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to have started screaming...

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ilikebaking · 16/01/2015 22:07

Da was downstairs cleaning up after a soy sauce related incident, (don't ask) and he shouted up for a clean t shirt as he was cold, I threw him a baby one as a joke which he out on his head.
The arms looked like ears and the moustache on the front actually went where a tach on him would and he just looked FREAKY. I started to laugh and then quickly got a bit scared so told him to stop and take it off. He didn't and started coming up the stairs towards me, I genuinely got scared (yes, I knew it was him but he looked scary!) So I started screaming at him to take it off, he didn't and kept coming at me so I ran away and shut myself in our sons room (who is away for the night). I was still screaming and heard him collapse into giggles on the landing outside.
So, wibu to get scared or he is right, it was funny?

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ilikebaking · 16/01/2015 22:08

DH. ... and he out it on his head. Damn it!

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SpringBreaker · 16/01/2015 22:08

I would have collapsed laughing at you too

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ilikebaking · 16/01/2015 22:09

Put. Why does my phone hate the word put!

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sooperdooper · 16/01/2015 22:10

He was just joking, you knew it was him, sounds like you over reacted tbh

OhShittingHenry · 16/01/2015 22:13

This is almost as good a tale as the country squire with the wandering hands.
I am sure they are not in any way related.

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ilikebaking · 16/01/2015 22:13

Yeah, fair enough, I probably did over react. He knows I have a thing about masks and general horror film type stuff, but I should have stayed calm.

When I was younger, at a sleepover, my friends dad covered his face an chased us around the garden and I got so scared I passed out. Don't know what it is with people's faces being covered but it just gets me!

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AnyFucker · 16/01/2015 22:13

It's all happening in your gaff tonight

HellBoundNothingFound · 16/01/2015 22:15

I'd scream and run too. I have a very sensitive fight or flight. I hate masks or covered faces, and I hate sudden movements!

I'd be super pissed at DH if he did this! I am fucking weird though so swings and roundabouts

ScotsWhaHae · 16/01/2015 22:17

Rationally you probably did overreact however our reactions aren't always rational!

DamselNotInHerDress · 16/01/2015 22:20

Well if you were scared, you were scared, there's not really a right or wrong.
I think it's a bit pathetic that you were scared of him wearing a baby's tshirt on his head and that you reacted by running upstairs screaming and shutting yourself in a room, but then I'm scared of spiders and lots of people think that's pathetic too!

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ilikebaking · 16/01/2015 22:21

Hellbound, that's exactly how I feel, if he had gotten closer I probably would have kicked him in he face. When we were dating he tried hiding behind a door and jumping out at me and I lamped him!
He isn't sorry, but agrees it wasn't as funny as he originally thought now.
I am still jittery, it's so stupid!

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DropYourSword · 16/01/2015 22:22

This happened to me once. I chopped his head off with the katana dispkayed in our hallway. He never did it again.
Grin
this may or may not be a fictitious recollection of an event that never happened

AlorsMeh · 16/01/2015 22:25

Had you both been on the wacky baccy Grin

GillSans · 16/01/2015 22:32

I'm with you on this. Dh sometimes pulls a scary face at me in the dark and won't stop even though I'm clearly terrified.

It makes no sense as I know it's him and am generally not scared by much at all. Very stressy for me, but hysterically funny for him. Bastard.

AgentZigzag · 16/01/2015 23:52

An ex found a balaclava he used to wear on his motorbike when we were moving, and even though I knew it was him and that he'd just found it, when I turned round and saw him wearing it I totally shit myself.

It's funny looking back, but at the time it really freaked me out.

So YANBU, especially as it gave us such a gem of an image with your description of the freaky t-shirt monster Grin (it'd be even better if you could firm the image up by posting a piccy of it)

GokTwo · 16/01/2015 23:54

I know what you mean. It's like something is funny but then it suddenly flips into being scarey. I used to feel like this when my brothers used to chase me!

ILovedYouYesterday · 16/01/2015 23:56

If he could tell you were genuinely frightened then he should have stopped. Especially as he knows you have a fear of masks.

I'd be upset and cross with him.

Masks don't bother me but someone once thought it would be funny to pretend to throw a spider at me. He was mortified when I started screaming and running around in sheer terror Sad I couldn't help it, I was petrified! That's the touble with irrational fears! At least he had the grace to apologise profusely.

AgentZigzag · 16/01/2015 23:57

This face from the film The Ring always freaks me out (I've put it in a link just in case nobody else wants to look at it Grin)

KatoPotato · 17/01/2015 00:01

Before we got married and I was at dp's family home one time, and he'd bought an awful full head Halloween mask.

His dad put it on and started chasing me for a joke but as he followed me up the stairs I was shrieking and lashing out and nearly kicked him in the face!

Now I knew it was him, but something else kicked in!

Yanbu

FightOrFlight · 17/01/2015 00:08

I have a very sensitive fight or flight

Hmm I'm not that sensitive, I'm actually quite hard-faced at times.

Anyway, OP YABU as you saw him put it on - it's not as if he put a wow really scary baby tshirt it on his head without you knowing and then leaped out of the wardrobe.

I imagine you spend a lot on smelling salts during your weekly shop.

RubbishRobotFromTheDawnOfTime · 17/01/2015 00:12

Don't ever visit Saudi Arabia, will you, OP?

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Bogeyface · 17/01/2015 00:13

I dont think YWBU. Somethings just suddenly go from funny to full on fucking freaky.

Also masks are weird, they just are. H and I were running our friends pub for him when he was on holiday over Halloween. H borrowed a full head Terminator mask and wore that with his leather jacket etc. He looked good in terms of it being fancy dress but I hated it. I couldnt look at him, didnt want to talk to him and stayed well away from him until he got too hot and had to take it off.

If he knew you were genuinely freaked then he should have stopped.

AgentZigzag · 17/01/2015 00:23

I wouldn't say I'm that sensitive either Flight, but sometimes things can override your normal rational thinking and you can't help but shit yourself.

Even when it's something you know is ridiculous and you know you're not in danger.

It doesn't mean you're weak or need smelling salts.

Brittabot · 17/01/2015 00:31

You gave him the baby t shirt and then freaked out because he made a joke of it?! What were you expecting him to do with it?

Having said that I get scared very easily and my DH knows that if he goes very still and speaks in stilted scary type voice I get terrified!

Hakluyt · 17/01/2015 00:31

Jesus Christ- sometimes women really are their own worst enemies.............

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