Something wicked...

[beautyofevening]

There's something outside on my patio. I prefer to believe it's a something and not a someone. It sounds like something brushing against the screen door, not quite as if it were being slid open. At first I thought it was the cat brushing against the vertical blinds, but then she came over to investigate. This had the double negative impact of

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[miss_pea]

I generally just freak out when I hear noises. It's always at night, and I'm usually in bed. I just lay there, trying to convince myself that it's nothing. Finally I just fall asleep and have nightmares.

[princesskrissie]

When I was in Saginaw living in my apartment by myself, I used to flip out all the time. (then again, my apartment complex DID look like every scary movie's camp ground....)

I always fell asleep with the TV on. Sleep timers are awesome.

I freaked out a lot at night, but when I was showering was a creepy time too, for whatever reason. Oh! I hope that doesn't make you more nervous :/

I love you! I'll fly to Seattle and beat up whatever raccoon/bat/mischevious squirrel is causing this ruckus!

[beautyofevening]

No, I'm not more nervous now. :) But I appreciate your willingness to beat down my noisemakers.

[anonymous]

Actually, it doesn't get a whole lot better when you *don't* live alone. Then *both* of you get creeped out, grab a knife, and go looking out all the windows. And showering when you don't live alone is also more scary if you get up first, and your hubby doesn't think to let you know he's up until he's right on the other side of the shower curtain. I've screamed a couple times at that one.

~your (married) friend from the opposite side of the country

[anonymous]

Heh. Is it wrong to laugh at the prospect of scaring the bejeebers out of your wife? Because, right now, that sounds hilarious.

[anonymous]

Granted...she'd need to be pretty tolerant, so's she doesn't pour poison into my ear as I sleep. But I figure that if she was willing to marry me, she'd understand that I have a cacklesome sense of humor sometimes.

And I wouldn't do it often. Maybe once or twice when we were first married, and then maybe once every three or four years after that, just to keep her on her toes.

[anonymous]

No, I guess I wouldn't do that. I might enjoy it to no end (I explode with delight at the mere thought of it), but it's awful and not loving. So I'd never do it. But I WOULD tell my wife I'd considered the idea. And if she's anything like me, she might snicker a bit...partially because the non-happening of the idea allows her to think of it happening to someone else.