It's late, dark outside, and the town is currently in a pretty severe thunderstorm. Thunder cracks in the distance, lightning dances in the sky, and rain is pouring down.
The book I was reading at the time was one of Dan Brown's books. I can't tell you which one, because they're all amazing and I've enjoyed them all.
Anyway, there's a scene in the book where the main character (Oh, Robert Langdon, I miss you) is getting chased around a huge dark room by a bad guy.
There's a cell phone, of course, that goes off, so Robert chucks it across the room so the bad guy can't come after the light of the phone.
It's a stressful scene involving someone wanting to kill my beloved Robert Langdon.
Can you imagine how scary that would be? To be in a huge room with no lights, tippy-toeing your way around, trying not to breathe too loud because if you do, you'd die?
While reading that scene, a higher power decided to mess with me that night and my apartment lost electricity.
That's right, I was reading about an attempted murder happening in the dark while the lights went off in my apartment.
I can count the number of times I've truly been scared in my life on one hand, and that was one of them.
I'm telling you this because I can across a list on Buzzfeed appropriately titled "29 Reasons Reading Will Ruin Your Life."
It's funny. And kind of true.
No. 13: When you read a monumental moment in a book (death scene, break up, ect) and you're freaking out but NO ONE UNDERSTANDS.
My power going out story is one of my favorite stories to tell, but I don't think anyone can really relate to how scary it was.
I thought I was a goner.
Ha, ha.
No. 27: When people have the nerve to say that movies are better? You're not just wrong, you're stupid.
Link from Buzzfeed: 29 Reasons Reading Will Ruin Your Life
No. 1 all the way. Use those words and people will look at you strangely. Trust me on that one.
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