I had a strangely spooky walk just now to the 7-11 down the street.
The power in the building went out, and I got ticked off and decided
to go to the 7-11 and grab some candles.

Anyways, I walked down 14 flights of steps not realizing that only
2 floors had emergency lights and the rest of the floors were basically
in the dark.

Although I'm not afraid of the dark, the starwell cast long shadows from
my dimly light cheapass cellphone, and every step I took had a strange
hissing echo to it. I swear to God, I thought I heard that sound Predator
makes before she shoots a spear through somebody.

It didn't help that once I finally made it to the ground floor that
the street was dark too and I must have seen 20 rats scurrying around
the place and a small pack of dogs walking towards me in the distance,
their shadows casting long ominous shaddows.

I finally reached the 7-11, and all they had were birthday candles

By the time I got back the power was back on the Internet re-established.
Aren't you guys happy? GROUP. HUG.



Swear to gawd, I don't fear the dark. Never have.
But I kind of understood why folks fear it tonight.

You are so lucky that you don't fear the dark.. I hate when it's winter, I'm home alone and the lights suddenly turn off.. I swear shadows can sometimes move..

Imago said:

Glad you are safe and freshly illuminated by the darkness

I love the darkness - so much comfort and so many incredible lessons about self within ...

Mach said:

So true.

I wish I could paint the world black... like my soul.

Mach said:

So true.

I wish I could paint the world black... like my soul.

Imago said:

Imago..oh my God, your avatar!

KidaDynamite said:

Swear to gawd. It almost made wish I was slathered in mud to hide my infrared signal.

Imago said:

That damn avatar...

predator is your scary sound?
when I'm out in the dark woods, I hear the loud twig snapping sound from Blair Witch



even in my backyard in broad daylight I hear that sound

ZombieKitten said:

I think the sound was coming from a gecko or something. They make really strange noises here. I would normally attribute such a sound to a frog or something, but I haven't seen a frog since I've gotten here. My hunch is frogs are very sensitive to PH-balance in the environment and Bangkok is terribly poluted, so I'm sure they're extinct here.
It must have been a gecko. But I only heard the noise once.

ZombieKitten said:

I think the sound was coming from a gecko or something. They make really strange noises here. I would normally attribute such a sound to a frog or something, but I haven't seen a frog since I've gotten here. My hunch is frogs are very sensitive to PH-balance in the environment and Bangkok is terribly poluted, so I'm sure they're extinct here.
It must have been a gecko. But I only heard the noise once.

I have this (hopefully) irrational fear that you're slowly draining the life (and any braincells I might have left) out of me with these pointless threads.

johnart said:

I had a strangely spooky walk just now to the 7-11 down the street.
The power in the building went out, and I got ticked off and decided
to go to the 7-11 and grab some candles.

Anyways, I walked down 14 flights of steps not realizing that only
2 floors had emergency lights and the rest of the floors were basically
in the dark.

Although I'm not afraid of the dark, the stairwell cast long shadows from
my dimly lit, cheap-ass cellphone, and every step I took had a strange
hissing echo to it. I swear to God, I thought I heard that sound Predator
makes before he shoots a spear through somebody.

It didn't help that once I finally made it to the ground floor that
the street was dark too and I must have seen 20 rats scurrying around
the place and a small pack of dogs walking towards me in the distance,
their shadows casting long ominous shaddows.

I finally reached the 7-11, and all they had were birthday candles

By the time I got back the power was back on the Internet re-established.
Aren't you guys happy? GROUP. HUG.



Swear to gawd, I don't fear the dark. Never have.
But I kind of understood why folks fear it tonight.

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[Edited 12/20/09 9:58am]