1archaic : frighten
2archaic : to feel fear in (oneself)3: to have a reverential awe of <fear God>4: to be afraid of : expect with alarm <fear the worst>intransitive verb: to be afraid or apprehensive <feared for their lives>— fear·er noun
When the going gets tough, I tend to go to the corner store and drink a bottle of orange juice. It calms my nerves a bit. Unfortunately, this trick didn’t work yesterday, when I happened to come across the scariest thing I’ve ever seen. I panicked. I could hear my heart pounding in my chest like a gavel banging down on me. My palms instinctively clenched as sweat came pouring out through every little pore in my body. (Well, almost every pore!)My eyes clouded and I saw myself faint. But I steeled myself against it. “I will not faint,” I told myself. “I will not faint! I will not faint!”
Slowly, I became aware of the fact that my fear was subsiding a bit, just a bit. I ventured to relax a bit and take a few deep breaths. I looked at the horrifying thing and felt a wave of revulsion and paranoia creeping over me. I somehow managed to get over it and looked the thing straight in the eyes. It stared right back at me, without battling an eyelid. It was a game of will now. I held my ground, hoping against hope that the thing would not sense my fear. I was half-expecting it to lunge at me. I braced myself, but imperceptibly. I did not want to show my fear and my doubts.
Then, it happened.
It blinked. It looked straight at me again and said, “Sir, your HSBC credit card bill. Are you feeling all right?”
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MirrorCracked 
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how much was it man ????????????
hehhehehehhe :))
u r shopping spree it seems.. hw cud u have such a huge one 😛
or spending on female species 😛
Total anti-climax loved it! 😀
want some loan at a little bit lower interest rate than HSBC? 😛
It must be filled with chrges made on Vodka+Tequilla+Whiskey+beer .. Liquors r too expensive these days !! …
But dont worry .. PAy the minimum amount this month and wait for another scariest thing next month ..
So how much was your bill….. or is ?
Why did I think that you are going to do an RGV on the blogosphere? LOLz!
Sir mein ICICI credit cards se baat kar raha hoon.. Would you like to hear about our latest loan offer for people stuck deep in credit? Please shake your head once for YES BRING IT ON,
twice for I’D LIKE YOU TO CALL LATER. And no, there is no I DON’T WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU AGAIN option.. sorry.
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@Dinu
Hehehe! You don’t want to know! 😀
@Chakoli
Hahaha!! Bingo! 😀
@Balu
LOL… Glad to hear that! 😀
@Sandeep
I’m stuck with it! Hehe… 😀
@Soham
LOL… liquor is too expensive! 😀
@Suda
No! I wont’ tell! It’s too much and I’ll be embarrassed! 😀
@Kris Bass
Hehehe…. I could’ve! 😀
@ICICI
I do not like ICICI…!! Get out!! You people bug me to death!!! 😉
HEHEHE
😀 😀 yet another good one! but tell me seriously, was it a plain orange juice or was it fermented as usual!!! 😉 😛 😛
@Sakhi
Good old rasna!! 😀
And on weekends, a bit of vodka! 😉
hehehehe// I loved that end…the climax…waiting 4 more!!!!!
I thought u must have seen ur face in the mirror just after waking up from a drunken night. 😀 😀 Running a huge credit bill indeed!! being a spendthrift!! what happened to introspection?? 😛 let me know hiw much was it? I want to know how much is too much for u.
@Nik – I dont like HSBC, but I like credit cards. I so much wish that I should just be using it & somebody else pays it. Wow, how cool noo?
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try cuting down you expenses. or better cut down your credit card into four pieces
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damn….how much was it anyway and for what? 😛
hahha..definitely did not expect that ending…haha..all the best with payin up ! 😀
creditcardophobia! Nicely done … I guess you would have used ur credit card to buy the orange juice so that’s why it didnt calm you.
hahahhaahahahahaha….chennai trip !!?!
ROFL 🙂 You do have a way of putting a smile on your reader’s faces 🙂
Lol. .i want to know how ,much it was 😛
u r a survivor 🙂
ROFL…. 😀 😀
My reaction’d probably be similar on the day I get my physics paper!!
*shudders*
Alchemy of fear indeed! Credit card bill 🙂 Remembering Joey from friends and Chandler saying “That is ur phone no.” or the one there is something like part 1 of 2 (don’t remember the exact dialogue/scene!) 🙂 Hope yours was not as huge!
@Sabu
Welcome to MirrorCracked!
Was the character in chacha chowdary named after you? I’m sorry, couldn’t resist asking you! I’m sure you’ve got that a lot of times!
@Reema
Send me some money!
@RJ
That’s every man’s wet dream!
@Xylene
Yup… Good idea! Will do that!
@Vishesh
I’m not telling! 😛
@Karmalove
Thanks! I need it!
@Dinesh
Hmmm… I didn’t think of that!
@Scorpria
No! Stop harping on that trip!
@Laksh
Hehehe… Thanks! 🙂
@Arvind
I’m not telling!
@La Vida Loca
Hope the bank consider that and forgo my bill!
@Prarthana
LOL.. All the best!
@Apar
Hahahaha!!! No no… it wasn’t… But it was huge enough to make me think of getting three jobs at once!
haha.. good one 🙂
ROFL!! i’ll stay away from credit card then…! atleast ‘ll try not to have one until the worst need arises…
Stay away from credit cards. I have heard of greater horror stories. 😐
Nice one…stay away from credits..said by Warren Buffet
@Manasa
Welcome to MirrorCracked! 😀
And, thanks! 🙂
@Su
Hehehe… yeah, stay away from them! 😀
@Katya
Yup… this is the beginning! 😀
@Jemal
Oh, yes… he was right! 😀
Hey Niks…
Am so worried about you. Hope u r ok now…slept well???? Nightmares????
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Your reaction was just so like the heroine of “Confessions of a Shopaholic”….:D
BTW between u n me * u can burn the bill* whoosh! it will be gone 😉
@Smita
Hehehe… yeah, thanks… I slept well, but not without a few nightmares… And wow, thanks for the tip! You won’t believe it, but I thought of doing the same!! 😀
Nikhil, I’m sorry to intrude with a personal message here. Would you give me your e-mail so that we can indulge in some secretive planning (vigilante activity). Shooo, no one else need to know.
(PS: Check out my latest posts and you’ll get an idea as to why?)
Lol!!!! U know this time my bill was -ve 😉 The bank needs to pay me some money :PPPPPPPPPPPPPPP
Both options correct…
wow..
now you need to spend some money on me as well 😀
Similar sentiments on looking at my HSBC bill.. but I had not spent that amount! So a harried me calls up HSBC only to be pleasantly surpised when they say “you don’t have to pay the X amount… it’s ur cash discounts collected over a period of time.. you can go ahead and use this amount without paying us a single penny!”
yayyy! 🙂
@Nova
Lucky You!!! 😛
@Chakoli
Ok, I can do that!! When and where? 😉
@Ani
Oh wow! Why don’t such things happen to me?? 😀
well nikhil ur rite… its the millionth time im hearing that chacha choudhary thing….thanks for the thanks reply… guess im gonna coming back….
Somehow, I was expecting a twist. 😀 I guess my expectations were fulfilled after all. 🙂
@Sabu
Hehehehehe… Thought so! And I’m glad you liked the blog here.,.. Keep visiting! 🙂
@Anniyan
LOL… You know me well, dude! 😀
Lol oh boy I have the same reaction… brilliantly written!!!
That was was suspense alright! But I can’t imagine your reaction if you see something truly horrible! 🙂 You tried penning a story? I mean fiction?