The "Nope" list of Doom

Sometimes you see something, and your first reaction is to run away as quickly as possible. I like to call those "Nope!" moments.

I got that from the scene in "The Hobbit" where Bilbo just goes "Nope!" and faints.

I have said it before, and I'll say it again: I live in a sitcom. Whether it's out and about with friends or living the college dorm life, sometimes there are moments that are just nightmarish. The following is a very short list of "Nope!" moments. Hopefully the reader will add some of their own to the comment section (hint hint: I welcome feedback). 

1. Awkward Wedding

I was four years old, and my twin sister and I were meant to be flower girls at a friend's wedding. We had practiced of course, and were excited. Then came the actual event. (Unfortunately or fortunately depending on viewpoint, the following was caught on tape.) The two of us tiptoe out into the aisle, and realize that the room is FULL OF STRANGERS. Our parents are lost in the crowd, there's a scary pipe organ playing, and the minister was wearing a DRESS. (We were preschoolers: we'd never seen a minister in a robe before.) On camera, in front of everyone, I squeaked, grabbed my sister's hand and dragged her out of the room behind me. That's a "Nope!" moment.

2. Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water...

This didn't happen to me, it happened to my friend. He had taken his youth group on a beach trip, and they were all messing around in the water. Suddenly, my friend looks up and sees a dorsal fin. Not a dolphin's fin. Well, he takes a closer look, and Surprise! It's an eight foot bull shark! Of course, he called all the kids out of the water immediately, for as long as Jaws Junior was swimming around. That 's a "Nope!" moment...or as I've seen in a comment somewhere: That is a Nope fish from the Nope sea of Nope land.

3. This is how horror movies start...

Last year, my friends an I decided to take a day trip out to Hunting Island in Beaufort for a beach day. We were pretty much out in the middle of nowhere, and we needed to make a pit stop, so we pulled off on the first exit we found and went looking for a gas station. We got more than we bargained for. First of all, there were no.other.builings. 
It was just a cracked and battered stretch of road with one lonely gas station. Second, it was surrounded by dried up cornfields
. Cornfields!!! 
Third, the place was pretty much abandoned. There was one car there, and it belonged to the owner. The pumps were all shut down, there were bars and plywood boards on the windows, and (I'm not making any of this up) there were giant wasp nests hanging up...inside the store. We were debating whether or not it was actually worth the risk to use the bathroom when my older brother said, "Get back in the car. I'm gonna get murdered." I kind of stared at him, and he says, "You know how horror movies work: black guy dies first!" So we left in a hurry, giggling awkwardly about the creepy gas station from the Twilight Zone. The next one we stopped at was worse: the bathroom was outside and you had to get the keys from the smoke-filled room next door. That's a "Nope!" moment.

4. No. Just...just no.

This last summer, the same group of friends from the previous "Nope!" moment and I went up to Tybee Island in Savannah. (Found out later that it holds a record for jellyfish stings...found out after 5 or 6 out of 10 of us were stung.) We went to walk around the beautiful Savannah area for a while, just enjoying the scenery. Did you know that they do ghost tours there? And that the tour buses are actually hearses with the tops removed? We didn't until Drew said, "Why do we keep seeing that hearse everywhere we go? Is it some kind of omen?" We walked some more and found a large outdoor concert of some kind. That's when we saw her. We walked out of an ice-cream shop right into the middle of the crowd and there was an older woman dancing. And I use the word "dancing" loosely. It was...pretty sketchy. She was what some people call a "Cougar", and she was wearing clothes that would be inappropriate on a teenaged girl, let alone a woman who was probably in her fifties. Her...dancing...was calculated to catch the attention of a well-dressed fellow nearby. Our group saw her and their eyes all got super wide. The guys were like, "Let's go, let's go, let's go NOW." We got a good hundred or so feet away and stopped at a public restroom. One of the girls went in and exited wide-eyed a few minutes later. She comes over to us and whispers, "She's in there!" Not only was that lady in a cat-fight with another equally sketchy lady, she was fighting over drugs. That, my friends, is a "Nope!" moment.

So tell me: have you had any "Nope!" moments? Feel free to comment!

Although, I must ask that any stories told be kept clean: I want my family to be able to read this too :)