What's the most embarrassing thing you've been startled by?

[aarontg]

Recently I was playing through amnesia and there was a point where nothing was happening and the tension was high. Suddenly I nearly jumped out of my seat when my little brother said hi to me as he passed my room. With my example out of the way I ask this:

What's the most embarrassing thing you've been startled by?

 

[DeadlyYellow]

A bee.

They're generally harmless insects just going about their beesness. I don't feel stings anymore and really have no reason to be frightened of them.

 

[LuckyClover95]

I get startled all the time. You know when the apocolypse was supposed to happen? I didn't believe it, but around the time it was meant to happen the local music venue started playing loud angelic music. Not gonna lie, it scared me. But that wasn't really startled so much as shitting myself.

 

[Snowalker]

A penis

Umm, I've had similar things happen like what the op stated. I guess the most embarrassing is when I got shut in a closet at a sleep over, but I was young, and made it clear I was scarred of the dark, so yeah.

 

[OmniscientOstrich]

My cat -_- who is surprisingly quite stealthy for a rather corpulent feline.

 

[Alon Shechter]

In Amnesia.
Intense, dark room.
Monster just dropped from a hole in the ceiling. I hide in a dark corner, the monster stares at me from afar and stands still.
The pressure is running. Sanity lowering. I might be spotted and die any minu--
HOLY FUCKING BALLS MOTHERFUCKING SKYPE CALL

 

[aba1]

I'm a very jumpy person so I am constantly startled by sudden noises I think I got it because my dad used to jump out from places n scare me all the time as a kidit was funny n all but now I jump alot over things that I dont think most would

 

[DefunctTheory]

Bird Mortar. They use these things to make noise to keep airfield clear.

Yeah. Crawling under cars when a light boom goes off can be kind of embarrassing. Especially when you know its coming.

 

[Chemical Alia]

A midget dressed as the psycho bandit from Borderlands snuck up behind me and scared the utter shit out of me last week. If I'd had a drink in my hand, I'd have thrown it.

 

[PatSilverFox]

Female genitalia on chat omegle.

 

[g_hughes]

A spider. I dont' like them at the best of times, but the bastard just lowered itself from the ceiling, ninja-stylee. I turned round, saw it and jumped into a wall before my brain kicked in and figured out where the door was...

 

[Duck Sandwich]

The sound of a toaster popping.

 

[TheYellowCellPhone]

Air raid sirens, even when they're from the TV or computer -- if I don't see the screen I get freaked out.

 

[ObliviousGenius]

Just flown in from Kansai airport and, during my overlay in San Francisco, had a ROTC recruit in full fatigues tell me that Michael Jackson had died.

Point is, forty-two hours later without any sleep, I looked in the bathroom mirror while getting some ibuprofen and scared myself so hard I fell over.

 

[Stasisesque]

My own imagination.

My friends and I, when little, used to deliberately scare ourselves by pretending there was a lion/ghost/serial killer lurking down the alleyway in the middle of our street. We lived at opposite ends of the street, so often times we'd have worked ourselves into such a state that by going home time, we'd have to run - to avoid spending even a second next to that alley.

Fast forward 20 years, I'm visiting my parents (who still live in my childhood home (as do I currently)), remember this silly little game, remember how scared child-me was... approach alley... freak the fuck out and run the entire way down the street.

I'M 25, I'M A BLOODY ADULT. *grumble*

 

[RicoGrey]

My own reflection in a mirror, numerous times. It has mostly happened at my old house, where we just so happened to have a mirror placed in the hallway that was at the right height and angle to look like a person standing in the door way.

I work a late shift, so I am up late at night with most of the lights off, and not a whole lot of noise. This contributes to it a lot, and I have awoken my roommates a few times from girlish screams upon gazing at my own visage.

We would have taken the mirror down, but the house and mirror were like 60 some years old, and that thing was on there tight.

 

[RicoGrey]

Just flown in from Kansai airport and, during my overlay in San Francisco, had a ROTC recruit in full fatigues tell me that Michael Jackson had died.

Point is, forty-two hours later without any sleep, I looked in the bathroom mirror while getting some ibuprofen and scared myself so hard I fell over.

I'm sorry, but what?

 

[HydraMoon]

Toast. Every single time- every single morning. I know it's going to happen, I put the toast in AND pressed the little lever. I stared at the toaster for ten minutes waiting for the toast- yet still it makes me jump and squeal in terror.

Me, a great human brought low by toasted bread products. So embarrassing.

 

[Mauro Carrizales]

Cockroaches. God I hate those little bastards.