When was the last time you screamed involuntarily?

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Last night I ran really fast into a dark room to answer the telephone, without seeing this tiny chair/footstool thing that was in the way. I ran into it and tripped right over it - whilst in midair I let out a scream "AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" so loud that i possibly had interrupted a session of sex that was happening in another room.

It was someone calling the wrong number.

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 14 March 2005 14:13 (twenty years ago)

The time before that then. Was in my flat again, the lock to the door has been broken for a while, and sometimes I forget this fact and barge right into the toilet. Except this time halfway through walking in I hear my flatmate shout "OI" from inside, and I was like "AHHH FUCK!" and luckily didn't catch a full frontal view.

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 14 March 2005 14:15 (twenty years ago)

Resident Evil 4, going into an abandoned prison cell and running right into a Regenerator.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 14 March 2005 14:16 (twenty years ago)

A few months ago. I woke up in a beer haze to pee in the middle of the night and went to the bathroom. Now I sleep with earplugs because im such a light sleeper. So im standing there boxers around the ankles peeing and the door opens and my wife walks in...but being unable to hear and being half out of it i screamed like a bitch and pissed all over the place. which in turn made my wife scream too. fun times.

― Chris 'The Nuts' V (Chris V), Monday, 14 March 2005 14:16 (twenty years ago)

Quite frequently. In fact sometimes even at work, when the computer does something annoying. I've got to the point where I don't realise I'm doing it. Fortunately the bloke who sits next to me doesn't really notice.

I also kind of let out a little "OOP!" of surprise if someone walks in front of me on the street.

I've got to stop doing these things - it's a sign I've spent too much time alone for too long, that I don't notice when I'm vocalising.

― Masonic Cathedral (kate), Monday, 14 March 2005 14:17 (twenty years ago)

On an aeroplane a couple of weeks ago. I was reading my mag, kinda half dozing and I suddenly thought the plane was dropping. It felt like it! It wasn't a loud scream but it made the folk in front and behind of me nervous for the rest of the flight.

― Rumpsy Pumpsy (Rumpie), Monday, 14 March 2005 14:23 (twenty years ago)

I tried to steal a paddleboat last night and fell in the lake. I let out some sort of noise but it wasn't a scream, it was more of a H. Simpson guttural type thing.

There's mud and gravel all over my clothes.

― andy --, Monday, 14 March 2005 17:32 (twenty years ago)

I was carrying an old monitor from a closet across my apartment to a desk when I caught a glimpse of a waterbug skittering around it. I let out an 'Ah!,' not too loud though, put the monitor down really fast and then smashed the bug with a Led Zeppelin songbook that was handy.

― 57 7th (calstars), Monday, 14 March 2005 17:35 (twenty years ago)

When I went camping and had half dropped off to sleep then woke up convinced that a large rat was leaping around in the tent. It wasn't.

Also when I was mugged though I can't remember if that was truly involuntary or more trying to call for help.

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 14 March 2005 17:36 (twenty years ago)

When a guy came up to the window of the car I was sitting in and stuck a 7-inch steak knife to my girlfriend's throat.

― just adam (nordicskilla), Monday, 14 March 2005 17:39 (twenty years ago)

It was probably the last time a cat jumped on my stomach in the middle of the night.

― sunburned and snowblind (kenan), Monday, 14 March 2005 17:41 (twenty years ago)

...and then smashed the bug with a Led Zeppelin songbook that was handy.

Hammer of the Gods!

When I was about 10 I was taking the garbage out through our family's "den" area and my older brother had noticed me opening the door and so hid in the dark and jumped out at me as I passed. I screamed, dropped the trash, and fell to the floor flailing about. He actually got a little worried. One reason for my reaction was that I had been thinking "what if there's a prowler out there?" just before he jumped at me.

― nickn (nickn), Monday, 14 March 2005 18:00 (twenty years ago)

When I was watching Arachnophobia in the cinema and my friend crawled his hand up my shoulder during a quiet moment in the film. I screamed like Leatherface was chasing me.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Monday, 14 March 2005 22:08 (twenty years ago)

I screeched, loudly and embarrassingly, with incompetently suppressed giggles when told a stupid joke last week: "How many hipsters does it take to change a lightbulb?" With disdain: "You don't know?"

― mnra, Monday, 14 March 2005 22:33 (twenty years ago)

hahahaha awesome.

― sunburned and snowblind (kenan), Monday, 14 March 2005 22:39 (twenty years ago)

At a mouse.

Like a girl.

*hangs head*

― Sasha (sgh), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 01:33 (twenty years ago)

Friday, rare night when I drank a bit much and fell asleep. Got up to pee an hour later, lightheaded, just while finishing I passed out, and sort of moaned/screeched and fell over and woke up a minute later OK.

― -rainbow bum- (-rainbow bum-), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 04:38 (twenty years ago)

I don't know. . .honestly.

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 04:41 (twenty years ago)

two weekends ago i was really really sick and it was really cold. i went to the downstairs bathroom to chug down some more advil, and i started going into sort of weird convulsions, and at one point yelled out. i think i was going into shock because of the cold? anyway i made it back upstairs to my bed and after a couple minutes under warm blankets and with water i warmed up enough that the shock ended and i stopped shaking. it was sorta scary.

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 04:45 (twenty years ago)

twas a fortnight ago. Pursued across a vast terrain by seven fiendishly attired Swedes, I found shelter in a dank series of catacombs, carved out underneath a rocky outcropping along the western edge of a forest. Grimly situating myself against a wall, blade in my left hand to be used against my enemy, gun with a single bullet in the chamber to be used against myself if my doom was near and certain. Lighting a small fire, I wrote a quick missive to roxymuzac, demanding that she pwn my Basement Jaxx LPs for herself. Lashing the note to my shin, I prepared myself. Then a spider scampered across me hand and I squealed like a wee lass and woke up.

― Gear! (can Jung shill it, Mu?) (Gear!), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 04:48 (twenty years ago)

I was leaving a grocery store in Texas with my son, he started just walking right out into the parking lot without stopping at the curb and looking for traffic, some bad-ass west Texan almost hit him with his Suburban...I yelled "STOP!" sorta at the boy and the SUV guy at the same time.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 14:38 (twenty years ago)

Purple drapes!

― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 15:10 (twenty years ago)

Dale is forever sneaking up on me when I'm reading or doing something in the kitchen — I don't usually full-on scream, though. More like a 'OMGWTFWTFWTF" shout that's naturally high-pitched 'cause of my ovaries.

He's going to rue the day that he does that while I have a knife/baseball bat/shiv in my hand.

― sugarpants (sugarpants), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 15:46 (twenty years ago)

When my car was spinning and going up on two wheels while hurtling down the highway.

― Hurting (Hurting), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 15:56 (twenty years ago)

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