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I read a post by Shonari about Scary Movie Cliches the other day. I nodded my head in agreement, even commented on it. It had me thinking that scary movies are so cliche. I used to watch scary movies and think, why the heck would i be walking down a dark road at night or across campus at odd hours of the night, or down dark scary alley ways by myself at night. I always think that. That's just stupid NOBODY does that, seriously, people are more sensible than that. Right? Ha...yeah right.

So here I am, the other night, wanting to go over to campus at about 7pm, when its dark out. I have to walk over to campus from where i live or charter a taxi, me nuh rich, so i opted to walk, no big deal it was only 7pm. It never hit me how much of a typical scary movie scene i was venturing into until i had to walk down this deserted pathway only narrow enough for two persons to walk through, no light, bush on both sides and gates at both ends. It looked something like this

EXCEPT- you're gonna need some imagination for this- remove the walls and replace it with a grass fence and its a tab bit longer and darker. I started laughing to myself and looked down the walk way thinking, am i really gonna do this. I did! and then i started to think about all the other stupid stuff i did; like walk across campus at 2am to go by the Student's Union or to go across to the library, i could easily call for a security escort. But the truth is, it really isn't so far fetched to do all these crazy things in the middle of the night. I never, once before the other night, thought about it as dangerous. It was after all familiar surroundings. I totally ignored all the stories of people getting robbed and raped. So maybe not so cliche at all. Maybe, or maybe i'm what scary movies are made of.