:

[TK421]

100. I think her name was Cheryl...I don't know, but I had a wicked hangover

and there was no trace of her the next morning

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

105. except that burning sensation

4-6 weeks later :P

[TK421]

109. And here I thought it was my shitty diet...the bitch!

[TK421]

118. You too...huh? Was it Cheryl? Could have been Diane...

[Deja Q]

101. The fact I've woken up?

:bounce:

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

107. snarf!

:spray:

FWIW, there are those of us who do look forard to seeing you here :hug:

[Deja Q]

152. Thanks - I do have no intention of leaving as I love it here...

Until being told to leave. :D

Even on my darker days, I'm just venting frustration and confusion. I have no other outlet, mostly because my psychologist can only see me monthly. :)

[zanne]

108. Gunshots

It happened last week. I woke up at three o'clock in the morning to "BOOMBOOMBOOM"! then a car alarm and the sound of a car peeling out. Turns out it was just some guy shooting the windows out of another guy's car, but I'd never heard gunshots before. Scary.

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

110. come to NYC

;)

still, whenever i hear any loud boom boom boom, it always jump

:hug:

[jonnyblitz]

114. never a dull moment for you lately, eh?

:hug: :hi:

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

115. doesn't seem to be

:hug::hi:

[Shine]

116. A 6.8 earthquake when I was 7 yrs old and sleeping on the top bunk

you don't forget THAT in a hurry.... :scared:

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

117. not the kind of alarm clock you need, eh?

:hug:

[Shine]

119. Yeah, it was pretty terrifying.

:hug:

many years later I went through the 7.2 Loma Prieta quake, too. Yes, I've been in many earthquakes in my day.

Living in CA, it comes with the territory.....:eyes:

:hi:

[SeattleGirl]

121. MrSG, in one of his Halloween costumes.

The costume was really scary, and the SOB woke me up before he went to work, wearing it. He was so unrecognizeable it scared the hell out of me! :scared:

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

125. haha, Halloween-fools!

:P

what was he?

[SeattleGirl]

135. A half-devil/half-angel costume

Not only was the devil side of his face scary, but the whole thing was creepy! He just cracked up when I told him I was posting that he was the scariest thing I'd ever woken up to! :rofl:

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

139. lolol!

to bad you dont have a pic, i wanna be :scared: lolol

[SeattleGirl]

142. I was too busy hiding under the covers to think of taking a

picture! :rofl:

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

143. bwahahaha

:spray:

:hi:

[SeattleGirl]

148. Gotcha!

Um, do I owe you a new keyboard now? :hi:

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

149. yes

but I just got a new one, so save the 10 dollars for when I need it again ;)

[CaliforniaPeggy]

122. My dear MAHNY!

I'm glad you're OK....how scary for you, to start your day that way!

The scariest thing I ever woke up to?

On the night of my 20th wedding anniversary....I was waked up from a dead sleep by my heart....

No chest pain, but palpitations all over .....My heart was beating very fast and irregularly too!

Plus, there were waves of adrenalin that were pulsing throughout my body.

I was sure I was going to die......

I woke up my husband.......I was so scared! I was trying to count my pulse, but couldn't.....It was too irregular.

I pressed on my carotid artery in my neck to count......but instead what happened was after the three longest minutes in my life, my pulse got regular again!

I suspect that the pressure on the artery caused the heart rhythm to convert back to normal sinus...It was still fast, but regular.

After some time, I was able to relax and go back to sleep.....

What a night! And what an anniversary!

BTW, my doctor said he thought that the cause was from my little mitral valve prolapse. I haven't had any repeats of that night, thank goodness.....

:scared:

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

126. oh peggy! were those wedding night jitters...

...just 20 years too late? :P

Im glad it was nothing really serious and you havent had any repeats :hug:

[distantearlywarning]

123. A gunshot going off right outside my window.

I leapt straight up out of bed, and was on the phone with 911 before I even looked outside. When I looked out the window, there was a guy bleeding to death right outside my window on the pavement, nobody else in sight. He apparently died as I was talking to the dispatcher on the phone, because he was DOA when the cops arrived 4 minutes later. It was a botched robbery attempt. They did eventually catch the suspects a few weeks later. I felt really really bad that I hadn't heard anything before the gunshot and woken up - maybe I could have saved him.

That was when I was living in a horrible little ghetto apartment after leaving an abusive relationship with basically nothing but my car and my cats. That place was awful. To get up to my apartment I used to have to step over drunks laying in the stairwell coming home from work at night. And the gangs would fight in the park next door all the time and try to kill eachother. The cops were there with helicopters every other night. It was a scary place and I thank my lucky stars that I was able to eventually extricate myself from that situation. I know many people out there live their whole lives in that environment.

That experience was one of the many that made me a liberal person. It's hard not to have compassion for people in those situations when you've lived it yourself.

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

127. whoa, that is some story

sad, but glad you made it out ok. wow, i really hope i never have to call in a shooting to 911 :hug:

[xmas74]

124. My ex.

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

128. ha!

:D

[bigwillq]

129. Jeez, dude!

First the break-in and now a fire, you've had a rough couple of weeks.
I am just glad that you and all your stuff, especially that darling bird, are A-OK!

What a scary thing.

:hug: :hi: :loveya: :pals:

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

130. plus a ton of other shit that i haven't posted about....

lol, not that im looking for sympathy :pals:

yea, im still scared....hold me....

:loveya:

[bigwillq]

131. Come to poppa.

Let me give you a nice, big, hard, bearhug! :evilgrin:

:hug:

You're such a drama queen! :P

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

132. woof woof

....ive been called a lot of things, but never a drama queen :P

[bigwillq]

134. But drama seems to follow you

everywhere you go! :P

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

136. it sure has been

:cry:

[bigwillq]

138. Dry those eyes sweetie!

:P :hug:


Things will get better.

[flvegan]

133. This one time, I woke up

with a start. Thought I heard something. Dogs weren't barking, must be nothing. Got up, was gonna get my shoes on and look around, just in case. Turn on the light, and there, in front of me...a full length mirror. I was nude.

The image is burned into my mind. Damn photographic memory.

Not to belittle your post. Fire is a HUGE fear of mine, and I'd have been losing it if I woke up to that. Glad you and yours are okay.

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

137. ........

:spray::rofl:LMFAO!!!!!

oh thanks for that...




......though, I don't think i would complain too much if that image was burned into my mind......

[smitty]

140. One night when is was sixteen years old and sleeping in my

upstairs bedroom, a bolt of lightning hit the house, literally knocking me out of my bed. The bolt set fire to the curtains in room across from me. My father, who was sleeping in the downstairs bedroom, ran up the stairs in half a second and tore the curtains down.

It was pretty exciting, the fire department came, neighbors were milling around outside, my family was in an uproar and the power had been knocked out but the only permanent damage was to the curtains.

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

141. definitely scary too

thats so weird that out of everything that could have happed, only the curtains caught fire

[smitty]

150. The windows had metal frames so apparently sparks from the

lightning bolt set them on fire---at least that's what I think caused the fire.

By the way we were living in Westbury, New York at the time.

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

151. wow, wild shit

:hi:

[veganred]

145. My scary experience

On a camping trip in an area where bears live, I woke up to what I thought was a bear growling and about to maul me. It turned out to be my boyfriend snoring......

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

147. haha. almost scary

but ends just right

welcome to du! :hi:

[UrbScotty]

146. A very loud crack of thunder about ten years ago (nt)

[GoddessOfGuinness]

153. My son with croup

It was awful to watch him struggle for breath in terror. And the worst part was not being able to let my fear show...because that would only have freaked him out more, making him cry more and even less able to breathe.

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

154. he got over it though, right?

:hug:

[GoddessOfGuinness]

178. Oh yes, thankfully!

I'm sorry if I raised any concern about that... :hug:

Steam worked quickly. He was old enough to understand me when I told him how important it as for him to calm down and stop crying; and young enough to trust me when I told him I was going to make him better.

The mom of one of his friends told me that she got her little one breathing again by sticking her head in the freezer. The air is moist, and the shock of the cold air got her to stop crying. Pretty wild!

[jus_the_facts]

155. The footage of the WTC demolition.....

...has to be THE scariest thing I ever woke up to...and YES I said DEMOLITION! :evilfrown:

....dammit sweetie...you've really had a string o'bad luck..first with the attempted robbery and now a FIRE...so glad you and your birdie are OKAY!!! :hi: :hug: :loveya:

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

156. demo is right

:evilfrown:

I watched them fall from window that day :hug:

thanks Jus...luckily nothing too bad has happened...and we have all managed to survive :grouphug:

:loveya:

[jus_the_facts]

158. by the time I was awoken they'd already fallen....

....but my SO yelled "JESUS FUCKIN' CHRIST" the WTC is GONE!!"...he'd just gotten up and turned on the TV...and I spent the rest of the day sayin'..."WHY WEREN'T JETS SCRAMBLED TO INTERCEPT THE PLANES GODDAMMIT...THIS STINKS TO HIGH HEAVEN!" :cry:

You're most welcome Babe...always!! :loveya:

[YellowRubberDuckie]

157. My dad was dying in his bedroom...

My mom ran into my bedroom around 2 in the morning. Dad was on the floor, but wasn't moving and was gasping for air every few minutes. It was terrifying, and my mom was making me hysterical. I got on the phone and called the ambulance. Started doing CPR...It didn't work. He was pronounced dead about a half an hour later. I was 16. It was very confusing because he was still warm. My dad was a very warm person. It screwed me up for a really long time....

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

160. thats just awful

:hug:

im sorry for your loss Duckie

[YellowRubberDuckie]

162. Thanks. It's been a really long time now...10 years....

At that time, it was the hardest thing I ever had to face...Then my sister died when I was 21. THAT was the hardest thing I've ever had to face my entire life. I didn't realize how good of a friend she was to me until now what I miss her so much it hurts.
Duckie

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

165. death. just. sucks.

....oy

:hug::hug:

[driver8]

159. The Northridge Earthquake in 1994...

Completely destroyed my apartment. I thought a train was going through my living room.

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

161. luckily you got out ok...but damn

:hi:

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

163. My father going into atrial fibrillation right before he died

His dentures were popping out of his mouth and his eyes looked like they were popping out of his head and he was pulling himself up from the bed with blood coming out of his mouth...I had dozed by the side of his bed and it was 3 in the morning

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

166. Im sorry you had to endure that...

I don't even have the words. just some :hug::hug:

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

167. Thanks, fella..it's been 7 years since

It's just when one asks what the scariest thing I ever woke up to was...that was it...and I've woken up to 7 point earthquakes and they still didn't shake me like that...thanks for the :hug: right back atcha ;)

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

170. that is definitly up as a scariest thing

i can't even imagine :scared:

i can understand how earthquakes could pale in comparison

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

171. On the semi humorous side since humor is a coping mechanism

His face looked like the skeleton guy from Tales From The Crypt

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

173. i don't know whether to laugh or cry

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

175. I said it was a coping mechanism dammit!

laugh! :D

[rurallib]

164. lightning hitting my neighbors attic at 3AM

It was like sunlight. My (then long) hair stuck out like the proverbial 'stuck his finger in a socket' picture. Then the fire engines.
One other - another neighbor's suicide on his front lawn just after I'd gone to bed on a halloween night. Blew his own head off.

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

168. your hair did that and you were next door!

electrifying!

damn, thats a crappy crappy Halloween.

[long_green]

169. Aug 29, 1988

I woke up to hear my mother calling to me for help: my father wasn't breathing. He didn't wake up.
Sept 11th was pretty bad, the most recent Aug. 29 in New Orleans (Katrina) wasn't much fun either.

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

182. these waking up to parents passed away stories are so scary

:hug:

[GOPisEvil]

172. I was having a dream where someone was beating on my window.

I sort of half-woke up and realized someone WAS beating on my window. But why? Eeh...screw it, going back to sleep. "What's that sound?" "Engine...diesel engine." I pop one eye open and see flashing red lights. "Diesel...red lights...banging on window..." FIRE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Eh, it was nothing, grass fire out behind my house, but I was startled as all hell.

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

183. but, if it wasn't found, it coulda come after the home!

eep!

[hunter]

174. First place: The hospital.

The hospital waking me up about my wife, who wasn't doing well, not at all.

After that a big grab bag of nightmares.

9/11 was awful, for reasons I won't relate here.

Another time I woke up to Federal and local law enforcement officers in my motel room, and my girlfriend, and her friend, both who'd been sleeping in the other bed were SCREAMING and CUSSING ALL BLOODY MURDER at the officers who were holding guns aimed at us. Holy shit.

A few times I was sleeping in my car and the police knocked on my window.

Earthquakes.

Camping in the desert doing geology field work near military land, and all of the sudden they were dropping huge big ass bombs and flares from the sky.

A high speed police pursuit ending in front of our house when the suspect crashed at high speed into a police car blocking the street in front of our house.

Gee, thanks for bringing this up... :scared:

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

184. whoa...you definitly have most scary moments

major :scared::scared::scared:

sorry to bring back all these memories :hug:

[Evergreen Emerald]

176. One time many years ago I awoke to the smell of smoke

I screamed to wake up my husband and then I ran for my infant daughter. As I was grabbing her out of her crib, I saw my husband half asleep running towards the garage. When we met up outside and asked him where he was going, he told me he was running to save his car (1969 Firebird). He was not worried about me or his infant--but he ran to save his car!!!! (he is now my ex).

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

185. he went for the car...

:wow:

damn...now thats a jerk x(

[LeftyMom]

179. A car came through the wall and hit my bed

I was two weeks overdue with leftykid. The stress threw me into false labor. He was finally born two weeks later, which was a blessing because my bedroom wall was more wall than plastic sheeting again at that point.

[GOPBasher]

180. Wow!

That's crazy! :scared: I'm glad everything ended up ok, though. :-)

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

186. you definitely win the scariest moment

that could easily be turned into a benny hill sketch! :hug: but :rofl:

its great to see you back LeftyMom! :loveya: you were missed


(oh, and I was 4 weeks late too...only there was no car accident involved ;))

[benny05]

181. A Dream of My Momma Being Dead

About 17 years ago

[Digit]

188. My mother screaming to get out of the house

I was only 8, and I heard her screaming from outside of the house. I awoke and saw smoke coming up through the openings where my walls met the floor.

Turns out my brother had been playing with a crochet ball in the basement and it had hit a can of gasoline which found our water heater.

We all got out okay, but we had to stay in a hotel for awhile while the smoke damage was remedied.

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

189. all I saw was smoke and it was so scary.

im so happy you all were OK
:hug:

[sakabatou]

190. Two daddy-longlegs right next to my face.

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

193. I don't like spiders

:scared:

[NewJeffCT]

194. It's an urban legend that they have virulent poison

if that makes you feel better. I had thought it true for years, only to find out that it is not.

[sakabatou]

197. Thanks to the Mythbusters

[benEzra]

191. April 1999, Children's Hospital Boston, Pavillion 6 Cardiac ICU...

we woke up to find out that our 2-week-old son had just had an obstructed airway/aspiration episode and came very, very close to dying. His heart rate had slowed so much from oxygen deprivation that they called a code blue, got the crash cart, and were actually giving him CPR (a day after heart surgery, his little sternum wired shut and bandaged, and they're doing chest compressions--that's how close it was).

Thank God he came through, they got his airway cleared, got him intubated, and he just turned seven years old this past week.

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

192. 7!!!! thats great

luckily that scary wakeup didn't go on for years :hug:

[benEzra]

195. Yes, thankfully...

he's had a close call or two since (almost lost him again during his second open-heart in January 2003, from internal bleeding) but he's mostly out of the woods now. He'll probably need another angioplasty or two, and will need at least one more open-heart before he's an adult because he has an artificial pulmonary artery that won't grow with him.

Here's the man himself, on a recent trip to an out-of-state cardiologist:


In the hotel before setting out on the second day of driving (14 hour trip each way, so we split it up)


Hamming it up for the camera in the cardiologist's office

[Sequoia]

196. The 1994 Northridge, CA Earthquake.

Shook me awake at 4:33AM by cracky. First I went sideways, then my house went up and down. What's strange is this: I had 4 sets of glasses in my kitchen cabinet and when they flew out, one glass of each set broke but the rest were okay. An egg shaped stone I picked up in Mexcio completely disappeared. When I was moving I thought about that stone and still never found it. That earthquake just put everyone on edge, the aftershocks just made you ready to run out the door.

[caty]

198. Boom Boom

I posted this last year. This is the scarietst thing I've ever woken up to:

It was 6am on a wintry Friday morning in February, when I was awakened by a loud sliding sound from above, followed by a loud BOOM. I thought that a huge sheet of ice had slid off of our roof and crashed outside of our bedroom window. But then boom boom boom boom came from upstairs and my husband woke up. We jumped out of bed as we heard BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM. Then the sounds started coming from the upstairs room above us. It sounded as though the roof of the house was caving in. “What’s happening” I cried. “I think a plane has swiped our roof” my husband said. Then boom boom boom boom.



We ran into the hallway just in time to see our cat, Miss Kitty, running from the stairway with a white plastic shopping bag attached to her hind legs. And our other cat, Cuddles, running close behind her. My husband caught Miss Kitty to free her from the bag, while I ran upstairs to see what had caved in. Nothing—everything looked fine. When I came downstairs I saw two empty boxes of shotgun shells lying at the foot of the stairway with shotgun shells scattered around.



Now, Miss Kitty loves those plastic shopping bags. The day before, my husband had bought those two boxes of shotgun shells to take up north for hunting season. He put the bag of shells in a basket in our bedroom. Miss Kitty must of gotten into the basket to play with the bag when her hind legs got tangled in the handles of the bag. She must have panicked and took off running. The sliding sound I heard was when she jumped out of the basket dragging the bag of shells behind her. The crashing sound was when the heavy bag hit the floor the first time. All the other “booms” were from the bag hitting the floor behind her as she ran up the stairs and all around the upstairs. Then, back down the stairs where the bag broke open spilling those shot gun shells. Cuddles was probably trying to rescue Miss Kitty when she was running behind her. I can almost imagine Cuddles shouting to Miss Kitty, “stop and I’ll get it off of you!!!!”



And, I always thought that cats were the quiet pets.

[caty]

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