I just lost a few years off my life

[SoonerTexan]

DH was out at an intramural soccer game tonight, so I was home alone with N. I took a shower with her and then we were coloring in the back room. I'm still in a bathrobe.

All the sudden someone starts whistling--it sounded like DH at first. N thought so too. Really loud and really clear. We called out to him--no answer. The whistling stopped. Now I start freaking out. I luckily had my phone nearby and called DH. He definitely was not in the house, but was just a few minutes away. I'm cowering in a corner with N sobbing and shaking while talking to DH on the phone. Then the whistling starts again and gets louder. I sure as hell wasn't going to go to the next room and find the whistler.

DH gets home, walks in with a bat, and starts searching the house. Nothing, but he can hear the whistling too.

It's my BIL on the XBOX. I thought about the baby monitor, but it clearly wasn't. I didn't think about the XBOX, because any noise from groups comes through his headphones and I saw earlier it was on a movie, not a game. Apparently when the XBOX is on, but not on a game, it will come through the TV.

Another reason to hate the XBOX.

[BonBon]

That is scary!! Glad it was only the xbox.

True story from earlier this summer...I was sunbathing topless face down. Kids were in school, and I was expecting DH at any minute. Heard the Hunger Games whistle and thought it was DH, so I sat up to greet him. Yeah, full boobage. THERE WAS A MAN IN THE WOODS STARING AT ME. He was apparently doing work at the neighbor's and for whatever reason was hanging out in the woods. (we have just under 8 wooded acres, so I felt quite comfortable doing as I please in my own damn yard)

[SoonerTexan]

^^ That's worse

It was just so clear and the volume changed. It truly sounded like someone was in the next room.

[v-girl]

ST - it would have been cool if it was a ghost. BIL deserves a prank.

BonBon - How creepy!

[SoonerTexan]

ST - it would have been cool if it was a ghost.

No, then I would have to move

He actually didn't know we could hear him. He was just playing a game and whistling, just like DH does.

[Momo]

Yowzers!!!! I had a "whistling freak-out moment" once. My sister and I were home alone, up in our bedroom.We grew up in a Big farm house. The rest of the family went to my brother's ball game. We were in our bedroom, the sun had set so we had a lamp on. The rest of the house was dark and empty. We heard whistling plain as day right out side our window, that has a 2story drop to the ground, as in no roof or eaves for anyone to stand on. It freaked us out because it would start and stop...needless to say we never stayed home alone again!!!

[Mrs. MD, Esq.]

I would have lost it...so glad it was only the xbox!

Could have been funnier though...you could have called the police and then felt really silly (though better silly and safe)!

[DrBandMe]

Oh my gosh! I would have cried. I'm so glad it was something random like the XBOX.

My ex-boyfriend once sneaked into the house and hid downstairs while I was upstairs in the bedroom watching a movie. He texted me to tell me the alarm company had called him to say the silent alarm was going off - could I go check the door. I look down the stairs and, sure enough, the door was open. So I FREAK OUT, hide in his room, and hold the door closed while I am texting him frantically to come home and that I was going to call 911. The door suddenly busts open, forcing me out of the way, and he grabs me and covers my eyes and says "SURPRISE!"

Needless to say, I was not amused. Full on panic attack.

I HATE BEING SCARED! HATE IT!!!

[samssugarmomma]

Holy carp drbandme!!! No wonder he's an ex!

[SoonerTexan]

Yeah, that isn't funny! I have a rule that DH must announce when he is in the bathroom because he thought it was funny to stick his face in while I was shampooing and scared the crap out of me when I opened my eyes.

Did you know Janet Leigh never showered again after filming the Psycho scene?

[MrsC]

I would have been terrified ST!

[TigerLily]

That is horrifying!!!!! xbox is good for nuthin!

[PrincessFiona]

I'm glad it was just an x-box thing!

When we lived in Fl, we were woken in the middle of the night by our stereo turning on loudly. It was 3 am and all of a sudden, the stereo was just screaming at us from the other room. Thomas took a baseball bat into the living room while I cowered with the kids in the bedroom. There was no one in the house. He turned the stereo off and we laid back down (with the door locked and barricaded with a dresser!). It was just the weirdest fluke thing.

Kris

[DrBandMe]

Holy carp drbandme!!! No wonder he's an ex!

Right?! He never understood why I was so upset and he used to bring it up in conversation to poke fun at me that I had a panic attack. Ugh... yeah, SO many reasons he's an ex!!

[DrBandMe]

Did you know Janet Leigh never showered again after filming the Psycho scene?

Really? Wow. That's a high price to pay for filming a movie. I like to take an occasional bath but a long, HOT shower is sublime.

Re: your story... I'm not sure if I would have been more frustrated with being scared in the bathroom naked or that I now had shampoo in my eyes. That stuff burns!

Also, I'm always nervous that something is going to happen to me when I'm naked and I'm going to have to run from my house in my birthday suit. Then I'm standing on the sidewalk watching my house burn or something trying to cover up my fat and my goodies. Yeah...NO ONE wants to see that.