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

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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.
Well, considering your old career, that's pretty understandable.
It's still embarrassing to be huddled under a HMMWV, particularly since I was never prone to such behavior during my time overseas (While others hunkered in bunkers in full battle dress [Which was the right thing to do], I usually just continued whatever the hell I was doing beforehand, frequently out in the open, usually not even wearing a jacket. I remember once smoking beside a mini bunker people were hiding in, in nothing more then boots, pants, and a shirt, and watching a rocket land about 50 meters away. While falling, it looked very much like it was going to land on me. All I can remember thinking was 'fuck it.').

Luckily, I soon found out that everyone in my unit was a miserable coward, some of them hiding in Korea for almost a decade, filling positions that were non-deployable just to save themselves. This discovery led me to not caring much what they thought, to the point where arguments with my superiors usually ended with me throwing my combat patch in their face (Literally) and walking away.
 

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Shadow People [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow_people].

They follow me everywhere. Watching me. Taunting me. O_O
 

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when I walk into the room and there's someone where I don't expect them to be. There's always out of sight so it makes me think the room is empty!
 

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In Minecraft, the sound of a skeleton shooting an arrow at me one time. I saw him. I was baiting him. I saw him coming, saw him get into range. The noise startled me shitless.
 

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My most embarrassing fright... Would have to be when I was out at the beach one summer (I think it has to be at least 8 years ago now, starting to feel old..), was going to get dressed so I picked up my panties and saw a THING (was a bumblebee, but it was more of a surprise factor than any real logic involved) and I yelled at the top of my lung and tossed them away... Right into the water. My friends had a good laugh at me there :'(
 

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Japanese Schoolgirl: "Am I sexy cute?"
Me: NO!! (fucking terrified of being labelled as a pedo my first week in Japan)

... turns out that sexy in Japanese schoolgirl lingo means "cute". I think I scarred an elementary schooler for life by telling her she wasn't cute :( .

Still, scared the crap out of me.
 

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Me turning around a corner of my small hallway to my mom's fiance coming my direction with the hallway lights off but another close room's lights on. I'm always disappointed with myself for screaming at something that I honestly at the time just thought "I wasn't expecting him to be walking right there at that time ahhh!"
 

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I've played horror games before and i didn't flinch. However the first time a skag jumped at me and snaps it maw at me i yelped. the thing had come right up to my face.
 

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DeadlyYellow said:
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.
Bees? You kiddin' me, dawg? Ever heard of motherfuckin' WASPS? Their entire purpose in life is to FUCK. SHIT. UP. Not to make honey and hump flowers, no, no, no. Their only reason of existence is to ruin your shit. You better pray that you're not on their list of shit to fuck up.
 

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While playing oblivion at 3 AM, the sight of an Oblivion gate scarred the shit out of me...
 

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Well, one time, i was laying my head on the table across my arms during class because i was bored shitless. Then my friend thought it funny to jab me in the side, where it really hurts. I reacted so fact that just as a reflex i punched him in the gut by accident with the full force of my fist....

That, and having a bloody (insert monster here) dropping from the roof in minecraft onto your screen and not knowing where it is because you just spazzed out your camera by throwing your mouse halfway to Narnia.
 

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Duck Sandwich said:
The sound of a toaster popping.
This. I do it to myself. I wait for the toast, knowing it will pop any minute, then when it doesn't it just gets tenser and tenser until POP!
 

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My own shadow. But in my defense, I had to walk home alone in the middle of the night. I thought I saw something out of the corner of my eye and when I did, I screamed pretty loud and it echoed down the street. It was my shadow on the wall. ;;>_> But, luckily no one was there to actually see it. lol So as far as you know, this is a lie! Yes, a lie. It never happened. *cough*
 

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I have a embarrasing fear in Bethesda games like Oblivion, Fallout 3 and Fallout NV. The thing where you enter a house and someone is standing there all up in your face, or starts talking to you. Scares the shit outta me everytime xD
 

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Daddy Go Bot said:
Bees? You kiddin' me, dawg? Ever heard of motherfuckin' WASPS? Their entire purpose in life is to FUCK. SHIT. UP. Not to make honey and hump flowers, no, no, no. Their only reason of existence is to ruin your shit. You better pray that you're not on their list of shit to fuck up.
Eaugh. Tell me about it. I remember when the cicadas came out a few years back, and with them the large cicada-hunter wasps. There's something terrifying about a local wasp the size of your thumb.

Of course, nothing compares to the horror of the Asian Giant Hornets.
 

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Mauro Carrizales said:
Cockroaches. God I hate those little bastards.
^- This, and whenever I am watching a movie in my room with the lights off and my back is to the door, the dog runs in and jumps on me out of nowhere resorting in a kind of noise which only resembles 'omghwwhtifjosidwomfapwfa!' if the dog was any smaller it would probably be un-intentionally launched out the window.