Just pooped myself at work............

[studio1087]

I'm in a corner office on our top floor. I have three big windows.

I was working on a spread sheet and looked up for a moment and saw this...



I shrieked. I actually shrieked like a little girl who saw a rat.

We had a bad storm last week and the company paid a guy to walk the ledges and inspect all the windows. I looked up and there was a man staring right at my face on the outside.

I'm going to go in the health club and find a towel now. I think I need a towel.

Crap!

[castpolymer]

I probably would have joined you if I was in your position. That would scare the c**p out of me also.

[elicross]

Question: Would you have been more alarmed or less alarmed if the guy wore a Spider-Man costume?

[studio1087]

Spiderman. That's funny.

I wish I could have taken a photo quicker. His face was right in the corner of the window near my face. I looked up and a face was there......2 feet away.

Wow. It's pretty funny now.

[elicross]

Yeah. That would creep me right the hell out.

When I was a very little kid, I saw some kind of horror movie on TV. The only thing I remember from it was that someone looked out a second-story window in the dead of night and saw a face -- just a face -- looking in. That image stuck with me, and to this day I'm freaked out by the thought of looking out a window and seeing a face where there shouldn't be one, looking in from the outside. If I'm sleeping in a strange place and that thought occurs to me, I've been known to close the shades on the window before I can sleep; otherwise, I'm afraid I'll have a nightmare about the face at the window.

[Slow Reflexes]

Originally Posted by studio1087

...I was working on a spread sheet...

Is that what the kids are calling it now?

[Red Square]

I'm going to go in the health club and find a towel now. I think I need a towel.

Or a trowel....

[wallis222]

LOL

[Scantron08]

Originally Posted by studio1087

I'm in a corner office on our top floor.

How many floors does your building have?

[src9000]

He's probably bragging about it right now on the Les Paul forum.

I too have a thing about someone looking in at me at night. I make sure all windows are covered.

[drf64]

It happened to Shatner. He shat himself too.

[mal paso]

This ladies and gents.....





Is how you title a thread!

[jc93230]

There is some pics out there of window washers that dress like spiderman. pretty creative if you ask me.

to the original poster, extra chone's and handywipes in a desk drawer just in case!

[telleutelleme]

Must be middle management - no safety harness.

[Torz Johnson]

Originally Posted by elicross

Yeah. That would creep me right the hell out.

When I was a very little kid, I saw some kind of horror movie on TV. The only thing I remember from it was that someone looked out a second-story window in the dead of night and saw a face -- just a face -- looking in. That image stuck with me, and to this day I'm freaked out by the thought of looking out a window and seeing a face where there shouldn't be one, looking in from the outside. If I'm sleeping in a strange place and that thought occurs to me, I've been known to close the shades on the window before I can sleep; otherwise, I'm afraid I'll have a nightmare about the face at the window.

There was a similar scene in Salem's Lot, which was pretty damn creepy. Years later I was reading an old short story by E. F. Benson called Mrs. Amworth that had an eerie scene that was clearly Stephen King's inspiration. Click on the link, it's not a bad story if you like old-style horror.

Another creepy thing to think about: Looking at an old mirror in the attic and seeing someone else's face peering out.

[bigmuff113]

May be NSFW due to possible bad language
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UftlpyQiNc

[E5RSY]

I had a somewhat different experience today, but with nearly a similar result.

I was doing an appraisal of a foreclosed home, and of course the utilities are not on. So, at one point I head into the garage from the kitchen to open it to the outside so I can measure its size. It's dark in there, I mean pitch-black.

I usually just use the light from the screen on my little PDA doohickey, but I started hearing some noises that spooked me a little, so I decided to go back to the truck and get my Surefire light. Unbeknownst to me, whoever had lived there before had mounted about a 10'-wide stretch of floor-to-ceiling mirrors along the wall closest to me.

As I spun around, I caught my reflection illuminated by the PDA screen and almost passed out. Note to self: Bring flashlight into foreclosed homes every time.

[CrisHendrix]

Originally Posted by elicross

Yeah. That would creep me right the hell out.

When I was a very little kid, I saw some kind of horror movie on TV. The only thing I remember from it was that someone looked out a second-story window in the dead of night and saw a face -- just a face -- looking in. That image stuck with me, and to this day I'm freaked out by the thought of looking out a window and seeing a face where there shouldn't be one, looking in from the outside. If I'm sleeping in a strange place and that thought occurs to me, I've been known to close the shades on the window before I can sleep; otherwise, I'm afraid I'll have a nightmare about the face at the window.

Holy crap I saw the same thing when I was a kid and was freaked out for years! I was actually in a 2nd story bedroom at the time with a window right by my bed, my parents slept downstairs in the master bedroom. There was a tree right by my window that would tap it sometimes when the wind blew, I always thought somebody was climbing up that tree to get me.

Do you happen to know what the movie was? I used to think it was something I probably saw on usa up all night

[studio1087]

Originally Posted by E5RSY

I had a somewhat different experience today, but with nearly a similar result.

I was doing an appraisal of a foreclosed home, and of course the utilities are not on. So, at one point I head into the garage from the kitchen to open it to the outside so I can measure its size. It's dark in there, I mean pitch-black.

I usually just use the light from the screen on my little PDA doohickey, but I started hearing some noises that spooked me a little, so I decided to go back to the truck and get my Surefire light. Unbeknownst to me, whoever had lived there before had mounted about a 10'-wide stretch of floor-to-ceiling mirrors along the wall closest to me.

As I spun around, I caught my reflection illuminated by the PDA screen and almost passed out. Note to self: Bring flashlight into foreclosed homes every time.

That sent shivers up my spine.

My office is three stories up. It's not that high at all but there has never been a face or a body outside. I'm not trying to imply that I'm on the 31st floor. I don't see faces or people or anything but woods in the distance out the close window and a large industrial park out the other two windows.

The inspector guy came in later to talk to each of us and ask if we ever see water on the window interior.

I asked if he heard me shriek and the gentleman said "no I can't hear anything out there......depending on the time of day I can't even see inside; did I scare you?"

I told him that I ***** myself. He laughed.

[superlightweigh]

that's nothing I got scared by a bus decal!
I normally commute via bus and sometimes they cover the whole outside of the bus with those huge ads for car dealerships or radio stations or what not. One time after a particularly stressful day, I jumped on the bus, ran to my seat and flopped down with my head down. When I looked up there was a face right next to me! Holy **** talk about a shot of adrenalin! With skid marks!

[BTW I work on the 31st floor of a building which is cool when there's a thunderstorm going on down below!]