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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ForceUser" data-source="post: 1094145" data-attributes="member: 2785">Caution - movie spoilersSpooky. Not a ghost story, but I scared the sh*t out of myself the other night. About two months ago I saw a horror flick called <a href="http://www.ring-themovie.com/" target="_blank">The Ring</a>. This movie is easily the most eerie and frightening film I've seen since The Exorcist. I mean, it really unnerved me, and I had trouble sleeping for about two weeks after watching it (and I don't consider myself easily frightened - startled yes, truly frightened, no). So a couple weekends ago I'd done a half-assed job of cleaning my bedroom, meaning I'd cleaned the half I usually inhabit. Unusually, I vacuumed for once. When I was done I left the vacuum cleaner - one of those jobs that stand upright on their own - next to my bed. Recently, because I'm a lazy slob, I've been hanging clothes over it when I take them off to go to bed. The other night I sleepily took off my white t-shirt and draped it over the vacuum. Then I took off my dark shorts and draped those over the t-shirt. I climbed into bed, turned off the lights, and began to drift off to sleep. A little while later, as is often the case, my cat pushed my door open and entered my bedroom. I heard the door open and rolled over to look, and in my half-awake state I saw the vacuum with the clothes draped over it and freaked out - I screamed and flinched away from it. You see, in the dark, the vacuum stood about as tall as the evil little girl in The Ring, it was draped in white like her (t-shirt), and had long dark hair like her (shorts). I mean I freaked right the hell out, startled into momentary, abject terror before I remembered it was a vacuum. It was as though she was standing right next to my bed.The moral of this story is don't watch The Ring if you have a vivid imagination and no tolerance for fright.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /></blockquote>

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