Potential threat of snipers

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Does anyone else always close curtains/blinds before turning on lights in a dark room just in case there's a sniper lurking outside? I'm not a woman who's likely to have a hit on me, but I feel like it's a sensible thing to do nonetheless.

Sorry for your loss but hahaha, that did make me laugh! 🤣 where did your mum find such excellent anti-sniper curtains?

I have some anti-werewolf ones which seem to be working equally as well.

Dhs nickname for me is sniper bait because I never close curtains. I sit in the dark though but only because my adhd can't cope with the big light on

I'm sorry your mum has died, but I actually laughed out loud at that.

I bet your mum would've as well.

This is why MNers never answer the door, in case there's a man there in a scream mask about to stab them while live streaming to the police

This is fantastic

Excellent, good to know. Do you also skulk about in a ghillie suit in the garden if need be? Asking for a friend. (apologies, 'skulk' might be a tad too simplistic for what you do)

Closing the curtains won't work cos they've got those heat vision things and can see us even when we hide. Trick is to hide at the fridge with the door open so it mucks up your body temp.
Take that stupid sniper.

As a menopausal woman, I’d say this tip is a win win.

I never look ....for the same reason. I also jump from the door to the bed once I've turned the light off so the monster under the bed can't grab my ankle

What about the sorts of monsters who, spider-like, crawl along the ceiling and reach down to grab you? You're just making it easier for them by jumping.

I sleep naked, unless my husband is away when I wear pyjamas. Pyjamas will save me from being violated by bad men who will break in because my husband is away.

Fuck, shit, bollocks, I had not factored this in.

I'm not obsessed over the open/ not open status of my curtains. Big light on though. Oh no. Oh dear heavens no. Never have the big light on.

So you’d rather your DD got shot by a sniper than you? That’s the real shocker here! Never met a parent who wouldn’t rather die than watch their child die before.

This is why I can’t sleep without knickers on, they protect you !

Can we have a link to the anti-sniper curtains 🤔

This winter I developed a new fear of putting the bins out in the dark. Our bins are down the side of our house, and you have to turn your back to the fence to access them. So I had a real fear of someone reaching over the fence to grab me while my back was turned.

Your bulb didn’t blow, the sniper missed you

It is possible to unsee and forget an image that you have seen.
I have done so myself

The problem is that when I saw it again I had the fresh horror of ‘seeing it for the first time’ promptly followed by flashbacks to the real first time

I turn off the hotel room light before opening the door so that I am not silhouetted for the assassin at the door.

I did this with a girlfriend once and when she asked why, instead of confusion she was fully inspired and adopted the habit herself.

No

So do I, the only logic I have for this is that if there’s a noise downstairs I can go and investigate in pyjamas….but obviously I wouldn’t be investigating, so that’s a shit justification.

We close our blinds not for snipers but for the numerous luminous green eyes that are often caught staring in from the bushes and trees outside. I’m not having the foxes/other wildlife watching if I choose to shag my DH on the couch, creepy little fuckers.

This belongs here this morning, I think. Actual live footage of the Zoombies!

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