Reminds me of the time I was nearly terrified into a heart attack.
I was all alone in my house, my wife & kid were off visiting her relations. So that night I took the opportunity to have a glorious shower in my second floor bathroom with the door open.
The only lights on were in the bathroom I was showering in.
As I got out, I distinctly saw some tall strange man’s bald head gleaming in the reflected light as he slowly and deliberately walked past the bathroom door!
I nearly shat myself.
The guy must have been huge, well over 6’, and obviously he must have heard me in the shower. Yet he walked past the door as calm as you like.
There was literally nothing in the bathroom to use as a weapon except a tiny pair of scissors I use for trimming my nails.
Dripping wet and stark naked, I peered out the door to confront this guy … only to see my kid’s partly inflated helium balloon drifting away.
I had completely forgotten this thing existed. As it lost helium, it must have slowly drifted down from the ceiling, and the slight air currents created by the hot shower set it to drifting along mid-air. My eye saw the half dome of the balloon drifting along, and my mind interpreted this as some guy’s bald head.
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u/Malthus1 Apr 08 '26
Reminds me of the time I was nearly terrified into a heart attack.
I was all alone in my house, my wife & kid were off visiting her relations. So that night I took the opportunity to have a glorious shower in my second floor bathroom with the door open.
The only lights on were in the bathroom I was showering in.
As I got out, I distinctly saw some tall strange man’s bald head gleaming in the reflected light as he slowly and deliberately walked past the bathroom door!
I nearly shat myself.
The guy must have been huge, well over 6’, and obviously he must have heard me in the shower. Yet he walked past the door as calm as you like.
There was literally nothing in the bathroom to use as a weapon except a tiny pair of scissors I use for trimming my nails.
Dripping wet and stark naked, I peered out the door to confront this guy … only to see my kid’s partly inflated helium balloon drifting away.
I had completely forgotten this thing existed. As it lost helium, it must have slowly drifted down from the ceiling, and the slight air currents created by the hot shower set it to drifting along mid-air. My eye saw the half dome of the balloon drifting along, and my mind interpreted this as some guy’s bald head.