• mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca
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        8 days ago

        yep. there are precious few people who would get a call back, and if they misrepresented the urgency, they get a warning about crying wolf, and if they keep doing it, it gets treated less and less urgently and then eventually ignored. for some people, that drop is a vertical line

  • panda_abyss@lemmy.ca
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    8 days ago

    Haunted houses already feel like that for me.

    Oh, the guy in the pig mask has a chainsaw, should I pretend to be scared for him, what if he thinks I’m not enjoying it? That’s pretty loud, hope he has hearing protection… Oh okay he’s trying to chase me, I guess I’m supposed to run away? Oh, now he looks let down and is just shaking the saw and gesturing, I’ll keep moving I guess.

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      The only time I’ve ever really enjoyed the haunted house is when I and my friend went in with my sister and her friends, because they’re all hysterical and mad. You know the type that have a panic attack if they see a spider in the room. But we just spent the time laughing at their responses.

      Right at the end they had a corner that you went around and on the other side was just a mirror, they got themselves still worked up by that point but they jumped at their own reflections.

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    If you want to totally mess up a haunted house when ever someone jumps out ask them a unrelated question.

    “I will eat your brains!”

    “where was your last vacation?”

    “my family is dead and soon you will join them”

    “what is 10x15+7?”

    Most people will stop acting and think of the answer completely destroying the effect of the haunted house.