What little things make you jump?

fussyonion

I'm talking about things that are often innocent enough...e.g, I have the window open in the bedroom and the wind has obviously made the door creak and close.

At first though, I nearly emptied my bladder with fright-I thought there was someone in the house.

Another thing is when I'm doing the dishes and I'm looking out the window, which is facing the back garden, and I see two green eyes peering back at me (the neighbour's cat sitting on the window ledge)

So, I'm not talking about obvious things (horror films etc)..just the little silly things in life that make you jump out of your skin!

wazky

Fences

mikom

What little things make you jump?

Kriss Kross.
Littler now since Mac Daddy died.

weldoninhio

Skipping ropes

lycan238

my alarm clock this morning. I set it for the same time every Thursday morning but this morning was not quite awake but not asleep either. next thing 'Dong' and I jumped. That and when a dog came out from a ditch right in front of my car as I was doing 75-80km/hr on a main road and finally one day I came round a corner next thing the wing mirror off the car in front hit my windscreen because there was an accident just in front of me.

Please note: The dog was perfectly fine. No one was injured in the accident.

corktina

baked beans (a penny a lump)

Pensivepuca

Being dark outside and standing inside with the light on, who knows what could be looking back.

castletownman

Stepping on a plug bare-footed

Nemeses

Spiders... especially cyborg ones!

Hasmunch

That unexpected little drop when walking across what you thought was a flat surface and your impending death for a few milliseconds

Ice Storm

If someone comes up quietly to me when I'm concentrating on something and speaks or even just 'appears' beside me, I jump out of my skin.

It's so amusing that people then do it intentionally to get a reaction.

.Henry Sellers.

When you think you are falling in your sleep and wake up with a jump, I hate and love it.

Ice Storm

Hasmunch wrote: »

That unexpected little drop when walking across what you thought was a flat surface and your impending death for a few milliseconds

When you're going up the stairs in the dark and think there is one more step when there's not... :eek:

NickDunne

The toaster... no matter how much I try to prepare for it popping, it always still gets me.

Bastard.

Duff

Waking up in the middle of the night with a calf cramp from HELL!

looksee

The dratted woman in my hearing aid who says 'battery low', always makes me jump.

Sandypants

late night phone calls...means you can be be in for a good time!!.... or someone needs help!!

Karl Stein

An electric shock to the bum-bum.

**Vai**

Van Halen.

Mariasofia

When I mistook my son's phone for my own and was woken up by his alarm tone....a loud Mexican shouting "wake up or I kiiiiill you". Not good for the heart. Jump is an understatement!!

stoneill

Getting a finger stuck up your arsé - I'd imagine.

Gamayun

When I listen to an album whilst on the PC, just as background filler, and it ends without me really noticing, lulling me into a false sense of security, and then 5 minutes later the hidden bonus track erupts from the speakers!

PizzamanIRL

Butterflies. They're hard to catch.

ottostreet

When a balloon explodes and gives me a little fright!

Eeden

The glaucoma test at the opticians.

ShazGV

Using my phone in a dark room, and a fly comes out of nowhere to fly at the light, right in front of my face.

WoollyRedHat

http://www.walmart.ca/en/ip/body-break-mini-trampoline/10024547

Karona

A fly practically landing in my ear, I do like a karate ninja thing with my arms because its frightens me so much.

CrazyRabbit

Electric shocks, and 20% of car drivers who seem hell-bent on killing me when I'm out on my motorbike.

uch

All the answers are taken, so nothing else makes me jump

Elbaston

When abroad.

Nodding off and a mosquito buzzes right above your head.

Night ruined :mad:



Ill take Irish weather over the little fckers anyday.

nervous_twitch

Turning on the television after someone close to deaf has been watching it. Or that weird thing where the ad breaks on certain channels are louder than the show itself. One minute you're nursing a glass of red to the soothing, sultry voice of David Attenborough.. then bam you're crapping your wine-soaked pants in front of Harvey Norman.

YouTube and earphones in general.

uch

Going to the Jax and seeing me Mickey,,,, Horrendously small used to look bigger to me