At 2 in the morning back in my old house, one time I slept in a room I never sleep in. Something fell roughly on my head (I had a pillow covering a bit of my upper face for a moment), there’s nothing hanging above me (only at the foot end of the bed). Ok, a little freaked out by that, but when I tried to go back to sleep, I heard my door open super slow, I shot out of the bed and saw that it was still going. My heart dropped as I looked out the door to see nothing, everyone sleeps downstairs in the old house. I avoided that room for 5 months.
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So this will probably get flagged…so there I was middle school back in 2002 just hitting the fun times sitting in class when bam big ol erection hit unprovoked and the entire class noticed.
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Waking up
it happens everyday
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I’m sorry, half of your gun forcibly jettisoned down the range?
wat
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Yep.
So, on a 1911 there’s a pin called the Slide-Stop. It’s actually the only thing that is holding the slide, barrel, spring and spring-guide to the frame of the gun. Nice thick meaty pin, too. Most semi-automatic hand-guns are designed like this.
Whenever you see Jackie Chan disassemble an opponent’s gun, he’s pushing back on the barrel to relieve pressure on the slide-stop and (it’s easiest to do it with a Beretta 92, since you just flip it and give it a little tug, 1911’s can be a bit more finicky.) moving the slide stop out so that when pressure is put back on the slide it has nothing to stop it and it just flies off.
There’s also some fun dynamic forces and interaction between it and the magazine that makes sure there is always tension rotating it upwards, so that as the slide pulls back it forces a portion of the slide-stop into a groove and locks the slide in place when the last round of a magazine is fired.
You then eject the magazine, insert a new magazine and push down on the slide stop to release the slide and chamber the next round of the magazine.
Well… no idea how exactly it did it, but the tolerances of a couple new magazines I had gotten actually caused the slide stop (which runs all the way through the gun) to effectively eject itself as the slide locked back and the only thing holding it together was tension from the magazine, when I released the magazine it broke the tension and the slide went forward and without the slide stop to hold the barrel in place to halt the slide’s forward momentum the whole thing went forward.
From the research I did at the time to make sure it wasn’t going to blow up in my hand in the future it is an incredibly rare malfunction related to the magazine.
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I did not think that earwigs actually did that. How awful.
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In the middle of my trip to Disneyland as a kid I got a call that my grandfather had a crippling stroke.
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Last year, my husband had sleep paralysis and was making some sort of noise so I’d wake up to wake him up. After he woke up he told me he saw three shadows looking at him and they looked like the Gentlemen from Buffy.
Gave me the creeps, tbh…
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Heh. This character is named after a vampire from Buffy.
But yeah, that would be terrifying.
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I’m so sorry to hear that. That’s something probably seared into your mind. 
That was one of my more favorite episodes…
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Rolling my chair backwards and almost running over my kitties tail. 
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Same, I was watching Ghost Hunters (don’t ask why a ghost was watching a show about people hunting ghosts) and a spider dropped down on my face… next day I went to the bathroom and the same spider was on my door waiting for me… Nope!
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I remembered that the Nightborne had bad customization options.
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Pants randomly get a bit tighter.
Hate that.
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Taking a nice mid-day couch nap when one of my cats wanted to nap on my chest. No big deal, except she was coming from the direction of my feet. Stepped right on the bits on her way up.
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Hahaha. They love getting in the way, right? One of mine loves to sleep under my desk. I usually knock him in the head a few times a day with my feet. Poor guy. But he always acts like it’s no big deal.
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Yeah it was pretty bloody alarming. Talked to my doctor about it, she said it is not that uncommon.
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I was spelunking and bats made nests in my hair. Since they hide under helm, I don’t mind. They also eat all nearby bugs. We have a symbiotic relationship.
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Earwigs were trying to enter our apartment en mass few weeks ago, at one point I killed ‘three’ just making the bed one evening, least two tried to eat me (they apparently find moles even more delectable than ear drums) and a further four had to be squished for trying to crawl around on me and my wife in the middle of the night.
Death to all earwigs.
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