Post by H-Virus on Oct 25, 2023 6:58:44 GMT -5
'tis the season, so let's talk about the worst examples of people who just can't help but make decisions so horrible that you can't even feel sorry for them when it blows up in their face. Medium doesn't matter: movies, books, creepypastas, whatever.
The topic came to me because every October I break out the old 'Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark' audiobooks, and while there really aren't that many unforgivably stupid protags, there are at least two that really stand out.
The first is the mother from 'The Big Toe' who, upon being presented with a (human?) toe that her son found sticking out of the ground in their garden, decides that the best thing to do is throw it in a pot of soup and eat it for supper. Aside from the implied cannibalism, it also gets her son killed when the thing the toe was attached to comes looking for it later that night.
The second is, of course, the two farmers from 'Harold', who actually do the smart thing and escape from the scarecrow before anything bad can happen, only to then decide that one of them needs to go back because they left the milking stools behind. The story claims that the stools cost a lot of money (somehow), but was it really worth getting skinned alive just to save a few bucks?
The topic came to me because every October I break out the old 'Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark' audiobooks, and while there really aren't that many unforgivably stupid protags, there are at least two that really stand out.
The first is the mother from 'The Big Toe' who, upon being presented with a (human?) toe that her son found sticking out of the ground in their garden, decides that the best thing to do is throw it in a pot of soup and eat it for supper. Aside from the implied cannibalism, it also gets her son killed when the thing the toe was attached to comes looking for it later that night.
The second is, of course, the two farmers from 'Harold', who actually do the smart thing and escape from the scarecrow before anything bad can happen, only to then decide that one of them needs to go back because they left the milking stools behind. The story claims that the stools cost a lot of money (somehow), but was it really worth getting skinned alive just to save a few bucks?
