The movie on Friday didn't scare me...but the next night sure did.
A high school buddy of mine and I bowled in an early league on Saturday mornings, so I always came home and took a little nap.
He ended up spending that Saturday night with me (parents and siblings out of town) and as we were in the front room just sitting around reading in complete silence (no TV on)...I started to hear faint music.
The hairs on my neck stood straight up when I recognized it and then I asked Cliff if he could also hear it.
At first he said no...then his face went completely white.
Somewhere in the back of the house, we could both clearly hear the theme song for the Exorcist...that we had just seen with our dates the previous evening.
So imagine 2, very big and invulnerable 18 year olds, almost holding hands while slowly creeping toward the back of the house with two large knives/cleavers...turning lights on as we crept slowly.
The closer we got to my room...the louder the theme song became.
It was only after quickly turning my bedroom light on, with knives up and at the ready...that it dawned on me what it was.
I had set my clock radio for 1:00 o'clock after my post-bowling nap, but this was an old style that didn't differentiate between AM/PM.
So at 1:00AM, in a totally quiet house, it decided to go off...
JUST AS THE EXORCIST THEME SONG WAS PLAYING.
What were the frigging odds of that?!
Yeah, it eventually became funny...about 6 months later.
